There are many processes that take place in cells that are essential for life. Two of these, transcription and translation, allow the genetic information stored in DNA to be deciphered into the proteins that form all living things, from bacteria to humans to plants.
UW–Madison senior Maria Castillo received the Conservation and Sustainability Award at the Bucky’s Award Ceremony Sunday evening.
The ceremony is a recognition event hosted by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Student Leadership Program.
On a still and warm summer morning, as scientists drive along the dirt roads that crisscross the Arlington Agricultural Research Station, the fields sweep in a green carpet to the horizon.
Sevie Kenyon: Deciphering the science you hear about. We’re visiting today with Dominique Brossard, Department of Life Science Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison in the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences and I’m Sevie Kenyon.
A team of chemical and biological engineers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison has found a way to produce from biomass a valuable compound used in plastic production that they estimate could lower the cost of ethanol produced from plant material by more than two dollars per gallon.
If science classes at Bonduel Middle School had a rallying cry it would be, “Don’t expect to find the answers in the book!” And Lisa Sorlie, enthusiastic advocate of innovative classroom science, would definitely be holding the megaphone.
Scenes from the first deployment for the AOS field measurements course, March 3–4, 2017