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Paint the Plant Red: a natural alternative to synthetic food dyes
Professor Hiroshi Maeda worked with CALS scientists to create a sustainable and healthy red dye from soy beans. Read more in the latest edition of Grow Magazine, produced by the College of…
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Botany Gardens featured in “A Campus to Fall For”
Take in autumn at UW–Madison, where Badgers welcome brisk days and burnished views. Read More.
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Considering land’s potential to improve mitigation of degradation, wind erosion, sand and dust storms
By: Elise Mahon A new approach to mitigate harmful wind erosion, sand and dust storms uses land potential to better match land management practices with the needs of a particular area. The…
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Making research less daunting: Bio 152 prepared undergraduate for prestigious research fellowship
Zaira Malloy-Salgado, a senior majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology, spent the summer as an inaugural HHMI Cech Fellow. The program matches students with HHMI scientists conducting fundamental research to advance our…
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Faculty Q&A: Daniel Spalink uses systematics and collections to study global plant biodiversity
Daniel Spalink is a plant systematist and biogeographer. He integrates genetics with data on plant occurrences from global databases and herbaria around the world to improve our understanding of biodiversity. Spalink completed…
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TA Applications Open; positions in Department of Biology, Biocore
The Department of Biology The Department of Biology is accepting TA applications via this online form. Deadline: Sunday November 1, 2026. Please contact Nazan Gillie with questions, atilla@wisc.edu. Biocore Biocore is accepting spring semester TA applications! We…
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The Flesh Eaters: UW Zoological museum’s Dermestarium featured on Channel 3000
Howard Veregin, the Wisconsin State Cartographer, joined John Stuhler, the curator of mammals and birds at the University of Wisconsin Zoological Museum for a trip to visit the flesh-eating dermestid beetle colony…
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Magical Monarchs at the Biocore Prairie
Seth McGee led a community science outreach even on Sunday 9/13/2026, inviting students from across campus to net, catch, tag, and release monarchs. A select few monarchs that qualified were also fitted…
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NSF Career Award supports Daijiang Li’s efforts to build a global database of urban biodiversity
By Elise Mahon Daijiang Li, an assistant professor in the Department of Biology, has been granted a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to build new tools that will help…
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Neurobiology Alumnus named Fulbright Scholar
Theju Vembakkam, who graduated with a BS in Neurobiology in 2023, is one of 16 Badgers selected as ’26-’27 Fulbright Scholars. The grant will allow Vembakkam to pursue research on antimicrobial resistance…
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Plant enthusiasts joined the Wisconsin Herbarium’s 2026 Foray in La Crosse County, Wi
By Elise Mahon This past July, the Wisconsin State Herbarium and Botanical Club of Wisconsin hosted their 8th annual foray. Over the course of three days, a total of 46 volunteers explored…
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Botany Grad Student talks mentorship in Science Careers
To help readers at all career stages become the supportive mentors and supervisors they aspire to be, Science Careers asked researchers, including Botany Graduate Student Joseph Walston, to share the lessons they’ve learned on…
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Faculty Q&A: Zach Feiner studies fisheries to sustain them for both anglers and the ecosystem
Zach Feiner is a fisheries ecologist and new assistant professor in the department of Biology. He not only studies how fish respond to changes in their ecosystem, but also what those changes…
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Ken Cameron and Anne Pringle featured in On Wisconsin “Mighty Mycology”
UW fungi researchers across many disciplines have created a world-class supergroup to improve our lives. Professors Ken Cameron and Anne Pringle are both featured in this On Wisconsin Magazine story. Read more
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UW researchers train future scientists and educate communities about wisconsin’s peatlands
Peatlands are powerhouses when it comes to improving water quality, minimizing flood risks, providing habitat and storing carbon. Yet, most people are unaware of these important ecological places. Researchers and students from…
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Molecular “bypasses” improve grass plants’s synthesis of lignin and starch, laying the early groundwork for evolutionary success
Words: Elise Mahon | Photos: Sarah Friedrich One hundred million years ago, long before human intervention, ancestors of grasses, like wheat, rice and maize generated “bypasses” of chemical pathways that are used…
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Research differentiates new species of endangered baobab tree in Madagascar
By Elise Mahon Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recognize a new species of baobab tree, Adansonia bozy, unique to Madagascar, according to a study published in the journal Taxon. Previously, members…
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Faculty Q&A: Kristina Young
Kristina Young joined the UW–Madison faculty in January 2026 as an assistant professor of climate change ecology. As an ecologist, she studies how human land use reshapes ecosystems, with an eye toward…
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Biology Colloquium
The Biology Colloquium is a series of lectures hosted by the Department of Biology. In the fall, the Biology Colloquium takes place on Thursdays at 3:30 in Birge Hall, room B302, unless otherwise noted. In…
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Researchers recognized by Ecological Society of America
A paper by Nathan Kiel (PhD iBio ’24), undergraduate student Eileen Mavencamp (’23), and Professor Monica Turner has been awarded the W.S. Cooper Award for Outstanding Contributions in the Fields of Geobotany…
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