Chemistry majors Nick Caldwell and Kimberly Dinh, both student-athletes, were named to the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America Division I Men’s and Women’s At-Large teams in early June. Caldwell, a senior who hails from Sarasota, Florida, …
Month: June 2014
Wisconsin Crystal-Growing Competition Nets 76 Submissions from Across the State
This spring, high school students and teachers at more than 20 Wisconsin schools spent five weeks cultivating cobalt blue crystals. Using cupric sulfate as the basic substance from which to grow the crystals, their goal …
Altering Peptide Backbones
By swapping replacement parts into the backbone of a synthetic hormone, UW-Madison graduate student Ross Cheloha and his mentor Professor Samuel Gellman, along with collaborators at Harvard Medical School, have built a version of a parathyroid hormone that …
Chemical strategy hints at better drugs for osteoporosis, diabetes
Wisconsin Life Television Show Features Master Glassblower Tracy Drier
Tracy Drier, master scientific glassblower for the Department of Chemistry and the only scientific glassblower on campus, was recently featured on an episode of Wisconsin Life on Wisconsin Public Television. Drier, who has been with …