L&S News  Tag: Botany

University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers just released a groundbreaking study on the same mushrooms behind an uptick in poisonings in California.

Combining the forces of the current integrative biology and botany departments, the University’s Department of Biology within the College of Letters & Science will be a powerhouse in research and education.

Backed by funding from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy, Hiroshi Maeda is pursuing a groundbreaking study on how to improve the ways plants absorb and use nitrogen.

An interdisciplinary research effort including the Department of Botany is developing plant-based technology to convert sun energy into essential aromatic compounds.

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.

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.

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.

Botanist and professor Simon Gilroy and Haddie McLean, manager of The Wonders of Physics, have received this year’s Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Awards. The awards recognize one UW faculty member and one academic staff member for their work engaging the public in science, technology, engineering, arts and math.

Professor of botany, Anne Pringle and team of researchers from UW–Madison and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service are first to document some of the complexity behind the mystery of why toxic mushroom has invaded the North American West Coast.