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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 …
The annual Undergraduate Symposium is an opportunity for students to show what they’ve learned — think of it as a show-and-tell at the college level. But an important part of that learning has been made possible through students having a strong mentor.
Lloyd Smith, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry, believes that for researchers to understand complex biological systems, they need to have deeper knowledge about the exact molecular forms (proteoforms) in which proteins occur. “When you identify a proteoform, you also identify the protein that it comes from. If you know the …