Fire Protection. Fire protection work is going on in both Shain and Mathews first floors this week. Because of the work in Shain, the main entrance to Shain tower is closed all this week. Please enter …
Month: July 2020
Liquid nitrogen / solvent storage / gas cylinders – CHANGE IN ACCESS
Access to the liquid nitrogen fill room (1245), solvent storage room (1237A), and gas cylinders (1237B) will be altered during the coming weeks because of construction activity. July 27-31 First floor …
Grad Spotlight: Princess Merenini
Princess Merenini, a first-year graduate student in the Department of Chemistry, was one of the 2019 Pei Wang Fellowship award recipients. The Pei Wang Fellowship honors the late Pei Wang (Ph.D. 1952, chemistry) by gifting this award to honorable graduate students at UW–Madison. Merenini is an international student from Nigeria. She moved to the United States in 2016 to pursue her undergraduate education at Savannah State University (SSU). Growing up in Nigeria, Merenini was taught that there were only four “prestigious” career paths: medicine, law, engineering and pharmacy.
Shain Tower entrance closed July 22-31
Reminder that the main entrance to Shain tower will be closed tomorrow, Wed July 22, through Fri July 31, for installation of the new fire alarm system throughout the first floor of the Shain wing. Please enter the chemistry complex at …
Charter Street not open for parking
Please do not park or use the Charter Street lane of traffic that is closest to the Chemistry Building. The lane of traffic that is blocked off by the orange barrels (north bound) is under …
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE 07/20/2020
New Tower. There is more to see in the new tower, from sub-basement to ninth-floor mechanical penthouse. Upper floors of the tower continue to be built out, with studs installed for walls from the fifth through …
Stairwell construction to continue past July 16
Coring of Mathews and Daniels stairwells is going slower than expected because the crew is encountering a lot of steel rebar in the floors. Please be aware that the duration of this work will extend …
UW–Madison establishes free, campus-wide COVID-19 testing to support campus reopening
In the early days of the pandemic, when labs across the country were struggling to meet the demand for testing supplies and materials, the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory immediately took action. The state’s leading animal health lab provided COVID-19 test kits, scarce materials, equipment and training to the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, which performs COVID-19 testing for high-priority patients statewide.
CONSTRUCTION UPDATE 07/13/2020
A Walk Around the Chemistry Block. From almost every angle the exterior appearance of the chemistry-building complex has been altered by the construction project. From the south, Daniels has been extended upward by the huge ventilation …
Merging solar cell and liquid battery produces efficient, long-lasting solar storage
Chemists at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and their collaborators have created a highly efficient and long-lasting solar flow battery, a way to generate, store and redeliver renewable electricity from the sun in one device.