L&S News

As part of the College of Letters & Science’s LASER program, sophomore Liz Sanchez Garcia investigates how solar panels and their changing light conditions can be a good thing for plants, renewable energy and career aspirations.

Artificial intelligence offers an enticing array of benefits — but it also requires a growing supply of electricity, potentially straining the nation’s power grid. L&S experts consider how that conundrum is likely to play out.

Concrete has been used as the material of modern cities, but Siddharth Menon investigates how just one material can reveal the larger ripples of environmental and political trends in ordinary lives.

English alum Michael Braun is now the owner and editor-in-chief at Orange Hat Publishing.

Chris Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, is part of a team that received a three-year $1.3 million award from the National Science Foundation.

The designation recognizes the quality of the Doctoral Program in Computer Sciences and opens the door to greater resources and opportunities for research collaboration in cybersecurity.

Six College of Letters & Science faculty make up the cohort of 11 UW–Madison selected scholars, who will teach and conduct research abroad as Fulbright U.S. Scholars in the 2024-25 academic year.

Dan Kapust is excited to work with the students in the program and help them get more out of their college experience.

Finn Enke researches the intersection of social movements, gender and sexuality.