Kayla Driscoll is our new assistant to the chair. She officially started March 1 and will be getting oriented to the position over the coming weeks. Please welcome her to the department by stopping by …
Year: 2017
Dr. Brian Esselman Honored for Technology-enhanced Instruction
Dr. Brian Esselman, assistant organic laboratory director, is the first recipient of the UW-Madison College of Engineering Harvey Spangler Award for Technology Enhanced Instruction from outside the College of Engineering. The annual Spangler Award, was …
Howard W. Whitlock (1936-2017)
Professor Emeritus Howard Whitlock, age 80, died Jan. 27, 2017. He attended the University of Maryland and received a degree in chemistry in 1957. He became a graduate student in organic chemistry at the UW-Madison, …
Journal of Physical Chemistry ‘C’ Lectureship Awarded to Professor Randall Goldsmith
Professor Randall Goldsmith has been selected to receive the 2017 Journal of Physical Chemistry ‘C’ Lectureship Award. Sponsored by the Journal of Physical Chemistry and the ACS Physical Chemistry Division, the JPC Lectureship Awards honor investigators …
Howard W. Whitlock (1936-2017)
Professor Emeritus Howard Whitlock, age 80, died Jan. 27, 2017. He attended the University of Maryland and received a degree in chemistry in 1957. He became a graduate student in organic chemistry at the UW-Madison, …
High School and Middle School Students Crystallize Science
Organized by the Molecular Structure Laboratory at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry, the Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition is now accepting registrations for its annual statewide contest among middle school, high school, and home schooled students. …
National Academy of Inventors and American Peptide Society Honor Professor Ronald Raines
Ronald Raines, Henry Lardy Professor of Biochemistry and Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Biology, recently has earned two national awards. He was elected as a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and also received the Vincent du Vigneaud …
Tracy Drier Receives Local American Chemical Society Outreach Award
The Wisconsin Local Section of the American Chemical Society has named Master Glassblower Tracy Drier as a 2017 Local Section Outreach Volunteer of the Year. The award recognizes Drier’s many educational outreach efforts. Each year, …
Alumnus Robert Bergman Earns 2017 Wolf Prize in Chemistry
Robert Bergman (Ph.D. ’66, Berson) has earned the Wolf Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of the activation of carbon-hydrogen bonds of hydrocarbons by soluble transition metal complexes. Bergman is Gerald E.K. Branch Distinguished Professor …