Zhou Zhang joined the Department of Biological Systems Engineering as an assistant professor in March 2019. What is your educational/professional background? I grew up in Tianjin […]

Last year, Wisconsin lost 691 dairy farms, the most since 2011. Wisconsin also leads neighboring states in farm bankruptcies. Consecutive years of low milk prices, […]

The first ever Day of the Badger was held last week on April 9. Over the course of 1848 minutes, more than 150 donors made […]

For most people, a fruit smoothie is a healthy, refreshing drink. For students who sign up for Plant Pathology 123 during Summer Term at the […]

All across the state of Wisconsin, UW–Madison changes lives through its research contributions, commitment to public service and entrepreneurial activities. From February through June, the […]

Last fall, when the “Gastropod” podcast came to UW–Madison to partici­pate in the 2018 Wisconsin Science Festival, hosts Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley asked Irwin […]

Beth Meyerand, professor of medical physics and biomedical engineering, has been named director of the Science and Medicine Graduate Research Scholars (SciMed GRS) program. In this […]

All across the state of Wisconsin, UW–Madison changes lives through its research contributions, commitment to public service and entrepreneurial activities. From February through June, the […]

“Microbial communities run the world,” says Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. “People always laugh when I […]

A major goal of the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center is to harness the power of microbes to create biofuels. But often, it’s an expensive […]