Jenna Amro is a productive member of a scientific research laboratory in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She can pipet, accurately measure scientific […]

For Dominic Parker, a professor of agricultural and applied economics, a research foray into mining practices in Africa dug up some unexpected findings. Parker wanted […]

Jo Handelsman started as the new director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery in February. But she is no stranger to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. After […]

If you haven’t visited cals.wisc.edu since last week, you’re in for a nice surprise. CALS launched a major redesign of the CALS homepage over the […]

Members of the CALS community are invited to participate in “Microbiomes: People and the Planet,” a fall 2017 colloquium that features speakers from UW-Madison and […]

How can public plant breeding programs reap royalties and research investments while keeping their cultivars in the public domain? This is one of the challenges […]

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) for an additional five years of funding to develop sustainable alternatives to […]

You may have heard about late blight of potatoes and tomatoes without even realizing it – it was the disease that caused the Irish potato […]

When a Madison elementary school student posed the question “Why (and for how long) do butterflies stay in a cocoon?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned […]

The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s West Madison Agricultural Research Station (ARS) will be hosting a field day for the general public on Saturday, Aug. 12. The […]