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Congratulations to Kim Kamer of the Raines lab for earning a Henry and Eleanor Firminhac Award for Excellence in Chemistry, a Hilldale Undergraduate/Faculty Research Fellowship and a Goldwater Scholarship! Read More

A Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship has been awarded to Sonia Trevino-Dopatka, a Biochemistry major and member of the Weibel Lab, on the basis of academic merit. Read More

James Ntambi has been selected to receive a 2010 Distinguished Teaching Award from the Wisconsin Alumni Association. Ntambi teaches a number of classes for the biochemistry and nutritional sciences departments, helping to run a large …

Congratulations Biochemistry Graduate Students: 2010 Fellowship Awards: Amelia Still (Pagliarini Lab) Rachel Kubiak, (Holden Lab) 2010 Honorable Mentions: Darryl Wesener, (Kiessling Lab) Elise Wagner, (Denu Lab) Read More

Since 1987, the Hilldale Awards have honored professors who excel in teaching, research and service. The university’s top honor for faculty members. Congratulations Dr. Palmenberg. Read More

A University of Wisconsin-Madison research team has developed a promising new chemical method to liberate the sugar molecules trapped inside inedible plant biomass, a key step in the creation of cellulosic biofuels. See the article …

The Sloan Research Fellowships seek to stimulate fundamental research by early-career scientists and scholars of outstanding promise.  These two-year fellowships are awarded in recognition of distinguished performance and a unique potential to make substantial contributions …

Dr. Hayes has studied nutrition and the immune system for more than 25 years, and vitamin D and MS for almost 20 years. She has many friends with MS. Dr. Hayes is a recipient of …

“It’s by far the most stable collagen ever made,” says Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of chemistry and biochemistry who led the study, published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Proceedings of …

Writing in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week (Jan. 11), scientists from UW-Madison and the University of California-Irvine present a new model of stem cell regulation. Read …