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Sarah Specht, a Department of Chemistry graduate student in the Hermans Group, took first place in the Three-Minute Thesis contest held by the UW–Madison Graduate School. Specht studies inorganic chemistry with a focus on the kinetics of silver catalyzed propylene epoxidation using molecular oxygen as the oxidant. Though it sounds complicated, she was able to explain …
This summer, professor Daniel Weix and members of his research group joined the chemistry department, bringing with him a reputation for finding solutions that others might miss.
University of Wisconsin–Madison professor of chemistry Bassam Z. Shakhashiri is the recipient of the 2018 Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public. The American Chemical Society announced the award Monday, adding Shakhashiri’s name to a list of recipients that includes Nobel laureates and renowned journalists and authors.
University of Wisconsin–Madison chemistry Professor Ned Sibert is one of 65 newly selected American Chemical Society fellows. The fellows program honors scientists who have made important contributions to the chemical sciences.
Andrew Buller joined the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor of chemistry. Before he worked as a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Francis Arnold research group at California Institute of Technology. While at Caltech, he dedicated himself to a project combining protein engineering and biocatalysis. Buller previously …
“Dan has established himself as a pioneer in the field of homogeneous catalysis, especially in the development of reductive or cross-electrophile coupling reactions,” Professor Shannon Stahl says. “There are many possible applications of this chemistry, for example, in the preparation of pharmaceuticals or agrochemicals. He has accomplished things that others in the field may have …
Randall Goldsmith, a University of Wisconsin–Madison assistant professor of chemistry, is among the 13 U.S. early-career faculty members in the chemical sciences to win a 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award.
Nicholas J. Hill and Brian Esselman each received a 2016-2017 James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry. The two organic chemistry laboratory directors organized and hosted a conference for UW-system, two-year colleges, which focused on innovative teaching and assessment in the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory.