As a dozen “students” of all ages buzz around a pilot plant at Babcock Hall on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, drips of vanilla or […]

Ahna Skop’s cake recipe calls for flour, sugar, strong black coffee and a dash of cell biology. For 14 years, Skop, a professor of genetics at the […]

Over the last year, the CALS Organizational Redesign Committee has considered possible changes in structural organization and resource allocation to make CALS more resilient now […]

When a Madison elementary school student posed the question “Why do chickens lay different-colored eggs?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned to CALS animal science’s and […]

More than half a century ago, the advent of antibiotics transformed medicine. Today, the slumping performance of these drugs is spurring new treatment innovations. Since […]

Logging of the largest trees in the Sierra Nevada’s national forests ended in the early 1990s after agreements were struck to protect species’ habitat. But […]

The end of the year is a great time to look back and reflect on the accomplishments of the CALS community. Here are some of […]

It was a silly question, so Trina McMahon laughed. What’s more important: a lab coat or a Twitter handle? “Twitter handle, for sure. We don’t do anything […]

In Wisconsin, as in many other parts of the Midwest, we grow a lot of corn – four million acres of it, in fact. That’s […]

A global collaboration has just released a satellite-based map of world croplands that “found” 625 million to 875 million acres that were not known to […]