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. […]

Certain kinds of foods prescribed to manage the rare metabolic disorder phenylketonuria (PKU) could contribute to skeletal fragility seen in many PKU patients, according to […]

Above photo: A display of native bees in Wisconsin. Photo: Sevie Kenyon/UW-Madison CALS. A bee identification guide developed by CALS and UW-Extension experts, including  PJ […]

When a Madisonite posed the question “What is water scarcity?,” the Blue Sky Science team turned to CALS bacteriology professor Trina McMahon for the answer. Watch McMahon’s […]

Years before that french fry landed on your plate, the plant that would eventually give rise to the spud your fry was cut from was […]