In February 2024, UW Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin announced the launch of the Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Initiative (RISE). Broadly, the goal […]

  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 […]

  Since the early 2000s, spongy moth caterpillars, invaders from Europe, have flexed their gustatory muscle in Wisconsin by stripping entire stands of trees of […]

  It’s long been assumed that diversified cropping systems, which involve growing a variety of crops in one area with manure as a nutrient source, […]

  As they metamorphose into full-fledged professionals, entomology graduate students pass through key stages of development. They have to contribute to their field of study […]

  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 […]

  From sudden floods to weeks of scorching heat, increasingly unstable weather is a headache for U.S. farmers. Known as “weather whiplash,” these disorienting swings […]

  The day promises to be witheringly hot. Guolong Liang BS’19, MS’22 arrives at Isherwood Farm around 8 a.m. to get an early start. As […]

  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 […]

  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 […]