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On a rainy day last fall, chemist Scott Wildman left his office on the UW–Madison campus and drove to a retirement community on the city’s west side to bring 40 years of scientific work out of the dark. His trip brought him to the home of Laurens “Andy” Anderson, emeritus professor of biochemistry. There, packed away in a …
Wenqi Shen, a first-generation undergraduate majoring in biochemistry, came to the University of Wisconsin–Madison from Beijing No.80 High School in China. What led you to the University of Wisconsin–Madison? Growing up in Beijing, I naturally preferred a large university with lots of students. I had the privilege to work in a national lab for three years …
University of Wisconsin–Madison Professor of Chemistry Shannon Stahl has received the Steenbock Professorship in Chemical Sciences. Stahl is also an affiliate of the Wisconsin Energy Institute.
On August 1, chemist AJ Boydston, joins the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry. He brings research scientist Dr. Chang-Uk Lee and students Johanna Schwartz and Brock Lynde with him from the University of Washington, as part of his initial lab group. Boydston received his BS in 2001 and MS in 2002 from the University …
Dr. F. Fleming Crim has been appointed National Science Foundation (NSF) chief operating officer (COO), effective July 1, 2018.
Outside, the cool spring rain settled mist deep into the hills of Wisconsin’s Driftless Area and raised fog out of lakes and ponds. And when that fog was seemingly transported inside — with the help of a bucket of dry ice and a generous amount of boiling water — it drew cheers and gasps of …
Yongqian Zhang was featured by the U.S. National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Science360 Radio in a podcast about nanoparticles.
Tess Carlson receives a Hilldale Research Fellowship from Chancellor Rebecca Blank at the Chancellor’s Award Ceremony in Spring 2018. Tess Carlson, a UW–Madison chemistry major, came to the university from Hamilton High School in Sussex, WI. She received the American Chemical Society Hach-Land Grant Scholarship in 2016, designed for undergraduate students who plan on …
“I love the idea of doing new things that no one else has ever done, and continually building on my knowledge.”
“Of course you want the reaction to work the way you’re expecting, but sometimes an unexpected reaction could be just as valuable. A lot of great discoveries in history happened by accident, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing when you do an experiment that produces unexpected results. “