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By Tatum Lyles Flick Communications Specialist Scientists spend countless hours at the lab bench, scrutinizing data, and working to solve problems and uncover new information. These often complicated topics can be challenging to share outside of the scientific community, but a chemist/artist team has discovered that creativity may be the key. “Where does environment begin …
PHOTO GALLERY December 2, 2019 First published here. What began as a holiday treat for long-suffering freshman chemistry students has turned into a 50-year tradition. Professor Bassam Shakhashiri took to the stage to perform “Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri” to packed houses Saturday and Sunday, amazing and delighting with a series of …
By Tatum Lyles Flick Communications Specialist Shedeen Barnett, a scientific glassblower from Jamaica, spent six weeks training with the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry’s master glassblower, Tracy Drier, and his colleague from Wild Rose Glass, Erich Moraine. Barnett, from the Department of Chemistry at the University of the West Indies, is the only scientific glassblower in …
By John Moore and Bob McMahon Project Leaders We have come a long way since groundbreaking in September 2018, but there is more to do before construction and renovation are completed in 2022. A great team of architects and engineers, construction companies, university and system administrators, and state government workers are helping us build state-of-the-art …
By Tatum Lyles Flick Communications Specialist Norman Craig, an emeritus physical chemist from Oberlin College in Ohio, didn’t realize the profound effect he had on the career of Helen Blackwell, a chemist and professor at the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry, until she called one day to ask his permission to honor him by using his …
Next week will bring a significant change to the traffic pattern around the chemistry complex. A portion of Mills St will be completely closed until summer 2020. The construction team needs to place a large crane in Mills Street, between University Ave and Conklin Ct. The crane is needed for the construction of the tower …
The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Thu Nov 7th and Mon Nov 11th. On Thursday, a concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion of the floor slab for the second floor. On Monday, construction crews will be using a conveyer system to back-fill around the foundation walls on the …
New Tower. The loading dock was closed on Tuesday and Wednesday last week for backfilling of gravel around the sub-basement and basement walls. Unfortunately, weather has slowed installation of waterproofing and insulation on the upper part of these walls. Our Halloween snowstorm has left heavy wet snow around the tops of these walls, water is …
The driveway to the chemistry loading dock will be inaccessible on Tue Nov 5th and Thu Nov 7th. On Tuesday, construction crews will be using a conveyer system to back-fill around the foundation walls on the west half of the new tower. On Thursday, a concrete pump truck will be used to pour a portion …
The construction team needs to make a brief shutdown to the natural gas service to the Daniels wing – TODAY – Fri Nov 1st. The outage will commence at approximately 10:00 am and last approximately 2-3 hours. – Robert J. McMahon