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Green retreat from winter white

January 29, 2008

Anyone feeling weathered of Old Man Winter or that Jack Frost has nipped enough at their likely now-parched skin should consider a retreat to a publicly accessible campus greenhouse. (Slide show included.)

What lies beneath: Growth of root cells remarkably dynamic, study finds

December 3, 2007

A new UW–Madison study, publishing online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has found that certain plant cells pulse as they grow.

Curiosities: Why do flowers smell, and why do plants smell, too?

July 24, 2007

The luscious aroma of flowers attracts lovers, and the biological role of that smell is similar: to attract pollinators. “Plants need to attract insects,…

Three faculty chosen as Guggenheim fellows

April 19, 2007

Three professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have received 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship Awards, which recognize artists, scholars and scientists based on distinguished past achievement and exceptional future promise.