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Join us next Friday, October 23, for the Hyuk Yu Macromolecular Seminar featuring Professor Steve Granick from the Unive...
10/16/2026

Join us next Friday, October 23, for the Hyuk Yu Macromolecular Seminar featuring Professor Steve Granick from the University of Massachusetts Amherst!

Professor Granick will present “Fun and Profit with Soft Materials.”

Friday, October 23, 2026
3:30 PM
1315 Seminar Hall

Hosted by Professor Arun Yethiraj, with a reception to follow.

We hope to see you there!

Join us one week from today for an Inorganic Seminar featuring Professor Anna Wuttig of the University of Chicago!Profes...
10/13/2026

Join us one week from today for an Inorganic Seminar featuring Professor Anna Wuttig of the University of Chicago!
Professor Wuttig will present “Designing for Disorder: Electrocatalytic Synthesis with Interfacial Control.”

Tuesday, October 20
3:30 p.m.
1315 Seminar Hall
Host: Prof. Shannon Stahl

We hope you’ll join us!

Join us next week for a CHEMBIO Seminar featuring Professor Ciaran Seath of Cornell University!Professor Seath will pres...
10/08/2026

Join us next week for a CHEMBIO Seminar featuring Professor Ciaran Seath of Cornell University!
Professor Seath will present “Proximity Labeling Approaches to Study Transcription,” with research spanning proteomics, photochemistry, transcription, and drug discovery.

Tuesday, October 13
3:30 p.m.
1315 Seminar Hall
Host: Prof. Katrina Forest

We hope to see you there!

Congratulations to our Chemistry inventors on their newest patents!Cardiac diagnostics: Professors Ying Ge and Song Jin,...
10/07/2026

Congratulations to our Chemistry inventors on their newest patents!

Cardiac diagnostics: Professors Ying Ge and Song Jin, along with research assistants David Roberts and Timothy-Neil Tiambeng, were awarded a patent for an accurate and comprehensive cardiac troponin I assay, enabled by nanotechnology and proteomics. Troponin I is a key protein doctors look for when checking for heart damage.

Carbon nanotubes: Research assistant Stephanie Oliveras Santos was awarded a patent for self-assembling rod-coil copolymers that sort carbon nanotubes and help fabricate carbon nanotube films.

Optics: Professor Martin Zanni was awarded a patent for a vertical support arrangement for an optical system.

From the lab bench to real-world impact, this is what discovery looks like. Congratulations to everyone involved!

Big congratulations to Professor Weitao Yang of Duke University, who has been named the 2026–2027 Joseph O. Hirschfelder...
10/02/2026

Big congratulations to Professor Weitao Yang of Duke University, who has been named the 2026–2027 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Awardee!

The Hirschfelder Prize is one of the most prestigious honors in theoretical chemistry. It is awarded each year by our Theoretical Chemistry Institute in memory of Joseph O. Hirschfelder, who spent more than 40 years at UW–Madison. Four Nobel Prize winners are among the past recipients, and Professor Yang now joins them.

Professor Yang has made major contributions to the theory and computation behind how electrons behave in molecules and materials.

Read the full story https://loom.ly/rLjTK6s

🦩 It's flamingo time, Badgers! Now through tomorrow at 5 p.m., every gift to UW–Madison adds to the pink flock on Bascom...
10/01/2026

🦩 It's flamingo time, Badgers! Now through tomorrow at 5 p.m., every gift to UW–Madison adds to the pink flock on Bascom Hill.

Give $350+ and get a full-sized lawn flamingo plus a mini. Give $100+ and a mini flamingo is yours. Time to get flamboyant!

Give today: https://loom.ly/6fD82tQ

Join us for an upcoming CHEMBIO Seminar featuring Professor Jason Gestwicki from the University of California, San Franc...
10/01/2026

Join us for an upcoming CHEMBIO Seminar featuring Professor Jason Gestwicki from the University of California, San Francisco.

Tuesday, October 6 at 3:30 p.m.
Protein-Protein Interactions in Molecular Chaperone Networks Regulate Protein Homeostasis
1315 Seminar Hall
Hosted by Prof. Tina Wang

Professor Gestwicki’s seminar will explore protein-protein interactions, proteostasis, protein folding, and their connections to drug discovery. We hope you’ll join us!

Join us for two CASEY Inorganic Seminars featuring Professor Paul Chirik of Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Shanno...
09/30/2026

Join us for two CASEY Inorganic Seminars featuring Professor Paul Chirik of Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Shannon Stahl:

Wednesday, September 30 at 3:30 p.m.
Catalysis with Earth-Abundant Metals: Bond-Formation in Strong and Weak Ligand Fields
1315 Seminar Hall

Thursday, October 1 at 12:05 p.m.
Catalysis with Earth-Abundant Metals: Distinct Pathways for Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation
1315 Seminar Hall

We hope you’ll join us for these two opportunities to hear from Professor Chirik and learn more about his work in catalysis and earth-abundant metals.

On this day 26 years ago, UW–Madison's new chemistry building officially opened its doors, later named Shain Research To...
09/15/2026

On this day 26 years ago, UW–Madison's new chemistry building officially opened its doors, later named Shain Research Tower in honor of Irv Shain's leadership and legacy. Since then, it's been home to generations of chemists, students, and groundbreaking research. Here's to 26 years of science under this roof!

Solar panels made with lead work great — but nobody loves the lead part. Non-toxic alternatives exist (tin-based perovsk...
09/08/2026

Solar panels made with lead work great — but nobody loves the lead part. Non-toxic alternatives exist (tin-based perovskites), but they've had one big problem: they degrade fast when exposed to air and moisture.

UW–Madison chemists just fixed that. By tweaking the material's molecular design, they gave these lead-free solar cells a built-in "raincoat" that protects them from the elements — while still hitting 16.2% efficiency and retaining 95%+ of that performance after 1,600 hours of testing.

It's a small design change with big implications for safer, longer-lasting solar technology. https://loom.ly/HMOjPGw

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