‘I Wonder What I Can Do?’

From the Dairy Cattle Center to the Multicultural Student Center, from DNA to proteins to flavor perception. These were among the wide-ranging locales and topics […]

Final Exam Fall 2019

‘App’-riculture

Mike Cerny has been farming long enough to have a reliable intuition when it comes to decisions about applying chemical protection to his crops. So […]

The Protein Professor

Srinivasan Damodaran came to the United States in 1976 from South India, where the green revolution was fueling an explosion of wheat and rice production […]

The Case for Healthier Tomatoes

At some point in your life, you’ve probably gone to class knowing you left an assignment unfinished. The knot in your stomach grew as homework […]

Major Modernization

Last fall, I outlined some of the key goals for the ongoing Organizational Redesign of the college. At the time, the project was in its […]

Five Things Everyone Should Know about … A2 Milk

1. A2 milk comes from cows with a natural genetic variation that gives their milk a slightly different protein ratio than conventional milk. All milk […]

Microbial Repellent

When Que Lan passed away unexpectedly of complications from gastric cancer in 2014, the UW entomology professor left behind a promising research project. Her work […]

Off to a ‘QuickStart’

On a typical morning at Doorco Holsteins in Brussels, Wisconsin, Austin Vandertie BSx’22 would be helping his parents milk the 40-cow herd, feed calves, spread […]

The Nature Effect

If you excelled in your college science classes, chances are you spent much of your youth outside the city limits or exploring nature with grass […]

Class Act | Stephanie Hoff

Stephanie Hoff BSx’19 grew up in small towns near Thorp, Wisconsin, as part of a rural community where people have a pretty good understanding of […]

Helium Conservation

For scientists looking to explore living things on an atomic level, there’s a decades-old but nevertheless astounding tool at their disposal. With biomolecular nuclear magnetic […]