The Department of Botany seeks applicants for as many as three tenure-track or tenured professors in the areas of evolution, systematics, and/or ecology.
Year: 2024
Hiroshi Maeda wins funding to further study how plants can overspend carbon in photosynthesis
Professor Hiroshi Maeda and Michigan State University researcher Berkley Walker were awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how plants compensate when they “overspend” carbon in the process of photosynthesis.
Award funds Muir lab work to identify genetic and developmental changes during adaptive radiation
Chris Muir, an assistant professor in the Department of Botany, is part of a team that received a three-year $1.3 million award ($352,9997 to UW-Madison) from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project, Evolutionary and functional …
Herbarium Collections Manager Mark Allen Wetter retires after 39 years of service
By Mary Ann Feist On February 1, 2024, Mark Wetter retired from the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, after 39 years of service. The Botany Department held a gathering with …
175th Anniversary edition of the Science Expeditions!
This year the UW campus held its Science Expeditions Open House in conjunction with the UW’s 175th Community Open House for a truly special event. There were a host of activities that ranged from visiting …
These tomatoes are out of this world… or they will be soon
Simon Gilroy and his lab are no strangers to sending plants into space. And, at the end of January, his team will be doing it again for their sixth experiment with NASA on the International Space Station, this time with tomatoes…