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By Mason Braasch & Caroline Cole Department Communications The Department of Chemistry’s Institute for Chemical Education offered free summer chemistry camps online, continuing a four-decade-long tradition of education, despite disruptions caused by the pandemic. The virtual camps are available to children and families with computer, tablet or smartphone access to the Institute’s website. Two groups …
Prof. Samuel Gellman and his group have been working on strategies to prevent infection by pathogenic viruses for several years. They are now using that work as a launching pad for research on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
New Tower. The first concrete has been poured in the tower sub-basement! A corridor and a storage area behind the 360-seat lecture room now have a concrete floor. Other areas of the sub-basement are being prepared with rebar so that lots more concrete can be poured this week. At the first-floor level both the learning …
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By Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Professor of Chemistry and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea Today our biggest challenge is to help sustain Earth and its people in the face of population growth, finite resources, malnutrition, spreading disease, deadly violence, war, climate change, and the denial of basic human rights, especially the right …
By John Moore W. T. Lippincott Professor of Chemistry The Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) continues its extensive outreach program under the direction of John Moore and with the contributions of Andrew Greenberg, Linda Craft, Elizabeth Moore, Laura Linde and several undergraduate student workers. We gratefully acknowledge the American Chemical Society Wisconsin Section, which supports …
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 …