Research

The state’s record-breaking warm winter prompts concern about its natural resources in the face of global climate change.

Three L&S faculty rank among the eight UW­–Madison scholars who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

Research Associate Gaylan Williams is an important part of the Department of Planning and Landscape Architecture — and the golden age of urban forestry.

Max Koenig (x’24) will spend a year volunteering in six communities around the world.

Thomas Givnish and his team of researchers reconstructed the rise, spread and species diversification of Calochortus, a large group of flowering plants in the lily family.

This year, the NCAA tournaments will be bigger — and madder — than ever before. Assistant Professor of Communication Arts Jason Kido Lopez is researching the rapid growth of betting around these marquee events.

Associate Professor of Economics Karam Kang zooms in on what works and what doesn’t in municipal governance.

“My job — our job — is to make this institution even a step stronger — by building on this excellence and also by thinking in big, bold ways about where we can take a quantum leap forward to serve this state and the world on a whole new level,” Chancellor Mnookin said.

Simon Gilroy and his lab are no strangers to sending plants into space. And, at the end of January, the botany professor and his team will be doing it again for their sixth experiment with NASA on the International Space Station, this time with tomatoes.