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As graduation rates rise, experts fear diplomas come up short
Posted December 28, 2015
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Ask the Weather Guys: What does it take for Lake Mendota to freeze?
Posted December 8, 2015
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Flame Challenge 2015: What is sound?
Posted December 2, 2015
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Chemist starts holiday season with bangs, controlled fires
Posted December 2, 2015
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Short Answers to Hard Questions About Climate Change
Posted December 2, 2015
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The Great Thaw: As temperatures rise, the melting of glaciers is accelerating
Posted December 2, 2015
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The hangover that led to the discovery of ibuprofen
Posted November 16, 2015
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Thomas Jefferson's Lost Chemistry Lab Found Hidden Behind Wall
Posted November 16, 2015
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Our Waters, Our Future Writing Contest
Posted November 12, 2015
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The State of Greenhouse Gases in the Atmosphere Based on Global Observations through 2014, from the World Meteorological Association
Posted November 12, 2015
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Royal Society of Chemistry releases report on Public Attitudes to Chemistry
Posted October 1, 2015
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Tickets available Oct. 1 for Shakhashiri's science show
Posted September 29, 2015
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Holloway named inagural fellow of AAAS Leshner Leadership Institute
Posted September 17, 2015
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A Look at What the Public Knows and Does Not Know About Science
Posted September 16, 2015
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Boundless Together: The Research Behind the Commercial
Posted September 9, 2015
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A friend has left us
Nobel Laureate Roald Hoffmann and Bassam Shakhashiri reflect on the passing of Oliver Sacks
Posted September 8, 2015
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Sustainable nanotechnology center lands new $20 million contract
Posted September 8, 2015
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Red fireworks go green
Posted August 24, 2015
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Sunday NYT Book Review: 'The Prize," by Dale Russakoff
Newark, NJ's attempt to right its failing public schools
Posted August 24, 2015
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Solar textile collaboration weaves chemistry and design
Posted August 21, 2015
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The Great Victorian Weather Wars
Posted August 10, 2015
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Former UW chancellor offers lament for Wisconsin
Posted August 6, 2015
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Map: What the world does and doesn't know about climate change
Posted July 31, 2015
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Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table
Posted July 24, 2015
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TV's Next Big Star: Female Scientists
Posted July 24, 2015
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Rethinking graduate education
Posted July 24, 2015
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The chemistry that makes your wine taste good (or bad)
Posted July 21, 2015
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Engaging new scientific horizons
Ushering in a new era of discovery with the New Horizons spacecraft
Posted July 10, 2015
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The Science of Fireworks, from the UW-Madison UWMadScience Blog
Posted July 6, 2015
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Merging art, science, lakefront fireworks bring chemistry to life
Posted July 2, 2015
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Report: Careers outside of academia are richly rewarding for PhD physicists
Posted July 1, 2015
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This is why we're such a mess when we're drunk, according to science
Posted July 1, 2015
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First official day of summer: Questions and answers about the year's longest day
Posted June 24, 2015
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UW Faculty Senate meets to discuss state tenure proposal (video)
PBS Wisconsin
UW-Madison faculty express distrust of regents, need to better communicate on tenure
Wisconsin State Journal
Prof. Shakhashiri's Remarks
Posted June 18, 2015
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Naomi Oreskes, a Lightning Rod in a Changing Climate
Posted June 16, 2015
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U.K. Has Positive View of Chemistry
British say the benefits of science outweigh the harm
Posted June 3, 2015
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What is Sleep?
(Video) From the 2015 World Science Festival: Birds do it, bees do it, rats and fruit flies and we do it—sleep, that is. But what is sleep? Why do we dream? And what goes on in sleeping brains—from the tiny fruit fly’s to ours? Find out as we watch the brain activity of a wired-up person sleeping offstage, learn about sleep’s many phases and discover the stunning result of not sleeping for days on end. Capping the program, Alan Alda will announce this year's Flame Challenge winners, those scientists whose explanations of sleep were voted best by our 20,000 eleven year-old judges.
Posted June 1, 2015
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Chemistry Employment 2014
Domestic workforce by the numbers
Posted May 27, 2015
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Meet the teen who just won $75,000 for inventing a system to keep germs from spreading on airplanes
Posted May 18, 2015
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Reinventing Chemistry
By George Whitesides
Posted April 29, 2015
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What a Cat Knows about Greenhouse Gases!
Cats always seek out the warmest spot in the house, and why that is often in front of a window has something to do with greenhouse gases.
Posted April 22, 2015
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Professor Bassam Shakhashiri Discusses the Wisconsin Idea on WPR
Posted April 17, 2015
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A General Feeling of Disorder
An essay by Oliver Sacks
Posted April 9, 2015
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Earth, the Marvelous Blue Orb
In honor of Earth Day, take a gander at breathtaking images of our planet taken from the International Space Station.
(with video)
Posted April 7, 2015
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Chemistry Champions Contest
Hey Younger Chemists! ChemChamps is back in 2015—and bigger than ever. You could be just two videos away from a trip to Washington, DC. Winners in DC will fly to the 250th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA, in August 2015, to compete for the ChemChamps trophy!
Posted April 2, 2015
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In Florida, Officials Ban Term 'Climate Change'
Posted April 1, 2015
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Remarks by the President at White House Science Fair
Posted March 30, 2015
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Fueling Discovery
A collection of articles that shines a light on UW-Madison's Department of Letters & Science, and their 111-year commitment to the Wisconsin Idea – the belief that our discoveries are shared to improve the lives of our community and the world.
If you would like to see the collection as it appeared in print, click here.
Posted March 26, 2015
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BuzzFeed's Dan Vergano to be spring Science Writer in Residence
at UW-Madison
Posted March 26, 2015
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Celebrating Chemistry
Meg A. Mole, Future Chemist, interviews Prof. Shakhashiri
Bassam with Meg A. Mole
Read the whole "Celebrating Chemistry: Earth Day" edition
Posted March 25, 2015
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Dissecting California Precipitation
Field effort to study atmospheric rivers brings together meteorology and chemistry
Posted March 25, 2015
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World Water Day 2015
Posted March 18, 2015
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Anna Atkins: Google Doodle artfully celebrates a true-blue photographic pioneer
Posted March 16, 2015
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Road salt report, 2014
Posted March 16, 2015
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A Reagan approach to climate change
Posted March 16, 2015
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A Guide to Sweeteners
An interactive periodic table of sweeteners
Posted March 6, 2015
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Attention, All Scientists: Do Improv, With Alan Alda's Help
Alda uses improvisational exercises to teach scientists how to better speak about their work to nonscientists
Posted March 6, 2015
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Why Is Carbon Monoxide So Deadly?
Get to know a molecule presented by the American Chemical Society
Posted March 6, 2015
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Support for seven from Harvard President Drew Faust's climate fund
From the Harvard Gazette: $20M initiative to accelerate clean-energy solutions announces inaugural grants
Posted February 19, 2015
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My Own Life: Oliver Sacks on learning he has terminal cancer
On the occasion of Oliver's 80th birthday, Roald Hoffmann and Prof. Shakhashiri wrote an editorial in C&E News entitled "The Joy of Chemistry"
Oliver also wrote an opinion piece on turning 80, entitled "The Joy of Old Age. (No Kidding.)"
Volume 5 of Prof. Shakhashiri's Chemical Demonstrations series was dedicated to Oliver
Posted February 19, 2015
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The Frolic Architecture of Snow
Posted February 17, 2015
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Why science is so hard to believe
Posted February 17, 2015
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110 years ago today, UW President Charles Van Hise gave his "I Shall Never Be Content" speech to the Wisconsin State Legislature
See a copy of the original Wisconsin State Journal Article
Read an original copy of the whole speech
Read the press release describing the speech as given Feb 15, 1905 at the Red Gym
Posted February 15, 2015
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Anthropologists Issue Statement on Climate Change
Posted February 10, 2015
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Science that is hard to swallow
The biggest gap between public opinion and scientific consensus in the United States is not in the realm of vaccines, global warming or evolution but regarding the safety of genetically modified (GM) foods.
Posted February 10, 2015
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Fracking for fuel on shaky ground
Posted February 6, 2015
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To Unlock the Deflation Puzzle, Mind Your PV=nRT's
This is a common topic in freshman chemistry here at UW-Madison. Learn more in the Workbook for General Chemistry, Lesson 9: Using the Ideal Gas Law
Posted February 2, 2015
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Why Sodium and Potassium Really Explode in Water
This article includes a split-frame high-speed video showing the intense explosion of alkali metal droplets when they come in contact with water.
Posted February 2, 2015
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Public and scientists' views on science and society
Posted February 2, 2015
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Global Warming: What should be done?
Posted January 30, 2015
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Knighthood for Professor Poliakoff
Professor Poliakoff has become Sir Martyn. He received a knighthood in the UK's New Year's Honours List.
Posted January 30, 2015
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How does moisturizer work?
Posted January 27, 2015
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Pope's climate-change stand deepens conservatives' distrust
Posted January 26, 2015
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Scientific American's Top 10 Science Stories of 2014
Posted January 26, 2015
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10 Clever and Surprisingly Effective Uses for Baking Soda
This Huffington Post blog article also calls upon science experts, like WISL's own Rodney Schreiner, to help explain why baking soda is good for so many things.
Posted January 16, 2015
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How Does Salt Melt Ice?
Posted January 12, 2015
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Open for Questions with Dr. John Holdren
Dr. Holdren, President Obama's Science Advisor, answers questions about climate change that were submitted via social media using the hashtag #AskDrH
(video)
Posted January 6, 2015
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