Red Corn Resurrection

  Almost 20 years ago, Natalia de Leon ’00, ’02 and Shawn Kaeppler BS’87, professors in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, set out […]

Rewired Microbe Scarfs Toxic Chemicals for Dinner (and Then Skips Dessert)

  Microbes are key to turning plants into liquid fuels. Yeasts and bacteria eat plant sugars, such as glucose, and turn them into alcohols, a […]

Roots in Motion

  “How does your garden grow?” It’s a question posed often enough that it even appears in a classic nursery rhyme. When Angela Johnson, a […]

How Sweet It Is

  In Sweet Solution, (Grow, fall 2022), Jori Skalitzky BS’22 introduced a team of UW scientists who were transforming a remnant of Greek yogurt production […]

100 Million Critters Caught on Camera

  Snapshot Wisconsin is a community-based science program led by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It utilizes a network of trail cameras — […]

The Hunt for Biopesticides and Decontaminants that Cut the Mustard

  Inna Popova is a chemist who came to love soil. During her training in analytical and physical chemistry, she found herself increasingly drawn to […]

The Family Way

  Justin Meng BS’15 came to UW–Madison from Guangdong, China, as a pre-business major with hopes of going into finance. But as he began exploring […]

High Priority: Tomorrow’s Scientists

  The tradition of federal support for higher education in the United States goes back more than 160 years. Bolstered by federal funds, land-grant universities […]

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Leopold’s ‘Magic’ Words Enchant a Wider Audience

  It’s a rare opportunity for the public to glimpse the original, handwritten notes and journals of an influential environmentalist, let alone one as renowned […]

A Century of Research Partnerships

  Hector DeLuca left his mark on the UW–Madison campus — literally. The professor emerit and former chair of biochemistry has three buildings that bear […]

Whither the Children?

  When you search Google for “family farms,” the dominant images served up show parents and their young children in bucolic agricultural settings, often walking […]