It is a great pleasure to report that Bob Hamers has been awarded a Wisconsin Distinguished Professorship through a UW-system-wide competition. This prestigious appointment, approved by the Board of Regents, is for a faculty member …
Awards & Honors
Beth Landis Receives the 2007-2008 Merck Research Laboratories Fellowship
Congratulations to Beth Landis for receiving the 2007-2008 Merck Research Laboratories Fellowship in Analytical/Physical Chemistry! The academic year fellowship is awarded by Merck to an outstanding UW chemistry student doing research in analytical/physical chemistry. Beth …
Samira Musah Wins a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Samira Musah, a graduate student in Laura Kiessling’s group, has won a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. This nationally competitive award is made to outstanding graduate students who can contribute significantly to research, teaching, …
Helen Blackwell named one of Popular Science Magazine’s “Brilliant 10”
We are pleased to announce that Helen Blackwell has been named by Popular Science Magazine as one of their “PopSci’s Brilliant 10”, a group of ten young scientists cited for doing work that’s pushing their …
Song Jin Receives a Cottrell Scholar Award
We are delighted to report that Song Jin has received a Cottrell Scholar Award from the Research Corporation for his work on nanoscale magnetic semiconductor materials for spintronics. Only ten of these prestigious awards are …
Ron Raines Wins the 2007 Makineni Lectureship Award
We are delighted to report that Ron Raines is the winner of the 2007 Makineni Lectureship Award, sponsored by the American Peptide Society. This award is given once every other year to recognize “an individual …
Matt Shoulders Wins a 2007-08 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship
We are delighted to report that Matt Shoulders, a third-year grad student in Ron Raines group, has won a 2007-08 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship. This is one of only eight such fellowships given nationwide this …
Frank Weinhold Wins the 2007 Lise Meitner – Minerva Center Lectureship Award
We are delighted to announce that Frank Weinhold has won the 2007 Lise Meitner – Minerva Center Lectureship Award for Computational Quantum Chemistry, sponsored by Technion and Hebrew University, for the application and development of …
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Receives National Service Award
Bassam Shakhahsiri was presented with the National Science Foundations public service award for extraordinary contribution to promote science literacy and cultivate the intellectual and emotional links between science and the arts for the public on …
Laura Kiessling Has Been Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology
We are delighted to report that Professor Laura Kiessling has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology, the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology. This election demonstrates the outstanding impact and …