To Eat It—Or Not

Biosensors being developed for food products offer a vastly improved indicator of freshness and safety

Plant Prowess

CALS scientists from a wide range of disciplines help forge the future of a growing field

Final Exam Spring 2015

Forever Rising

We depend on yeasts for products ranging from beer and biofuel to forage and pharmaceuticals. But according to Chris Todd Hittinger and his colleagues at CALS, we’ve only begun to understand and mine the possible uses of these hardworking model microbes

From Trash to Treasure

The Center for Dairy Research is turning a problematic by-product of Greek yogurt production into new cash streams

Turning them on

A challenging after-school class keeps middle schoolers interested in science

New “Bug Guy” on Campus

Are bed bugs getting you down? Is a hard-to-identify pest ravaging your vegetable garden? You can get in touch with PJ Liesch MS’10, manager of […]

Unpuzzling Diabetes

Biochemist Alan Attie tracks the internal mechanisms behind a fast-growing disease that takes millions of lives each year

Catch up with … Kartik Chandran PhD’01 Biochemistry

Kartik Chandran (PhD’01 Biochemistry) has spent years studying an organism that most of us hope never to experience: the Ebola virus. Last year the infectious agent not only spread within West Africa […]

Science for Citizens

CALS is acclaimed as one of the best schools in the nation for training top-notch researchers and practitioners. Less known is the fact that CALS offers challenging, […]

Bridging the Gap

An international friendship program helps CALS students reach across borders, right here on campus

Pecatonica Without the “P”

Changes in farming practices have been shown to greatly reduce phosphorus runoff – without hurting the growers’ bottom line