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 […]

  In the mid-1800s — a time when a relatively young country was marked by intense polarization that led to a civil war — American […]

  The village of Walton, New York, faced a daunting task in 1972: It had to build a $5.8 million wastewater treatment plant with an […]

  During urban expansion, soil gets covered by roads, buildings, and parking lots, a process called “soil sealing.” It reduces the soil’s ability to support […]

  Americans are demanding cleaner lakes, beaches, and rivers. In survey after survey, people rank water quality as the environmental issue that worries them the […]

  The quality of land on Native American reservations is often considered poor. These regions, where the U.S. government relocated tribes in the mid- to […]

  In The Seeds of Innovation (Grow, spring 2024), professor and extension specialist Julie Dawson gave readers a primer on intellectual property (IP) in the seed […]

  Wisconsin’s agricultural production and food processing sectors contributed $116.3 billion in industrial revenues in 2022, according to a UW study. That’s more than 14% […]

  Wisconsin’s Hmong population reached 62,331 in 2020, according to a recent report from the UW Applied Population Laboratory. It’s a 25% increase over the […]

  Erica L-W Majumder might be an alchemist. Her goal? Turn trash into environmental gold. This assistant professor of bacteriology believes landfills like the one […]

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