UW’s Zoological Museum gives students, faculty and visitors a chance to interact with biological specimens from around the world and across time. A lion, some mammoths and a battalion of flesh-eating beetles are just a few of our favorite things on display and behind the scenes. Read more from the Cap Times: https://captimes.com/news/education/uw-madisons-zoological-museum-boasts-amazing-teaching-tools/article_81eef225-bccf-51a6-8ec6-1fa6313b8414.html
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/
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 …
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 …
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 …