The State of Wisconsin Building Commission voted last week to recommend that UW-Madison move forward with the design phase of the chemistry instructional building project. Although this recommendation does not include a formal commitment to …
Month: March 2013
Professor Randall Goldsmith Receives NSF CAREER Award for Single-Molecule Research
Assistant Professor Randall Goldsmith recently received a 5-year, $630,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry for “Single-Molecule Spectroscopy as a Mechanistic Tool for Studying Catalyst Reaction …
Howard Zimmerman: A Defining Influence on Organic Chemistry
March 1 Issue of Journal of Organic Chemistry Honors Former Chemistry Professor Within the Department of Chemistry at UW-Madison, the late Professor Emeritus Howard Zimmerman (1926-2012) was widely known for two things: his pioneering research …
Chemistry and Other L&S Graduate Programs Ranked Highly by U.S. News & World Report
Several graduate programs from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Letters & Science are ranked among the nation’s best in the 2014 edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” “We’re proud of …
Ten faculty selected for Distinguished Teaching Awards
Chemistry Staff Help Uncover the Lost History of UW’s 19th-Century Glass Treasures
In 2005, Zoology Academic Curator Paula Holahan made an accidental discovery: she unearthed a priceless collection of ocean invertebrates made out of glass. Holahan revealed a collection of rarely seen glass models that depict numerous …
A Novel Nobel Opportunity: Four Selected to Attend 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry
The UW-Madison Department of Chemistry will be well represented at the June 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry. Four members of the department have been selected to attend the meeting in Lindau, Germany, along …