Current Events
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| Gilroy Lab Experiment Orbiting Earth After thruster problems, successful docking at the International Space Station |
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| Graham Lab Participates in AAAS Family Days Science Outreach Lab travels to Boston to educate about algae |
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| Madison Orchid Research Group represents at Orchid Quest 2013 Comes away with prizes! |
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| Gilroy and Spalding publish in special Tropism issue of AJB Congratulations! |
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| Otegui's Research Recognized Professor Otegui receives a Romnes Faculty Fellowship |
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| Plants in Space! The Gilroy Lab will be sending an experiment to the ISS |
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| South Korea’s National Institute of Ecology (NIE) opens Professor Joy Zedler helps to inaugurate |
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| New publication from Graham Lab about Lake Mendota algae |
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| Tree Thinking: An introduction to phylogenetic biology a new book by David Baum and Stacey Smith |
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| Ken Sytsma elected president of American Society of Plant Taxonomists Congratulations, Ken! |
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| Big Bucky Bloomed in May watch the time-lapse video |
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| Botany students awarded |
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| Congratulations to Brian Sidoti! L&S Teaching Fellow Award recipient |
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| Spalding on NSF's Science Nation A short video about a research project in the Spalding lab |
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| Iochroma baumii A new species named after Professor David Baum |
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| Powerful new 3D electron microscope to arrive in spring Marisa Otegui and others win NSF funding for the new shared resource |
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| Mary North Allen passes away Mary was the widow of Botany Professor Paul Allen |
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| Emeritus professor Robert Kowal discovers a new species: a sunflower from Isle Royale |
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| Free app for identifying Wisconsin woody plants! developed by Botany alumna Catherine Woodward |
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| Botany alumnus Jim Fralish passes away 1939 - 2011 |
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| The legend of Asahel Birge The namesake of Birge Hall turns 160. |
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| Botany alumnus Donald Ugent passes away 1933 - 2011 |
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| Don Waller awarded grant for international field course Don Waller and Caitlyn Allen of Plant Pathology will develop the course to begin Fall 2012-13 |
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| Welcome Hiroshi Maeda! We are proud to announce that Hiroshi Maeda will be joining the Botany Department as an Assistant Professor in Fall 2011. |
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| 2010-2011 Graduate Student Awards Congratulations to Botany students who received awards in the 2010-2011 school year! |
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| Botany Outreach Store Now Open! |
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| Sarah Swanson's SEM image of a cotton flower is a campus contest winner! Want to see what a cotton flower looks like when magnified 500X? |
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| Science Magazine and the NSF honor Kandis Elliot and Mo Fayyaz They take 1st place in the Visualization Challenge 2010 |
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| Andrew Gardner wins Exceptional Service Award Congratulations! |
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| Botany graduate program is highly ranked Botany is one of the 23 UW doctoral programs to be ranked highly in a national survey. |
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| Botany professors receive $2.93 million grant The NSF awards four Botany professors a grant to study Wisconsin plant diversity. |