Almost 20 years ago, Natalia de Leon ’00, ’02 and Shawn Kaeppler BS’87, professors in the Department of Plant and Agroecosystem Sciences, set out […]

  Microbes are key to turning plants into liquid fuels. Yeasts and bacteria eat plant sugars, such as glucose, and turn them into alcohols, a […]

  “How does your garden grow?” It’s a question posed often enough that it even appears in a classic nursery rhyme. When Angela Johnson, a […]

  In Sweet Solution, (Grow, fall 2022), Jori Skalitzky BS’22 introduced a team of UW scientists who were transforming a remnant of Greek yogurt production […]

  Snapshot Wisconsin is a community-based science program led by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). It utilizes a network of trail cameras — […]

  Inna Popova is a chemist who came to love soil. During her training in analytical and physical chemistry, she found herself increasingly drawn to […]

  Justin Meng BS’15 came to UW–Madison from Guangdong, China, as a pre-business major with hopes of going into finance. But as he began exploring […]

  The tradition of federal support for higher education in the United States goes back more than 160 years. Bolstered by federal funds, land-grant universities […]

  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 […]