Nathaniel Sharp joined the faculty in the Department of Genetics as an assistant professor in January 2019. What is your background? I was born and […]

The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame Foundation (WCHF) has announced the selection of three  conservation leaders for induction on April 13, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. […]

Kerri Coon joined the faculty in the Department of Entomology as an assistant professor in January 2019. What is your background? I grew up in […]

Medicine was transformed in the 20th century by the discovery and development of antibiotics, the vast majority of which came from one source: soil bacteria. […]

In a small utility room in UW–Madison’s Animal Science Building, the world’s smallest and most precise forest fire is burning. The fuel today: 100 grams […]

People may soon have a new weapon in the battle against mosquitoes, and it comes from an unusual source: bacteria. Published Jan. 16 in the […]

Proposals to fight malaria by “driving” genes that slow its spread through mosquitoes is a high-risk, high-reward technology that presents a challenge to science journalists, […]

There was a time when if you didn’t grow up on a farm, you at least knew a farmer. Times have changed. In 2018, Wisconsin […]

New research on transcriptional pausing, which helps control gene expression in cells, will aid in the understanding of the enzyme RNA polymerase — a key player […]

At their December 18, 2018 meeting, members of the college’s Academic Planning Council (APC) voted to discontinue the poultry science major. The program has no […]