2026 Biennial Conference on Chemical Education

various
Various campus and Madison locations
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https://bcce.divched.org/2026

Sponsored by the Division of Chemical Education of the American Chemical Society, BCCE 2026 will welcome chemistry educators, researchers, graduate students, K–12 teachers, industry partners, and educational leaders from across the globe to UW–Madison’s lakeside …

Katherine Parrish Thesis Defense

@ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Zoom Link

Katherine Parrish will defend her doctoral dissertation “Investigating Chiral Light-Matter Interactions in Photonic Materials.” A phenomenon observed in some oriented materials is apparent circular dichroism (ACD), a differential absorption of left and right circularly polarized …

PhD Defense – Jonathan Ellis

@ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Attend via Zoom

Come see the latest PhD defense from the Buller Lab, Jonathan Ellis’ Defense! A quick overview of topics discussed: Through the course of evolution, Nature has developed a swath of useful enzymes for catalyzing chemical …

Peyton Higgins’ Thesis Defense

Room 1211, HF DeLuca Biochemical Science Building (aka 440 Henry Mall, the biochemistry building with the Badger Market attached).
@ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Defense will be a hybrid event (in-person with Zoom link made available by email).

Dylan Tabang’s Thesis Defense

@ 10:00 am - 11:00 am

Dylan Tabang’s thesis defense taking place in Health Sciences Learning Center room 1335. Virtual attendance Zoom link will be provided in the poster emailed to the department a week before the event.

Mahzad Dehghany’s Ph.D. DISSERTATION DEFENSE

S429 Chemistry
@ 9:30 am

Greetings, You are invited to attend Mahzad Dehghany’s (Schomaker Group) PhD Defense. Thesis Title: “Ring Expansion of Bicyclic Aziridine via Ylide Intermediates Toward Formation of Aminated Complex Molecules and, Design, Synthesis, and Electrophysiological Evaluation of …