Xuehua Zhong uses plants to study epigenetics, an exciting new field that is broadening our understanding of how some traits might be passed down from one generation to the next.

Students in a CALS capstone course used cutting-edge technology to explore a microbial medical mystery

A new program called Discovery
to Product is helping researchers
become entrepreneurs

Clear-cutting in past centuries left Wisconsin with very few old-growth forests—and fewer of the environmental benefits they provide. CALS has partnered with the DNR and other institutions on a long-term project to learn how such forests can be reestablished and sustainably used.

A novel method for replacing defective proteins offers a new way to treat diseases

Soil science professor and students turn a sometime pollutant into a valuable product