BADGER CHEMIST University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry

Established 1953, No. 61, 2018

COVER STORY: Department breaks ground on new building (Page 7) BADGER CHEMIST

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New Badger Chemists 2 Thankful to be a Welcome New Faculty & Staff 5 Chemistry Building Project 7 New Funding for NMR 10 BADGERBADGER CHEMISTCHEMIST Students Learn Glassblowing 10 Dear Alumni and Friends: A Creative Tradition 11 I am thankful for the positivity, hard work and collaboration that I have witnessed in my time In the Lab of a Laureate 12 as department chair. Our faculty, staff and students succeed at the highest levels, as evident Outreach: • Institute for from their many research publications, awards and achievements. I am convinced that the Chemical Education 13 Department of Chemistry is one of the best places to work and study at UW–Madison. • Fostering Community Construction of our instructional building is underway, after an exciting September Appreciation of Science 14 groundbreaking celebration. We are grateful for your support and look forward to enhanced • Crystal Growing Competition 15 learning spaces that will benefit our students. Our existing facility is less full than usual while Celebrations 16 our large enrollment courses continue in other buildings. I invite you to visit at any time, to News from Badger Chemists 17 see the emerging new building and to feel the excitement of our research laboratories. Awards & Honors 21 Remembering Irving Shain 25 We are honored to welcome new faculty and staff, and an outstanding class of new graduate In Memoriam 26 students. We celebrate the successes of our bachelors, masters and Ph.D. graduates and welcome them to the community of Badger Chemists. Being part of the UW–Madison Chemistry legacy connects all Badger Chemists to a long history of excellence, and your Badger Chemist is published yearly for continued success builds a future that enables us to excel among our peers. alumni and friends of the Department I am excited about new initiatives within the department. With guidance from the Office of Chemistry at UW–Madison. of Strategic Consulting, we implemented a streamlined enrollment management process to enable us to absorb more students. Our continuing engagement is creating an organizational Executive Editor: Matthew Sanders structure that will serve the department effectively for the 21st century. Another area of [email protected] focus is enhancing department climate for students, faculty and staff. Our graduate student Managing Editor: Tatum Lyles Flick council (GSFLC) created new committees to expand programming for students and post- [email protected] docs focused on health and well-being (including mental health awareness), professional development, and social support. Generous contributions from Badger Chemists like ON THE COVER (from left) Prof. John yourselves increased the number of programs that the GSFLC is able to offer, thereby Moore, Department Chair Prof. Judith enhancing student life in the department. We also formed a wellness and professional Burstyn, Department Executive Director development committee to support healthy work life and career advancement for faculty Matt Sanders, Prof. Bob McMahon, and and staff. Building Manager Jeff Nielsen break Within this year’s edition of Badger Chemist, you will see examples of the educational ground on the new building. Photo by initiatives, research discoveries and outreach activities in which the department engaged Sarah Maughan this past year. Many of these wonderful opportunities were made possible through the generous contributions of Badger Chemists like you. SHARE YOUR SUCCESS! Email news and events to Would you consider a 2018 donation to enhance science education, research and outreach? [email protected]. Gifts of any size help to enhance the student experience, support the top-quality research for which the department is known, and build public support for science through community Badger Chemist engagement. Department of Chemistry Your gift is an investment in the future of the university and the students who will University of Wisconsin–Madison shape the future of Wisconsin and the world. Show your support for chemistry today at 1101 University Ave. Madison, WI 53706 http://go.wisc.edu/GivetoChemistry. On behalf of the entire department, thank you and all the best in 2019! Update contact information at: uwalumni.com/services/update-info/ Sincerely, ©2018 Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System Professor Judith Burstyn Irving Shain Chair of Chemistry and Department Chair [email protected] BADGER CHEMIST Congratulations! NEW BADGER CHEMISTS Ph.D. (2016) Dillon, Stephanie (Brunold) Lu, Xiya (Cui) Fisher, Brian (Gellman) Spectroscopic and Computational Investigation of Parameterization of DFTB3 and Applications in Ni Superoxide Dismutase and Fe(II)-dependent Studying Enzymatic Mechanism with QM/MM Cyclic Constraints and Stereochemistry in Peptide Thiol Dioxygenases Free Energy Simulations Foldamer Helices Duffy, Erin (Garand) Marquard, Angela (Goldsmith) Heylman, Kevin (Goldsmith) A Ruthenium Water Oxidation Catalyst and Synthesis, Immobilization Strategies, and Toroidal Optical Microresonators as Single- Intermediates: Vibrational Characterization of Mechanistic Analysis of Surface-Supported Particle Absorption Spectrometers Isolated and Solvated Cryogenic Ions Molecular Palladium Cross-Coupling Catalysts for Kohler, Daniel (Wright) Ellison, Aubrey (Raines) Single-Molecule Fluorescence Spectroscopy Characterization of PbSe Quantum Dot Excitons Exploring and Exploiting Invasive Collagen McCann, Scott (Stahl) Using Ultrafast Multiresonant Coherent Mimetic Peptides Mechanistic Studies of Cu-Catalyzed Aerobic Multidimensional Spectroscopy Fang, Shuyu (Hamers) Oxidation Reactions: Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation Kratochvil, Huong (Zanni) and Phenol Oxidation Reactions Involving Modulation of Electrochemical Processes at the Cooperative Catalysis Structure and Dynamics of Proteins and Cathode-Electrolyte Interface in Lithium-Ion Peptides Revealed by Two-Dimensional Infrared Batteries McDonough, Thomas (Zanni) Spectroscopy Foarta, Floriana (Landis) Probing Exciton and Charge Dynamics in Organic Kwiecien, Nicholas (Coon) Thin Films and Photovoltaics with Nonlinear Asymmetric Hydroformylation of Disubstituted Spectroscopy Computational Approaches for Improved Alkenes and Application in the Synthesis of Identification, Quantitation, and Interpretation of Oligomers Mensch, Arielle (Hamers) Mass Spectrometry-Based “Omics” Data Gomez, Jaritza (Ediger) Characterizing Nanoparticle Interactions at Mantha, Sriteja (Yethiraj) the Cellular Membrane with in situ Analytical Physical Vapor Deposition as a Method to Prepare Methods Self-Assembly of Gemini Surfactant Molecules Highly Anisotropic Glasses and Properties of Nano-Confined Water Merrill, Wyatt (Crim) Gujral, Ankit (Ediger) Ouyang, Chuanzi (Li) Unimolecular Photodissociation Studies in Structural Characterization of Vapor-Deposited Molecular Beams and Flow Tubes Multifaceted Mass Spectrometric Approaches for Organic Glasses the Crustacean Neuropeptidome Investigation Miles, Kelsey (Stahl) Guo, Xiao (Pagliarini) Smith, Thomas (Raines) Aerobic and Electrochemical Oxidations with Defining the Molecular Function of Mitochondrial N-Oxyl Reagents Biomedical Applications Using Boronic Acid Phosphatases Mueller, Philipp (Hermans) Zhang, Tianqi (Zanni) Hager, Marlies (Gellman) Examination of Amyloid Structures on vivo and Modulation Excitation Spectroscopy Applied on Backbone Modification of Glucagon-Like Heterogeneous Lewis Acid Catalysis ex vivo with 2D IR Spectroscopy. Peptide-1 (GLP-1) to Alter Signaling at the GLP-1 Receptor Rana, Ambar (Strieter) Hang, Mimi (Hamers) From in vitro Conformational Dynamics of Ph.D. (2017) Ubiquitin Oligomers to Global Dynamics of Ahmed, Maaz (Stahl) Investigating and Controlling Technologically- Ubiquitin Chains in Cells Relevant Complex Metal Oxide Nanomaterials to Studies of Heterogenous Palladium and Related Robinson, Margaret (Hamers) Catalysts for Aerobic Oxidation of Primary Mitigate Biological Impact Background-Free Imaging of Nanoparticles Alcohols Holden, Matthew (Smith) Ruan, Shigang (Lian Yu) Alderson, Juliet (Schomaker) Light-directed Technologies for Nucleic Acid Surface Mobility of Organic Glasses Probed by Development and Extensions of Tunable, Array Fabrication Nano-Particles and Nano-Holes Selective Aminations via Silver-Catalyzed Nitrene Jaworski, Jonathan (Stahl) Transfer Reactions Investigations into the Role of Samad, Leith (Jin) Amador, Adrian (Yoon) 4,5-Diazafluorenone in Aerobic Palladium Composition and Morphology Control of Metal Dichalcogenides via Chemical Vapor Deposition Controlling the Stereoselectivity and Catalyzed Oxidations for Photovoltaic and Nanoelectronic Applications Chemoselectivity of Cyclopropyl Ketyl Radical Johnson, Britta (Sibert) Anions with Visible Light Dual Catalysis Molecular Vibrations as a Probe of Complex Scamp, Ryan Joseph (Schomaker) Anson, Colin (Stahl) Coupling in the Gas and Condensed Phase Enhancing Selectivity and Tunability of Nitrene Transfer Reactions through the Coordinative Development of a System for Electrocatalytic Jones, Bradley (Landis) Malleability of Silver Complexes O Reduction with a Quinone Mediator and a 2 Implementation of Asymmetric Hydroformylation Homogeneous Cobalt Catalyst with Rhodium Bisdiazaphos Catalysts: AHF in Schmid, Steven (Schomaker) Boursier, Michelle (Blackwell) Flow and Rh-Catalyzed Hydroacylation Part 1: Developments in 1,3-Halogen Migration. Part 2: Ring-Expansion Reactions of Methylene The Development and Application of Chemical Kain, Schuyler (Wright) Aziridines. Tools to Probe Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas Transition of Frequency-Domain Coherent aeruginosa Multidimensional Spectroscopic Methods to the Scholz, Spencer (Yoon) Brown, Tristan (Berry) Femtosecond Time Regime with Applications to Strategies for the Development of Triplet Sensitized Cycloadditions with Transition Metal Foundations for Small Molecule Activation at Nanoscale Semiconductors Photosensitizers Reduced Metal-Metal Bonded Complexes Knoener, Rachel (Smith) Shaloski, Michael (Nathanson) Burke, Eileen (Schomaker) HyPR-MS for Multiplexed and Splice Variant- Specific Discovery of RNA-Protein Interactomes DCl and N O Chemistry at the Salty Glycerol Regioselective Aziridination of Silyl Allenes and 2 5 Application for the Synthesis of New Heterocycles Kreitler, Dale (Gellman) Surface: Impact of Surfactants on Transport and Reactivity Chang, Wansoo (Mahanthappa) Structural Insights into Unnatural Proteins from Symmetry and Pseudosymmetry Skubi, Kazimer (Yoon) Organic Phosphonate Coatings on LiNi Mn 0.5 0.3 New Strategies for Catalytic Stereocontrol in Co0.2O2 High Voltage Lithium Ion Battery cathodes. 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Jackson, Grayson (Mahanthappa) Nanoconfined Water and Water-mediated Ion Transport in Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Membranes Kregel, Steven John (Garand) Construction of an Anion Photoelectron Spectrometer for Investigating Singlet Fission in Molecular Clusters Lupo, Katherine Marie (Goldsmith) Studying Heterogeneity of Chemical Reactions via Single-Molecule Fluorescence Manger, Lydia Helen (Goldsmith) Fluorescence Anisotrophy Measurements of Single Molecules to Probe Solution-Phase Conformational Heterogeneity of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Mohapatra, Sonisilpa (Weisshaar) Functional Mapping of the Components of the E. Photo by Tatum Lyles Flick Lyles Photo by Tatum coli Translational Machinery Graduate student participants in the 2018 Department of Chemistry Graduation Celebration Pakula, Ryan Justin (Berry) Novel Multimetallic Structures and their Slaymaker, Laura (Hamers) Ph.D. (2018) Properties, including Applications in Carbene and Surface Modifications of Novel Electroactive Appadoo, Visham (Lynn) Nitrene C-H Functionalization Materials for Applications in Lithium-Ion Qiu, Yue (Ediger) Batteries and Water Purification Surface-Mediated Release and Transfer of Plasmid DNA Using Polyelectrolyte Multilayer Coatings Modulation of Chemical Reactions by Glass Son, Chang Yun (Yethiraj) Brezny, Anna Christine (Landis) Packing Expanding the Space-Time Resolution of Riley, Nicholas M (Coon) Molecular Dynamics studies of Condensed Phases Kinetic and Mechanistic Studies of -- For Ionic Liquids, Polymers and Bio-mol Rh(Bis(diazaphospholane))-Catalyzed Advancing Electron Transfer Dissociation Asymmetric Hydroformylation Technologies for Characterization of Proteomes Stracey, Nuru (Brunold) Buchberger Jones, Amanda Rae (Li) and Post Translational Modifications Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of Fe Rush, Matthew John (Coon) and Mn Enzyme Mimics, B12 Biosynthesis, and Development and Application of Quantitative B12-Dependent Dehalogenases and Qualitative Mass Spectrometry Techniques to The Development and Implementation of Mass Probe Crustacean Neuropeptides and Beyond Spectrometry Methods for the Characterization of Tylinski, Michael (Ediger) Chen, Zhengwei Tony (Li) Peptides, Proteins, and Metabolites Investigating the Kinetic Stability and Shearer, Melinda Jean (Jin) Transformation of Vapor-Deposited Glasses with Advancing Mass Spectrometry Methods for AC Nanocalorimetry Experiments Glycosylation Analysis and their Application to Correlating Spatial Heterogeneity with Electronic Disease-Related Glyco-Alteration Study and Optical Properties of Transition Metal Van Vleet, Mary (Schmidt) Cheng, Nongyi (Hamers) Dichalcogenides New Functional Forms and Parameterization Stolt, Matthew John (Jin) Methods for Ab Initio, Intermolecular Force Field Vapor-Deposited Soft Electronic Materials and Development: Theory and Application Their Applications Observation and Electrical Detection of Magnetic Vinokur, Anastasiya (Fredrickson) Crowe, Sean O (Strieter) Skyrmions in Iron Germanide Nanostructures Bonding Networks in Intermetallic Systems: Towards Understanding the Role of Branched Thayer, Mitchell Paul (Bertram & Keutsch) Effects of Optimization, Cooperation, and Ubiquitin Chains in Cellular Signaling New Tools for Atmospheric Chemistry Utilizing Competition on Properties Fleetwood, Michelle Catherine (Mecozzi) Machine Learning on Field Measurements Walters, Diane (Ediger) Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Benign Thomas, Nicole Christine (Gellman) Anisotropic Molecular Orientation and Enhanced Semifluorinated Polymers for the Delivery of X-Ray Crystallography as a Tool for the Structural Thermal Stability in Vapor-Deposited Glasses of Hydrophobic Pharmaceuticals Study and Design of α/β-Peptides Organic Semiconductors Fu,Yongping (Jin) Thompson, Blaise Jonathan (Wright) Wang, Dian (Stahl) Metal Halide Perovskite Nanostructures for Development of Frequency Domain Mechanistic Studies and Catalyst Development of Optoelectronic Applications and Fundamental Multidimensional Spectroscopy with Applications Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic C–H Oxidations of Studies in Semiconductor Photophysics (Hetero)aromatics Grant, Joseph (Hermans) Voss, Jonathan Mark (Garand) Wildt, Julia (Landis) Discovery and Development of Heterogeneous Developing Cryogenic Ion Vibrational Novel 3,4-Diazaphospholane Ligands: Synthesis Catalysts for the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Spectroscopy Methods for the Characterization of and Investigation in Rhodium-Catalyzed Light Alkanes Molecular Interactions Hydroformylation Handali, Jonathan D (Wright) Xiu, Lichen (Jin) Wilkerson, Emily (Coon) 3D Triply Resonant Sum Frequency Spectroscopy Development of New Materials and Method Optimization and Application of Mass with Applications Towards Biological Molecules Chromatographic Methods for Top-Down Spectrometry to the Field of Hematology Hermes, Eric (Schmidt) Proteomics Winton, Valerie (Kiessling) Realistic Models for Theoretical Studies of Yang, Tzuhsiung Nick (Berry) Inhibitors of UDP-Galactopyranose Mutase Heterogenous Catalysis Electronic and Steric Effect on Transition Metal Yannello, Vincent (Fredrickson) Ho, Jia-Jung (Zanni) Catalyzed Group Transfer Reactions: Paving the Road to High Throughput Virtual Screening of Electron Counting in Polar Intermetallics: The Surface Specific Multidimensional Spectroscopy Catalysts Reversed Approximation MO Method and the and its Theoretical Modeling Yang, Tian (Blackwell) 18-n rule Hodges, Heather (Kiessling) Zhu, Men (Lian Yu) The Development and Application of Chemical Probing Bacterial Signaling and Cell Envelope Tools to Study Quorum Sensing in Staphylococci Polyamorphism of D-mannitol and Trans-Cis Assembly with Chemical Reporters Isomerization Energies of Azopyridines Yang, Zhilin (Weisshaar) Single-Cell, Real-Time Detection of Antimicrobial Peptide’s Attack in Live E. coli Cells

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Baehman, Bradley French, Samuel Schnabel, Brandon Heim, RJ (Raines) Bernabo, Rebecca Goossen, Nicolas Brian Schwartz, Stephen Hinkforth, Brett Evens, Kaarin (Zanni) Frey, Austin Hagemann, Margeaux Shah, Sohil* Horein, Alice Graham, Brian (Raines) Gonzalez, Pilar Hallfrisch, Ashley Sheffer, Bradley Husman, Anna Ho, Jordan Sun (Kiessling) Gulas, Kyle Heim, Zachary* Simon, Jessica Jodts, Richard Jarvis, Cassie (Kiessling) Hampel, Nicholas Hillert, Conor Tian, Jordan Keita, Hawa Kruger, Austin (Kiessling) Hatfield, Adam Hinkel, Liv Van Boxtel, Matthew Koerner, Bethany Long, Charnell (Kiessling) Huff, Austin Jaeger, Riley Van Domelen, Benjamin Krohn, David Pollock, Benjamin Jambor, Alexander Walcott, Owen Lind, Mark (McMahon) Kraft, Joseph* Kasten, Jared Wiesman, Andrew Maloney, Garett Ressler, Valerie (Raines) Krawczyk, Andy Kim, David Xavier, Kenneth McCrary, Mark Tao, Minshan (Hamers) Mechler-Hickson, Alexandra* Newman, Eugene Kenneth Kladar, Ryan Xu, Xuanqi Milbauer, Michael Klapper, Lily M. Yao, Yao* Miller, Mackenzie M.S. (2017) Ridl, Tyler Lang, Eric Yegorov, Viktor Noten, Efrey Alex* Alvarez, Catherine (Hamers) Uphues, Patrick Lange, Josephine Zemela, Mark* Oxtoby, Lucas* Calabretta, Phillip J Van Berkom, Anna (Kiessling) Zhou, Hao Lee, Jeehyeon Zhang, Bo Pan, Ziyi Flikweert, Niecia Elizabeth Leng, Will Zhang, Johnny Yi Robitaille, Ryan (Yoon) B.S./B.A. (2017) Liang, Yu Zhao, Jingyi Ross, Cullen Hagee, Eric Joseph (Wright) Amatuni, Alexander Lyu, Haoxiang Zong, Yixu Sadecki, Patric Haveman, Matthew (Jin) Artymiuk, Jacklyn Mades, Isaac Schultz, August Jin, Haiyun (Cui) Bagley, Taite Mandel, Jeremy B.S./B.A. (2018) Simek, Chelsea Louthan, Kirsten (Hamers) Bailey, Kevin Mark, Dan Balzer, Paul Sorensen, Stephanie Manulik, Joseph (Blackwell) Berendt, Amelia Mat Lani, Amirah Syamila Buchinger, Derek Springer, Sean Neff-Mallon, Nathan (Wright) Bourgeois, Shay Mcconeghy, Nicholas Chemello, Michael Tessling, Anna Orgren, Lindsey Renee Meyer, Madeleine Corstvet, Joseph Thompson, Hailey (Raines) Brabant, Elliott Miyazaki, Ken Daniels, Joshua Visser, Nicholas Pal, Tanmoy (Cui) Caschetta, Claire Negrete, Gabriela Dillahunt, Anya Wallace, Nathaniel Pinhancos, Rebeca (Burstyn) Casper, Lucas Nowakowski, Hannah Eccles, Liam Witta, Beth Schwarz, Cara (McMahon) Casperson, Kurtis Cheng, Queenie O’Connell, Ben Eichten, Alison Wood, Jamie* O’Rourke, James Evans, Elizabeth Jane Wright, John M.S. (2018) Combs, Joshua* Cooley, Victoria Ordonez Arteaga, Estela Ferrer, Brian* Yaeger-Weiss, Susanna* Camacho, Beatriz (Denu) Janeth Cornejo, Natasha Fetsch, Karl Yin, Boyu Herman, Madeline Irene Padilla, Nicolas (Yoon) De La Villefromoy, Luc Fitzsimmons, Ryan Zhang, Hanyuan Renard, Landon Lamb, Brandon (Jin) Dobraska, Brandon Foy, Michael* Saito, Anna Werner, Stephanie (Jin) Earley, Justin Gao, Tianhua Saler, Lauren Whitmire, Lauren Diane Edge, Devin Geisler, Emmett (Stahl) Scammell, Ian Gomez, Anthony Photo by Tatum Lyles Flick Lyles Photo by Tatum Undergraduate participants in the 2018 Department of Chemistry Graduation Celebration FIND MORE GRAD PHOTOS ONLINE AT * Graduated with honors. BADGERCHEMISTNEWS.CHEM.WISC.EDU NOTE: Students listed from past years were not included in the last issue of Badger Chemist. chem.wisc.edu 4 BADGER CHEMIST Department Welcomes New Faculty & Staff my obsession for problem-solving and I raised in Madison and I knew it was an NEW FACULTY was inspired by the creative license that awesome place to live. AJ Boydston organic chemistry offered. I decided to Associate Professor of Chemistry & go into research once I saw my under- DO YOU HAVE ANY BIG GOALS Yamamoto Family Professor of Chemistry graduate research advisor, Prof. Mike FOR THE BEGINNING OF YOUR Haley, running his lab and helping Ph.D. TIME IN THE DEPARTMENT? In August 2018, students mature into scientific leaders. I In addition to getting my research off AJ Boydston joined wanted that. Then, I had other great men- the ground, I am developing a new class the department. He tors and role models, like Prof. Chris aimed at helping new graduate students brought research sci- Bielawski, Prof. Grant Willson, and Prof. develop scientific thinking in organic entist Dr. Chang-Uk Bob Grubbs, who challenged and en- chemistry. I am fascinated by innovation Lee and students Jo- couraged me along the way. Across each and the way people think about prob- hanna Schwartz and of my past advisors, I was fascinated by lems. In this class, I have focused more Brock Lynde with their ability to envision function, design on the thought process necessary to be a him from the Univer- molecular scaffolds to access that func- successful scientist than on specific con- tion, and then test hypotheses associated tent. My goal for the class is to scaffold AJ Boydston sity of Washington, as part of his group. with their designs. It really impressed the development of independence by His group works primarily on organic upon me the excitement of spanning providing a structured classroom envi- and polymer chemistry. chemical synthesis and applied research. ronment to facilitate the transition into a Boydston received his BS in 2001 graduate education. In undergraduate ed- and MS in 2002 from the University of Zachary Wickens ucation, students learn what humans al- Assistant Professor of Chemistry Oregon and his Ph.D. in 2007 from the ready know, but in graduate school, they University of Texas. He held a postdoc- learn to create brand-new knowledge. toral position at the California Institute Assistant Professor This distinction requires a significant of Technology. Zachary Wickens ar- shift in thinking and can be extremely rived at UW–Madi- jarring for many students. WHY DID YOU CHOOSE son in June 2018. His Brilliant young scientists come into UW–MADISON? group, which currently our program with pretty different pre- It was clear that the University has a includes postdoctoral vious experience and knowledge. With commitment to excellence. This is true in researcher Nicholas this in mind, the first half of the course all aspects: identity, teaching, research, Cowper and graduate is about equipping each and every stu- outreach, mentorship, and citizenship. student Oliver Wil- dent with the intellectual vocabulary to It’s not surprising to me that so many liams, works to discov- Zachary Wickens articulate scientific questions in organic departments earn high rankings. The stu- er new ways to control chemistry. The second part puts stu- dents, staff, and faculty push hard and reactions and selectively break apart and dents in situations where there might not support one another. I was eager to be- reassemble small molecules. be any known answer. I teach them to come part of that. There were also sever- Wickens received his bachelor’s de- deal with that situation and come up with al examples of interdisciplinary, collab- gree at Macalester College in Saint Paul, the questions to ask to get to an answer. orative research across campus. That’s MN and his Ph.D. at the California Insti- While my class focuses on problem solv- exciting to me because I think some of tute of Technology. He was most recent- ing in a specific area of scientific inqui- the best innovations happen at the inter- ly a National Institutes of Health post- ry, my goal is that they can leverage the face of traditional areas. Additionally, doctoral fellow at Harvard University. thought process they learn in my course students will be better prepared to take to answer other scientific questions. on new challenges when they’ve had to WHY DID YOU CHOOSE An unexpected but happy by-product broaden their thinking during training. UW–MADISON? of the way I’ve structured this course is One of the biggest reasons I decided that many of the students have started WHAT MADE YOU PURSUE to come to UW was to work with the to realize that each of them has differ- SCIENCE AND RESEARCH? caliber of students I knew I’d have the ent strengths and weaknesses, and that I fell in love with organic chemistry as opportunity to interact with, both in the by working together with diverse ap- an undergraduate. Prior to that, I really class and in my lab. The institution has a proaches to the same problem, they can didn’t have any significant familiarity reputation for fostering creative science come to more satisfying answers. I hope with chemistry. My undergraduate expe- and I’ve known many fantastic scien- this has a lasting impact on how students rience at the University of Oregon really tists who received degrees from UW– interact with each other in research envi- changed my life. It helped me uncover Madison. Additionally, I was born and ronments, as well.

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Andrew Buller aged me to take some core science class- and a bachelor’s degree from Columbia Assistant Professor of Chemistry es, too, and once I started, it was hard University. He completed postdoctoral to stop. Sophomore year I took organic fellowships at Yale University and Uni- During the sum- chemistry from a marvelous lecturer, versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. mer of 2017, Andrew Professor Amnon Kohen. I loved learn- Buller joined the ing the logic of the subject and the rest WHAT DO YOU LIKE department as as- was history. BEST ABOUT CHEMISTRY? sistant professor of I love the unusual — the examples chemistry. His group Daniel Weix that, at first, look like exceptions, but Associate Professor of Chemistry & includes graduate upon later review can be explained. I Wayland E. Noland Distinguished students: Jon Ellis, also have a love for demonstrations and Chair in Chemistry Prasanth Kumar, All- large-scale synthesis. win McDonald, and Andrew Buller Lydia Perkins. The Daniel Weix joined WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU group’s research is focused on protein the department during WANTED TO BE A SCIENTIST? engineering, biocatalysis, enzymology, the summer of 2017. As a young child, I never considered and chemical biology. His group includes it as a career — I didn’t know anyone Previously, he worked as a National postdocs: Michael who worked in research and had no con- Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein Gilbert, Kai Kang, cept of what a scientist really was. The NRSA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Fran- and Jiang Wang. It change came in high school. I always cis Arnold research group at California also includes gradu- enjoyed the sciences, but AP chemis- Institute of Technology. He has a doctor- ate students: Michelle try in high school came as a revelation. ate in molecular biophysics from Johns Akana, Daniel Enny, Daniel Weix I was riveted by lectures and creative Hopkins University and bachelor’s de- Kevin Garcia, Key- demonstrations. Because I also enjoyed grees in biochemistry and mathematics wan Johnson, Seoyoung Kim, Victoria biology, I entered college thinking about from the University of Iowa. Longley, Brett Schneider, and Amanda biochemistry, but, again, amazing in- Spiewak. Their research is focused on structors (Nick and Tom) changed my WHY DID YOU CHOOSE cross-electrophile coupling, nickel catal- path. I could not believe how fun organic UW–MADISON? ysis, cross-coupling of organic radicals chemistry was! That very year I started The people! I knew from reading pa- and cooperative multimetallic catalysis. working in Nick’s labs, and never looked pers that the science at UW–Madison Previously, he worked as an associate back. was excellent, but it was meeting the professor of chemistry at the Univer- READ THE FULL STORIES ONLINE AT faculty, staff, and students that really sity of Rochester. He has a Ph.D. from made me excited to start my independent the University of California, Berkeley BADGERCHEMISTNEWS.CHEM.WISC.EDU career in this warm and collaborative at- mosphere. NEW STAFF (2017-2018)

WHAT CAN STUDENTS EXPECT Beatriz E Bolanos Lemire Path Coordinator FROM YOU IN THE CLASS OR LAB? Aubrey J Ellison Assistant Organic Lab Director Good science requires creativity and tenacity. I suspect UW–Madison stu- Hailey L Johnson Financial Specialist dents have the tenacity part down pretty Spring Melody M Knapp Stahl Lab Manager well, but it can be very hard to think cre- Mary Carol Hanson Path Coordinator atively if you’re afraid of being wrong. I Jia Zhou REACH Faculty Assistant hope to foster an open and inviting envi- Blaise J Thompson Instrumentation Technologist ronment in the classroom and in the lab Ross Russell Bishop Laboratory Technician where everyone is welcome to partici- pate, and we can learn from each other. Paul Hooker Senior Lecturer Kathryn L McCullough Student Services Coordinator WHEN DID YOU KNOW YOU Liana B Lamont Gen Chem Instructional Coordinator WANTED TO BE A SCIENTIST? Lindy K Stoll Gen Chem Curriculum Coordinator My sophomore year of college. Maybe Tatum Lyles Flick Communications Specialist that’s a little late for most people, but I Kurtis M Casperson Laboratory Technician had initially enrolled at the University of Iowa with the intention of becoming an Marc E Willadsen Payroll & Benefits Specialist Advanced elementary school teacher. My dad and Dominic M Colosi Laboratory Technician brother, who are both chemists, encour-

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A NEW COMING SOON CHEMISTRY BUILDING

New atrium at University Avenue and Mills Street. By John Moore & Bob McMahon, project leaders and final design carried out by Strang and Ballinger archi- tects with major input from faculty and instructional staff. Earlier this year, the State Building Commission approved It will culminate with completion of the project by Miron an increased budget of $133.1 million for the Chemistry Construction. Building Project, the project went out for bids, and Miron The chancellor of UW–Madison, the president of the UW Construction became general contractor. Groundbreaking Foundation, the dean of L&S, the UW System, in collabora- took place on September 14 and construction is now under- tion with the State of Wisconsin, have all helped develop and way. fund this much-needed project. That is a huge milestone in progress toward improving Generous contributions have been received from friends department facilities. The project includes a new nine-story of the campus and the department, chemistry alumni, and tower; renovation of the basement, first, and second floors of current and emeritus members of the faculty and staff. We the Daniels wing; extensive mechanical upgrades to existing thank everyone for bringing us to the beginning of a new buildings; and important safety upgrades. These additions era! and renovations will impact our department and our stu- The new facilities will enhance our department’s excellent dents, as well as students from numerous other disciplines, program of undergraduate chemistry education, especially including medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, nursing, veterinary our trend toward active/collaborative learning. The learning medicine, biotechnology, engineering, and biology. studio will be in great demand for active-learning classes Getting to this point and going from here to completion and will support the REACH program, a transformational of the project repre- pedagogical initiative sents a huge collabora- described in last year’s tive effort on the part Badger Chemist (avail- of our department, the able online at bad- architectural design gerchemistnews.chem. team, the University, wisc.edu). The infor- and the state. That col- mation commons is a laboration ultimately harbinger of libraries to will span more than a come. decade. Demolition and con- It began in 2010 with struction are coming a Space Assessment at an opportune time. and Feasibility Study During the next five that had input from the years, the UW–Madi- entire department and son will significantly was completed by Aro increase undergraduate Eberle and Ballinger enrollment and 55 per-

architects. It continued Flick Lyles Photo by Tatum cent of UW-Madison through the preliminary Chairs from a lecture hall are the first to go, as construction begins. undergraduate students

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NEW & IMPROVED! A NEW When construction and renovation are complete, we will have these improvements: CHEMISTRY NEW INSTRUCTIONAL LABORATORIES BUILDING each with an adjacent write-up room, for all undergraduate courses—general, organic, analytical, inorganic, and physical chemistry

ADVANCED SYNTHETIC CHEMISTRY LAB

UNDERGRAD SPECIAL PROJECTS LAB Photo by John Moore Photo by John Analytical Chemistry courses are currently using these temporary facilities in STATE-OF-THE-ART LECTURE ROOMS the Medical Sciences Center. to facilitate small-group interactions and with take at least one chemistry course, so our enrollments will continue enhanced lecture-demo and AV capabilities their three-decade upward trend. The construction/renovation project will afford a much-needed 67 percent increase in organic lab space and more than 50 percent increase in general chemistry lab space. FLEXIBLE SEATING There will be more Badger Chemists in the future! classrooms and write-up rooms equipped with We are excited that construction of the new building is underway, flexible seating to support active learning but change is never simple. For the next three years, parts of our instructional program will be in temporary quarters. Analytical labs have already moved to renovated space across University Avenue in MULTIPURPOSE LEARNING STUDIO the Medical Sciences Center (MSC) (see photo) and many chemistry to explore new and better ways to teach and to lectures are being given in rooms 10 minutes away from our build- serve as a poster sessions and reception venue ing. When the analytical floor in the new tower is complete, ana- lytical will move to the tower. Part of the general chemistry program will move to the MSC and part will use what will eventually be the LARGE ATRIUM & OTHER SPACES physical/advanced analytical laboratories in the new tower. By 2022, where students can study and interact informally we expect that everyone will be in new labs, including some renovated general chemistry labs and a new home for the Chemistry Learning Center in the MSC. Between now and then lots of things INFORMATION COMMONS will be in flux! to pioneer the future facilities plan of the university library system Stay up-to-date on the CONSTRUCTION IMPROVED OFFICES & MEETING ROOMS with photos, stories, links to news to support staff, advising, and instruction coverage and more, at Badger Chemist News Online SAFETY FEATURES much-needed improvements in air supply and exhaust systems for research labs in Mathews and Daniels wings, a new fire-alarm system coordinating all four wings of the chemistry complex, and fire sprinklers and fire doors in Mathews and Daniels that improve research-lab READ THE FULL STORIES ONLINE AT safety BADGERCHEMISTNEWS.CHEM.WISC.EDU

chem.wisc.edu 8 BADGER CHEMIST GROUNDBREAKING celebrates NEW CHAPTER FOR DEPARTMENT FACILITIES Department faculty, staff and students kicked off construction September 14 with a groundbreak- ing ceremony, on the 20-year anniversary of the Shain Tower groundbreaking. The new $133 million project will include major renovations, safety features and a new building. Speakers included: Rebecca Blank, UW–Madison chancellor; Karl Scholz, College of Letters & Science dean; Judith Burstyn, Department of Chemistry chair; and Robert McMahon, chemistry professor and building committee The University Avenue side of the Chemistry Complex will be rebuilt to accommodate co-chair. advanced educational techniques. Construction began September 2018. Lead contractor, Miron Construc- tion, was also at the celebration, as were several donors, city and state representatives, UW Foundation representatives and university ad- ministrators.

Many donors helped make this event possible, including (from left): Tashia and John Morgridge, Mike and Mary Sue Shannon, and Ted Kellner (Mary Kellner, not pictured).

Erik Iverson, Mike Knetter, David Smukowski and Karl Scholz enjoy catching up before the groundbreaking ceremony.

Karl Scholz, Chancellor Blank, Ted Kellner, Department of Chemistry staff and faculty and Erik Iverson break ground. attend to celebrate the department’s progress. Photos on this page by Sarah Maughan by Sarah Photos on this page Robert McMahon speaks to attendees of A department hard hat sits atop the first lecture hall to be demolished. the groundbreaking ceremony.

9 University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry BADGER CHEMIST 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 magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, but nearly all of UW–Madison’s capabilities are directed at liquid samples. Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (SSNMR) can analyze ma- terials in solid or semi-solid states, which requires differ- ent technology and instrumentation from conventional NMR that uses liquid. The Department of Chemistry, led by Prof. Ive Hermans and Drs. Charlie Fry and Lingchao Zhu, won highly competitive UW2020 funding to gain state-of- the-art SSNMR capabilities. group) (Hermans Love courtesy of Alyssa Image The new instrumentation will support nanoparticle, Our new capabilities include: catalysis, and other critical materials research areas, paving the way for many important measurements. An Doty 4mm 1H/X/Y DSI MAS probe example is the straightforward identification of surface This unique probe combines relatively large sample volume for coverage of functionalized nanoparticles. Nanoparticle best sensitivity, and the ability to tune to all magnetically active research is one of the fastest-growing areas in the Depart- nuclei. It can acquire both traditional cross-polarization magic- ment of Chemistry and about campus. The determination angle-spinning (CP/MAS) and high-resolution magic-angle (HR- of surface coverage, assessing chemical functionaliza- MAS) spectra, making it unique in being able to work with solid tion, defining interactions with proteins and lipids, and as well as semi-solid, gel and liquids materials. It has a very high- measuring surface dynamics are fundamentally impor- performance magic-angle gradient, for HR-MAS and diffusivity tant to this very competitive research area. measurements on high molecular weight compounds. The new research opened up by this acquisition prom- ise to impact many areas, from medical treatments of Phoenix 1.2mm 1H/X/Y MAS probe cancer and other diseases, to catalysis, electrochemistry, The smaller diameter sample volume enables fast magic-angle spinning. This probe will allow 1H-detected X (e.g., 13C, 31P, 51V, fuel cells and advanced batteries, medical diagnostics, 14 39 109 and more. The SSNMR will also enhance the training of N, K, Ag) spectra to be acquired. This will enhance sensitiv- graduate and post-doctural students in Chemistry. ity enormously, and enables much improved access to resolved 1H information in the solid-state.

Learning a unique skill in GLASS BLOWING CLASS Students and postdocs learn to create glassware from master glassblower. Photos by Tatum Lyles Flick Lyles Photos by Tatum Daniel Hinton (Goldsmith) and Ariel Alperstein (Zanni) and Ying Yang (Jin) and Master Glassblower Tracy Drier Andrew Cavell (Goldsmith) Vanessa Orr (McMahon) Jill Chipman (Berry) and Vanessa Orr (McMahon)

chem.wisc.edu 10 BADGER CHEMIST a creative GROUP RECRUITMENT TRADITION

IVE HERMANS IS THE MOST INTERESTING

By Kaitlyn M. Moore I DON’T ALWAYSMAN IN fessor Silvia Cavagnero, whose

THE WORLD Department Other BUT WHEN I DO, I USE OXYGen group took on the theme of responsibilties DEHYDROGENATE PROPANE … protein folding for this Communications year’s poster.

Although the At the start of each , fall semester, the De- main function is to Yoon Group promote participa- partment of Chemis- Open House try welcomes incom- tion in group meet- ing graduate students ings, these works of art with the responsibility of also represent the labs’ choosing a research group Join us for pizza and learn about ongoing personalities. — and creative posters have researchHERMANS in the Y GROUPoon g rMEETING:oup Monday @12:30PM IN “I think the posters are a Check Today in the union (TITU) board for meeting Room good way for the group to become the quintessential Monday, September 24th at 6 pm, Room 8335 UNION SOUTH present to potential first-year tool for lab group recruiting. STAY Aerobic, My friends. mail: [email protected] recruits,” says William Mc- According to Arrietta Clauss, You can call me on my cellphone e

graduate student services coor- (late night when you need advice) Dermott, a fourth-year graduate student in the Hermans group, dinator, this can be a demanding time for students and faculty, and “they show the kind of person- what better to relieve tension than by Each lab group designs a unique alities we have in the group and the making some chemistry puns? poster to show the lab’s personality to kind of jokes we like to make or how During orientation, faculty members potential first-year recruits. Pictured above, from fun we are.” give 15-minute presentations about their left: Cavagnero Group, designed by Natalie It is important for students to find research. Then students start rotations, Feider, undergraduate student researcher; Yoon a group that matches their work style which is a process that helps them gain Group, designed by Evan Sherbrook, graduate because each group operates different- exposure to different research groups student, and Hermans Group, designed by ly. Once placed in a lab, they typically remain there for the duration of their and faculty. William McDermott, graduate student. “Each rotation is a three-week period time as a graduate student. that puts students in a faculty member’s “Do you remember that scene in to join, current graduate students come the movie 101 Dalmatians toward the lab,” says Clauss. “Some faculty have together to cultivate these witty flyers them endure a little wet chemistry, a lit- beginning where they have the ladies that portray the personality in their lab exploring town with their dogs, and the tle research, and some faculty just have to encourage new students to attend them read articles, but they have a desk dogs look a little bit like the ladies?” their open houses and group meetings. Cavagnero asked. “It’s a little bit like in that lab, and they kind of see how the The posters are lighthearted, creative, lab is run. They get to feel the climate or this in a group. The faculty member’s and full of chemistry puns that relate to personality sometimes extends to the the character of the lab.” each professor’s research. Because there are only three rota- students, who want some affinity, not “Students display a lot of creativity, just in their chemistry interests, but also tions, students must also attend at least and it’s really fun for them,” says pro- two other group meetings or open hous- in the way they view science and in how the es. This process helps them narrow their Joy of Group Meeting they interact with each other.” choices down to three to five labs for With This yearly event is fun for group group joining. members, and it brings the department “As one faculty said ‘finding a group together to enjoy the creativity and hu- Every Tuesday @ 9am should be like a funnel, students start Room 5108 mor that goes into the posters. out broadly, and then, as they begin “I look at them because they’re so to understand more about the research darn funny,” says Clauss, “I think all of and more about the groups, they start us look forward to seeing those posters. narrowing it down,’ so I hope students Graduate student Chris Jernigan, from the They serve a function for the first-year students, but for the rest of the depart- would look at maybe 10 labs,” says Bertram group, designed a poster on painter, ment it is a source of entertainment - Clauss. TV personality and art instructor Bob Ross. As first-year students search for a lab they are funny and uplifting.”

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Life in the lab of a WHAT IT WAS LIKE WORKING LAUREATE WITH FRANCES ARNOLD By Stephanie Blaszczyk Science Communicator & Graduate Student (Tang Group)

UW–Madison students are unknow- ingly influenced by recent 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner, Frances Ar- nold, thanks to four Ph.D. chemists and Arnold group alumni in the Madison area: Jeffrey Endelman (2005), Philip Romero (2012), and Andrew Buller (2017), all professors at UW–Madison,

and Katie Brenner (2009) co-founder of Engelman Photo courtesy of Jeffrey bluDiagnostics, a biomedical company. Ph.D. chemists Katie Brenner, Andrew Buller, Jeffrey Endelman and Philip Romero celebrate their Though Frances Arnold has been a mentor’s success, after learning that Frances Arnold received the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. known commodity in academia for more than 20 years, her 2018 Nobel Prize in ate nature. nacious and [wanting] that from her Chemistry for the directed evolution of While difficult in the moment, students”. Romero, on the other hand, enzymes made her a household name. Brenner is grateful for time and learning attributed her success to being “laser Arnold is the Linus Pauling Professor of that occurred in Arnold’s lab. It taught focused”. Arnold realized early on that Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, her how to be a rigorous scientist, which directed evolution was a superior way and Biochemistry at the California Insti- has carried over to her career in R&D. to engineer proteins and stuck with this tute of Technology. When I asked what type of lab envi- approach. The local lab alumni largely echo the ronment she tried to provide for her stu- The alumni also portrayed her as same sentiments when describing life in dents, Arnold responded, “Honestly, the unhampered by setbacks, focused but the lab of a (now) Nobel Laureate. best lab environment is one where great amenable to intellectual curiosity, and Like troops under the guidance of lab members run the show and help each a master communicator of science. She a general from afar, they worked dili- other do their best work.” expected research excellence and that gently and independently as Arnold was All four alumni undoubtedly per- her students worked as tirelessly as she largely absent from day-to-day interac- formed great work in Arnold’s lab, as did, even in the midst of setbacks. tions. evidenced by their current success in These traits manifested in the alumni, “Graduate school is very challeng- academia and industry, and they credit and they attribute their time in the Ar- ing,” Brenner said. “Frances expects Arnold for providing a research envi- nold lab for teaching them to do “good her students to learn quickly to meet ex- ronment where intellectual curiosity science,” to make their scientific pre- tremely high standards. Long-term, you could run rampant. sentations aesthetically appealing, and see that her high expectations prepared “Arnold had an ability to inspire peo- to tell the most effective story. As the you really well for your next steps: her ple and recruit great scientists,” Endel- alumni transitioned to their own inde- training humbled you, and then built man said. “She created an environment pendent careers, they continue to trans- you back up. It was like science boot where you felt empowered to pursue in- mit the lessons learned in the lab of a camp.” teresting questions.” laureate to their students and mentees Students relied on fellow lab mates to She was a candid advisor who did not throughout campus and the Madison navigate this uncomfortable time, and sugarcoat her opinions, but the students area. they often bonded over these shared ex- who graduated from her ranks have Buller once asked Arnold how she periences. What many students failed to thrived, almost like a microscale sur- viewed academic competition, he re- realize, however, was that Arnold was vival of the fittest atmosphere, which is members her saying, “I don’t worry more observant than they thought. In appropriate considering her career de- about competition. I just do it better.” one instance, Arnold called Brenner to votion to evolution. With her extensive list of accolades, her office sensing something was amiss. When asked why Arnold’s research now including a Nobel Prize, Arnold is It was at this moment that Brenner saw a program thrived, Buller, in part, at- clearly doing many things exceptionally glimpse of Arnold’s kind, compassion- tributed it to Arnold being “ utterly te- well. chem.wisc.edu 12 BADGER CHEMIST 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, Elizabeth Moore, Laura Linde and several un- dergraduate student workers. We gratefully acknowledge the American Chemical Society Wisconsin Section, which sup- ports science activities on Earth Day and National Chemistry Week, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dane County (B&GC), and the Millipore-Sigma Corporation, which provides scholar- ships for ChemCamps. The major ICE activities are SCIENCountErs, a national program headed by UW–Madison that collaborates with Boys & Girls clubs to reach underrepresented groups (http:// ice.chem.wisc.edu/outreach/sciencounters); ChemCamps, Earth Day 2017 whose unique program of hands-on science attracts middle- school children from as far away as either coast (http://ice. chem.wisc.edu/camps); distribution of science kits (http:// icestore.chem.wisc.edu/); Research Experiences for Under- graduates programs (http://ice.chem.wisc.edu/education/ REU); and support of SPICE (http://ice.chem.wisc.edu/out- reach/spice), a student group doing science outreach. Photos from several programs are included and this year we concen- trate our report to our many Badger Chemist friends on the

REU program. for Chemical Education courtesy of Institute Images Earth Week 2018 Research Experience for Undergraduates participated in the Graduate School’s Summer Research Op- portunities Program, a consortium of 15 summer research In 2017, ICE hosted four Research Experience for Under- programs on the UW–Madison campus with common goal graduates (REU) programs and continued to organize the re- of increasing diversity of the graduate student pool. search exchange program with the University of Science and Together the programs attracted 48 students from the Technology of China (USTC). Andrew Greenberg continued United States, including Puerto Rico, and China to spend 10 to serve as director of the Materials Research Science and weeks working on individual research projects in labs on the Engineering Center-supported Research Experience for Un- UW–Madison campus, 23 of them in the chemistry depart- dergraduates in Nanotechnology program, the Research Ex- ment. Faculty included John Berry, Tim Bertram, Thomas perience for Undergraduates in Chemistry and Chemical and Brunold, Fleming Crim, Sam Gellman, Ive Hermans, Padma Biological Engineering, and the Research Experience for Gopalan, Bob Hamers, Song Jin, Clark Landis, Gil Nathan- Undergraduates in the Chemistry of Materials for Renew- son, Joel Pedersen, Shannon Stahl, and Tehshik Yoon. able Energy. Joining the ICE cohort for summer 2017 were Activities for the summer include a weekly lunch seminar two students from Bob series including talks by chemistry faculty, staff, and stu- Hamers’s Center for Sus- dents: Randy Goldsmith, Padma Gopalan, Andrew Green- tainable Nanotechnology, berg, Ive Hermans, Song Jin, Bob McMahon, John Moore, two students from Gil and Gil Nathanson. Additional activities included an im- Nathanson and Tim Ber- prov night, and special seminar on applying and surviving tram’s Center for Aerosol in graduate school hosted by graduate students. The summer Impacts on Climate and culminated with a department wide poster session where stu- the Environment, and dents presented the results from their summer research. one student from John The REU programs are funded through summer 2019 from Location of SCIENCountErs Berry’s Center for Selec- a generous grant from the National Science Foundation. If centers Nationwide tive C-H Functionaliza- you know of students who would benefit from participating tion. The REU programs in REU, please encourage them to apply.

13 University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry BADGER CHEMIST Outreach : Fostering Community Appreciation of Science By Bassam Z. Shakhashiri I am now in my 49th year as a Professor of Chemistry and UW–Madison chemistry professor and William T. Evjue Distinguished Chair continue to expand successful pub- for the Wisconsin Idea lic engagement to reach audiences in person, on the radio, in print, and via Today our biggest challenge is to help television and social media. In the past sustain Earth and its people in the face two years, I and my group have given of population growth, finite resources, more than 80 scientific presentations in malnutrition, spreading disease, deadly public venues ranging from schools to violence, war, climate change, and the community centers to farmers markets denial of basic human rights, especially to festivals to service organizations to the right to benefit from scientific and professional society meetings. Many technological progress. of these hands-on/minds-on interactive goal is to foster collaboration between Science and society have what is activities were bolstered by gifts from various communities and UW–Madi- essentially a social contract that donors and in particular, a single donor son to better serve mutual needs. Lis- enables great intellectual achieve- whose gift made it possible to secure, tening to youth and adults in schools ments but comes with mutual ex- equip, and help staff the SCIENCE IS and community settings and improving pectations of benefiting the human FUN truck. the quality of education in both urban condition and protecting our and rural settings require delib- planet. Our excellence in re- Public sentiment is everything. erate and deep involvement by search and our commitment With public sentiment, nothing can all stakeholders. to high quality classroom Providing opportunities to teaching must be accompa- fail; without it, nothing can succeed. enhance the quality of learning nied by sincere convictions “ Abraham Lincoln and nurturing personal growth to successfully connect with of students is crucial to ful- the public at large on all matters that This is an integrated and compre- filling human potential. Professional relate to science and technology. hensive approach aimed at reaching development of teachers and inclusion of” families in meaningful experiences Purposeful communication of the criti- audiences in cities and towns through- cal role of science and technology in out Wisconsin and neighboring states. greatly impact the creation of a sustain- society can help alter attitudes of the In keeping with the best traditions of able environment for the betterment of general public and can also foster col- the Wisconsin Idea, one major goal is science and society. We aim to contrib- laboration among people across geo- to improve the connectivity between ute to defining and securing the mean- graphic boundaries to work together to UW–Madison and the citizens of Wis- ing of the Wisconsin Idea for the 21st solve global grand challenges. consin and neighboring states. Another Century. Images courtesy of Gery Essenmacher Images WI State Senator Kathleen Vinehout joins Bassam for a demonstration during a Science is Fun presentation in Alma, Wisconsin, September 14, 2018.

chem.wisc.edu 14 BADGER CHEMIST Outreach : Young Scientists and Artists Compete to Send Crystals to Space

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 use to conduct a crystallization experiment in

space? Answers to these questions are Flick Lyles Photo by Tatum sought by the winners of the WI state- Winners of the 2018 Crystal Growing Competition received prizes and accolades at the wide Crystal Growing Contest (WIC- awards ceremony in May. GC). home-schooled youths ages 11–18, and overview of the Contest and then Dr. Last year’s winners collaborated science teachers from Grantsburg to Ilia Guzei awarded the prizes. All in at- with the Molecular Structure Labora- Green Bay to Racine to Benton, took tendance received gorgeous books on tory and scientists from the Center for part in the free contest. The competi- minerals donated by the UW–Madi- the Advancement of Science in Space tion offered an introduction to solu- son Geology Department. The win- (CASIS) to design crystal-growing ex- tion chemistry, laboratory work, team ners were recognized with certificates, periments, conducted aboard the Inter- partnership, a prospect to succeed at a books, T-shirts, and cash prizes. national Space Station in March 2018. new endeavor, to fail and learn, and an Organization of the Contest is sup- The 2018 winners will have the same opportunity to visit the UW–Madison ported by numerous members of the opportunity in 2019. To qualify for this campus and a flagship Chemistry De- chemistry department, whereas indus- annual honor, three middle and three partment. trial and nonprofit sponsors provide high school students won top prizes in At the May award ceremony, the financial support to this important out- the WICGC by growing high-quality chemistry department chair, Prof. Ju- reach activity. crystals and creating crystal-inspired dith N. Burstyn, communicated the The WI Crystal Growing Contest artworks. significant role of the department on takes place every year March–May. All WICGC has been organized since campus; Prof. John Moore and Luke details are at http://wicgc.chem.wisc. 2014 by the departmental Molecular Oxtoby gave a lecture with chemical edu. Structure Laboratory to promote the demonstrations; guest speaker from Wisconsin Idea, introduce participants CASIS, Dr. Marc Giulianotti described READ MORE AND to the scientific method, and inspire the International Space Station and MEET THE WINNERS ONLINE AT the next generation of young scien- its function in the scientific commu- BADGERCHEMISTNEWS.CHEM.WISC.EDU tists. Middle and high school students, nity; Dr. Paula Piccoli (PPD) gave an Image courtesy of Ilia Guzei courtesy of Ilia Image John Moore demonstrates diffraction at the 2017 WI State-Wide Crystal Growing Contest awards ceremony.

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international “Bobfests” & tributes Young Scientists and Artists Compete to Send Crystals to Space ROBERT WEST ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 90TH BIRTHDAY By Anthony Millevolte & Matthias Driess nadian Chemistry Conference in Ed- was published in the Journal of Phos- monton, Alberta, and continued in phorus, Sulfur, Silicon, and the Related Colleagues and friends of Emeritus September at the Silicon Symposium Elements – the piece, and its associated Professor Robert C. West joined to cel- in Prague and then at the 9th European artwork, can be accessed here: ebrate Bob’s 90th birthday during spe- Silicon Days in Saarbrücken (Germa- cial conference sessions in 2018. ny). A special tribute to Bob, including www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/ It began in May with the 101st Ca- a visual panorama of his life and icons, 10.1080/10426507.2018.1511558 Photos contributed by Matthias Driess Photos contributed by Matthias Robert West with colleagues in Prague. Pictured (from left): J. Michl, K. Baines, A. Sekiguchi, H. Schmidbaur, Y. Apeloig, R. Tacke, R. West, J. Kaleta, M. Driess, P. Young, M. Karni, K. Tamao, R. Weidner

celebrates 85 years with busy travel schedule HYUK YU TEACHING & CONSULTING IN KOREA AND CHINA Having chosen right parents, with ro- bust 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 goes to Korea semi-annually for industrial consulting for a couple of companies within the LG Corporation, and a petrochemical company; the con- Photos courtesy of Hyuk Yu sultancy with the LG Hyuk with the staff of IAS, Shenzhen Shenzhen University’s the central admin has been continuous University, on an outing to a fortress of building, with a globe and pond in the for the past 20 years. 1st Opium War, Nov 2017. foreground and science hall in the background. In addition, he has been to Shenzhen, 1973), Dean of Institute for Advanced Pohang University of Science of Tech- China, to teach an Study (IAS), Shenzhen University. IAS nology in Korea to teach a short course equivalent of our is a special college within the univer- on polymer physics for 3 weeks. It was CHEM 664 for 9 sity, set up as a center of excellence to at the invitation of Prof. Taihyun Chang weeks, at the invita- serve as the bellwether of quality up- (Ph.D., 1983), who just came off serv- tion of Prof. Charles grading in teaching and research. ing as the provost of the university. Hyuk Yu C. Han (Ph.D., In January of 2017, he also went to

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BADGER CHEMISTS COLLABORATION, RESEARCH, stay busy with INNOVATION, TRAVEL & MORE

NSF Center for Sustainable Nanotechnology meeting at the University of Illinois. (Fall 2017) • Michelle Buchanan (Ph.D. 1978) AAAS. Her research centers around tober: one to staffers, federal pro- was named Deputy for Science water purification and desalination. gram managers, and others at the and Technology at the Department • Professor Mark Ediger presented US House of Representatives and of Energy’s Oak Ridge National keynote lectures at international a second for similar groups at the Laboratory (ORNL) in October glass conferences in Poland US Senate. Eight faculty entrepre- 2017. Buchanan is a fellow of the and Denmark this year, as well neurs presented. The briefings were American Chemical Society and as invited talks at two Gordon organized by the Science Coali- the American Association for the Research Conferences (Liquids tion, a non-profit sponsored by UW Advancement of Science. and Dynamics at Surfaces) and and other major research universi- • Tess Carlson, an undergraduate the MRS, APS, and both fall and ties, to encourage federal support in the Cavagnero lab, was the first spring ACS meetings. He also of basic research to stimulate the author of a cover article in the presented three lectures at the economy. They were sponsored by Journal of Chemical Education on Boulder Physics Summer School US Rep. Bill Foster and US Sen. on Disordered Solids; you can find Jerry Moran and US Sen. Christo- the development of a new method these online if you want a four-hour pher Coons, co-chairs of the Senate for the naked-eye detection of introduction to supercooled liquid Competitiveness Caucus, who also protein folding and unfolding via and glasses! Mark was part of the presented. Hamers is co-founder, the bright-blue fluorescence of a team that successfully renewed with emeritus professor Bob West, noncovalently-bound reporter dye. UW–Madison’s NSF-funded and chief science officer of Silatro- • In June 2017, Silvia Cavagnero Materials Research Science and nix, Inc., which commercializes ad- gave an invited lecture on the Engineering Center. The last year vanced electrolytes for lithium-ion mechanism of protein folding in brought some industrial interest batteries. Silatronix was founded in the cell at the Nobel Symposium in the Ediger group glass work, 2007 and employs approximately on “Protein Folding from with Mark making presentations 20 people in the US and in Japan. at Corning and the IBM Almaden Molecular Mechanisms to Impact Research Lab. Mark also published on Cells” (Sånga Säby, Sweden). a major review of the group’s work The Symposium was part of a on highly stable glasses in the series of events organized by the Journal of Chemical Physics. Alfred Nobel Foundation (https:// • Randall Goldsmith’s work was www.nobelprize.org/nobel_ featured in September 2018 by the organizations/nobelfoundation/ Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foun- symposia/complete-list.html). dation. The video UW Madison: • Amanda Corcos, who received Making Molecular Movies with her Ph.D. with the Berry Group Single-Molecule Spectroscopy and is now a postdoctoral fellow (2018) is available on here: https:// Bob Hamers explains to US youtu.be/keKlPMNBCiE at Northwestern University, was Representative Bill Foster how basic • Bob Hamers participated in two recently named a Science and research at UW lead to the founding Technology Policy Fellow at briefings on Capitol Hill in Oc- and growth of Silatronix

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• Hamers continues as director of the NSF Center for Sustainable Nano- technology (CSN), which involves 15 faculty at 12 universities and at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. CSN supports the research of approximately 45 Ph.D. students. CSN researchers investigate the fundamental chemical mechanisms associated with nanomaterial-bio- logical interactions of relevance to understanding and predicting the potential environmental impact of nanomaterials. Much of the cen- ter’s effort has focused on complex metal oxides used in energy stor- age (e.g., lithium ion batteries). A new effort this year has been the in- tentional use of nanomaterials for sustainable agriculture. In initial studies, grad student Jaya Borgatta (Hamers) led an effort demonstrat- ing that application of a dispersion of CuO nanoparticles suppressed Izzy Foreman-Ortiz, Bob Hamers and Brandon Taitt attended the National Organization for the disease and enhanced growth of Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) conference watermelon plants. Current disease to share information on the UW–Madison Department of Chemistry’s graduate program. suppression typically involves use emission properties by incorporat- of CuSO solutions, but much of 4 ing silver nanoparticles into the the Cu is washed deep into the soil diamond matrix. That work led to a and is not effective. Jaya showed submitted patent application and a that applying CuO nanoparticles just-published paper. Bob Hamers instead of CuSO solution can lead 4 gave an invited talk on this work to similar disease suppression us- at the International Conference on ing much less total copper, thereby Diamond and Carbon Materials in improving the efficiency of -mate Dubrovnik, Croatia in September rial application and reducing the 2018. total amount of Cu that must be applied. • Cavagnero group alumnus Bryan Mounce has become an Assistant • The Hamers group continues as Senior scientist Michael Shortreed challenged Professor at the Medical School of one of the world’s leading groups his students to connect with and meet profes- investigating the applications of Loyola University (Department of sors at a US HUPO proteomics meeting. As diamond in chemistry. Much of Microbiology and Immunology), proof of their accomplishment, they captured this work utilizes the extraordinary Chicago, IL. this wonderful selfie. It includes a real “who’s who” chemical stability of diamond and • Silatronix, the start-up company uses it as a catalytic or photocata- Bob Hamers and Bob West co- in proteomics. Across the front (Zach Rolfs, An- lytic reactions. Of particular inter- founded, has had several major thony Cesnik, Leah Schaffer and Rachel Miller). est has been the use of diamond as a breakthroughs in the last year, in PIs across the back Ben Garcia (UPenn), Ileana way to directly emit electrons into understanding the unique chemis- Cristea (Princeton), Olga Vitek (Northeastern), water, producing solvated elec- try of Silatronix’s first commercial Alexey Nesvizhkii (UMich) and Hanno Steen trons. The resulting solvated elec- product, an organosilicon com- (Boston Children’s Hospital). trons induce novel chemistry such pound known as OS3. The addition as the reduction of nitrogen to am- of OS3 to the industry-standard mance of complete lithium ion bat- teries, allowing operation at higher monia and the reduction of CO2 to lithium-ion battery electrolytes CO. This year grad student Shuo significantly improves the electro- temperature and higher voltage Li led an effort demonstrating how chemical and thermal stability of – both critical to applications such to alter the color of diamond films the electrolyte and leads to remark- as electric vehicle technologies. At and further enhance the electron able improvements in the perfor- UW, Ph.D. student Sarah Guillot

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used the Hamers group’s analytical tools and the department’s NMR facilities to understand the detailed chemical breakdown pathways of OS3, to understand the mecha- nisms underlying these remarkable improvements. Sarah demonstrated how OS3 interrupts an autocatalyt- ic decomposition process that typi- cally leads to battery failure, and showed that, by interrupting that pathway, OS3 improves stability of the battery electrolyte. • Nick Hill and Brian Esselman organized and hosted a one-day conference in March for faculty of UW-system two-year colleges; the Image courtesy of Sarah Guillot courtesy of Sarah Image conference focused on innovative teaching and assessment in the un- On August 31st about 30 members of the chemistry department ran in the 3rd annual dergrad organic chemistry labora- “Degree Dash” put on by the UW-Madison Graduate School. The runners completed tory. either 5.81 miles in the Doctoral Derby or 1.82 miles in the Master’s Mile (distances deter- • 2018 was an important year for mined by average time to degree at UW-Madison) to earn their Degree Dash Diplomas! John and Carol Wright. They were married on August 17, 1968 Sunil Mho, and her husband then in Lausanne, Switzerland during and celebrated their 50th anniversa- took them on an extended tour of the 2017-2018 academic year, ry this year on that date, with a spe- Korea. Sunil is getting ready to re- studying in the research group of cial celebration at the North House tire next year after a distinguished Prof. Anders Hagfeldt at EPFL. restaurant in Avon, Connecticut, career at Ajou University, where Prof. Hagfeldt is a world leader where they had their wedding re- she was recognized as one of the in new types of solar cells and the hearsal dinner. Half of the original top woman scientists in Korea. 100 wedding attendees joined in an • The Wright group reached a mile- material science that goes along evening of dancing, eating, and cel- stone this year by demonstrating with them. Graduate student Jessica ebrating, highlighted by David and the creation of a quantum mechani- Flach, from the Zanni group, is also Liva Wright demonstrating why cal Schrodinger Cat state consist- spending the year in Lausanne. After they won the Blackpool Ballroom ing of two vibrational and one elec- just two months of training, she can Dance competition in 2014. John tronic state in cobalamin (vitamin now routinely make 19% efficient and Carol also visited Seoul, Korea B12). The cat state occurs when the perovskite solar cells. There are for the International Conference on molecule is simultaneously present only a dozen research groups in the Coherent Multidimensional Spec- in all three states. It emits bright world that can achieve that high of troscopy, where John received the light beams during the time of its an efficiency. The UW sabbatical conference’s Lifetime Achieve- brief existence. It is formed by si- ment Award. John’s ninth student, multaneously exciting the three program is a terrific mechanism for states with separate light pulses faculty to learn new science and that are shorter than the time for the bring cutting-edge topics back to molecular wave functions to forget Madison, which is what Zanni and their quantum mechanical phase. Flach will do next summer when Cat state spectroscopy has the ca- they return. Sabbaticals are also a pability to resolve individual states lot of work because the obligations within congested vibrational and at Madison do not stop – papers electronic spectra and has the po- need to be written, research and tential for wide-spread use in fields grants renewed. But it is interesting where spectroscopy is an important tool. and fun to live abroad, learning Sunil Mho with John and Carol Wright • Prof. Martin Zanni is on sabbatical how science is practiced differently

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(lots of coffee involved) and how polymers, molecular clusters). a leader in teaching, research, and the Suisse live differently (very TCI established the Joseph O. public service at the university and quietly). And, it is exciting that Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical in the broader research community. next summer, Jessi will teach the Chemistry in 1991 in response to The award commemorates his rest of the group her new skills a generous bequest from Professor role as a pioneering member of and Zanni will write proposals to Joseph O. Hirschfelder (1911- the theoretical chemistry field, fund this new line of research at 90) and his widow, Dr. Elizabeth beginning in the late 1930s. Prof. Madison. S. Hirschfelder. Over the course Rossky visited the UW–Madison • Graduate student in the Hermans of his 40-year career, Professor Department of Chemistry in group, Sara Specht, placed first Hirschfelder established himself as October to deliver public lectures. in the 2017 3-Minute Thesis competition, put on by Graduate Women in Science. The purpose Another successful was to communicate the general ideas of one’s PhD research to a general STEM audience. Three GSFLC Snout-Out other chemistry students competed: Alyssa Love (Hermans group), Camille Bishop (Ediger group), and Morgan Rea (Goldsmith group). • The UW–Madison Theoretical Chemistry Institute (TCI) awarded the 2018-19 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry to Professor Peter Rossky, dean of the Wiess School of Natural Sciences at Rice University. He is also the Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Professor of Chemistry and professor of chemical and biomolecular By Rebeca L. Fernandez engineering. Rossky is a member of Graduate Student, Brunold Group the National Academy of Sciences, a member of the American The Graduate Student-Faulty Liaison Committee (GSFLC) celebrated Academy of Arts and Sciences, a its 35th annual Snout-Out departmental picnic and softball tournament fellow of the American Association on September 25, 2018. Named after the original tradition of cooking a for the Advancement of Science pig underground, the Snout-Out brought together 15 faculty members, and a Fellow of the American 150 graduate students and nine postdocs, as well as numerous friends and Physical Society. Prof. Rossky is family. Xiao Dong, a third year in the Yoon Group and new member of the a theoretical chemist who finds GSFLC, championed the grill, a thankless task on this sunny day with no nothing more engaging then to try cloud in sight. to understand the molecular-level The softball tournament began with the Materials vs. Physical paths processes that underlie an important facing off. Materials advanced to play the Inorganic/ChemBio team, who experimental observation whose won the second game, then played the Organic team. The final two games origin is controversial or puzzling. put Inorganic/ChemBio in first place, Materials in second, Physical in third, His work lies almost entirely and Organic in fourth place. The Inorganic/ChemBio team will have one within amorphous condensed year of bragging rights and a poster of this winning team will be displayed phase materials (liquids, in the Department of Chemistry’s Shain tower.

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• Prof. John F. Berry — AAAS fellow; 2017 Romnes Faculty Fellowship • Prof. Helen E. Blackwell — GSFLC Mentor Award • Michael Bradley — 2018 L&S University Staff Award • Prof. Thomas Brunold — Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award • Prof. Andrew Buller’s lab — Morgridge Metabolism Fellowship • Prof. Silvia Cavagnero — 2017 Award for Mentoring Undergraduates in Research, Scholarly & Creative Activities from the Office of the Provost; University Housing Honored Instructor Award • Prof. Joshua Coon — Discovery in Proteomic Sciences Award from the Human Proteome Organization, Sponsored by the Journal of Proteomics • Emeritus Prof. Fleming Crim — Appointed NSF Chief Operating Officer • Tracy Drier — 2017 Local Section Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award from the Wisconsin Section of ACS • Dr. Brian Esselman — 2017 Harvey Spangler Award for Technology En- hanced Instruction from the College of Engineering; 2017 Taylor Excellence in Teaching Award • Prof. Etienne Garand — 2018 Journal of Physical Chemistry and ACS Physical Chemistry Division Lectureship Award • Prof. Ying Ge — Romnes Faculty Fellowship Department of Chemistry chair Judith Burstyn presents professor • Prof. Randy Goldsmith — 2017 Journal of Physical Chemistry C’ Lec- Shannon Stahl with a plaque for receiving the prestigious Steenbock tureship Award; 2017 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award; James W. Professorship. Taylor Teaching Award • Prof. Ive Hermans — Romnes Faculty Fellowship; Ipatieff Prize; 2017 • Prof. Tehshik P. Yoon — 2018 Organic Letters Outstanding Publication of Vilas Mid-Career Investigator Award the Year Award Lectureship, Sponsored by Organic Letters and the ACS Divi- • Matt Haveman — Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award sion of Organic Chemistry; Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the ACS; • Lida Khalafi — Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Award; James W. Taylor Teaching • Dr. Nick Hill — Academic Staff Mid-Career Award (L&S); 2017 Taylor Award Excellence in Teaching Award • Prof. Marty Zanni — 2017 Craver Award International Prize from the • Prof. Clark Landis — Selected to Present the 2017 Paolo Chini Memorial Coblentz Society Lecture at the National Meeting of the Italian Chemical Society (SCI) • Manos Mavrakakis — Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Outstanding Research GRADUATE STUDENTS in the Advancement of Catalysis • James Maynard — Academic Staff Excellence Award in Recognition of Ariel Alperstein (Zanni) Roger J. Carlson Graduate Award Leadership, Public Service, Research, Teaching and Overall Excellence; 2018 Michael Aristov (Berry) 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service to the University Arya Baghkhanian Michael Kellogg Outstanding • Paul McGuire — Departmental Academic Staff Excellence Award Chemistry TA Award • Robert McMahon — Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award Naomi Biok (Gellman) 2017 WARF Discovery Challenge Prize, • Catherine Middlecamp — George C. Pimentel Award; 2017 Emil Steiger Michael Kellogg Outstanding Teaching Award Chemistry TA Award • Steven Myers — 2018 L&S University Staff Award Stephanie Blaszczyk (Tang) 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship • Emeritus Prof. Dan Rich — 2017 Meienhofer Award from the Boulder Anna Brezny (Landis) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Peptide Society Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll • Prof. Jennifer Schomaker — 2018 Vilas Faculty Mid-Career Investigator Amanda Buchberger (Li) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Award; UW2020 Award; Co-Principal Investigator on All-Optical Electro- Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll physiology-Electrophysiology without Electrodes; Named to Editorial Board Michael Kellogg Outstanding of Organic Reactions; Became Chair of the Organizing Committee for the Chemistry TA Award 2019 U.S. Kavli Frontiers in Science Symposium Qinjingwen Cao (Li) Peer Award • Prof. JR Schmidt — 2017 Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award Allison C. Cardiel (Choi) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to • Prof. Bassam Shakhashiri — 2018 Grady-Stack Award for Interpreting Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll Chemistry for the Public Anthony Cesnik (Smith) Gary Parr Memorial Award • Dr. Michael Shortreed — 2018 Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Steven Chapman (Yoon) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Research Chemistry TA Award • Prof. Edwin L. Sibert — Named 2017 Theoretical Chemistry Institute Bingming Chen (Li) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Director; Named ACS fellow Non-Scientists 2017 Honor Roll • Prof. Shannon Stahl — Steenbock Professorship in Chemical Sciences; Josh Corbin (Schomaker) Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship Elected to a Four-Year Term on the Graduate Faculty Executive Committee, Matthew Dalphin (Cavagnero) PPG Industries Mentoring Award, Which Oversees Graduate Education for the University Stephen D. Morton Mentorship Award - Mentor, • Prof. Jim Weisshaar — Appointed to a WARF Professorship - Richard J. Educational Committee Travel Award to 2018 Burke Professor of Chemistry Biophysical Society Meeting in San Francisco

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Silvia Cavagnero, K. V. Reddy, Sonisilpa Mohapatra, Judith Burstyn and James C. Weisshaar, attended the 2018 Student Awards Ceremony.

Lianna Dang (Jin) Michael W. McCoy Memorial Scholarship Kellen DeLaney (Li) NIH NRSA F31 Predoctoral Fellowship COOL SCIENCE IMAGE CONTEST Matthew R. Dent (Burstyn) GSFLC Mentor Award Casey Excellence in Research Award (Inorganic) winners from chemistry Stephanie Dillon (Brunold) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Matt Dorris (Bolling) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Geoffrey Eddinger (Gellman) Robert C. Doban Mentorship Award Moira Esson (Mecozzi) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Alex Foote (Goldsmith) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Nels Gerstner (Schomaker) PPG Industries Mentoring Award Casey Excellence in Research Award (Organic) Shannon Goes (Stahl) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Brian Graham (Raines) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Christopher Gravatt (Yoon) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Kubota Shearer Jiehao Guan Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Shi Liu (Gellman) Hirschmann-Rich Fellowship (Bio-organic), Ling Hao (Li) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Casey Excellence in Research Award (Chem Bio) Non-Scientists 2017 Honor Roll Alyssa M. Love (Hermans) Morton Research Award - Graduate Mentor, Erik Horak (Goldsmith) Hartl Excellence in Research Award (Physical) GSFLC Mentor Award Minxue Huang (Schomaker) 2017 Eastman Summer Research Award Lydia H. Manger (Goldsmith) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Tesia Janicki (Schmidt) 2018 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Chemistry TA Award Michael R. Johnson Michael Kellogg Outstanding WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Chemistry TA Award Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll Bradley Jones (Landis) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Andrew M. Maza (Landis) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Non-Scientists 2017 Honor Roll Chemistry TA Award Minsoo Ju (Schomaker) Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship, William McDermott (Hermans) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Attended Division of Organic Chemistry Honorable Mention Graduate Research Symposium Sonisilpa Mohapatra (Weisshaar) K.V. & Sara Reddy Award (Physical Chemistry), Jesse Kidd (Yoon) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Samantha Knott (Ge) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll Samuel M. Kougias (McMahon) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Darien Morrow (Wright) Roger J. Carlson Graduate Award, Chemistry TA Award 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Caitlin Kozack (Stahl) Robert C. Doban Mentorship Award Honorable Mention Stephen Kubota (Choi) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Marshall Padilla (Mecozzi) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll, Chemistry TA Award Cool Science Image Contest winner Paige Piszel (Stahl) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Elizabeth Laudadio (Hamers) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Yue Qiu (Ediger) Hartl Excellence in Research Award (Materials), Shuo Li (Hamers) PPG Corporation Summer Fellowship GSFLC Poster Award, Shane Lies (Yoon) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Midwest Organic Solid State Conference Chemistry TA Award Student Presentation Award

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Leslie Rank (Gellman) Baxter’s Young Investigator Award Morgan Rea (Goldsmith) 3M Fellowship (2017-2020), 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Joshua Ricci (Ediger) John and Beverly Schrag Analytical Chemistry Outstanding Peer Award Nicholas Riley (Coon) Hartl Excellence in Research Award (Analytical) Cara Schwarz (McMahon) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Melinda Shearer (Hamers/Jin) John and Beverly Schrag Analytical Chemistry Outstanding Peer Award, 2018 Leah Cohodas Berk Award, WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll, Cool Science Image Contest winner Evan Sherbrook (Yoon) Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship Kazimer Lennon Skubi (Yoon) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Non-Scientists 2017 Honor Roll Sarah Specht (Hermans) Robert C. Doban Mentorship Award Matthew Stolt (Jin) John and Beverly Schrag Analytical Chemistry Outstanding Peer Award Matthew Styles (Blackwell) 2017 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Blaise Thompson (Wright) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Department of Chemistry winners of the 2018 Graduate Research Fel- Chemistry TA Award lowship from the National Science Foundation (NSF) include, from left: Aristidis Vasilopoulos (Stahl) Goering Organic Chemistry Fellowship, Tesia Janicki; Michael Aristov, Stephanie Blaszczyk, Lucas Oxtoby, and Sam C. Slifkin Award in Chemistry Gabriela Negrete-Garcia. Emily Wilkerson (Coon) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Non-Scientists 2017 Honor Roll Benjamin Eliason (Schomaker) Hodge Scholarship Zhilin Yang (Weisshaar) WISL Communicating Ph.D. Research to Claire Evensen Ackerman Scholarship Non-Scientists 2018 Honor Roll Martha Gunhild Week Scholarship Vincent Yannello (Fredrickson) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Ben Feingold (Zanni) Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (local ACS) Chemistry TA Award Jaclyn Felicijan Moore Award for Excellence in Chemistry 108 Mehmet Yilmaz Michael Kellogg Outstanding Yiting (Cloris) Feng Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award Chemistry TA Award Collin Goebel Noland Chemistry Research Scholarship Maria Zdanovskaia Michael Kellogg Outstanding Weiyang Guan (Schomaker) Firminhac Chemistry Scholarship, Chemistry TA Award Summer Research Support scholarship Yongqian Kelly Zhang (Hamers) Paul J. Bender Memorial Award Zachary Heim ACS Undergraduate Award (Physical Chemistry) Yuzhou Zhao (Jin) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Undergraduate Poster winner with Chemistry TA Award Mentors: Amberger/Esselman/Woods/McMahon Katie Ziebarth (Landis) Michael Kellogg Outstanding Mengzhou Hu 2017 Undergraduate Poster winner with Chemistry TA Award, Mentors: Kellen/DeLaney/Li Paul Bender Memorial Award, Richard Jodts ACS Undergrad Award (Inorganic Chemistry) 2018 Leah Cahodas Berk Award Kadina Johnston Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship, Excellence in Physical Chemistry (local ACS) UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Rezwana Karim Undergraduate Poster winner with Mentors: Cheng/Record Dhruva Ajit Nair Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship Hawa Keita Undergraduate Poster winner with Joshua Ber Undergrad Support in Chemistry Scholarship Mentors: Daub/Yoon Karishma Bhawnani Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship Yeon Jung Kim Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship, Michael Bieser Undergrad Support in Chemistry Scholarship Margaret McLean Bender Scholarship Sylvia Bohling George J. and Arleen D. Ziarnik Scholarship Xiaoxuan Lin Excellence in Organic Chemistry (local ACS) Jacob Buboltz George J. and Arleen D. Ziarnik Scholarship Emily Loehr Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship Tess Carlson (Cavagnero) Undergraduate Poster Award, Ryan Lopez Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award UW–Madison Sophomore Research Fellowship, Jack McCann Richard Fischer Scholarship Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship, Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship Andrew Dorsey Memorial Scholarship Douglas Miller Excellence in Physical Chemistry (local ACS) ACS-Hach Land Grant Undergrad Scholarship Mackenzie Miller Michael Kellogg Outstanding Kalli Choles Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award Chemistry TA Award, Chase Cunniff Undergrad Support in Chemistry Scholarship, ACS-Hach Land Grant Undergrad Scholarship Stephen Morton Research Award - Mentee Gabriela Negrete-Garcia 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF Sarah Doughty Undergrad Support in Chemistry Scholarship Chi-Min Ni Moore Award for Excellence in Alpha Chi Sigma Alumni Endowed Scholarship Advanced General Chemistry 109 Sarah Dyke Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship Fatima Nizamuddin Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship Stephan Early (Blackwell) Hodge Scholarship, Samuel Nortman Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship, Charlotte O’Sullivan Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship 2017 Undergraduate Poster Honorable Mention

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Edwin M. and Kathryn M. Larsen Scholarship CELEBRATING SUCCESS Karen M. Telander Undergrad Research Award John & Beverly Schrag Award Sylvia Speidel Plank and Putze Memorial Scholarship Alex Staikos (Cavagnero) Stephen D. Morton Mentorship Award - Mentee Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship Christopher Stubbs Ackerman Scholarship Isabelle Tigges-Green (Zanni) Don Brouse Memorial Scholarship Hilldale-Holstrom Research Fellowship Firminhac Chemistry Scholarship Ruiting Tong John & Elizabeth Moore Award for Excellence in Advanced General Chemistry 109. Justin Twardowski Excellence in Inorganic Chemistry (local ACS) Pajean Uchupalanun (Hermans) Stephen Morton Research Award - Mentee Luke Carmichael Valmadrid George J. and Arleen D. Ziarnik Scholarship The John & Beverly Schrag Fund supported dinner at the Over- Laura Vergenz Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award ture Center to celebrate the Materials Outstanding Peer Award Ana Viteri Saco Polymers Scholarship Jessica Wang Francis Craig Krauskopf Memorial Award winners Matthew Stolt and Joshua Ricci. Dr. Jeffrey Hirsch, a UW Riley Whitehead (Hamers) Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship graduate who works for ThermoFisher, was the guest speaker. Andrew Wittman (Cavagnero) UW–Madison Hilldale Research Award Mengcheng Wu (Goldsmith) Walter W. and Young-Ja C. Toy Scholarship Left: Emeritus Professor James Taylor, Professor John Wright, Susanna Yaeger-Weiss (Cavagnero) Martha Gunhild Week Research Scholarship Dain Brademan, Professor Joshua Coon, Beverly Schrag and UW–Madison Hilldale Research Award Vanessa Linke Sumin Yang Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship Ethan Young Undergraduate Poster Honorable Mention Mentors: Specht/McDermott/Hermans Right: Matthew Stolt with Beverly Schrag Zhi Yuan Excellence in Analytical Chemistry (local ACS) ALUMNI & FRIENDS Lucas Oxtoby (Schomaker) Ieva Reich Undergraduate Scholarship Undergraduate Support in Chem Scholarship • Robert Bergman (Ph.D. 1966, Berson) was named a Wisconsin Alumni ACS Undergrad Award in Organic Chemistry Association Distinguished Alumni in 2017. Bergman is a Gerald E.K. Branch Named a Barry Goldwater Scholar Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the UC-Berkeley, faculty 2018 Graduate Research Fellowship from NSF senior scientist with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and 2017 win- 2017 Undergraduate Poster winner ner of the Wolf Prize in Chemistry. with mentors Liu/Gerstner /Schomaker • Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor Matthew D. Shoul- has been named one of 13 young faculty nationwide to be honored with Justin Paddock Moore Award for Excellence in ders Advanced General Chemistry 109 a 2018 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. Ziyi Pan 2018 ACS Undergrad Award (Physical Chem) , Assistant Professor of Chemistry at New York University Alexander Passow Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship • Tianning Diao and UW–Madison Department of Chemistry alumna, is the 2018 recipient of Caitlin Pavelec (Smith) Eugene & Patricia Kreger Herscher Scholarship the Organometallics Distinguished Author Award. Timothy Pinkerton Undergraduate Support in Chem Scholarship (Ph.D. 2004, Organic Chemistry, Belshaw) was granted three Helena Pliszka Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship, • Chris Ciolli Mabel Duthey Reiner Scholarship US patents for development of lubricant additive components as a research chemist, and was promoted to Technical Services Manager in Blend Test Sarah Quinn Undergraduate Support in Chem Scholarship Services for The Lubrizol Corporation in Wickliffe, Ohio, a specialty chemi- Sam Rider 2017 Undergraduate Poster winner Mentors: Yang/Weisshaar cal company delivering valuable solutions to customers and their end-users in the global transportation, industrial, and consumer markets. Ryan Robitaille (Schomaker) Department of Chemistry Scholarship , (Ph.D. 1985) was promoted to executive vice Abby Rothering Excellence in Organic Chemistry (local ACS) • Joann “Jo” Eisenhart president of Northwestern Mutual, and oversees human resources, campus Soren Rozema 2018 Goldwater Honorable Mention Ackerman Scholarship & event experiences, digital workplace corporate solutions, communications Wayland E. Noland Research Fellowship and strategic philanthropy & community relations. Edward J. Panek Memorial Scholarship • Yan Wang (Ph.D. 1993 Chemistry, MBA 1991) was named CEO of Cytovance Biologics and president of Scientific Protein Laboratories. Hazel Schira Michael Kellogg Outstanding Chemistry TA Award Wenqi Shen (Blackwell) Ackerman Scholarship Department of Chemistry Chair’s Scholarship Edwin M. and Kathryn M. Larsen Scholarship DID WE MISS AN AWARD? 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chem.wisc.edu 24 BADGER CHEMIST A Farewell to Former UW–Madison Chancellor & Department of Chemistry Chair Irving Shain By Eric Hamilton UW Communications First published 3/7/18

Irving Shain, a chemistry professor, former department chair and UW–Madison chancellor emeritus who advanced the university’s interests in China and established University Research Park, died peacefully Tuesday, March 6, 2018 in Madison after a brief illness. He was 92. Shain joined the UW–Madison faculty in 1952, later chair- ing the Department of Chemistry from 1967 until his ap- pointment as vice chancellor for academic affairs in 1970, serving until 1975. He was chancellor for almost a decade, Miller Photo by Jeff from 1977 to 1986. After stepping down as chancellor, he Irving Shain, former chancellor of the UW–Madison and former joined the Olin Corporation as vice president and chief sci- chair of the Department of Chemistry in 2010. entist, a post he held until 1992. ance and wisdom, and appreciated his vision that Univer- During his tenure as chancellor, Shain oversaw the estab- sity Research Park could both strengthen the University of lishment of the School of Veterinary Medicine and the de- Wisconsin–Madison and help translate research into world- velopment of the health sciences complex on the west end changing products and companies,” says Aaron Olver, man- of campus. He was instrumental in establishing University aging director of the research park. “It’s an honor to lead Research Park, the 260-acre business incubator located on University Research Park and continue to build on Irv’s Madison’s west side. legacy.” “I am deeply grateful to have had the opportunity to work Shain’s vision extended beyond the sciences. He fought with Irv on the Board of Trustees of University Research for greater recognition of the arts at the university and en- Park,” says UW–Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. “Irv dowed two student competitions at the School of Music. He was always smart and strategic, while also having a wry also played a crucial role in establishing ties between Ameri- sense of humor. His impact on this university is visible more can and Chinese universities by founding a thriving student than 30 years after he left. Irv Shain made UW better in exchange program in 1979. He led delegations to China and many ways throughout his career on this campus. We will welcomed Chinese scholars to Madison, in turn helping miss him and remember him.” place American students at Chinese universities. In 2006, Shain’s contributions to the Department of Chem- “(He) really focused around helping other people and cre- istry and UW–Madison were honored at the dedication of the ating a lasting legacy called the UW that would ultimately then-new Shain Research Tower of the Chemistry Building, continue to thrive well beyond when he was chancellor,” at which Gov. Jim Doyle and former Chancellor John Wiley says his son Paul. spoke. In 2016 his sons, John and Paul, endowed the Irving Shain was born on Jan. 2, 1926, in Seattle. He served in Shain Chair in Chemistry, which supports the research pro- the Army during World War II and went on to earn a Ph.D. grams of the department chair in recognition of their father’s in chemistry at the University of Washington after the war. contributions in that position. He began teaching at UW–Madison in 1952 and would go “He was a mentor to me and so many other faculty and on to serve as provost and vice president for academic af- administrators,” says Bassam Shakhashiri, a professor of fairs at his alma mater from 1975 to 1977 before returning to chemistry at UW–Madison who was hired by Shain in 1970 Madison to serve as chancellor. and who became close friends with him. “His influence tran- Shain was a noted scholar and mentor, publishing seminal scends the chemistry department and UW–Madison.” research in the field of electrochemistry. He served as men- Shain steered development of University Research Park tor and role model for students and colleagues in academia through its early years, which were fraught with slow growth and industry, including Richard S. Nicholson, a student who and intense criticism, helping it grow into an enviable accel- went on to serve as chief executive officer of the American erator with dozens of technology companies employing as Association for the Advancement of Science. many as 3,800 people and contributing hundreds of millions He was preceded in death by his wife of 68 years, of dollars to the state economy. He went on to serve on the Millie, in 2015. He is survived by four children, Kathy, Steve, Board of Trustees until 2015. John and Paul, and three grandchildren, Nathan, Isabel and “I feel blessed to have worked with Irv, enjoyed his guid- William.

25 University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Chemistry BADGER CHEMIST William Thomas ‘Tom’ Lippincott William Thomas “Tom” Lippincott, who was visiting professor of chemistry and directed the Institute for Chemi- cal Education from 1984 to 1986, passed away in September 2017, from pancreatic cancer. Tom was Editor of the Journal of Chemical Education from 1967 to 1979. The depth, lucidity and humanity of his monthly editorials were legend. An innovator, Tom was an early user of technology to enhance education and he initiated the ACS’s Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom) project, which treated high- school-chemistry concepts within the context of societal is- sues. The ChemCom textbook led to similar approaches at the college level, including Chemistry in Context, the text- Tom Lippincott demonstrating chemical kinetics at Ohio State book currently used in Chemistry 108 here in Madison. University, circa 1970. We remember other friends, faculty & alumni below 2016 10/5 Willis D. Waite, MA 1956 8/1 John C. Sherburne, former stockroom employee 10/11 Richard Steil Berger, Ph.D. 1954 8/20 Robert Howard Whitlock 10/21 Gilbert Stork, Ph.D. 1945 10/24 Patrick R. Menden, BS 2009, MS 2009 Public Health 2017 10/31 Wilbur A.G. Voss, BS 1949, BS Pharmacy 1957 1/9 James Gross, MS 1962 11/6 Thomas Ehlert, BS 1957, MS 1958, and Ph.D. 1963 1/12 Michael Thomas Elliott, BS 1973 11/7 Robert Elbert Burks, MS 1942, Ph.D. 1948 1/18 Alvin Frisque, BS 1948, Ph.D. 1954 11/12 Donna Seiler Estry, BS 1962, MS Library Science 1963 1/19 Howard Palmer, PhD 1952 11/20 George William Headley, MS 1988 1/27 Howard William Whitlock, Ph.D. 1961 11/26 Harold Schick, Ph.D. 1951 2/7 Richard James Pfeifer, former employee 12/2 Edwin Vedejs, Ph.D. 1966, organic professor at UW 2/21 Margaret Mae Peggy Rendall, BA 1945 3/3 Russell Kriese, BS 1957 2018 4/4 Herbert Litvak, Ph.D. 1974 1/16 Jeffrey Paul Davis, BS 1967 4/5 Richard Boomer, BS 1949 1/31 Robert A. Keller, BS 1951, MD 1958 4/6 Ching-Yun Tseng, Ph.D. 1965 2/13 William Maeck, BS 1953 4/8 John Bade, BS Chemistry 1966, Engineering 1967 2/13 Shirley Bach, Ph.D. 1957 4/10 Richard Gueldner, BS 1957 2/18 Kenneth Schulz, BS 1957 4/14 Arthur Lueptow, BS 1949, MS Biochemistry 1950 2/18 Kenneth E. Dempsky, BS 1961 4/14 John Neptune, MS 1949 2/24 Maurice Shamma, Ph.D. 1955 4/15 Phil Kammerer, BS 1964, Engineering 1967 2/28 Jean Thomas, BS 1949 4/29 Darwin Mayfield, Ph.D. 1950 3/31 Robert Lichter, Ph.D. 1967 5/6 Robert Searls, BS 1953 4/08 Margherita Voelker, BA 1952 5/22 George Robbins, BS 1951 4/17 Aubrey Francis Messing, BS 1953 5/31 Fred Kummerow, BS 1939, 5/16 Albert Milun, BS 1946, MS 1947, Ph.D. 1951 MS Biochemistry 1941, Ph.D. Biochemistry, 1944 5/24 Robert Turner, MS 1949, Ph.D. 1950 6/12 Harold F. Deutsch, Ph.D. 1944 5/26 Robert S. Moore, BS 1955, Ph.D. 1962 6/12 James Hornig, MS 1952, Ph.D. 1955 6/01 Terry Spennetta, BS 1966 6/14 Margaret Grant, MA 1948 6/13 David Dion, MS 1973, Ph.D. 1974 6/19 Marian Elez, BS 1962 7/30 Maynard Olson, BS 1951 6/20 James Nichol, Ph.D. 1948 7/31 Lester Zank, BPH 1952 6/26 Daniel Turluck, BS 1985 10/3 Claudia Aldrich, BS 2015, graduate student 6/29 Ruth Polin, MS 1950 11/6 Laurens Anderson, Ph.D. Biochemistry 1950 9/23 Stephen Nelsen, emeritus professor 7/24 Harry Krall, MS 1951 8/19 Robert Harris, Ph.D. 1951 FIND MORE INFORMATION AND LINKS TO OBITUARIES 9/2 Irving Domsky, BS 1951, Ph.D. 1958 9/6 Marietta Schwartz, Ph.D. 1988 ONLINE AT BADGERCHEMISTNEWS.CHEM.WISC.EDU

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University of Wisconsin organic chemistry laboratory (CHEM 346) students presented posters in the lobby of the Shain Research Tower (12/12/17). The course, taught by Organic Laboratory Director Dr. Nicholas Hill, helps students learn and practice research and presentation techniques. Top Right: Gabriela Negrete, a University of Wisconsin senior chemistry undergraduate, explains her organic chemistry laboratory (CHEM 346) poster, Synthesis of Chiral Bioxazoline and Bisoxazoline Ligands, to Jessica Roberts, a teaching assistant for the course and graduate student with the Schomaker group. Bottom Right: Ali Eichten, a University of Wisconsin senior chemistry undergraduate, explains her organic chemistry laboratory (CHEM 346) poster, Synthesis and Application of Bioxazoline and Bisoxazoline Derivatives, to Amit Das, a post-doc with the Stahl group.

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