Year: 2019
Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri Available on PBS
Mimicking Enzymes, Chemists Produce Large, Useful Carbon Rings
Drawing inspiration from nature, University of Wisconsin–Madison chemists have discovered an efficient way to wrangle long, snaking molecules to form large rings — rings that form the backbone …
Construction Update 12/16/2019
From a Year Ago…to Now It has been almost exactly a year since gross demolition began on the northern part of the Daniels wing: The old lecture rooms, some classrooms, parts of some labs, and …
Construction Update 12/09/2019
New Tower. There is a lot happening in the new tower than cannot be seen from the loading dock or other locations in our existing building—and a lot that can be seen. Last week concrete …
Department Symposium Honors Teaching Excellence
The Department of Chemistry celebrated its annual Teaching Award Symposium, through which the recipient of the Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence and the Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Assistant Award winners were honored.
‘Christmas in the Lab’ Celebrates 50 Years of Chemistry and Comedy
Named Professorship Offers Prof. Helen Blackwell Opportunity to Celebrate Mentor
Norman Craig, an emeritus physical chemist from Oberlin College in Ohio, didn’t realize the profound effect he had on the career of Helen Blackwell, a chemist and professor at the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry, until she called one day to ask his permission to honor him by using his name for her WARF Named Professorship.
Department Glassblower Partners with Colleague to Teach Others
Shedeen Barnett, a scientific glassblower from Jamaica, spent six weeks training with the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry’s master glassblower, Tracy Drier, and his colleague from Wild Rose Glass, Erich Moraine.
Chemist & artist team up to show how bacteria communicate
Scientists spend countless hours at the lab bench, scrutinizing data, and working to solve problems and uncover new information. These often complicated topics can be challenging to share outside of the scientific community, but a chemist/artist team has discovered that creativity may be the key.