Associate Professor Grace Wilkinson receives 2024-25 Vilas Associates Award
Congratulations to Grace Wilkinson for receiving a 2024-25 Vilas Associates Award!
College of Letters & Science
Congratulations to Grace Wilkinson for receiving a 2024-25 Vilas Associates Award!
Thirteen faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.
Congratulations to Dr. Guilherme Gainett, former iBio graduate student, and Professor Prashant Sharma on their paper published last week in the Journal Current Biology. They report that a living species of daddy longlegs has two additional sets of underdeveloped eyes as embryos, implying that the species diversified earlier in the evolutionary tree than scientists believed. …
By sending tomato plants to the International Space Station, UW researchers hope to better understand how plants grow without gravity and whether there are ways to help plants cope with the stressors involved with growing in space flight. Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/these-tomatoes-are-out-of-this-world-or-they-will-be-soon/
PhD candidate Nathan Kiel and Dr. Monica Turner explore what happens to Yellowstone’s understory plant communities when forests don’t come back after wildfire.
Greater Yellowstone is just one ecosystem in one corner of the world. However, studying how one landscape responds as the climate heats up can help us understand what may happen in places around the world facing similar changes. And since so many people love Yellowstone, it’s a great place to help the public appreciate the …
The discovery could help researchers better understand how the toxic fungus is successfully invading California and open the door for new drug discovery pathways. Read the full article at: https://news.wisc.edu/death-cap-mushrooms-invasion-success-may-be-linked-to-newly-documented-variability-of-toxin-genes/
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 …
Renowned landscape ecologist Monica Turner has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in recognition of her decades of contributions to the ecological study of the forests and landscapes in Greater Yellowstone. Read more:https://news.wisc.edu/monica-turner-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences/