University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Laura Kiessling was a presenter at the 8th annual Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (DCH) Symposium on Oct. 10. At the event, Kiessling was awarded the Hofmann medal in recognition of her outstanding career. …
Awards & Honors
Blackwell Group’s Infection Disrupter Garners WARF Innovation Award
A new oat offering tasty ways to lower cholesterol and compounds capable of disrupting serious bacterial infections earned top honors in this year’s Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Innovation Awards program. The BetaGene Oat, developed by UW-Madison College …
Professors Samuel Gellman and Laura Kiessling Win National American Chemical Society Awards
The American Chemical Society (ACS) announced its 2014 National Awards recipients in September at the 246th ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, Indiana. University of Wisconsin-Madison Professors Samuel Gellman and Laura Kiessling will each receive an …
Festschrift, Symposium Honor Professor John Wright’s Lifetime of Scientific Contributions
This fall, many of Professor John Wright’s colleagues and friends are teaming up to honor him on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The festivities began in June when the Journal of Physical Chemistry released …
Professor Thomas Brunold Places 13th Overall at Ironman Wisconsin
In keeping with his recent trend, Professor Thomas Brunold placed second among amateur competitors and 13th overall at the Ironman Wisconsin competition on Sept. 7. He finished the grueling 140.6-mile race in 09:14:45. More than …
Professor Samuel Gellman Receives 2013 Makineni Lectureship from APS
In June, at the 23rd American Peptide Symposium in Hawaii, the Makineni Lectureship was awarded to Sam Gellman, the Ralph F. Hirschmann Professor of Chemistry at UW-Madison. The American Peptide Society awards the Makineni Lectureship …
Trisha Andrew wins 3M Nontenured Faculty Award
Professor Trisha Andrew was one of five recipients of the 2013 3M Nontenured Faculty Award, which recognizes outstanding new faculty for the quality and pertinence of their research. This award recognizes Professor Andrew’s research in developing …
Alumnus Carl Djerassi to Be Honored at ACS National Meeting
A special event at the 246th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will honor alumnus Carl Djerassi (Ph.D. ’45). Titled “The Last 25 Years of Carl Djerassi – Beyond Chemistry: Drama, Fiction, Poetry, …
Professor Jennifer Schomaker Receives NSF CAREER Award for Catalysis Research
Assistant Professor Jennifer Schomaker recently received a 5-year, $550,000 Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Chemistry for “New Catalysts and Methods for Amine Synthesis via Stereoselective Allene Aziridination.” The prestigious CAREER …
Lecturer Emerita Ieva Reich, Three Alumni Named ACS Fellows
In July, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced its 2013 class of fellows, which includes Ieva Reich, lecturer emerita in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry. Reich’s noted contributions to the chemical sciences include the interactive …