Fast Facts

Recent Department Awards and Honors

Leaders in research, service, and teaching

• Kyoung-Shin Choi, Ho-Am prize in Chemistry and Life Sciences
• Andy Buller: One of the 25 Chemistry Sloan Fellows for 2023.
• Yang Yang:  NSF Career Award
• Jen Schomaker: UW-Madison 2023 Vilas Associates Award
• Shannon Stahl, elected into membership in the National Academy of Sciences. 
• Ive Hermans, awarded the Southwest Catalysis Society Award for Excellence in Applied Catalysis.
• Chemistry majors elected to Phi Beta Kappa: Paul Schindler, Ryan Strandberg, Phoenix Pham
• Eszter Boros, Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar
• Pam Doolittle:  2023 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education
• Desiree Bates: 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service to the University
• Brian Essleman: Letters & Science Mid-Career Award. 
• Kristi Heming: Robert Alesch Award for UW Partners-in-Giving
• Lea Gustin: Taylor Teaching Award

Books authored by our faculty

Davies, W. G., & Moore, J. W. (1978). Student and Instructor Solutions Supplement to Accompany Chemistry. McGraw–Hill  

Davies, W. G., & Moore, J. W. (1978). Instructor’s Manual to Accompany Chemistry. McGraw–Hill  

Goldfogel, M. J., Huang, L. B., & Weix, D. J. (2020). Cross-Electrophile Coupling: Principles and New Reactions.  

Kotz, J. C., Joesten, M., Wood, J., & Moore, J. W. (1993). The Chemical World: Concepts and Applications. Saunders.  

Moore, J. W. (2002). Chemistry: The Molecular Science. Brooks/Cole Publishing Company.  

Moore, J. W., Davies, W. G., & Collins, R. W. (1978). Chemistry. McGraw-Hill.  

Moore, J. W., & Moore, E. A. (1976). Environmental Chemistry. Academic Press.  

Moore, J. W., & Pearson, R. G. (1981). Kinetics and Mechanism (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.  

Moore, J. W., & Stanitski, C. L. (2015). Chemistry: The Molecular Science (5th ed.). Cengage Learning.  

Moore, J. W., Stanitski, C. L., & Jurs, P. C. (2005). Chemistry: The Molecular Science (2nd ed.). Brooks/Cole Publishers.  

Moore, J. W., Stanitski, C. L., & Jurs, P. C. (2008). Chemistry: The Molecular Science (3rd ed.). Brooks/Cole Publishers.  

Moore, J. W., Stanitski, C. L., & Jurs, P. C. (2009). Principles of Chemistry: The Molecular Science (3rd ed.). Brooks/Cole Publishers.  

Moore, J. W., Stanitski, C. L., & Jurs, P. C. (2011). Chemistry: The Molecular Science (4th ed.). Brooks/Cole Publishers.  

Moore, J. W., Stanitski, C. L., Wood, J. C., Kotz, J. C., & Joesten, M. L. (1998). The Chemical World: Concepts and Applications (2nd ed.). Saunders.  

Schreiner, R., & Shakhashiri, B. Z. (2005). Chemical kinetics. Stipes Pub.  

Shakhashiri, B. Z. (1983). Chemical Demonstrations: a handbook for teachers of chemistry. University of Wisconsin Press.  

Steinke, G., Jetzer, K. H., & Moore, J. W. (1994). The Chemical World: Concepts and Applications: Instructor’s Manual with Complete Solutions. Saunders.  

Weinhold, F. (2009). Classical and Geometrical Theory of Chemical and Phase Thermodynamics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9780470435069  

Weinhold, F., & Landis, C. R. (2005). Valency and Bonding: a natural bond orbital donor-acceptor perspective. Cambridge University Press.  

Weinhold, F., & Landis, C. R. (2012). Discovering Chemistry with Natural Bond Orbitals. Wiley.  

Widicus, S. L., Drouin, B. J., Dyl, K. A., & Blake, G. A. (2003). Rotational spectroscopy and hot core observational astronomy of prebiotic molecules.