A new one-year master’s degree at CALS fills a needed niche helping companies with energy analysis and conservation

Perennial crop yields can compete with corn stover, study suggests

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 […]

Biochemist John Ralph and his colleagues have pioneered a technology that could revolutionize how industry produces biofuels and other value-added goods

Before last summer, Vera Swanson’s only exposure to plant sciences had been through classes in introductory biology. That changed big-time when Swanson, a junior majoring […]

Generating enthusiasm for a new kind of technology is key to its long-term success. Rebecca Larson, a CALS professor of biological systems engineering, has already […]

CALS researchers are leading a far-reaching effort to gather information about greenhouse gases related to dairy—and to give farmers and other industry professionals the tools they need to reduce them.

Hong-En Chen

Transforming manure to energy in America’s Dairyland

A CALS-trained teacher brings bioenergy into high school classrooms

Sustainable farms need sustainable buildings—and a CALS professor provides an option

Bacteria found in cow rumens could be harnessed to process biofuel