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Alumni of Paul Treichel’s Inorganic Chemistry group (pictured above), David Shaw (Ph.D. 1975) and Rick Wong (Ph.D. 1977) had a reunion in Hong Kong in January. David and his wife Marsha completed a Singapore to Hong Kong cruise in early January, and had dinner with Rick and his wife Annie at a restaurant on Hong …
AMES, Iowa – Peter K. Dorhout from Kansas State University has been named vice president for research (VPR) at Iowa State University. Dorhout, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and former president of the American Chemical Society, currently serves as VPR and professor of chemistry at Kansas State. He will …
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Dr. Kenneth T. Gillen (Ph.D. 1970, Noggle) will be honored for his technical competency and contributions to rubber technology as winner of the 2020 Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award. He was featured in Rubber News here. and as a Science & Technology winner here. Gillen worked for the Sandia National Laboratories, as a polymer chemist, …
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 …
Tanya Knickerbocker, who teaches chemistry at Yakima Valley College, was recently featured in the Yakima Herald. Read the article here: https://www.yakimaherald.com/lifestyle/favorite-things-tanya-knickerbocker-yakima-chemistry-professor/article_fd908ea0-d3f7-11e8-977f-5bb9a41232cb.html
Tianning Diao, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at New York University and UW-Madison Department of Chemistry alumna, is the 2018 recipient of the Organometallics Distinguished Author Award. Professor Diao, a 2017 NSF CAREER Awardee, focuses her research on developing new transition metal catalysts and studying mechanisms of catalytic reactions. Watch the interview video by ACS Axial and read the …
Dr. F. Fleming Crim has been appointed National Science Foundation (NSF) chief operating officer (COO), effective July 1, 2018.
The Department of Chemistry recognized more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a couple of faculty and staff members, at the 2018 Student Award Ceremony on April 27. Thanks to generous donors, the department was able to offer more than $230,000 in awards to aide student education and research. In addition, students …