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MIDD-MACC 2024 – Artificial Intelligence in Analytical Chemistry & Drug Discovery

The annual MACC conference “MIDD-MACC 2024 – Artificial Intelligence in Analytical Chemistry & Drug Discovery” will be held in the new Chemistry building lobby and lecture hall CHEM 110 Friday, December 6th – Saturday, December 7th. The conference agenda will… Read More

Professor Leggy Arnold awarded UWM Office of Research Senior Faculty Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of the UWM… Read More

Professor Kristen Murphy awarded UWM Faculty Distinguished University Service Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of the UWM… Read More

Dr. Christine Carlson awarded UWM Academic Staff Outstanding Teaching Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of… Read More

Doug Stafford awarded Ernest Spaights Plaza Award

Two dozen faculty and staff of UW-Milwaukee were honored for their distinguished service to the university at the 2024 Employee Excellence Awards ceremony. Chancellor Mark Mone and other speakers praised the winners during a ceremony Wednesday in the ballroom of… Read More

For the first time, a drug developed at UWM enters FDA clinical trials

For the first time, a compound developed at the Milwaukee Institute for Drug Discovery (MIDD) will enter clinical trials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The drug was developed in part by distinguished professor emeritus Jim Cook of the Chemistry… Read More

Chemistry & Biochemistry PhD Student Highlighted in Nigerian Publication

Chemistry & Biochemistry PhD student Stephen Tochi Nkwocha was highlighted in the Nigerian publication Punch for his efforts to establish chemistry-focused innovation hubs in Nigeria.

UWM Chemistry Alum Named “Inventor of the Year”

Anibal Boscoboinik, who earned his PhD in Chemistry at UWM in 2010 was recently named “Inventor of the Year” by Battelle Memorial Institute. Anibal currently works as a materials scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory. Read… Read More

Dr. Mirza awarded a UWM Discovery and Innovation Grant (DIG)

Professor Shama Mirza received UWM funds to predict responses to anti-VEGF therapy in recurrent glioblastoma Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most aggressive of all brain tumors with limited treatment options and no cure. Even after multimodal treatments by surgical resection of… Read More

Gloria Freschl wins Instructor of the year Award

Students in the UWM Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry voted to award Gloria Freschl the department’s annual “Outstanding Instructor” award in recognition of her work. The award was presented at the Department’s 2024 Research Symposium. Nominating students describe her as… Read More