CALS faculty work with elementary school students and teachers to help improve science learning

The new Wisconsin Crop Innovation Center is poised to serve as an exciting incubator for agricultural improvement.

A CALS bacteriologist is working with Alaska Natives and other groups to keep botulism out of seal oil and other traditional favorites

The Renk Agribusiness Institute has earned its laurels, but with a new director and fresh ideas for the coming decade, the institute has no plans to rest on them

  There are still some mysteries left in the world—even if, as Sam Schmitz has learned, you sometimes have to dive pretty deep to find […]

1 l Wisconsin’s soils were first mapped more than a century ago. The first soil map of Wisconsin was also the first ever made in […]

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

For Dominic Parker, a professor of agricultural and applied economics, a research foray into mining practices in Africa dug up some unexpected findings. Parker wanted […]

Swarms of midges rise out of a lake in northern Iceland in such enormous numbers every spring and summer that they can impair breathing and […]

Xuehua Zhong uses plants to study epigenetics, an exciting new field that is broadening our understanding of how some traits might be passed down from one generation to the next.

How the Center for Dairy Research helped Wisconsin makers of vastly different cheeses improve production and quality—and bring home top honors in international competitions.

Grow editor Joan Fischer reflects on her time at CALS.