University of Wisconsin–Madison

Category: Grad Spotlight

Chemistry graduate student awarded 2020 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship

Jordan Nutting, a graduate student in the Stahl Group who studies how electricity can power chemical reactions, was named a  2020 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Mass Media Science and Engineering fellow.

Wright Lab Member Serves on Microscopy Society Student Council

By Kaine Korzekwa, Department of Biochemistry Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more involved and was recently named Communications Chair for MSA’s Student Council. Kim, a physical chemistry graduate student in the lab …

Annual GSFLC Snout Out boasts food and fun

By Rebeca L. Fernandez Graduate Student, Brunold Group September 25, 2018, Madison, WI – The Graduate Student-Faulty Liaison Committee (GSFLC) celebrated its 35th annual Snout-Out departmental picnic and softball tournament. Named after the original tradition of cooking a pig underground, the Snout-Out brought together 15 faculty members, 150 graduate students and nine postdocs, as well as …

Students, Postdoc Place Third in Life Sciences Consultancy Competition

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.

Nicholas M. Riley

Nicholas M. Riley is a graduate student from Louisville, KY, who attended the University of South Carolina as an undergraduate. He currently works with the Coon Research Group. Tell us about your research. My graduate research focuses on building technology to better study the proteome, which is the collection of all the proteins in complex living …

Yongqian Zhang

Yongqian Zhang was featured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 Radio in a podcast about nanoparticles.