Category: Around CALS
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Posted on August 25, 2025
CALS provides expertise and facilities for 2025 Grandparents University attendees
Grandparents University® (GPU) is a one-of-a-kind experience where curiosity spans generations. It brings together the young and the young-at-heart to explore, learn, and grow side by […]
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Posted on August 18, 2025
Snapshot Wisconsin celebrates milestones, receives new grant
This summer, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is celebrating two major milestones for its Snapshot Wisconsin project: the endeavor’s 10-year anniversary and the collection […]
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Posted on August 11, 2025
Arlington station to host Organic Ag Field Day, Agronomy and Soils Field Day in late August
The University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Arlington Agricultural Research Station will host two field days near the end of August. The UW Organic Agriculture Research Field Day […]
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Posted on August 4, 2025
Satellites show that strictly protected marine areas exclude industrial fishing
Illegal fishing is a global problem that threatens the health of ocean ecosystems and the economic viability of the fishing industry. Marine protected areas (MPAs)—zones […]
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Posted on July 28, 2025
CALS projects among those featured in Wisconsin Idea Database
Across Wisconsin, UW–Madison is making a significant impact on our students, communities, health care and workforce, according to the latest available data from the Wisconsin Idea […]
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Posted on July 21, 2025
Genetics collaboration unearths hidden world of root growth for Wisconsin kids
How does your garden grow? It’s a question asked often enough that it even appears in nursery rhymes. When Angela Johnson, local artist and teaching […]
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Posted on July 14, 2025
Recent CALS-wide RISE-AI and RISE-EARTH faculty hires announced
The campus-wide Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Initiative (RISE) program funds new faculty hires through central resources as a match to hires funded by […]
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Posted on June 30, 2025
Photos: Allen Centennial Garden hosts workshops to help attendees extract beauty from flowers
During two June 7 workshops at the Allen Centennial Garden of University of Wisconsin–Madison, participants made flowers into beautiful products, but in vastly different ways. […]
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Posted on June 21, 2025
Department of Entomology launches ecology and evolutionary biology PhD program
The Department of Entomology in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences (CALS) recently received approval from the UW Board of Regents to launch their PhD program in […]
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Posted on June 16, 2025
UW innovations help farmers produce crops with less fertilizer, research threatened by a pause in federal funds
Most farmers use fertilizer on their crops to deliver proper nutrients that produce a healthy and profitable yield. Since synthetic fertilizers are typically derived from […]