By Alexa Barres | Graduate Student in the Mecozzi Group | GSFLC Secretary & Organic Representative The Graduate Student-Faculty Liaison Committee (GSFLC) offers three Mentor Awards each spring. This year, they went Professor Helen E. …
Month: April 2018
Department of Chemistry awards more than $230,000 in scholarships to students
The Department of Chemistry recognized more than 100 undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a couple of faculty and staff members, at the 2018 Student Award Ceremony on April 27. Thanks to generous donors, …
Graduate Student Faculty Liaison Committee presents results of climate survey
By Margaret Lumley and Trisha Tucholski, 2017-18 GSFLC Co-Chairs The 2017 Department of Chemistry Climate Survey was administered to the graduate student and postdoc population to evaluate department climate and identify factors related to stress and mental …
Peter Rossky is 2018-19 Hirschfelder Prize Recipient
By cstephens Professor Peter Rossky will receive the 2018-19 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Theoretical Chemistry Institute (TCI). Prof. Rossky is Dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences at …
Chemistry major Soren Rozema receives UW-Madison’s 2018 Goldwater honorable mention
Soren Rozema, a junior from Cross Plains, Wisconsin. Rozema is majoring in pharmacology, toxicology and chemistry. His research interests include the development of anti-parasitic agents and a novel transformation that would produce compounds with broad-spectrum …
Undergraduate Symposium shows value of mentorship
The annual Undergraduate Symposium is an opportunity for students to show what they’ve learned — think of it as a show-and-tell at the college level. But an important part of that learning has been made …
Two Department of Chemistry Grad Students named winners in 2018 Cool Science Image Contest
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 and scientists judged the scientific …
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 …
Winner of 2017 Crystal Growing Competition featured in Channel 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 …
$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 …