The UW–Madison campus is home to more than its students, faculty, and staff. The campus’s many natural areas, such as the UW Arboretum and the […]

For Ojibwe people, wild rice—manoomin—is far more than a food source. It is a sacred relative, central to culture, identity, and community well‑being. Yet over […]

On February 10, around 75 faculty, staff, friends, family, and supporters of CALS attended the CALS Investiture Ceremony that honored faculty members with department and […]

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program named Kaiping Chen to its 2026-2028 cohort of members. […]

The UW campus tends to be quiet in the middle of June. Commencement has been celebrated, dorms have emptied. But this past June, things were a little different. The CALS end of campus was abuzz with the excited faces and voices of  participants in the inaugural Wisconsin Rural Scholars Program.

By resurrecting a 3.2-billion-year-old enzyme and studying it inside living microbes, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have created a new way to improve our […]

You don’t have to be a professor or a graduate student to be a researcher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Undergraduate students across campus, and […]