Keeping Us Safe

For 70 years, the Food Research Institute has been illuminating and helping eradicate a host of food-borne illnesses

Cows for Kids

Ruth McNair, a senior editor at the CALS-based Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, recently published a charming children’s book titled Which Moo Are You? The […]

Milk, Motherhood and the Dairy Cow

A cost-saving technology allows farmers to better synchronize when cows are in heat

Five things everyone should know about … Daylight Saving Time (DST)

1. A Founding Father was an early advocate. In 1784 Benjamin Franklin observed that during summer months, people slept during the daylight hours of morning […]

Class Act: Erik Sanson and Of Bugs and Humans

Of Bugs and Humans

Ecuador: Better Health through Messaging

Some communities in Ecuador face high incidences of water-borne illness because of contaminated water or poor hygiene and sanitation. It’s a multipronged problem calling for […]

Catch Up With … Gary Brown BS’84 Landscape Architecture

As director of Campus Planning & Landscape Architecture at UW–Madison, Gary Brown BS’84 is in charge of places that hold cherished memories for just about […]

Bees and Beyond

CALS researchers Claudio Gratton and Christina Locke are providing science-based information and structure to the process as a broad group of stakeholders and citizens create Wisconsin’s first Pollinator Protection Plan.

A New Tool to Fight Cancer?

Biochemist Ron Raines and colleagues are developing an enzyme that identifies and destroys cancer cells

Addressing Our Food Future

In December, I was invited to attend a meeting hosted by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy focused on “Raising the Profile […]

Final Exam

In the Field: Alumni who serve the state through UW-Extension Cooperative Extension

Aerica Bjurstrom BS’00 “My programming changes depending on what farmers are asking for—or if I see a need for something new before they ask,” says […]