By Kaitlyn M. Moore Department Communications May 24, 2019, Madison, WI — Today, the UW-Madison Department of Chemistry celebrated the 2019 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition (WICGC), a middle and high school competition organized by the …
Year: 2019
UW-Madison faculty, staff return to Vilas Hall months after flooding displaced them
An update on post-flood recovery at UW-Madison from the Wisconsin State Journal: https://chippewa.com/news/state-and-regional/uw-madison-faculty-staff-return-to-vilas-hall-months-after/article_e11e015e-cdfd-5a0f-9778-ea7b0c5f8dd0.html
2018-19 Wisconsin Space Crystal Mission
By Kaitlyn M. Moore, Department Communications May 21, 2019, Madison, WI — At the end of April, the winners of the 2018 Wisconsin Crystal Growing Competition (WICGC) had the opportunity to visit the Kennedy Space …
Construction Update 05/20/2019
Tower excavation. This week our building really began to take shape; there was lots of activity in the excavation area and part the structure is now almost as high as the fourth floor of Daniels. …
Construction Update 5/13/2019
Tower excavation—lots happening! Concrete has been poured for many of the footings and some of the walls for our new tower. Last week concrete footings were poured in the bottom of the pit for the …
Chemistry students make rainbow of colors in lab experiment
By Josephine Eshon Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Schomaker Group) Who knew chemists could make all the colors in the rainbow by changing a single parameter? Now students can rediscover their childhood fascination through a …
Kyoung-Shin Choi receives Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award
May 8, 2019 By Chris Barncard Forty two faculty were honored with Vilas awards and professorships, including Kyoung-Shin Choi, from the Department of Chemistry. Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been honored during the …
Construction Update 5/6/2019
Tower Crane. Success! The tower, turntable, and cab of our tower crane were erected over the weekend. Friday night equipment was brought in and lanes were closed on University Avenue. Early Saturday morning the construction team …
Blackwell receives WARF Named Professiorship; Schmidt receives Romnes Fellowship
By Natasha Kassulke Thirty-two members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty have been awarded 2019-20 faculty fellowships. The awardees span the four divisions — arts and humanities, physical sciences, social sciences and biological sciences — on …
Paul McGuire wins Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research: Critical Support
Paul McGuire, high-performance computing systems administrator for the Department of Chemistry, was recently awarded Centralized “supercomputing” resources play a vital role in modern chemical research and education. Yet for many years, the chemistry department’s facilities …