Feature Stories
Sigma-Aldrich Employees Partner with SCIENCountErs Program
Ask a group of scientists how they chose their careers and many will tell you about a parent, teacher or another adult figure, who exposed them to science when they were young. Whether taking them …
Researchers study vital ‘on/off switches’ that control when bacteria turn deadly
Wisconsin Science Festival to celebrate scientific discovery, community
In directing stem cells, study shows context matters
Institute for Chemical Education Celebrates 30 Years of Chemistry Camps
The Chemistry Building’s first-floor hallway tends to be a quiet place during the summer. Undergraduates lounge in the hallways, studying for tests and chatting with classmates. Campus tour groups pass through several times per day, …
‘Science is fun’ offers traditional July Fourth show
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 …