The Three Sisters is a method of planting corn, beans, and squash in close proximity. The method was developed by Indigenous peoples in North […]

  Rutuja Gupte BSx’26 is an explorer by nature. She grew up near Mumbai, India, but she made the adventuresome decision to come to UW […]

  Back on April 22 — Earth Day 2024 — a small crowd gathered in UW’s D.C. Smith Greenhouse to celebrate and learn. Attendees sampled […]

  Opportunities to study carnivores before and after wolves are reintroduced to their ranges are rare. So researchers from CALS thanked their lucky stars when […]

  If your childhood surname started with a letter toward the end of the alphabet, you might remember long wait times when teachers organized activities […]

  As public discourse surrounding climate change, gene editing, and other pressing issues gains momentum, expectations for scientists to engage with the public are expanding. […]

  In Can Farms Pull Carbon from Sky to Soil? (Grow, summer 2023), Hal Conick highlighted the early stages of an ongoing long-term study by […]

  Each fall, property owners are faced with a choice: remove leaves from the lawn, let them be, or mulch them in the turf. Opinions […]

  Emily Bick is an entomologist with three degrees in the field. She’s also something of a spy. Using a novel detector, Bick can listen […]

  In her recently published book, Who We Are Is Where We Are (Columbia University Press, 2024), Amanda McMillan Lequieu MS’13, PhD’19 takes readers on […]

  Undergraduate Brooke Stibbe and alum Tom Schmidknecht BS’71 came to CALS with similar backgrounds. Both grew up in small rural Wisconsin towns, so both […]