Feature Stories
Chemistry Majors Caldwell, Dinh Excel as Students and as Athletes
Chemistry majors Nick Caldwell and Kimberly Dinh, both student-athletes, were named to the 2014 Capital One Academic All-America Division I Men’s and Women’s At-Large teams in early June. Caldwell, a senior who hails from Sarasota, Florida, …
Wisconsin Crystal-Growing Competition Nets 76 Submissions from Across the State
This spring, high school students and teachers at more than 20 Wisconsin schools spent five weeks cultivating cobalt blue crystals. Using cupric sulfate as the basic substance from which to grow the crystals, their goal …
Altering Peptide Backbones
By swapping replacement parts into the backbone of a synthetic hormone, UW-Madison graduate student Ross Cheloha and his mentor Professor Samuel Gellman, along with collaborators at Harvard Medical School, have built a version of a parathyroid hormone that …
Chemical strategy hints at better drugs for osteoporosis, diabetes
Wisconsin Life Television Show Features Master Glassblower Tracy Drier
Tracy Drier, master scientific glassblower for the Department of Chemistry and the only scientific glassblower on campus, was recently featured on an episode of Wisconsin Life on Wisconsin Public Television. Drier, who has been with …
Mobile sustainability game spurs students to take environmental action
Professor Douglas Weibel Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
Ten faculty members have been chosen to receive this year’s Distinguished Teaching Awards, an honor given out since 1953 to recognize the university’s finest educators. Chancellor Rebecca Blank will present the awards at a ceremony …
Wielding Visible Light to Build Molecules
Reactions that are driven by light, termed photochemical reactions, were first described in the early 1800s. More than a hundred years later, organic chemists are still learning how to use light to synthesize complex molecules. …