College of Letters & Science
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 which help clean specimens for the collection. Read more.
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 with a solar powered radio tag, enabling more data collection on monarch migration than the standard paper tags alone. Check out the photo …
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 in Laos. Read More.
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 their way. Read More
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
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 UW–Madison and UW–Green Bay hope to change that. Read more.
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 and/or Physiographic Ecology. Their paper, “Sparse subalpine forest recovery pathways, plant communities, and carbon stocks 34 years after stand-replacing fire“, emphasizes that post-fire …
PhD candidate Tymofii Sokolskyi and professor David Baum published a new paper that investigates pre-biotic chemical reactions in vesicles to better understand the origins of life. Read more.
Department of Biology graduate students Hannah Ashe, Jillian Neece and Shaneya Miriyagalla have received Arboretum Research Fellowships. These graduate fellowships support early career scientists doing work that aligns with the Arboretum’s mission and advances a long tradition of research in restoration ecology and conservation. Read more.
Answers to frequently asked questions about the new Department of Biology. Read more.