The Biology Colloquium is a series of lectures hosted jointly by the Botany and Integrative Biology departments. The Spring 2026 Biology Colloquium takes place on Thursdays at 3:30 inNoland Hall, room 168, unless otherwise noted.
This year UW–Madison held its Science Expeditions Open House in conjunction with UW’s 175th Community Open House for a truly special event. There were a host of activities that ranged from visiting the Botany greenhouses to exploring dance as medicine at the Health Learning Center. Dr. Sabrina Chin of the Gilroy Lab organized the Plant …
By: Ashley Cheung This past April, I was a panelist at the Wisconsin Energy Institute’s 2023 Climate Teach-In. Students, faculty and community members joined at Memorial Union to learn from each other about climate solutions. We taught each other about everything from campus food recovery efforts to global temperature monitoring programs. I contributed what I …
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 …
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 …