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Outside, the cool spring rain settled mist deep into the hills of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area and raised fog out of lakes and ponds. And when that fog was seemingly transported inside — with the help of a bucket of dry ice and a generous amount of boiling water — it drew cheers and gasps of …
Yongqian Zhang was featured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 Radio in a podcast about nanoparticles.
Tess Carlson receives a Hilldale Research Fellowship from Chancellor Rebecca Blank at the Chancellor’s Award Ceremony in Spring 2018. Tess Carlson, a UW-Madison chemistry major, came to the university from Hamilton High School in Sussex, WI. She received the American Chemical Society Hach-Land Grant Scholarship in 2016, designed for undergraduate students who plan on …
“I love the idea of doing new things that no one else has ever done, and continually building on my knowledge.”
“Of course you want the reaction to work the way you’re expecting, but sometimes an unexpected reaction could be just as valuable. A lot of great discoveries in history happened by accident, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing when you do an experiment that produces unexpected results. “
“There are three reasons I got involved. The first was the desire to gain experience in a research setting. The second reason was to fulfill the lab credits needed to graduate, while the third reason was to boost my resume.”
Assistant Professor Zach Wickens arrived at UW—Madison in June 2018. His group, which currently includes postdoctoral researcher Nicholas Cowper and graduate student Oliver Williams, works to discover new ways to control reactions and selectively break apart and reassemble small molecules. Wickens received his bachelor’s degree at Macalester College in Saint Paul, MN and his Ph.D. …