L&S News

For interim L&S Dean Kristin Eschenfelder, these awards confirm that the university is living up to its reputation of rigorous research to benefit the public good. 

Researchers with the Wisconsin Center for Origins Research have discovered their first exoplanet, a 170-million-year-old planet more than 2.5 times larger than the Earth.

Miranda Garcia-Dove, an L&S Dean’s Ambassador and 2026 Truman Scholar, is creating meaningful conversation and bridging divides on campus. 

During Allan Koritzinsky’s 50-plus years as a divorce attorney, he became an expert on the road to ending a marriage. Now he’s using what he learned to help married couples avoid the need to visit an office like his.

Since 2011, a team of UW–Madison researchers and community collaborators have secured $5.3 million in U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and National Science Foundation (NSF) funding to support local food systems and farmers markets around the country.

Uranus’s new moon, the impact of vaccines on Alzheimer’s onset, 3D images of an embryo, among many others. All these stories have a wow factor that makes you feel like we are turning on the lights in a dark room, only to realize the room we are in is much bigger than we imagined.

Call it a prison break, because golden oyster mushrooms have managed to wiggle their way out of cultivation captivity and into Midwestern ecosystems. 

Frank Lloyd Wright and Marshall Erdman were the visionaries who laid the groundwork for Dan Erdman’s career. Now he’s cementing their legacy with a professorship that will support teaching and learning for the next generation.

Five years after discovering the first ancient dugout canoe found in Lake Mendota, researchers are now mapping a parking system for boats that are thousands of years old.