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Kathy Gisser, who received her Ph.D. from the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry in 1992 with advisor Art Ellis, was recently featured in the book Find Your Path: Unconventional Lessons from 36 Leading Scientists and Engineers by Daniel Goodman. In the book, 36 scientists offer personal accounts of the challenges, struggles, successes, U-turns, and satisfactions encountered …
Watch Professor Bassam Shakhashiri’s 50th anniversary presentation of Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri: Tue, Dec 24 at 5:00 am on PBS Wisconsin Wed, Dec 25 at 11:00 am on PBS Wisconsin or online here.
December 19, 2019 By Eric Hamilton Originally published here. Drawing inspiration from nature, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemists have discovered an efficient way to wrangle long, snaking molecules to form large rings — rings that form the backbone of many pharmaceuticals but are difficult to produce in the lab. The work may represent preliminary progress toward deciphering just …
The construction schedule has been revised, again; the driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Thu Dec 19th. A concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion of the floor slab for the fourth floor. Please plan accordingly. For the Facilities Committee, Bob McMahon John Moore Jeff Nielsen Matt Sanders
From a Year Ago…to Now It has been almost exactly a year since gross demolition began on the northern part of the Daniels wing: The old lecture rooms, some classrooms, parts of some labs, and the chemistry library have been demolished and a huge pit was excavated. Since then our new tower has risen from …
New Tower. There is a lot happening in the new tower than cannot be seen from the loading dock or other locations in our existing building—and a lot that can be seen. Last week concrete was poured for the rest of the second floor. This week the west side of the fourth floor is being …
The Department of Chemistry celebrated its annual Teaching Award Symposium, through which the recipient of the Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award winners were honored. Recipients of the Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Assistant Awards — Thomas M. Kuborn, Kate A. Nicastri, Vanessa Orr, Andrew Owen, Michael Roy, Daniel J. Santalucia, …
By Aaron R. Conklin L&S Communication First published here. Stephanie Blaszczyk can trace the origin of her current career trajectory straight back to her mother. But not quite in the way you’d expect. Like a lot of moms, Blaszczyk’s deployed her fair share of eye-rolling mom-isms to guide her children’s behavior, such as telling Stephanie that …
By Kaylie Greuel Department Communications Microscopes and spectrometers aren’t the only instruments used within the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry. Professor John Berry is dedicated to his scientific research at UW-Madison, but also has a passion for musical performance and composition. Berry, an avid violinist and violist, also leads a research group studying transition …
By Tatum Lyles Flick Communications Specialist Scientists spend countless hours at the lab bench, scrutinizing data, and working to solve problems and uncover new information. These often complicated topics can be challenging to share outside of the scientific community, but a chemist/artist team has discovered that creativity may be the key. “Where does environment begin …