Wolf Rewilding Leads to Unforeseen Species Interactions

  Opportunities to study carnivores before and after wolves are reintroduced to their ranges are rare. So researchers from CALS thanked their lucky stars when […]

What’s In a Name? Maybe Your College Major Choice

  If your childhood surname started with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, you might remember long wait times when teachers organized activities […]

Stimulus for Sharing Science

  As public discourse surrounding climate change, gene editing, and other pressing issues gains momentum, expectations for scientists to engage with the public are expanding. […]

Carbon Capture via Pasture

  In Can Farms Pull Carbon from Sky to Soil? (Grow, summer 2023), Hal Conick highlighted the early stages of an ongoing long-term study by […]

To Mulch or Not to Mulch? (And How Much?)

  Each fall, property owners are faced with a choice: remove leaves from the lawn, let them be, or mulch them in the turf. Opinions […]

The Insect Eavesdropper

  Emily Bick is an entomologist with three degrees in the field. She’s also something of a spy. Using a novel detector, Bick can listen […]

The (Re)definition of Home

  In her recently published book, Who We Are Is Where We Are (Columbia University Press, 2024), Amanda McMillan Lequieu MS’13, PhD’19 takes readers on […]

An Assist for Rural Wisconsin Students

  Undergraduate Brooke Stibbe and alum Tom Schmidknecht BS’71 came to CALS with similar backgrounds. Both grew up in small rural Wisconsin towns, so both […]

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Science Through a Glass Darkly

  In the 1980s, the steps involved in a high school research paper assignment looked much different than today. Given a hot-button health topic of […]

The Secrets of Cold Weather Soil Unearthed

  When hydrology engineer Anita Thompson was growing up in Minnesota, she knew what to expect from winter. The temperatures would drop below freezing around […]

Most Humans Can’t Multitask to Save Their Lives. But These Microbes Can.

  We often look to the smallest life-forms for help solving the biggest problems: Microbes can make foods and beverages, cure diseases, treat waste, and […]