The University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Biochemistry will host the grand opening of its Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center (CEMRC) and Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography (MCCET) at 8:30 a.m. on June 7. The grand opening is part of the department’s 42nd Steenbock Symposium held June 7-8, 2022.
Meet some of the notable UWâMadison graduates of spring 2021
The pandemic couldnât hold them back â theyâve won major national academic honors, appeared on network TV shows, helped classmates avoid COVID-19, improved the campus, and even won a Grammy.
Hereâs a look at just a few of the students who will be graduating from UWâMadison May 8. Consider them a small subset of the excellence of the Class of 2021.
Her campus legacy? The first South Asian a cappella singing group
Mahima Bhattar
As a freshman
, Mahima Bhattar noticed there was no a cappella singing team among the South Asian performing arts student organizations. She soon rectified that, founding Wisconsin Waale (
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Our personalities are not set in stone. They are more like sand dunes.
By Olga Khazan
Ms. Khazan is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of “Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World.”
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When the pandemic lockdowns began, Catherine Steffel, a medical physicist and science writer in Madison, Wis., noticed that her daily routine didn’t change very much. It unsettled her that her regular life so closely resembled quarantine.
Then, in January, her 29-year-old husband died suddenly from an aggressive form of cancer. Her husband loved to sail and fly airplanes, but Dr. Steffel had always been more cautious and work-oriented. In honor of his memory, she decided to embrace his zeal for living.