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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 …
Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor Matthew D. Shoulders has been named one of 13 young faculty nationwide to be honored with a 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation.
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.
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 …
The high-stakes race to find a seat in a chemistry class at three University of Wisconsin System campuses began anew Wednesday with the start of another academic year. But one campus did get some good news in the new state budget approved over the summer.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected F. Fleming Crim to serve as assistant director for the Directorate of Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS). Crim will lead a staff of 160 and an annual budget of $1.3 billion. MPS supports core research in astronomy, chemistry, physics, material science and mathematics.