The Gilroy, Maeda, and Spalding labs participated in the 2023 campus-wide Science Expeditions outreach event on April 16. They joined five other plant cell and molecular biology labs from different UW departments to create a row of eight substations where families with children peered through microscopes, painted with plant pigments, or sowed seeds in a …
The Botany and Conservation Biology Newsletter interviews Mark Connolly, Curriculum & Graduate Program Coordinator, about the department’s mentor appreciation initiative: Who are you? For a little more than a year now, I’ve been the Curriculum and Graduate Program Coordinator for the Department of Botany. Before that, I was an NSF-funded researcher who studied STEM education …
Starting in October of 2022, a group of students, led by graduating botany major, Amanda Shalit, revitalized the Undergraduate Botany Club. Since October, the Botany Club has hosted a plethora of events. The first meeting was a plant trivia night, followed by a trip to the Olbrich Botanical Gardens, and a Cocoa & Cram movie and study night. In the spring semester, Botany Club has …
Professor of Botany Katherine McCulloh will hold the inaugural appointment created to honor Blank’s leadership and service and to celebrate recently tenured faculty who mirror her commitment to UW–Madison.Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/botany-professor-first-to-receive-new-rebecca-blank-professorship/