Stories indexed under: Botany

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• Botany experiment will try out zero gravity aboard space station Dec. 17, 2012 Gravity: It's the law in these parts. But to reach the stars, humans may have to learn to live outside the law.
• Academic staff office features botany art of Kandis Elliot March 8, 2012 In some ways, Kandis Elliot’s artwork can be like the carnivorous plants she introduces on one of her posters.
• New plant species named after UW botany professor Jan. 21, 2012 A new species has been named in honor of botany professor David Baum.
• UW–Madison botanist plucks new flower from Isle Royale Sept. 22, 2011 One of the world's newest sunflower species, discovered by a University of Wisconsin-Madison botanist, has carved out a very small but safe niche on an island in Lake Superior.
• UW-Madison artist wins international visualization challenge Feb. 28, 2011 Watch yourself around Kandis Elliot's art, because it may be smuggling things into your brain.
• Special symposium addresses practical applications of evolution Sept. 14, 2010 The Center of Rapid Evolution (CORE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is sponsoring a special event to foster discussion and outreach about how the science of evolution applies to real-world problems.
• Snaring bigger bugs gave flytraps evolutionary edge Aug. 25, 2009 Carnivorous plants defy our expectations of how plants should behave, with Venus flytraps employing nerve-like reflexes and powerful digestive enzymes to capture and consume fresh meat. The evolutionary history of these botanical oddities is now a bit clearer, thanks to new work.
• Isolated forest patches lose species, diversity June 9, 2009 Failing to see the forest for the trees may be causing us to overlook the declining health of Wisconsin's forest ecosystems.
• Bringing modern roots to a traditional collection Dec. 18, 2008 Ken Cameron joined the faculty earlier this year as an associate professor of botany and director of the Wisconsin State Herbarium. He cites the botany department — one of a relative few remaining university botany departments, most having folded into larger biology departments — as a strong draw, along with the mix of teaching, research and administrative duties offered by his joint appointment.
• Evolution’s hand detailed in Hawaiian lobeliads Oct. 16, 2008 A team led by UW-Madison botanists Thomas Givnish and Kenneth Sytsma details the evolutionary history of a diverse tropical group of flowering plants long viewed as one of the plant world's most dramatic examples of adaptive radiation, the phenomenon of new species arising from a single ancestor to occupy a multitude of ecological roles.
• ESA to feature wide range of UW-Madison presentations Aug. 5, 2008 The Ecological Society of America will hold its 93rd annual meeting on Aug. 3-8, 2008, in Milwaukee, Wis. The society was founded in 1915 to promote the practice and awareness of ecological science. This year’s meeting will highlight the interdisciplinary nature of ecology and linking research with education. A wide range of UW-Madison research will be presented at the meeting.
• Green retreat from winter white Jan. 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 Dec. 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
• 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.