From the Chair’s desk:
Greetings to you all!What a wonderful semester this has been and a great start to the new academic year. I continue to be amazed and blessed by the diligent and excellent efforts of so many. It is so satisfying to …
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Graduate Student News
New Graduate Student Welcome We are happy to welcome six new graduate students for the spring semester, Amanda Captain, Uttam Gomes, Jhoanna Molina, Nethyanji Premananda, Nikole Tamayo, and Munisaa Younus. We’re excited to have them join our Chemistry & Biochemistry …
Undergraduate Student News
Chemistry Club Corner American Chemical Society Students is a club with open membership to students taking chemistry courses and those majoring in chemistry related fields. Activities are tailored to students by organizing study sessions, a science-related volunteer opportunity per semester, …
Department News
Promotions Dr. Xiaohua Peng, who joined UWM in 2009, was recently promoted to full professor. Her research explores innovative ways to design tumor-targeted cancer therapies and bioorthogonal theranostic systems, with support from the National Institutes of Health. Her team recently …
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 …