News

2013
May
Hilldale and Holstrom Awards Support Summer Research Projects for 10 Chemistry Majors 5/3/13
Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Receives Prestigious Award for Public Education 5/3/13
April
70 Chemistry Undergraduate and Graduate Students Recognized at 2013 Student Award Ceremony 4/30/13
Professor Ron Raines Honored with Jeremy Knowles Award 4/29/13
Executive Director Matt Sanders Receives L&S Judith Craig Distinguished Service Award 4/29/13
Professor Pupa Gilbert and Colleagues Resolve an Old Puzzle About Structure of Vaterite 4/25/13
Professor Shannon Stahl and Colleagues Develop New ‘Green’ Method to Help Upgrade Biomass Waste Into Chemicals 4/23/13
15 Undergraduate Chemistry Majors Selected for April 18 Undergraduate Symposium 4/18/13
April 17 is UWRightNow 4/17/13
Upcoming Sabbatical Will Allow Professor Ned Sibert to Focus on Educational Innovation 4/16/13
Two Undergraduate Chemistry Majors Receive Goldwater Scholarships 4/11/13
Ilia Guzei Receives Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Research 4/11/13
Staff Members Betty Harwood and Chad Wilkinson Win College of Letters & Science Awards 4/9/13
12 Chemistry Students Receive NSF Graduate Research Fellowships 4/5/13
Graduate Student Audrey Forticaux Wins 2013 UW-Madison Cool Science Image 4/3/13
March
Design Phase of Chemistry Building Project Approved 3/27/13
Professor Randall Goldsmith Receives NSF CAREER Award for Single-Molecule Research 3/26/13
Howard Zimmerman: A Defining Influence on Organic Chemistry 3/21/13
Two Chemistry Faculty Members Selected for Distinguished Teaching Awards 3/12/13
Chemistry and Other L&S Graduate Programs Ranked Highly by U.S. News & World Report 3/12/13
A Novel Nobel Opportunity: Four Selected to Attend 2013 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in Chemistry 3/5/13
Chemistry Staff Help Uncover the Lost History of UW’s 19th-Century Glass Treasures 3/5/13
February
Analytical Trick May Accelerate Cancer Diagnosis 2/25/13
Professor Schomaker Wins Sloan Research Foundation Fellowship 2/19/13
Professors Jin and Keutsch Receive UW-Madison Research Awards 2/14/13
Professors Sibert and Yoon Win Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Awards 2/8/13
Chemistry Staff Collaborate with Zoological Museum on Conservation Photography Exhibit 2/7/13
Professor Pupa Gilbert Wins Science Image Challenge 2/1/13
January
Undergraduate Chemistry Scholarship Applications Due Feb. 28 1/18/13
Colloquium with Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Will Address Recommendations from ACS Report on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences 1/16/13
Computer Simulations Confirm Ediger Lab's Speculations About Molecular Structure of Ultrastable Glasses 1/7/13
2012
December
ACS Releases Report on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences 12/21/12
Professor Trisha Andrew Honored for Energy Research 12/19/12
Professor Song Jin Wins Cutting-Edge Research Award for Work on Solar Cells 12/19/12
Professor Laura Kiessling Wins 2013 Murray Goodman Memorial Prize 12/3/12
November
Professor Joshua Coon and Colleagues Create Road Map to Metabolic Reprogramming for Aging 11/29/12
High School Student and Chemistry Researcher Sohil Shah Named a Finalist in Math, Science, and Technology Competition 11/27/12
Analytical Tool is Focus of Spinoff Firm 11/20/12
Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Delivers Christmas ‘Science is Fun’ Lectures 11/8/12
Carbon Playground Converts Atoms into Fun 11/5/12
October
Alumnus Carl Djerassi Will Present a Reading of “Insufficiency” on Oct. 26 10/18/12
Professor Robert Hamers Will Direct New Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology 10/15/12
Professor Laura Kiessling Wins ACS Claude S. Hudson Award 10/15/12
Chemistry Opportunities (CHOPs) to Welcome Select Prospective Graduate Students to Madison Oct. 11-13 10/10/12
Keutsch Group Participates in Zeppelin-based Field Campaign in Europe 10/9/12
New Q&A with Professor Trisha Andrew 10/8/12
Professor Hamers and Colleagues Named Finalists in Inaugural WARF Innovation Awards 10/4/12
Dr. Michele Parrinello to Present Three Hirschfelder Lectures, Oct. 1-3 10/1/12
September
NSF Taps Professor Fleming Crim to Lead Math and Physical Sciences Directorate 9/25/12
Professor Mahesh Mahanthappa Wins American Physical Society Dillon Medal 9/24/12
Share the Wonderful 9/19/12
Department to Host MUACC Sept. 27-29 9/17/12
Q&A with New Professor Etienne Garand 9/14/12
Professor Thomas Brunold Finishes First Among Amateurs in Ironman Wisconsin 9/11/12
Professor Helen Blackwell and Colleagues Identify Chemicals That Interrupt A. baumannii Quorum Sensing 9/4/12
Science is Fun Extravaganza at Wisconsin Science Festival 9/4/12
Chemistry Building Project Approved by UW System Board of Regents 9/4/12
Welcome to Assistant Lab Directors Block and Esselman 9/4/12
UW-Madison Ranks 19th Among World Universities 9/4/12
August
UW Madison Chemistry Department Newsletter for 8/22/2012 8/20/12
Martha Casey, Professor Clark Landis, and Professor Jim Skinner Named ACS Fellows 8/6/12
July
GSFLC Hosts TGIF BBQ on 8/3 7/23/12
5th Qualifier Information 7/23/12
June
Tracy Drier Receives 2012 Helmut Dreschel Award 6/25/12
Caroline Quinn Burke Dies at 29 6/25/12
May
Legendary Lecturer Ieva Reich to Retire 5/29/12
Rosana Pérez-Ellmann Wins Classified Employee Recognition Award 5/29/12
Professor Josh Coon Wins Klaus Biemann Medal 5/29/12
Snout Out Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8 at Rennebohm Park 5/29/12
Science is Fun Summer Extravaganza 5/29/12
Chemistry Newsletter Summer Hours 5/14/12
Honored Instructor by Students Living in University Housing 5/14/12
Undergraduate Poster Session Award Winners 5/14/12
Former Machinist John Vanwick Dies at 76 5/14/12
Jim Skinner Elected to the National Academy 5/7/12
Capital Lakes DragonFest Chemistry Team 5/7/12
Jeanne Hamers Accepts Undergraduate Chemistry Coordinator Position 5/7/12
National Academy of Sciences Members and Foreign Associates Elected 5/1/12
April
Graduation Reception May 18, 3:30-5 in the Shain Atrium 4/30/12
Laurens Anderson's Wife Doris Dies at 91 4/30/12
Taylor Outstanding Chemistry Teaching Award to Jeanne Hamers! 4/30/12
Jeannine Szczech and Cheri Barta Have Been Selected as Honored Instructors 4/30/12
Outstanding Chemistry TA Awards! 4/30/12
Award Ceremony Friday, May 4, 3:00 P.M. in 1361 4/30/12
New Financial Specialist Paul Benedict 4/30/12
Chemistry Scholarships and Awards Ceremony 4/23/12
John Berry Recommended for Tenure 4/16/12
GSFLC Poster Session Winners 4/16/12
Chemistry Camps 4/16/12
Tracy Drier and Jim Maynard Win L&S Mid-Career Awards 4/9/12
2012 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships Recipients 4/9/12
ACS - 2012 ACS National Award Ceremony 243rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition 4/9/12
March
Joe Wright is New Undergraduate Services Specialist 3/26/12
Kristi Heming Receives Partners in Giving Governor's Award 3/26/12
Professor Michele Parrinello Wins 2012 Hirschfelder Prize 3/19/12
Chemistry Department Spring Poster Session 3/19/12
Assistant Professor Etienne Garand Hired 3/19/12
American Chemical Society President Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Comments on the Death and Legacy of F. Sherwood Rowland 3/19/12
Song Jin & Thomas Brunold Win Vilas Awards 3/5/12
Keutsch & Mahanthappa Recommended for Promotion with Tenure 3/5/12
February
Howard Zimmerman Memorial Fund Information 2/20/12
JR Schmidt Named an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow 2/20/12
Emeritus Professor Howard Zimmerman Dies at 85 2/13/12
Professor Mark Ediger Awarded a WARF Professorship 2/13/12
January
Barry Trost's Wife Susan Dies at 66 1/23/12
Dan Rich's Wife Jane Dies at 69 1/9/12
2011
December
Complete List of Chemistry Recipients of Honored Instructors Awards 12/19/11
Professor Helen Blackwell Wins Romnes Award 12/19/11
Linda Zelewski Recognized as an Honored Instructor 12/19/11
Brian Esselman Wins 2011 Campus-Wide Teaching Award 12/19/11
University of Wisconsin Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Becomes President of World's Largest Scientific Society 12/19/11
Some Sad News - Richard Ferdinand "Dick" Fenske Has Died 12/19/11
Rosana Pérez-Ellmann; Kat Myhre; Ed Vasiukevicius Win L&S Classified Awards 12/5/11
November
Angel Abruña-Rodríguez Receives University Housing's Honored Instructor Award 11/28/11
PARTNERS IN GIVING AUCTION WEBSITE 11/7/11
October
The 42nd Annual ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/31/11
Chemistry Librarian Emily Wixson is Retiring 10/24/11
Professor Kyoung-Shin Choi Joining UW Chemistry In Fall of 2012 10/10/11
Danny Fredrickson Wins Presidential Early Career Award 10/3/11
September
Building Services new website 9/21/11
Thomas Brunold Finishes 5th Overall in Madison Ironman 9/12/11
2011 SNOUT-OUT was a Great Time for All!! 9/6/11
Professors Reich - Skinner - Hamers Win ACS Awards 9/6/11
August
Bob McMahon & Tom Farrar Named Fellows of the ACS 8/22/11
July
Professor Lian Yu Receives 2011 David Grant Award in Physical Pharmacy 7/25/11
CHEMISTRY SNOUT-OUT 2011 7/11/11
June
Chemistry Departments Team Races in the 2011 Capital Lakes DragonFest 6/27/11
WISL's Professor Bassam Shakhashiri & Dr. Rodney Schreiner Present The Science of Fireworks 6/27/11
2001 Chemistry PhD Student Nick Condon on Jeopardy! 6/13/11
Jeanne Hamers Inducted as a Teaching Fellow 6/13/11
Jeanne Hamers & Pam Doolittle Write Successful Lab Equipment Proposals 6/13/11
May
Tammy Lam Recognized as an Honored Instructor by Students Living in University Housing 5/31/11
Benjamin Dunnington, Randy Mehlenbacher, Hannah Bowman, Will Tucker, and Ryan VanHoveln Have Also Been Selected as Honored Instructors by Students in the Chadbourne Residential College 5/31/11
Some Sad News 5/31/11
Samira Musah Wins Why File Contest 5/17/11
Angel Abruña-Rodríguez and Nathan Connell selected as Honored Instructors by students in the Chadbourne Residential College 5/17/11
Chemistry Undergraduate Poster Session 5/2/11
Congratulations to Poster Session Award Winners! 5/2/11
Lu Wang Wins PChem Poster Award at ACS 5/2/11
Dianne Mitchell Donation & Condolences Information Update 5/2/11
Chemistry Newsletter Summer Hours 5/2/11
April
Former Employee Dianne Mitchell Dies at 55 4/18/11
Partners in Giving - Special Events Award 4/18/11
Mary Beth Anzovino is a Letters & Science Teaching Fellow 4/18/11
Congratulations to New NSF Fellows 4/11/11
Shakhashiri Book Series Explores Chemistry's Panache 4/11/11
2011 Taylor Excellence in Teaching Symposium 4/4/11
Mentor Award Nomination 4/4/11
2011 Undergraduate Symposium - Tuesday, April 12th 4/4/11
March
Desiree Bates Hired as New "Computational Chemistry Leader" 3/28/11
Annual Spring Graduate Poster Session 3/21/11
Daan Frenkel Wins Joseph Hirschfelder Prize 3/21/11
Outstanding Chemistry TA Awards Winners 3/21/11
Marty Zanni Receives the 2011 Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in the Physical Sciences 3/21/11
Chad Skemp Starts in the Business Office 3/7/11
Some Sad News 3/7/11
Dianne Mitchell Has Retired 3/7/11
Charlie Fry Wins the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research: Critical Research Support 3/7/11
Assistant Professor Randy Goldsmith Joins the Chemistry Department 3/7/11
Laura Kiessling & Allen Clauss Win the James Taylor Excellence in Teaching Awards 3/7/11
February
Josh Coon Receives The 2011 Arthur F. Findeis Award 2/28/11
Rachel Selinisky Wins The T-Shirt Design Contest 2/28/11
Marty Zanni Receives NAS Award 2/14/11
Bassam Shakhashiri to Receive the 2011 Van Hise Outreach Distinguished Teaching Award 2/7/11
January
Chemistry Department Partners in Giving Benefit Concert 1/18/11
Chemistry AAAS Fellows for 2010 1/3/11
NSF Funding for 400 MHz NMR 1/3/11
2010
December
Newsletter on Christmas Vacation 12/13/10
Christmas Cheery Show Times on WPT 12/13/10
Marty Zanni Elected as a Fellow of the American Physical Society 12/13/10
Jim Skinner wins the 2011 ACS Physical Chemistry Division Award in Theoretical Chemistry 12/13/10
Lingjun Li Wins Pittsburgh Conference Achievement Award 12/6/10
November
Kristi Heming Wins L&S Classified Staff Excellence Award 11/29/10
WISL Thesis Award Program 11/29/10
Bassam Shakhashiri Elected as ACS President 11/22/10
Charlie Giese is Chemistry's New Grants and Contract Specialist 11/15/10
Tehshik Yoon Receives Eli Lilly Grant 11/8/10
Chemistry Undergraduate Research Workshop 11/4/10
WISL DISPLAY CONTEST WINNERS 11/1/10
October
Partners In Giving Auction Information 10/25/10
The 41st Annual ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/25/10
Charlie Giese Chemistry's New Grants and Contract Specialist 10/18/10
September
2010-11 Wisconsin Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship Recipients 9/27/10
Professor Thomas Brunold Finishes 12th In Ironman 9/20/10
An Exhibit Entitled: "The Same and Not The Same" In Shain Tower Showcase 9/20/10
Professors Bassam Shakhashiri & Laura Kiessling Named ACS Fellows 9/7/10
Alexis Johnson Wins Outstanding Poster Award at ACS 9/7/10
Discover Magazine Highlights Professor Blackwell's Research 9/7/10
Chemistry Newsletter Back To Weekly Schedule Starting September 13th 9/7/10
August
ChemBio webpage 8/17/10
Fall 2010 Graduate Students arrive for orientation 8/9/10
July
Special Event 7/26/10
June
SNOUT OUT 2010 6/14/10
Congratulations To Our Department! 6/1/10
May
Eric Strieter Named a Shaw Scientist 5/10/10
Assistant Professor Tehshik Yoon Receives a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 5/3/10
April
Some Sad News 4/26/10
Martin Zanni Wins a NIDDK 60th Anniversary Early Career Investigator/Scholar Award 4/26/10
Sam Gellman Elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 4/19/10
Chemistry Department Poster Session Award Winners 4/19/10
A Conversation with Dava Sobel: The Opportunities, Challenges, and Rewards of Science Writing 4/12/10
Chemistry Teaching Assistant Awards 4/12/10
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Nominated for 2011 President-elect of the American Chemical Society 4/5/10
March
Fleming Crim Selected as This Year's Winner of the Hilldale Award in the Physical Sciences 3/15/10
WISL $500 Graduate Student Awards to Promote Communicating Chemistry 3/8/10
Chemistry Cookie Contest Winners 3/1/10
Danny Fredrickson Receives a US Department of Energy Early Career Award 3/1/10
February
Professor John Tully of Yale University 2010-11 Hirschfelder Winner 2/22/10
Helen Blackwell Named a Vilas Associate 2/15/10
Mahesh Mahanthappa Wins Emil H. Steiger Distinguished Teaching Award 2/8/10
Professor Qiang Cui Awarded an H. I. Romnes Faculty Fellowship 2/1/10
Professor Jim Skinner Awarded a WARF Named Professorship 2/1/10
January
Dr. Linda Zelewski Selected as an Honored Instructor by University Housing 1/4/10
2009
December
Professors Burstyn, Weinhold & Weisshaar Elected as AAAS Fellows 12/21/09
Nikki Burrmann Selected as an Honored Instructor by Students in the Chadbourne Residential College 12/21/09
Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Selected as a Honored Instructor by University Housing 12/21/09
Professor Mahesh Mananthappa Receives the James W. Taylor Award 12/7/09
NSF Funding of The Catalysis Center Approved 12/7/09
Newsletter on Christmas Vacation 12/7/09
November
Professor Robert Hamers Wins the Semiconductor Surfaces, Interfaces, and Nanostructures Prize 11/30/09
Jerry Stamn, Tom Ladell & Bruce Goldade Win L&S Classified Staff Excellence Awards 11/30/09
Danny Fredrickson Receives NSF Career Award 11/23/09
Pictorial History of Shakhashiri Christmas Shows 11/23/09
The 40th Anniversary of ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI is Sold Out! 11/16/09
Some Sad News - Glen E. Dirreen is dead at Age 75 11/9/09
Professor John Berry's Conversations in Science Talk 11/9/09
Cathy Middlecamp Receives Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Excellence Award 11/2/09
October
The 40th Anniversary of ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/13/09
Honoring Emeritus Chemistry Professor and L&S Emeritus Dean Phillip R. Certain 10/13/09
Some Sad News 10/5/09
Amanda Case Wins Rao Prize 10/5/09
Lloyd Smith & Josh Coon Receive NIH Grant 10/5/09
September
Professor Ralph F. Hirschmann, 1922-2009 9/28/09
Susan Brastad Wins Outstanding Poster Award at ACS 9/15/09
Snout-Out Softball Winners 9/15/09
Professor Ron Raines Wins The 2010 Repligen Award From ACS 9/9/09
Oink! Oink! It's Snout out Time!! 9/8/09
Sarah Schmid & Brittland DeKover Give Presentation at ACS Fall National Meeting 9/8/09
Chemistry Newsletter Back To Weekly Schedule Starting September 14th 9/8/09
August
American Chemical Society 2010 Award Winners 8/25/09
Chemistry Snout Out 8/10/09
Professor Josh Coon Article 8/10/09
July
Chuck Casey, Fleming Crim, Cathy Middlecamp, and John Moore Elected as part of the Inaugural Class of ACS Fellows 7/27/09
Computer Center Proposal Formally Funded From NSF 7/27/09
John Moore Selected as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society 7/13/09
June
Alumni Ralph Hirschmann Passes Away at 87 6/23/09
Undergrads Give Thanks to Chemistry Learning Center with YouTube Song “CLC Love 2008” 6/15/09
Professor Tom Record Receives Hugh M. Huffman Award 6/1/09
May
Chemistry Newsletter Summer Hours 5/18/09
Amanda Turek Wins the 2009 Iota Sigma Pi Award 5/18/09
Professor Thomas Brunold is the Winner of the 20-Mile, 2009 Syttende Mai Race 5/18/09
Professor Arun Yethiraj Receives a Letters and Science Faculty Fellow Award 5/18/09
Joseph B. Binder Wins the 2009 Kenneth G. Hancock Memorial Award 5/11/09
Glassblower Tracy Drier Recipient of the Wale Award 5/11/09
Professor Bob Hamers to Receive the 2009 Medard Welch Award 5/11/09
Lloyd Smith to Receive the 2010 Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award 5/11/09
Ángel Abruña-Rodríguez Selected as an Honored Instructor by Students in the Chadbourne Residential College 5/4/09
April
Materials & Inorganic Seminar - S. Tom Picraux of Los Alamos National Lab 4/29/09
For Professor, Chemistry and Composition Make Music Together 4/27/09
Professor Lloyd Smith to Receive a WARF Named Professorship 4/20/09
Ilia Guzei Receives a L&S Early Career Award 4/13/09
Science and Islam: From Discord to Harmony - WISL Seminar 4/6/09
March
Professor Peter Wolynes from UCSD is 2009-10 Hirschfelder Prize Winner 3/23/09
Concert at Chemistry on Thursday 3/12 @ 1:15 p.m. 3/9/09
New Chemistry Departmental Web Site 3/4/09
Silvia Cavagnero & David Schwartz Selected as Vilas Associates 3/2/09
Ron Raines is a Recipient of a Kellett Mid-Career Award 3/2/09
Jennifer Schomaker Accepts Offer as an Assistant Professor 3/2/09
Eric Strieter Accepts Offer to be an Assistant Professor 3/2/09
Josh Coon to Receive the Ken Standing Award 3/2/09
Tom Record Elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology 3/2/09
February
Professors Song Jin & Tehshik Yoon Receive Sloan Research Fellowships 2/23/09
Pat Wermeling of the Chemistry Business Office Retires 2/23/09
Chemistry Teaching Assistant Awards 2/16/09
January
Professor Thomas Brunold Receives a Romnes Award 1/26/09
Professor Robert West Appointed as Distinguished Professor of the Korean Science & Engineering Foundation 1/26/09
Jeanne Hamers recognized by Students in the University Residence Halls 1/5/09
Professor Clark Landis Elected a Fellow of the AAAS 1/5/09
2008
December
Mahesh Mahanthappa Selected as an Honored Instructor of Chadbourne Residential College 12/20/08
Brian Karas & Dianne Mitchell Win L&S Classified Staff Excellence Awards 12/15/08
Rosana Ellmann, New Academic Department Manager 12/15/08
John Moore selected as an Honored Instructor by Students in the Chadbourne Residential College 12/15/08
November
Laura Kiessling Inducted FELLOW of the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters 11/10/08
Wisconsin State Journal News Article on Professor Lloyd Smith 11/3/08
October
Jim Maynard receives the 2008-2009 James W. Taylor Award for Excellence in Teaching 10/27/08
The 39th Annual Presentation ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/20/08
September
Madison Ironman 2008 9/15/08
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel News Article on Professor Helen Blackwell 9/2/08
Department Loss 9/2/08
August
Kids Camp Teaches Forensics Fake Crime-Scene Probes Draw Students Into World Of Chemistry 8/18/08
Elena Ungur Joins Business Office Staff 8/4/08
July
Chemistry Dept Lactation/Family-Friendly Room 7/21/08
May
The June 2008 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 5/27/08
Some Sad News - Margaret McLean Bender Died 5/5/08
Chemistry Newsletter Summer Hours 5/5/08
April
The May 2008 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 4/7/08
Tom Ladell Awarded a 2008 Classified Employee Recognition Award 4/7/08
Ieva Reich Recognized With Three Different Awards 4/7/08
Laura Kiessling Has Been Awarded a Guggenheim Award 4/7/08
March
Tehshik Yoon Wins an Arnold and Mabel Beckman Award 3/31/08
The April 2008 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 3/17/08
Sam Gellman Receives 2008 Phi Beta Kappa of Wisconsin Teaching Award 3/17/08
Ieva Reich Selected to Receive Chancellor's Hilldale Award 3/10/08
Kyle Roux is the New Building Manager 3/3/08
Chemistry Department Snout Out 2008 3/3/08
February
Nick Hill New Organic Lab Director - Matt Bowman New Organic Assistant Lab Director 2/25/08
John Moore Awarded The 2008 Braude Award 2/25/08
The March 2008 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 2/18/08
Bruce R. McCord, (PhD, is the Recipient of the Paul L. Kirk Award 2/18/08
Laura Kiessling Selected as a Vilas Associate 2/18/08
Lloyd Smith Selected as a Vilas Associate 2/18/08
2008-09 Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry is Mark Ratner 2/18/08
Some Sad News - Professor John Schrag Died 2/11/08
Academic Staff Promotions 2/11/08
James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award Symposium 2/11/08
Professor Bob West Made an Honorary Member of Nippon Kagaku Kai 2/4/08
Professor Shannon Stahl Chosen to be a Hamel Faculty Fellow 2/4/08
January
The February 2008 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 1/28/08
Professor Mark Ediger Awarded a Kellett Mid-Career Faculty Researcher Award 1/22/08
Professor Laura Kiessling News Article 1/7/08
Some Sad News - Professor Chuck Curtiss Died 1/7/08
Mahesh Mahanthappa Receives an NSF Career Award 1/7/08
2007
December
Some Sad News - Bob Lavine Died 12/20/07
Professor Laura Kiessling selected as the recipient of the 2008 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal from Yale University 12/17/07
Assistant Professor Tehshik Yoon Receives a UW Research Service Award 12/17/07
Once Upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri Television Schedule 12/17/07
October
The 38th Annual Presentation ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/23/07
Katie Patridge Receives a 2008 Abbott Graduate Fellowship 10/22/07
Matt Bierman Awarded the 2007-2008 Air Products Graduate Fellowship 10/18/07
Some Sad News - Professor Walter Blaedel Died 10/15/07
The November 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 10/15/07
Helen Blackwell Awarded the James W. Taylor Award for Teaching Excellence 10/15/07
Josh Coon Receives the Eli Lilly Analytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award 10/15/07
September
Professor Thomas Brunold Finishes in 10th Place in Wisconsin Ironman Competition 9/17/07
The October 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 9/17/07
August
The September 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 8/27/07
Diane Nutbrown Wisconsin Section the ChemLuminary Award 8/27/07
Chemistry Newsletter Back To Weekly Schedule Starting September 10 8/27/07
Think Big, Think PIG! 8/27/07
Bob Hamers Awarded a Wisconsin Distinguished Professorship 8/13/07
Beth Landis Receives the 2007-2008 Merck Research Laboratories Fellowship 8/13/07
July
Samira Musah Wins a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship 7/30/07
Helen Blackwell named one of Popular Science Magazine's "Brilliant 10" 7/30/07
August 2007 JCE Online Now Available 7/16/07
UW-Madison Chemistry Department Ranked 7th Nationally by U.S. News and World Report 7/10/07
Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Receives National Service Award 7/2/07
Song Jin Receives a Cottrell Scholar Award 7/2/07
Ron Raines Wins the 2007 Makineni Lectureship Award 7/2/07
Frank Weinhold Wins the 2007 Lise Meitner - Minerva Center Lectureship Award 7/2/07
Matt Shoulders Wins a 2007-08 ACS Medicinal Chemistry Fellowship 7/2/07
June
July 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Online 6/18/07
Andrew Greenberg is featured in June 11 issue of Newsweek Magazine 6/18/07
Laura Kiessling Has Been Elected to the American Academy of Microbiology 6/4/07
May
JCE Software Video Collection Wins the Pirelli International Award in Chemistry 5/21/07
The June 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 5/14/07
Professor Tom Record Elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 5/7/07
New Divisional Chairs 5/7/07
Tom Foseid Retiring - January 2, 2008 5/7/07
Professor Laura Kiessling Elected to Membership in the National Academy of Sciences 5/7/07
April
Professor Helen Blackwell Receives a 2007 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award 4/30/07
Professor Helen Blackwell and Song Jin Have Each Won a Dupont Young Professor Grants 4/30/07
Professor Hans Reich Wins the Arfvedson Schlenk Award 4/23/07
The May 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 4/16/07
Professor Josh Coon Receives a Major Award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation 4/16/07
NEWS RELEASE from the National Science Board - For release on: April 16, 2007 4/16/07
Professor Bassam Shakhashiri wins the 2007 National Science Board Public Service Award 4/16/07
Christine McInnis wins a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship 4/16/07
March
Chemistry staff and faculty teach nanoscience to the blind 3/28/07
The April 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Now Available Online 3/26/07
Shea Ramey is the Recipient of the L&S Early Career Award 3/26/07
Hirschfelder Prize winner for 2007-08 is Professor Bob Silbey 3/19/07
On Behalf of Laura Kiessling, Editor-In-Chief, ACS Chemical Biology: 3/12/07
Josh Coon Wins a Research Award from the American Society for Mass Spectrometry 3/12/07
March 2007 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education 3/5/07
February
Helen Blackwell is the Recipient of a 3M Nontenured Faculty Award 2/26/07
Alumni/Friends Reception at ACS Chicago 2/24/07
Think BIG, Think PIG! 2/12/07
GSFLC Poster Session at Union South 2/5/07
January
Shannon Stahl Receives Romnes Award 1/29/07
Dennis Reece Starts as the New Chair's Assistant 1/29/07
2006
December
Once upon a Christmas Cheery in the Lab of Shakhashiri TV Times 12/18/06
Matt Allen Wins a Prestigious "Pathways to Independence" Grant from the NIH 12/11/06
Berta Ostrander Wins L&S Classified Staff Excellence Award 12/4/06
Marty Zanni Wins 2006 Coblentz Award 12/4/06
Andy Schmitt Wins a Poster Award at the 2006 Materials Research Society Meeting 12/4/06
November
James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award Symposium 11/27/06
Tehshik Yoon wins NSF Career Award 11/20/06
11/14/2006 Departmental Meeting Report 11/20/06
December 2006 Issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is Available Online 11/13/06
Ron Raines Admitted as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Chemistry 11/6/06
Luke Lavis Wins ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship 11/6/06
October
John Berry is the First Winner of the Ernst-Haage Prize 10/30/06
Dr. Mark Wendt to Receive 2006 James W. Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award 10/30/06
The 37th Annual Presentation ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS CHEERY IN THE LAB OF SHAKHASHIRI 10/23/06
Some Sad News - Carl Wilfred Bloedow Died 10/16/06
November Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 10/9/06
Some Sad News - Richard Terhall Died 10/9/06
September
Pamela Doolittle and her horse, Cobra, place 3rd in the Markel Young Horse National Championships 9/25/06
Song Jin named one of MIT Technology Review magazine's TR35 for the year of 2006 9/25/06
Sam Gellman wins the ACS Ralph F. Hirschmann Award 9/25/06
Laura Kiessling wins ACS Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal 9/25/06
Ben Gorske Wins the 2006 M. J. Collins Award 9/18/06
Chris Scarborough Receives an ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Graduate Fellowship 9/18/06
Associate Professor Thomas Brunold Finishes in 6th Place in Wisconsin Ironman Competition 9/11/06
Dr. Rodney Schreiner & Dr. Mark Wendt Ranked as Top Teachers 9/11/06
Brian Popp wins the 2006 Perkin Scholarship 9/11/06
Chris Scarborough wins one of four Simga-Aldrich Innovation Awards 9/11/06
The October Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 9/11/06
August
Professor Helen Blackwell Wins a Focused Giving Grant 8/28/06
The September 2006 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education is now available online 8/16/06
July
August Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 7/10/06
Sarah Jewell Wins Two Graduate Fellowships 7/3/06
June
Professor Helen Blackwell selected as a Burroughs Welcome Fund Investigator 6/19/06
July Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 6/7/06
May
June Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 5/15/06
Professor Laura Kiessling to be appointed as a Hilldale Professor 5/1/06
American Academy of Arts and Sciences has selected Professor Jim Skinner as a Fellow 5/1/06
April
Governor Doyle to Dedicate the Irving Shain Chemistry Research Tower 4/24/06
UW Chemistry now moves up to #7 nationwide 4/10/06
May Issue of Journal of Chemical Education Now Available Online 4/10/06
March
Cathy Middlecamp Receives 2006 Judith S. Craig Distinguished Service Award 3/27/06
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