College of Agricultural and Life Sciences | School of Medicine and Public Health
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters awarded Genetics Professor Ahna Skop the 2024 Fellows Award. She is the first woman to receive this award in the history of the Genetics Department, following Jim Crow, Sean Carroll, and Bill Dove. The award is granted to Wisconsinites with high levels of accomplishment in their fields …
College Factual, an online portal that applies data-driven insights to rank university programs nationwide, has ranked the UW–Madison Genetics and Genomics program as the 2024 #1 genetics school in an overall category. College Factual also placed us as the #1 school for a Bachelor’s in genetics and #4 school for a PhD in genetics. You …
Congratulations to Jake Brunkard, Genetics Assistant Professor, on being awarded the Vilas Early-Career Investigator Award. The award recognizes research and teaching excellence in faculty who are in the early stages of their careers. Dr. Brunkard, who joined the Genetics Department in 2020, made a significant impact in the department in a short amount of time, …
Recent genetics Ph.D. graduate Ben Hall and colleagues engineered a bacteria that can produce two chemical products simultaneously from underutilized plant fiber – without any loss in efficiency. The study, published in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology, explains the environmental and economic benefits of the discovery. “The amount of energy and greenhouse gas that …