Fast Facts

Undergrad class of 2023

83 Chemistry Majors

Graduate class of 2023

56 Ph.D.s/8 Masters of Science

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.

After graduation:

Top alumni employers:

3M

AbbVie Inc

Amcor

Amgen

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals

AstraZeneca

Boston Consulting Group

Bristol Myers Squibb

Bruker

Catalent Pharma Solutions

Cogent Bio

Dow Chemical Company

Dupont

Ecolab

Eli Lilly

Exact Sciences

General Mills

Generate Biomedicines

Gilead

GSK

Hanwha Total Petrochemicals

Harvard University

Immuto Scientific

Intel

Janssen

LabCorp (formerly Covance)

Lam Research

Merck

MilliporeSigma

Partner Therapeutics, Inc.

Pfizer

PPD

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Streck

Takeda

UW–Madison

Notable Alumni

Jo Eisenhart

Former Executive Vice President

Northwestern Mutual

Jonathan Owens

Professor of Chemistry

Columbia University

Peter K. Dorhout

Vice President for Research

Iowa State University

Avery Watkins

Strategic Marketing Manager

Dow

Alison Wendlandt

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Department employees