Kartik Chandran (PhD’01 Biochemistry) has spent years studying an organism that most of us hope never to experience: the Ebola virus. Last year the infectious agent not only spread within West Africa […]

12 Alumni who are making a difference.

Meet the 12 CALS alumni who are making a difference in nutrition.

Want to preserve the world’s food supply? Start by limiting your own. It just might save your life.

We’ll never be 100 percent at spotting threats to our food. But what if the pathogens gave themselves up?

Exploring the science of how foods interact with our bodies will lead to healthier foods and lifestyles.

Safe food. Healthy food. Enough food. Can we secure the bounty we take for granted for future generations? A team of CALS experts say that we can meet the world’s food challenges––and here are their best ideas for how to do it.

Last summer, Susan Paskewitz made an astonishing discovery after walking her dog in her Madison neighborhood: a deer tick crawling up her dog’s hind leg. […]