College of Letters & Science
A message from Professor Anne Pringle, ’25-’26 Department of Botany Chair and ’26-’27 Center for Botany Faculty Director. Dear Botanists, Greetings! I hope that wherever you are, there are flowers. In Madison we are almost to high summer, and our prairies are bursting with milkweeds, rattlesnake master, and as many difficult-to-identify-species-of-Asteraceae (and grasses) as your …
Answers to frequently asked questions about the new Department of Biology. Read more.
Officially launched in Summer 2026, the Department of Biology brings together the former botany and integrative biology departments.
The new Center for Botany is a research hub for botanical sciences at UW–Madison housed in the Department of Biology. Members of the center will discover, archive and communicate knowledge of basic plant, fungal and algal biology across scales, from genes to ecosystems using both established and new approaches. We asked Center for Botany Faculty …
A message from Mary Halloran, Chair of the Department of Biology. Hello all, Today, July 1, 2026, marks the first day of the Department of Biology in the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Bringing together botany and integrative biology (formerly zoology), two departments that have been around since the earliest …