Fungi are rich sources of natural molecules for drug discovery, but many challenges have pushed pharmaceutical companies away from tapping into this bounty. Now scientists […]

Mike Peters has been named director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Agricultural Research Station (ARS) network, the university’s system of 11 research stations located throughout […]

Dick Cates has taken some long bike rides in his life. But his latest trek was for a cause especially dear to his heart. Cates, […]

Anna Pidgeon, a professor in the UW-Madison Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology, recently sat down for a podCALS interview. Birds often collide with structures […]

Here’s a list of CALS department chairs for the 2017-2018 year. Departments with new chairs this year are in bold. Jeremy Foltz, Agricultural & Applied […]

American taxpayers spend millions of dollars each year to conserve privately owned lands. These lands provide public benefits like timber, water quality protection and food. […]

As weather gets warmer and the outdoors beckons, people across Wisconsin are spending more time with the activities they wait for all winter long, including […]

The CALS-based Department of Landscape Architecture (LA) and the CALS and L&S-housed Department of Urban and Regional Planning (URPL) will merge to form the Department […]

Though committee members will hopefully make time for the beach this summer, they are taking the CALS Organizational Redesign work very seriously and will work […]

Seventy-three years ago Tuesday, on June 6, 1944, the D-Day invasion of Normandy was bolstered by millions of doses of a precious new substance: penicillin. […]