We depend on yeasts for products ranging from beer and biofuel to forage and pharmaceuticals. But according to Chris Todd Hittinger and his colleagues at CALS, we’ve only begun to understand and mine the possible uses of these hardworking model microbes

The Center for Dairy Research is turning a problematic by-product of Greek yogurt production into new cash streams

Are bed bugs getting you down? Is a hard-to-identify pest ravaging your vegetable garden? You can get in touch with PJ Liesch MS’10, manager of […]

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

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 […]

CALS is acclaimed as one of the best schools in the nation for training top-notch researchers and practitioners. Less known is the fact that CALS offers challenging, […]

An international friendship program helps CALS students reach across borders, right here on campus

Changes in farming practices have been shown to greatly reduce phosphorus runoff – without hurting the growers’ bottom line

Soothing Landscapes

Doing fieldwork in the remote wilderness of Russia isn’t for the faint of heart. There are long distances to travel on deeply rutted roads, bleak […]

CALS experts, led by dairy science professor Pam Ruegg, are providing training to help the Chinese meet a growing demand for dairy

Nikita Brabbit BS’08 Forest Science (Recreation Resource Management) Paraguay ’08–’10  Brabbit served as a Peace Corps volunteer specializing in agro-forestry in rural southeastern Paraguay, an […]