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 […]

Biochemist Alan Attie tracks the internal mechanisms behind a fast-growing disease that takes millions of lives each year

A challenging after-school class keeps middle schoolers interested in science

A CALS partnership engages Native American kids in science by integrating indigenous knowledge into teaching and learning

Hong-En Chen

A successful treatment in mice holds promise for humans

Doug Weibel has a seemingly endless list of questions about bacteria, and he is using all tools at his disposal—and creating some new ones—to find the answers

It’s the “miracle vitamin” that was discovered by a CALS-trained researcher—-and our scientists have been prominent in exploring it ever since. What have we learned about the true benefits of vitamin D and its promise?

Retired professors band together to teach and preserve CALS history

The discovery-to-marketplace trail blazed by Harry Steenbock remains strong today. Here are some CALS-based businesses you should know about.

He loves science, loves to dance. And, as the Dancing Mad Scientist, biochemistry senior Jeffrey Vinokur gets to do both at once. Vinokur’s hip-hop laboratory […]

“WHEN I RETIRE, I SHALL PLANT FRUIT TREES.” That’s not exactly how Percy Mather, a longtime civil and environmental engineer with the Wisconsin Department of […]