Feature Stories
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. …
Chemistry Graduate Program Ranked Highly by U.S. News & World Report
Simulations in the Classroom—Computational Chemistry Makes a Lasting Impression
“Today, the computer is just as important a tool for chemists as a test tube,” the Royal Swedish Academy said in recognizing computational chemists Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt, and Arieh Warshel as the 2013 Nobel …
Chemistry Instrument Center Gives Students State-of-the-Art Access, Training, and Research Support
Upon arriving at the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry in 2008, recent graduate Paul White (Ph.D. ’13, Stahl) soon realized just how exceptional his level of access to all types of chemistry instruments was. Through the …