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 …
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 Badger Chemist Masthead
Professor Sam Gellman Department Chair Kimberly M. Hazen Badger Chemist Editor Ilia Guzei Photographer Will Cushman Writer Peter Jaeger Writer The Ten Thousand Things Graphic Design Pat Egan Reviewer Char Horsfall Reviewer Katie McCullough Reviewer …
From the Chair’s Office
There have been many events to celebrate in our department this year, but current difficulties and uncertainties dominate my attention. The past year has brought many challenges to our department. Universities in the U.S. are …
Chemistry of Community
A photographic round-up of happenings over the last year.
By the Numbers
53,436 chemistry credit hours taught in 2024-25 More than 150 student were recognized with over $420,000 in scholarships and grants in 2025. Chemistry groups collaborate with more than 50 schools, colleges, departments, institutes, and other …
Research: Recycling lithium from old electric vehicle batteries could be done cheaply with new electrochemical process
By Will Cushman With ever more electric vehicles on the road, regulators and automakers are considering what can be done with the millions of batteries that power EVs after they’re spent. Even when their useful …
Research: New deep learning method identifies transition states in protein conformational changes
In a recent study published in Nature Communications, researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison introduced a deep learning method capable of automatically identifying transition states in protein conformational changes, a key process that underpins many …