By Meghan Chua The Graduate School As the conversation about mental health and well-being during graduate school grows nationally, graduate students at UW–Madison are leading a charge to make talking about department climate and mental …
Grad Achievements
Wright Lab Member Serves on Microscopy Society Student Council
By Kaine Korzekwa, Department of Biochemistry Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more …
GSFLC Recognizes Three Outstanding Mentors within the Chemistry Department
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. …
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, …
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 …
Five Department of Chemistry Students Receive NSF Fellowships
Twenty-six students from the University of Wisconsin–Madison have been awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Three of these students are Department of Chemistry graduate students and two recently graduated from …
UW-Madison graduate programs ranked high by U.S. News
UW–Madison graduate programs are once again ranked among the nation’s best in the 2019 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.” “The fact that so many of the graduate programs at UW–Madison …
New, more specific classification system for proteins may help advance scientific discovery
Lloyd Smith, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Chemistry, believes that for researchers to understand complex biological systems, they need to have deeper knowledge about the exact molecular forms (proteoforms) in which …
Department of Chemistry Graduate Student wins Three-Minute Thesis Contest at UW-Madison
Sarah Specht, a Department of Chemistry graduate student in the Hermans Group, took first place in the Three-Minute Thesis contest held by the UW-Madison Graduate School. Specht studies inorganic chemistry with a focus on the kinetics …