Horticulture students get a lesson in career climbing.

What is the real price of Fair-Trade certification?

Microscopic locomotion is more than meets the eye.

Growing green mangos for green-minded tourists.

BS’50 Food Science

Fish are good for you—except when they’re bad. How a legacy of environmental contamination continues to haunt one of our healthiest foods, and what we can do to fix it.

Scientist tracks how bacteria hitch ride on plants to get to humans.

Wisconsin growers may have the greenest potato on the planet. So why can’t you get it at your supermarket? It’s complicated.

The earliest signs of illness and disease show up in your body’s metabolites. Now scientists are figuring out how to track these molecules—and they’re changing medicine in the process.

When scientists feared thousands of kids with cystic fibrosis were going malnourished, HuiChuan Lai went to the data for answers.

Michael Lee BS’87

12 Alumni who are making a difference.