Feature Stories
Undergraduate Symposium shows value of mentorship
Two Department of Chemistry Grad Students named winners in 2018 Cool Science Image Contest
By Chris Barncard, University Communications Ten images and two videos by University of Wisconsin–Madison students, faculty and staff have been named winners of the 2018 Cool Science Image Contest. A panel of eight experienced artists …
Winner of 2017 Crystal Growing Competition featured in Chanel 3000 news story
Hartford Union High School senior Olivia Burkholz, who participated in the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry’s 2017 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition, traveled to Florida earlier this year to collaborate with CASIS and send a project to the …
$220 million building boom on UW-Madison campus will modernize chemistry and agriculture facilities
MADISON – The longtime space crunch for students taking chemistry classes will finally begin to ease in a couple of years, the famous but antiquated Babcock Dairy Hall is getting a big addition and the …
Dr. Catherine Jackson and Tracy Drier talk about the history of chemistry and scientific glassblowing.
Master glassblower Tracy Drier along with synthetic organic chemist and chemistry historian, Dr. Catherine Jackson, talk about the history of chemistry and the introduction of scientific glassblowing. Full story and video here:
Confronting sexual harassment in chemistry
Awareness is growing among academic departments and scientific societies about the potential damage to individuals and the discipline By Linda Wang, Andrea Widener of C&E News In brief – – Chemistry has the same discouraging sexual harassment problem as …
Science Expeditions welcomes public to campus April 6–8
UW-Madison graduate programs ranked high by U.S. News
New, more specific classification system for proteins may help advance scientific discovery
Lloyd Smith, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry, believes that for researchers to understand complex biological systems, they need to have deeper knowledge about the exact molecular forms (proteoforms) in which proteins occur.