Natural & Physical Sciences

Eight L&S faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize some of the university’s finest educators.

In case you missed it, we rounded up some of the most popular stories from the College of Letters & Science this year.

A group of scientists tasked with advising the federal government’s investments in particle physics research recommends the U.S. fund a planned expansion of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. The panel includes physics professors Tulika Bose and Kyle Cranmer.

Chemistry professor Song Jin and doctoral candidate Rui Wang apart of an interdisciplinary team of scientists have developed a new technique that could help farmers extract useful nutrients such as ammonia and potassium from livestock manure to efficiently make fertilizer and other useful chemical products.

This Sunday, thousands of winter graduates will earn degrees from UW–Madison, each with an impressive story to tell. Be sure to check out the stories of L&S graduates Jonathan Bryan, Devin Harris, Jinwan Park, Madisson Delebeck and Winter commencement student speaker Jnae Thompson.

The Professor of Geoscience's latest findings focus on fossilized coral reefs in the Seychelle Islands, which show how high sea levels rose centuries ago--and, in an era of climate change, how high they might rise again.

Jordan Ellenberg is teaching­­­­­­ students how to use numbers and data to support written arguments.

How a warming world is changing the places we love

The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences leverages a popular gaming/simulation platform as an outreach tool.