Year: 2018

GSFLC hosts Careers and Commitments panel discussion for Department of Chemistry Grad Students

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By Tesia D. Janicki, graduate student with the Schmidt Group The Graduate Student Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC), at the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry, coordinated a panel discussion, Careers and Commitments today.  This event served as the annual GSFLC Colloquium and encouraged discussion regarding career decisions informed by personal factors such as having children and being in a dual-career marriage. “The topic is more current than …

Winner of 2017 Crystal Growing Competition featured in Channel 3000 news story

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Hartford Union High School senior Olivia Burkholz, who participated in the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry’s 2017 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition, traveled to Florida earlier this year to collaborate with CASIS and send a project to the International Space Station. Her story was featured in a news story on Channel 3000.

$220 million building boom on UW-Madison campus will modernize chemistry and agriculture facilities

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MADISON – The longtime space crunch for students taking chemistry classes will finally begin to ease in a couple of years, the famous but antiquated Babcock Dairy Hall is getting a big addition and the meat science program will soon get a new building on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

Five Department of Chemistry Students Receive NSF Fellowships

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Twenty-six students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Three of these students are Department of Chemistry graduate students and two recently graduated from the department with a bacehlor’s degree.

Dr. Catherine Jackson and Tracy Drier talk about the history of chemistry and scientific glassblowing.

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Master glassblower Tracy Drier along with synthetic organic chemist and chemistry historian, Dr. Catherine Jackson, talk about the history of chemistry and the introduction of scientific glassblowing. Full story and video here.

Science Expeditions welcomes public to campus April 6–8

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For three days this weekend, you can dive beneath the waves to explore shipwrecks in the Great Lakes, search for ghostly particles using a billion tons of ice and discover how we might grow food on Mars. It’s all part of Science Expeditions, the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s annual open house that allows visitors the chance to …

Confronting sexual harassment in chemistry

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Awareness is growing among academic departments and scientific societies about the potential damage to individuals and the discipline By Linda Wang, Andrea Widener of C&E News In brief – – Chemistry has the same discouraging sexual harassment problem as the larger science community and the nation, where surveys show at least 25% of women have been harassed at work. Despite …

UW-Madison graduate programs ranked high by U.S. News

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UW–Madison graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” “The fact that so many of the graduate programs at UW–Madison are ranked is a testament to our senior leadership, who foster an environment of academic excellence; our outstanding faculty and …

Two UW-Madison Department of Chemistry faculty members recognized with fellowships stemming from campus research efforts

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Thirty-three faculty representing all four divisions at the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been honored with 2018 faculty fellowships. The awards are made possible by research efforts of UW–Madison faculty and staff. Technology arising from these research efforts is licensed by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF). Income from successful licenses is returned to the Office …

Thomas Brunold, professor of chemistry, wins Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award

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Thomas Brunold exemplifies the characteristics of excellence, innovation and leadership. He has brought high standards of excellence and innovation to a large variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. Although he teaches classes of more than 300 students on a regular basis, he is known for his unusual accessibility, his passion and his genuine concern for …