If you closed your eyes — and maybe if David Bartling BS’13 wasn’t trying to shout over the roar of harvesting machinery — you […]

  In the King Hall greenhouse on the UW campus, Rebecca Smith stands amid a potted jungle of sorghum, clipping stalk segments into a plastic […]

  Laura Duesterbeck Johnson BS’03 always felt the pressure of succession when she was growing up on a farm in Walworth County. The property had […]

  Rodrigo Werle wonders if anybody is ever really happy to see him. He is, after all, a weed scientist. He specializes in some of […]

  When undergraduate Devin Digman bought a 90s-era Kawasaki motorcycle earlier this year, he didn’t expect its purple and turquoise color scheme to bleed into […]

  The UW campus tends to be quiet in the middle of June. Commencement has been celebrated, dorms have emptied. Although classes continue during the […]

  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 […]

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

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

  The first time Mason Polencheck BSx’25 met a mudpuppy, he was nine years old, on a fishing trip in the waters of Lake Superior. […]

  Americans are demanding cleaner lakes, beaches, and rivers. In survey after survey, people rank water quality as the environmental issue that worries them the […]

  It’s like the ultimate sleepover with the grandparents: ice cream for breakfast, a behind-the-scenes tour of Camp Randall Stadium, and then an afternoon of […]