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By Margaret Lumley and Trisha Tucholski, 2017-18 GSFLC Co-Chairs The 2017 Department of Chemistry Climate Survey was administered to the graduate student and postdoc population to evaluate department climate and identify factors related to stress and mental health in graduate school. The Department of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recognizes that positive climate and well-being of …
By cstephens Professor Peter Rossky will receive the 2018-19 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, administered by the University of Wisconsin–Madison Theoretical Chemistry Institute (TCI). Prof. Rossky is Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice University. He is also the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry and professor of chemical and …
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.
The annual Undergraduate Symposium is an opportunity for students to show what they’ve learned — think of it as a show-and-tell at the college level. But an important part of that learning has been made possible through students having a strong mentor.
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 …
By Tesia D. Janicki, graduate student with the Schmidt Group The Graduate Student Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC), at the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry, coordinated a panel discussion, Careers and Commitments today. This event served as the annual GSFLC Colloquium and encouraged discussion regarding career decisions informed by personal factors such as having children and being in a dual-career marriage. “The topic is more current than …
Hartford Union High School senior Olivia Burkholz, who participated in the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry’s 2017 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition, traveled to Florida earlier this year to collaborate with CASIS and send a project to the International Space Station. Her story was featured in a news story on Channel 3000.
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.
Twenty-six students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Three of these students are Department of Chemistry graduate students and two recently graduated from the department with a bacehlor’s degree.
Master glassblower Tracy Drier along with synthetic organic chemist and chemistry historian, Dr. Catherine Jackson, talk about the history of chemistry and the introduction of scientific glassblowing. Full story and video here.