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By Ilia A. Guzei Director of Crystallography From a Petri dish into space! Do crystals grown in space differ from the ones grown on earth? Do compounds crystallize differently in space? What hardware does one use to conduct a crystallization experiment in space? Answers to these questions are sought by the winners of the WI …
By Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Professor of Chemistry and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea Today our biggest challenge is to help sustain Earth and its people in the face of population growth, finite resources, malnutrition, spreading disease, deadly violence, war, climate change, and the denial of basic human rights, especially the right …
By Anthony Millevolte & Matthias Driess Colleagues and friends of Emeritus Professor Robert C. West joined to celebrate Bob’s 90th birthday during special conference sessions in 2018. It began in May with the 101st Canadian Chemistry Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, and continued in September at the Silicon Symposium in Prague and then at the 9th …
By John Moore W. T. Lippincott Professor of Chemistry The Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) continues its extensive outreach program under the direction of John Moore and with the contributions of Andrew Greenberg, Linda Craft, Elizabeth Moore, Laura Linde and several undergraduate student workers. We gratefully acknowledge the American Chemical Society Wisconsin Section, which supports …
Having chosen right parents, with robust good health he celebrated his 85th birthday on January 20th. Thus, he has been taking on busy travel schedule to Korea and China for the past several years. He goes to Korea semi-annually for industrial consulting for a couple of companies within the LG Corporation, and a petrochemical company; …
By Stephanie Blaszczyk Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Tang Group) UW–Madison students are unknowingly influenced by recent 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Frances Arnold, thanks to four Ph.D. chemists and Arnold group alumni in the Madison area: Jeffrey Endelman (2005), Philip Romero (2012), and Andrew Buller (2017), all professors at UW–Madison, and Katie Brenner (2009) …
By Kaitlyn M. Moore Department Communications At the start of each fall semester, the Department of Chemistry welcomes incoming graduate students with the responsibility of choosing a research group — and creative posters have become the quintessential tool for lab group recruiting. According to Arrietta Clauss, graduate student services coordinator, this can be a demanding …
Enabling Characterization of Nanoparticles, Catalysts, Other Novel Materials, and Biochemical Systems By Charlie Fry Director of Dir NMR Lab – CIC UW–Madison ranks as a premiere institution in the world for research support involving nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, but nearly all of UW–Madison’s capabilities are directed at liquid samples. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) …
By Kaitlyn M. Moore, Department Communications Madison, WI – December 19, 2019– Each year, the Department of Chemistry chooses one outstanding staff or faculty member to honor with the James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award. This year’s recipient, senior lecturer Paul Hooker, was selected for his exceptional contributions to teaching in the chemistry department. …
New Faculty Focus: Andrew J. Boydston Katie Vaughn View original post here Title: Associate Professor and Yamamoto Family Professor of Chemistry Hometown: Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in Eugene, Oregon. I consider Eugene my hometown. Educational and professional background: I earned BS and MS degrees at the University of Oregon in Eugene. I worked with …