By Ilia A. Guzei Director of Crystallography From a Petri dish into space! Do crystals grown in space differ from the ones grown on earth? Do compounds crystallize differently in space? What hardware does one …
Month: December 2018
Outreach: Fostering Community Appreciation of Science
By Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Professor of Chemistry and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair for the Wisconsin Idea Today our biggest challenge is to help sustain Earth and its people in the face of population growth, …
Robert West: International Bobfests and Tributes on the Occasion of His 90th Birthday
By Anthony Millevolte & Matthias Driess Colleagues and friends of Emeritus Professor Robert C. West joined to celebrate Bob’s 90th birthday during special conference sessions in 2018. It began in May with the 101st Canadian …
Outreach: Institute for Chemical Education
By John Moore W. T. Lippincott Professor of Chemistry The Institute for Chemical Education (ICE) continues its extensive outreach program under the direction of John Moore and with the contributions of Andrew Greenberg, Linda Craft, …
Hyuk Yu Celebrates 85 Years with Busy Travel Schedule Teaching & Consulting in Korea and China
Having chosen right parents, with robust good health he celebrated his 85th birthday on January 20th. Thus, he has been taking on busy travel schedule to Korea and China for the past several years. He …
Life in the Lab of a Laureate: What it Was Like Working with Frances Arnold
By Stephanie Blaszczyk Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Tang Group) UW–Madison students are unknowingly influenced by recent 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Frances Arnold, thanks to four Ph.D. chemists and Arnold group alumni in …
A Creative Group Recruitment Tradition
By Kaitlyn M. Moore Department Communications At the start of each fall semester, the Department of Chemistry welcomes incoming graduate students with the responsibility of choosing a research group — and creative posters have become …
New funding means acquisition of State-of-the-art Solid-State NMR Instrumentation
Enabling Characterization of Nanoparticles, Catalysts, Other Novel Materials, and Biochemical Systems By Charlie Fry Director of Dir NMR Lab – CIC UW–Madison ranks as a premiere institution in the world for research support involving nuclear …
Senior Lecturer Paul Hooker Receives James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award
By Kaitlyn M. Moore, Department Communications Madison, WI – December 19, 2019– Each year, the Department of Chemistry chooses one outstanding staff or faculty member to honor with the James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching …
Boydston featured in L&S faculty focus
New Faculty Focus: Andrew J. Boydston Katie Vaughn View original post here Title: Associate Professor and Yamamoto Family Professor of Chemistry Hometown: Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, but grew up in Eugene, Oregon. I consider Eugene my hometown. …