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 […]

Above photo: In 2013, Tom Brock walks in 140 acres of restored prairie, oak savannah and woodlands that he and his wife established as the […]

Structural biology and collaboration are two strong points at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. In keeping with this tradition, a concerted cross-campus effort partly spearheaded by […]

Above photo: Hongjie Li, a UW-Madison postdoctoral researcher, was the first to observe close-up the symbiotic system that unites termites with the fungus Termitomyces. Photo: […]

Microbiologist Jan Peter van Pijkeren looks at probiotics — those microbes thought to provide health benefits in our bodies — as more than just friendly […]