In the Field | Alumni Making a Difference through Energy Management

The Resource and Energy Demand Analysis (REDA) program at CALS offers an accelerated path to a master’s degree with a focus on “economics and data […]

Catch up with … Lucas Rapisarda BS’15 Community and Environmental Sociology and Wildlife Ecology

Lucas Rapisarda spent his early years in Illinois before his family moved to Bristol, Wisconsin, a village in Kenosha County. Along the way, he went […]

Deibel Family Gift Cultivates Grad Student Discoveries

Scientists-in-training at the UW Food Research Institute (FRI) are identifying better probiotics and improving food safety with the help of a generous gift from retired […]

Final Exam Summer 2019

A Different Beet

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 […]

Plant Breeding: ‘The Slowest of the Performing Arts’

The table beet is a biennial plant. That means, left to its own devices, a beet plant takes a full two growing seasons to complete […]

To Live and Learn Together

The summer vegetables sag in the wake of the first frosts. But the low October sun still warms the fields of the Eagle Heights Community […]

Knowledge Applied

Should a school district close an elementary school with shrinking enrollment, or will student numbers rebound in the coming years? What’s the outlook for a […]

Cooperative Extension Comes Home

By now the news has probably reached you that Cooperative Extension has returned to UW–Madison, and I would like to discuss why this is a […]

Five Things Everyone Should Know about … Mycotoxins

Mycotoxins are small, poisonous molecules, produced by certain species of molds, that can cause disease or death in animals and humans. Mycotoxin-producing fungi can invade […]

Hold the Fertilizer

The term is “nitrogen fixation.” No, it doesn’t refer to an unhealthy obsession with one of the most common chemical elements on Earth. Rather, it’s […]

Engineers of Ingenuities

A bioreactor that removes phosphorus from lakes, an easy-to-use harness system designed to prevent falls from dangerous heights, and an early detection sensor for toxic […]