From Plant Hybrids to Human Health

  When Krishna Ella PhD’93 arrived at CALS in 1987 to begin a doctoral program in plant pathology, his goal was to probe the mysteries […]

The Genius of Prairie Strips

  Landscape ecologist Lisa Schulte Moore PhD’02 is planting new ideas in Midwestern fields. Thanks to her team’s research, innovative farmers are putting in bands […]

Alum Helps Sustain ‘Another Level of Molecular Clarity’

  Less than a decade ago, UW researchers began to gather and assemble the components of a powerful, advanced imaging technology called cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) […]

Final Exam Summer 2022

Good Ideas, Grown and Shared

  They are unconventional laboratories, classrooms, and proving grounds — places to connect with the land and with nature. UW’s Agricultural Research Stations are the […]

Virus Research Recast

  It was a quiet evening in 2012, and Robert Kirchdoerfer BS’06 was missing yet another dramatic sunset over the Pacific Ocean. But it didn’t […]

Coronavirus Education in Classrooms and Communities

  After a long but valuable diversion, researchers in the Department of Biochemistry are just now getting back to studies they were working on before […]

Season of Learning

  Summer courses are an abiding tradition at UW. They’ve long been the boon of undergrads looking to stay on track to graduation, lighten their […]

A Final Tally for All Ways Forward…and a Thank You

  In A Look Back on a Campaign for the Future (Grow, Fall 2021), managing editor Nik Hawkins offered a glimpse of what CALS has […]

Six Key Facts about Lab-Grown Meat

  Plant-based protein and “meat-alternative” products have streamed into the marketplace in recent years. This trend has been driven in part by world population growth […]

Fertilizer’s Fungal Effects

  When excess fertilizer leaches out from croplands and urban lawns, nitrogen and other elements pollute the environment. Extensive research shows the damage that nitrogen […]

Innovative Tech Captures Carbon — and a Big Prize

  Cut greenhouse gas emissions and stave off the harmful effects of climate change. It’s one of the most important challenges we face today. And […]