A photographic round-up of happenings over the last year.
In September, graduate students check the night sky through a telescope at the community building GSFLC bonfire event at Picnic Point. Credit: Rebecca FenselauSealed in a heated crucible for weeks in the lab of chemistry Professor Robert Hamers, a tiny forest of trees grew from a glittering forest floor of individual crystals of lithium cobalt oxide, a compound used as the positive electrode in lithium-ion batteries. Credit: Bob HamersIn June, high school educators from across the country met to engage in ChemLEAP Teacher Professional Development. Credit: Peter JaegerAs night falls during Science on the Square, graduate students Richard Botzoc and Jalianet Román Matías show off luminescent crystals to explain how chemical structure is related to certain properties. Credit: Jeff Miller / UW–MadisonAbayomi Awoyomi receives the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) Graduate Rising Star Award-Midwest at the conference in October. The UW–Madison chapter was also reinstated at this event. Credit: Brian FosterAssistant Professor Julian Cooper, Emeritus Professor Ned Sibert, Professor Yang Yang, and Emeritus Professor Frank Weinhold catch up at the Hirschfelder Award Banquet in October. Credit: Kimberly HazenUndergraduate Colin Crawford (Schomaker) explains his research at an undergraduate poster session in April.Bucky Badger and undergraduate Bahar Sadat Abtahi pause for a photo at the departmental awards ceremony in April. Credit: Kimberly HazenIn July, chemistry alumni Vilashini Rajaratnam (BS ‘15) and Kyu Bum Kim (BS ‘16) hosted Badger Chemist visitors, including Undergraduate Program Director Pam Doolittle, at their traditional Malaysian wedding. Courtesy: Pam Doolittle
