Professor Donald Truhlar, a Regents Professor with the Department of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota (UMN) has been awarded the 2023-2024 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. Professor Truhlar will visit the Department …
Awards & Honors
ACS awards two Department of Chemistry graduate students with leadership recognition.
Two graduate students from the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry have been selected for national recognition through receipt of the 2023 ACS National Graduate Student Leadership Awards in CDEI and Mentoring under the 2023 ACS Graduate …
Ive Hermans named 2023 ACS Fellow
The American Chemical Society has named 42 members as ACS fellows, recognizing and rewarding outstanding achievements in and contributions to science, the profession, and ACS. Prof. Ive Hermans of UW–Madison’s Department of Chemistry was named …
A significant connection: Pam Doolittle wins J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education
Dr. Pamela Doolittle was recently named the recipient of the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education. The award recognizes individuals who enhance “the personal and professional development of students in the study of …
Department of Chemistry holds 2023 Student Awards Ceremony
Because of generous donations from many benefactors, the Department of Chemistry was able to award nearly $390,000 in student support and research scholarships.
Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi awarded Samsung’s 2023 Ho-Am Award
Samsung’s Ho-Am Foundation has announced that Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Chemistry has been named the 2023 Samsung Ho-Am Prize Laureate in the category of Chemistry and Life Sciences.
UW–Madison Chemistry Students Named NSF Graduate Research Fellows
The prestigious honor is a five-year fellowship providing three years of financial support inclusive of an annual stipend of $37,000.
Taylor Award Recipients Announced
Léa Gustin, Assistant General Chemistry Lab Director has won the James W. Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence. Due to personal circumstances, Gustin did not be present at the 2023 symposium, but she will be presenting at …
Buller wins Sloan Research Fellowship
Buller’s colleagues nominated him in part for his establishment of a new research program in biocatalysis and protein engineering that straddles basic and applied sciences. Buller has also helped lead the department’s efforts to improve the experience of graduate students.
Widicus Weaver named IWU Chemistry Alumni of the Year
UW-Madison’s Vozza Professor of Chemistry and Astronomy Susanna Widicus Weaver has been named Alumni of the Year for the Illinois Wesleyan University Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and will speak at the department’s Senior Night Awards Banquet on April 18. “To me this is more important than any other award I could have received because it’s really from the heart,” she said. “It’s such a huge honor. To know that they respect and care about me at this level is just incredible!”