A dairy-related challenge helped save UW-Madison food science graduate students Amy DeJong and Maya Warren – a.k.a. the #SweetScientists – from being sent home on last Friday’s […]

Daylight saving time was originally conceived as an energy-saving idea. In 1784 Benjamin Franklin observed that during summer months, people slept during the daylight hours […]

Today’s land grant faculty are getting significantly more research done in less time, but they are finding significantly less time to do it. As a […]

The first winning name has been drawn and the prize—a gift card to Ian’s Pizza—is on its way to a CALS colleague who had turned in his 2014 Partners in […]

County-by-county poverty and food security trends are available in a new series of reports prepared by researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Extension and University of […]

Where does the UW-Madison’s money come from? How is it spent. The questions seem simple, but the answers are pretty complicated. A new report, BUDGET in […]

How do UW-Madison scientists use and perceive social media? A recent article in The Scientist, authored by current faculty and former students from CALS’ life sciences communication department, says […]

Last year when Google paid $3.2 billion for Nest, a startup that makes smart thermostats, the press joked that the internet giant would soon be […]

The UW Poultry Science Club once again is offering fresh Thanksgiving turkeys for sale. The annual sale, a tradition that dates back more than half a century, […]

During the fall of 2013, the CALS Academic Planning Council (APC) undertook a self-study review, issuing a report in spring of 2014. As part of this review, it […]