If you excelled in your college science classes, chances are you spent much of your youth outside the city limits or exploring nature with grass […]

In a small utility room in UW–Madison’s Animal Science Building, the world’s smallest and most precise forest fire is burning. The fuel today: 100 grams […]

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a progressive illness that causes severe weight loss and eventually death in deer and elk. The disease has been detected […]

Enterprising Alumni Many CALS graduates go on to launch small businesses, patent new products, and found successful companies, among other entrepreneurial endeavors. This special “In […]

1 l Wisconsin’s soils were first mapped more than a century ago. The first soil map of Wisconsin was also the first ever made in […]

There are capstones, and there are capstones. For his capstone—a discipline-spanning research project required of all students graduating from CALS—soil science student Jacob Kruse BS’16 […]

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

“Soil is the hidden, secret friend, which is the root domain of lively darkness and silence.” —Francis D. Hole (d. 2002), CALS professor of soil […]

How CALS scientists help the world-renowned Whistling Straits golf course get ready for this summer’s PGA Championship

A CALS partner program trains aspiring—and much-needed—farmers

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

Ice cream and cranberries make the perfect couple