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 …
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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 …
GSFLC hosts Careers and Commitments panel discussion for Department of Chemistry Grad Students
By Tesia D. Janicki, graduate student with the Schmidt Group The Graduate Student Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC), at the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry, coordinated a panel discussion, Careers and Commitments today. This event served as the annual GSFLC Colloquium and …
$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
Esselman and Hill receive 2016-17 Taylor Teaching Awards
Nicholas J. Hill and Brian Esselman each received a 2016-2017 James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry. The two organic chemistry laboratory directors organized and hosted a conference …