“There are so many things we can do with a blank canvas like ice cream,” says Maya Warren. And she would know. Warren is […]

John Bowman came to UW–Madison for a master’s degree in Ibero-American studies, but fate expanded the scope of his academic pursuits. By chance, he ended […]

Kristin Kohlmann has a passion for keeping children healthy and well-fed. And to make it happen, she found the perfect partner with Project Peanut Butter, […]

Lucas Rapisarda spent his early years in Illinois before his family moved to Bristol, Wisconsin, a village in Kenosha County. Along the way, he went […]

It might seem like Lynne Maquat had the deck stacked — or maybe the test tubes racked — against her. The first-generation college student was […]

For Andy Fisher, farming isn’t just a way to make a liv­ing. It’s a way of life. “I feel it’s one of the most honest […]

As a UW–Madison undergrad, Ellen (Shumaker) Morgan was eagerly hopping through an array of science electives, undecided on a specific major. Her curiosity was piqued […]

Anna Snider’s recent volunteer work has taken her to Nigeria, Bangladesh, and beyond, but her love of horticulture and farming started in Wisconsin. She grew […]

As a professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, Andrea Garber BS’92 PhD’99 conducted a groundbreaking study concerning a very vulnerable group: […]

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 […]

Lucas Joppa BS’04 Wildlife Ecology

MS’10 Agroecology