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Year: 2024
2024 WARF Innovation Award Winners: Professor Song Jin and Graduate Student Katelyn Michael
The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) announced today that Professor Song Jin and graduate student Katelyn Michael have won the 2024 WARF Innovation Award for their work, Inventive Electrochemical Process Breaks Down ‘Forever Chemicals. Six …
Professor Judith Burstyn named director at NSF
Professor Judith Burstyn will take leave of absence from the Department of Chemistry to join the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry as its division director in January 2025. The position is a two-year …
Prof. Silvia Cavagnero to receive prestigious 2025 Emily M. Gray award
The Biophysical Society is pleased to announce that Silvia Cavagnero, PhD, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has been named the recipient of the 2025 Emily M. Gray Award. Cavagnero will be honored at the Society’s …
Scientists use oxygen to pull valuable chemicals from organic waste
A New Approach to Building 3-D Molecules for Better Drugs
A new report in the journal Science from researchers in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry represents a significant advancement in making the types of molecules needed in drug development. Molecules with a more 3D shape …
A tool for rethinking undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory curriculum
A new manuscript from collaborators in the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry represents a very significant contribution to the undergraduate organic chemistry laboratory curriculum. A reviewer characterized this as “one of the highest quality manuscripts that …
September Birthdays
We have two NOBCChE members celebrating birthdays this month: Shannon Brown and Ugo Ikegwu! If you see them around make sure to wish them a happy birthday month!
Professor Widicus Weaver and Assistant Professor Todd awarded Research Forward 2024 Award for a project investigating life on planets outside our solar system.
Professor Suzanna Widicus Weaver and Assistant Professor Zoe Todd from the Department of Chemistry, along with seven co-PIs have won a Research Forward 2024 Award for a project entitled “Searching for signs of life in …
Publication chosen as ACS Editors’ Choice
A publication from Nick Hill, Philip Lampkin, Brian Esselman, Angie Xu, Cara Schwarz, and Sam Gellman, “Energy Transfer Photocatalytic (E)(Z) Isomerization of 2-Nitrocinnamaldehyde using an Inexpensive, 3-D Printed Photoreactor Monitored by 1H NMR Spectroscopy and …