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From news.wisc.edu Ten faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Provost Sarah Mangelsdorf will present the awards at a 5 p.m. ceremony April 10 at the Pyle Center. The ceremony, sponsored by the Office …
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. …
IPiB faculty member Joshua Coon, a professor of chemistry and biomolecular chemistry, has received the Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award from the Human Proteome Organization.
ACS released the names of its national award winners this week, and five are from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, four of whom work for the Department of Chemistry. Robert McMahon, professor of chemistry, won the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards, sponsored by the Arthur C. Cope Fund. Tehshik Yoon, professor of chemistry, won the Arthur C. Cope …
The team included Munish Chhabra, a biophysicsPh.D. student in the lab of biochemistry professor Tom Record; Alex Harwig, a postdoctoral scholar in the lab of biochemistry professor Bob Landick; Jennifer Yao, a Biophysics Ph.D. student in the lab of chemistry professor Sam Gellman; and Jonathan Valdez, a master’s student in the Department of Food Science.
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Chemistry Shannon Stahl has received the Steenbock Professorship in Chemical Sciences. Stahl is also an affiliate of the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
A graduate fellowship launched this year by the Morgridge Institute for Research will help bring “fresh eyes” to the growing pursuit of metabolism research at UW–Madison, and this it funds its first fellowship in Andrew Buller’s lab at the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry. Launched by Dave Pagliarini, director of the Morgridge Metabolism Theme and UW–Madison professor of biochemistry, …
ACADEMIC STAFF: MID-CAREER AWARD Four academic staff members, including Department of Chemistry director of Undergraduate Organic Laboratory Nick Hill, won the L&S Academic Staff Mid-Career Award. All winners have at least eight years (including the current year) of experience as outstanding leaders with substantial professional competency and the promise of continuing contributions. Nick has revolutionized the department’s …
Soren Rozema, a junior from Cross Plains, Wisconsin. Rozema is majoring in pharmacology, toxicology and chemistry. His research interests include the development of anti-parasitic agents and a novel transformation that would produce compounds with broad-spectrum pharmacologic activity. He plans to pursue a doctorate in chemistry.
Ten images and two videos by University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff have been named winners of the 2018 Cool Science Image Contest. A panel of eight experienced artists and scientists judged the scientific content and aesthetic and creative qualities of 171 images and videos, a record number of entries for the eighth annual …