Chemist Randall Goldsmith named a Schmidt Science Polymath
Chemistry professor Randall Goldsmith is one of ten 2022 Schmidt Science Polymaths award winners. Each recipient, who is a newly tenured university faculty chosen for their promising interdisciplinary research, receives $2.5 million over five years to help fund their research groups.
UW scientist wins Blue Planet Prize
Steve Carpenter, one of the world’s foremost lake ecologists and L&S professor emerit at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, has been awarded the Blue Planet Prize.
How Does Life Begin?
PhD student Lena Vincent pursues the biggest question in her research on the chemical origins of life.
Ready for Takeoff
The College of Letters & Science’s STEM Runway program helps students from underrepresented groups find their science path and thrive.
Catalyst For Change
John Berry is a transition metal chemist. That means he experiments with elements in “the big middle part of the periodic table” that are able to bond with one another in strange and interesting ways, producing electronic properties that can initiate new types of chemistry—including in the field of catalysis.
UW-Madison mourns an important mathematician and beloved mentor
Georgia Benkart, Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at UW-Madison, died unexpectedly on April 29 in Madison, Wisconsin, leaving behind a worldwide network of colleagues and former students who considered her not only a gifted mathematician, but also a dear friend and mentor.
A Mysterious Kingdom
From mushrooms to mildews, fungi form the webs of life. UW experts are working to expand our knowledge of their roles and powers.
Elena D'Onghia in Spectrum News: Protecting astronauts from cosmic radiation
Professor of astronomy discusses CREW HaT, a series of coils her team of researchers are working on that uses magnetic fields to deflect radioactive particles away from space stations and the astronauts inside them.
Conservation chemist
Chemistry graduate student Erin Birdsall learned that you could work as a scientist in an art museum, so she applied for an internship as a “conservation chemist” in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. Funding from the Biotechnology Training Program here at UW made it possible.
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