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By Kaitlyn M. Moore Department Communcations Madison, WI – January 7, 2019– Calling all Wisconsin high school and middle school students and science teachers! Registration for the 2019 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition (WICGC), organized by the Molecular Structure Laboratory at UW–Madison’s Department of Chemistry, opens Tuesday, January 15! Grow crystals and create crystal-inspired art to compete for the …
A lot is happening on the Mills Street side of our building. Excavations for area wells outside the organic labs have been extended to the sub-basement level and the area wells are being enlarged to allow heavy equipment to be moved into the sub-basement. Footings have been poured for the south area well and forms …
Gross demolition began Wednesday, December 19 on the part of the Daniels wing that housed the library and lecture rooms. Demolition has proceeded smoothly, beginning with the portico (where the bike racks used to be), then the lobby area, and finally the lecture halls, library area, and north ends of labs on floors 1 and …
The chemistry loading dock will be completely inaccessible on Thurs Jan 3rd because of the installation of the storm sewer for the new building. In the meantime, occupants of Shain Tower should not attempt to exit the building from the door in the north Shain stair tower. The door opens into the driveway to the …
By Ilia A. Guzei Director of Crystallography From a Petri dish into space! Do crystals grown in space differ from the ones grown on earth? Do compounds crystallize differently in space? What hardware does one use to conduct a crystallization experiment in space? Answers to these questions are sought by the winners of the WI …
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 Anthony Millevolte & Matthias Driess Colleagues and friends of Emeritus Professor Robert C. West joined to celebrate Bob’s 90th birthday during special conference sessions in 2018. It began in May with the 101st Canadian Chemistry Conference in Edmonton, Alberta, and continued in September at the Silicon Symposium in Prague and then at the 9th …
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 …
Having chosen right parents, with robust good health he celebrated his 85th birthday on January 20th. Thus, he has been taking on busy travel schedule to Korea and China for the past several years. He goes to Korea semi-annually for industrial consulting for a couple of companies within the LG Corporation, and a petrochemical company; …
By Stephanie Blaszczyk Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Tang Group) UW–Madison students are unknowingly influenced by recent 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Frances Arnold, thanks to four Ph.D. chemists and Arnold group alumni in the Madison area: Jeffrey Endelman (2005), Philip Romero (2012), and Andrew Buller (2017), all professors at UW–Madison, and Katie Brenner (2009) …