Buckingham Badger stopped by Chris Hittinger’s genetics lab last week to meet Blastobotrys buckinghamii, a newly discovered strain of wild yeast that was named after him. […]

About two weeks ago, people started reporting sightings of a great horned owl hanging out on a tree along the lakeshore path. The UWMadScience blog speculated […]

Congratulations to the following recipients of the 2015 CALS staff and faculty awards. The awards ceremony will take place on Wednesday April 29th at 3 […]

Steenbock Library will be hosting Aprils’ CALS Coffee on Friday, Apr. 10 from 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. in the newly remodeled BioCommons space in the […]

If you were to attend one of Ahna Skop’s lab meetings, you’d likely hear about a genetics research project being conducted by a lab member. But it’s also possible […]

Even during good years, our nation’s soybean farmers are, in essence, taking a loss. That’s because changes in weather patterns have been eating into their […]

A new variety of sweet corn co-developed by agronomy professor and chair Bill Tracy has received some fairly extensive media coverage since its release was […]

For the first time this year Dean Sommer, a cheese and food technologist with the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, was among the group of […]

Americans will soon have some new nutritional advice to follow. In February, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee proposed a new set of recommendations, which will […]

You may know Maya Warren for her $1 million victory, shared with fellow food science grad student Amy DeJong, in the latest edition of the […]