Dr. Heike Hofstetter joins us today as the assistant director of the NMR Facility. She previously managed the Chemistry Department’s Analytical Laboratory at Northern Illinois University and was also a general chemistry lecturer there. She …
Year: 2014
Three Alumni Named 2014 ACS Fellows
The American Chemical Society (ACS) recently announced its 2014 class of fellows, which includes three UW-Madison Department of Chemistry alumni: Robert S. Moore (B.S. ’55, Ph.D. ’62), Marilyn Olmstead (Ph.D. ’69), and Kirk Peterson (Ph.D. ’90). …
Welcome Payroll and Benefits Specialist Lynn Malone
Please welcome Lynn Malone to the department. Lynn is our new payroll and benefits specialist, and she joined the department on July 14. Lynn has worked at Home Depot in various roles that include HR …
Welcome Graduate Student Services Coordinator Arrietta Clauss
Please welcome Arrietta Clauss, who fills the new position of graduate student services coordinator. This position will take on many of the duties that Stephenie Nagle did, in addition to providing a graduate student advisor, …
‘Science is fun’ offers traditional July Fourth show
Chemistry Majors Caldwell, Dinh Excel as Students and as Athletes
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, …
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 …