Professor Randall Goldsmith has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation, a national honor recognizing transformative contributions to the development and advancement of modern chemical …
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Professor Stowe awarded 2026 Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence
Professor Ryan Stowe has won the 2026 Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence. Professor Stowe will be honored at the Taylor Teaching Award Symposium and will present a talk entitled “Stepping-stones toward coherent and useful chemistry …
Weix Lab to participate in $1.3 million W.M. Keck Foundation grant
Professor Dan Weix and his lab of the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Chemistry will join a team of researchers led by Todd Krauss, the Jay Last Professor in Arts, Sciences & Engineering in the …
Three of six Sloan Research Fellows are rooted in chemistry
Remembering Professor Charles “Chuck” Casey (1942-2025)
Emeritus Professor Charles P. Casey passed away in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sunday, December 21, 2025.
NASA awards allow graduate students to dig deeper into the origins of life questions
Marcos Jusino-Maldonado and Eliyagu (Eli) Sofovich, graduate students in Professor Zoe Todd’s research group, have been awarded F.5 Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology (FINESST) funding. Six research areas at NASA …
2025 Hirschfelder Award Banquet celebrates Dr. Frank Noé
The 2025–2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry was awarded to Dr. Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science on October 21, 2025 at the Hirschfelder Award Banquet held at …
Dr. Frank Noé named 2025-2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Awardee by the Theoretical Chemistry Institute
Madison, Wisc. – Dr. Frank Noé, Partner Research Manager at Microsoft Research AI for Science in Berlin, has been awarded the 2025–2026 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry. Dr. Noé will visit the Department …
Associate Professor Zach Wickens receives 2025 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award
The Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program, which supports the research and teaching careers of talented young faculty in the chemical sciences, recently selected Professor Zach Wickens as an award winner for 2025. The national award …
Frank Gao will join UW–Madison as a Department of Chemistry Assistant Professor in Fall 2026
Professor Frank Y. Gao will join the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s Department of Chemistry as an assistant professor in August 2026. He is currently a Texas Quantum Institute postdoctoral fellow at the University of Texas at …