College of Letters & Science
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/
Farrah Madison studies the neural plasticity of songbirds, particularly different species of finches and canaries, trying to track the way their brains change in response to varying hormone concentrations and social environments. Those changes can offer clues to how songbirds navigate their environment in addition to providing some insight into similar mechanisms in the human …
A new report out of Olaf Jensen’s lab was published today in Global Change Biology. Read more about it here.
Ashley Trudeau, member of Olaf Jensen’s Lab, writes on the increase in fishing license sales in Wisconsin just after the COVID pandemic began.
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/
Professors Ellen Damschen and John Orrock speak about their study on the long-term value of targeted land management in efforts to restore and repair landscapes impacted by humans.
For faculty and graduate students in the Department of Integrative Biology who are studying how the brain works, zebrafish make ideal research subjects. These slim fish are almost perfectly transparent, making it easy to observe their brain activity. L&S undergraduate student, Ella Ruder, gets the scoop in a video interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s9Yjk9kyUM.