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By Josephine Eshon Science Communicator and Graduate Student (Schomaker Group) The transition from undergraduate to graduate school can be very challenging. In undergraduate programs, students gain knowledge and apply it to problems in chemistry to which scientists have answers; however in graduate school, students obtain skills on how to solve unresolved problems in chemistry. More …
By Kaitlyn M. Moore Department Communications May 24, 2019, Madison, WI — Today, the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry celebrated the 2019 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition (WICGC), a middle and high school competition organized by the Molecular Structure Laboratory, where students and teachers put their crystal growing and art skills to the test. Participants were judged …
An update on post-flood recovery at UW–Madison from the Wisconsin State Journal: https://chippewa.com/news/state-and-regional/uw-madison-faculty-staff-return-to-vilas-hall-months-after/article_e11e015e-cdfd-5a0f-9778-ea7b0c5f8dd0.html
By Kaitlyn M. Moore, Department Communications May 21, 2019, Madison, WI — At the end of April, the winners of the 2018 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition (WICGC) had the opportunity to visit the Kennedy Space Center and ISS US National Lab in Cape Canaveral, Florida to take part in the 2018-19 Wisconsin Space Crystal Mission. …
Tower excavation. This week our building really began to take shape; there was lots of activity in the excavation area and part the structure is now almost as high as the fourth floor of Daniels. Steel columns roughly 60 feet tall were delivered, erected, and installed. Two 25,000-pound beams were lifted into place and fastened …
By Josephine Eshon Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Schomaker Group) Who knew chemists could make all the colors in the rainbow by changing a single parameter? Now students can rediscover their childhood fascination through a new undergraduate inorganic chemistry laboratory experiment that emerged as a way to access all of the colors in the rainbow. …
May 8, 2019 By Chris Barncard Forty two faculty were honored with Vilas awards and professorships, including Kyoung-Shin Choi, from the Department of Chemistry. Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. senator and UW Regent William F. Vilas (1840-1908). Vilas …
Tower Crane. Success! The tower, turntable, and cab of our tower crane were erected over the weekend. Friday night equipment was brought in and lanes were closed on University Avenue. Early Saturday morning the construction team set up a large mobile crane. Flatbed trucks brought sections of the tower crane to Mills Street where they were …
By Natasha Kassulke Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences — on campus, and two are from the Department of Chemistry. “Our faculty are a key component of what makes UW–Madison a …
Paul McGuire, high-performance computing systems administrator for the Department of Chemistry, was recently awarded Centralized “supercomputing” resources play a vital role in modern chemical research and education. Yet for many years, the chemistry department’s facilities were effectively going unused. Enter Paul McGuire: technology guru, visionary, renaissance leader. Coming onboard in 2010, he formed the Chemistry …