Year: 2016
Professor John Berry Appointed Lester R. McNall Professor of Chemistry
Professor John Berry has been named the Lester R. McNall Professor of Chemistry. In 2015, Lester R. McNall endowed the professorship in order to provide ongoing support for faculty excellence in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry. Berry joined …
Industrial Trade Association Honors Alumnus Kiu-Yuen Tse
University of Wisconsin-Madison alumnus Kiu-Yuen Tse (Ph.D. ’07, Hamers) has received the 2016 Carl Dahlquist Award from the Pressure Sensitive Tape Council (PSTC), a trade association for tape manufacturers and suppliers. Tse is an advanced research specialist …
New Physical Chemistry Path Coordinator
I am thrilled to announce that Cheri Stephens has accepted the position of Physical Chemistry Path Coordinator starting July 1. She brings years of administrative experience in the Chemistry Department to this position. Please join me in …
Fundamental discovery slashes energy cost of chemical reactions
Professor Shannon Stahl Recognized for Contributions to Catalysis Science
Professor Shannon Stahl will receive the 2016 Mitsui Chemicals Catalysis Science Award at the November meeting of the Chemical Society of Japan. Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. established the award in 2004 in order to contribute to the …
Kiessling Group Welcomes Postdoc Caitlin McMahon
We are delighted to welcome Caitlin McMahon to the department starting in mid-June. Caitlin joins us as a research associate in the Kiessling group and was previously at UNC. If you get a chance, please …
Research may point to new ways to deliver drugs into bacteria
Mass Spectrometry Laboratory Gains New Instruments
In 2015, the Mass Spectrometry Laboratory added three new instruments to its roster. They are a Thermo Fisher Scientific Q Exactive™ Plus funded by a grant from the National Institutes of Health, as well as …
Small-scale Science Leads to Large-scale Collaboration
For chemistry graduate student Mimi Hang, science is all about connections. Whether the connections happen among ideas or among people, she recognizes that scientific and interpersonal intersections will help her get where she wants to …