Day: December 3, 2019
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.