The Pyrotechnic Chemistry of the Vatican’s Pope Smoke Signals Explained

Posted May 9, 2025

The outdoors has a particular smell, but why is that?

Posted May 5, 2025

How Earth Day started and grew beyond founder Gaylord Nelson's dreams

Posted May 1, 2025

Quaternary Geology of Wisconsin — a new statewide map

Posted April 3, 2025

Excellence in outreach recognized with Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award

Posted March 10, 2025

The Vision for American Science & Technology (VAST)

Posted December 2, 2024

These are the most fulfilling jobs in America

Posted November 22, 2024

Public Trust in Scientists and Views on Their Role in Policymaking
Pew Research Center

Posted November 15, 2024

Why do leaves change colors in the fall?
The Daily Cardinal

Posted November 14, 2024

Why Democracy Lives and Dies by Math
The New York Times

Posted October 31, 2024

The US presidential election’s implications for chemistry
Chemical & Engineering News

Posted October 9, 2024

Breaking Bad Chemistry
Through a National Institute of Justice grant, Assistant Professor Heather Barkholtz aims to tease out the toxicological difference between mirror-image meth isomers

Posted October 9, 2024

Virtual Colloquium: Prof. Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University
Hosted by Stanford University
Monday, October 14
3:00-4:00 (Pacific)

"Chemistry in art, art in Chemistry, and the spiritual ground they share"

Zoom Link

Posted October 9, 2024

Wisconsin Center for Origins Research Kickoff Colloquium
Prof. Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thursday, September 19
3:30 PM in Sterling Hall 4421

"Exoplanets in the Cosmic Trenches: The Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth"

Posted September 9, 2024

Why Study the History of Chemistry?
A Talk by Prof. Catherine Jackson, Oxford University
A UW-Madison Chemistry Department Special Organic Lecture
Tuesday, September 10
3:30 p.m.
1315 Seminar Hall, Chemistry Building

Posted September 6, 2024

The Elements of Marie Curie
A Talk by Dava Sobel
at the Wisconsin Book Festival / Wisconsin Science Festival
Friday, October 18
5 p.m. - 6 p.m.
DeLuca Forum at the Discovery Building

Posted September 6, 2024

Enhancing Higher Education With Generative AI: A Responsible Approach

Posted June 26, 2024

This Scientist Has an Antidote to Our Climate Delusions

Posted May 20, 2024

Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas

Posted May 20, 2024

The Hopes and Fears Lab

Posted May 1, 2024

The State of U.S. Science and Engineering 2024

Posted April 25, 2024

Carbon Dioxide Levels Have Reached a New Milestone

Posted April 22, 2024

Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering: Fall 2022

Posted March 28, 2024

UW-Madison botany professor is breaking new ground in the science of space gardening

Prof. Simon Gilroy is a recipient of the Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award

Posted March 21, 2024

Artist Talk: Erika Blumenfeld

April 4, 2024
6:00 p.m.
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
and livestreamed here

Posted March 18, 2024

Trends in US public confidence in science and opportunities for progress

Posted March 12, 2024

Excellence in outreach recognized with Bassam Z. Shakhashiri Public Science Engagement Award

Posted March 12, 2024

Bassam with awardees Haddie McLean and Prof. Simon Gilroy
May 10, 2024

Invention, Knowledge Transfer, and Innovation

Posted February 29, 2024

Status List 2024: The ultimate list of leaders in life sciences

Posted February 29, 2024

AI is transforming how science is done. Science education must reflect this change.

Posted January 10, 2024