Prof. Bassam Z. Shakhashiri
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Bassam is featured in the Discovery Mural, titled “Landscape of Discovery,” housed in the Town Center of the Discovery Building. Created by artists Alicia Rheal, Sharon Tang and Amy Zaremba, it's inspired by the intersections among art, science, and technology. The mural is interactive and educational with 9 hidden QR codes to discover while viewing.
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With Prof. Pierre Laszlo at the 253rd ACS Spring National Meeting in San Francisco, April 3, 2017. |
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With Dr. Donna Howell of Park University Dr. Howell writes: |
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Bassam's 2016 UW-Madison Department of Chemistry Headshots Photo credit: John Wingren/UW-Madison |
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With Brooke Levin, Brooke attended Canyon Crest Academy Photo credit: Christy Morrow |
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Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg The event was hosted by the |
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With Sir John Holman, President-Elect, August 23, 2016 Photo credit: Glenn Ruskin |
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WISL Faculty Associate Jerry Bell gives a climate science workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa. July, 2015 |
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Students of master chemistry teacher |
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With UW Chemistry alum Joe Calabrese, a 1971 graduate who was part of Larry Dahl's group. He also worked as department Crystallographer for 7 years. He retired from Dupont in 2008 after working there almost 30 years. May 2013 |
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With Theodore Gray |
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2014 Priestley Medalist Stephen Lippard on the cover of C&EN |
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With Carl Djerassi and Dudley Herschbach at the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis Photo courtesy of Linda Wang |
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With Carl Djerassi at the ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis, on the occasion of a symposium honoring Carl's 90th birthday Photo courtesy of Linda Wang |
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With the ACS founding plaque |
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One of Prof. Shakhashiri's former students, Rachel Meidl, is excited to receive some Science is Fun items in the mail Rachel A. Meidl * Since the taking of this photo, Rachel has taken a job with the US Department of Transportation, as deputy associate administrator for policy & programs in the Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration. In late 2016, she was nominated by President Obama to serve on the U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board. |
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With MC Ira Flatow at the Research Corporation for Science Advancement Centennial Gala Photo courtesy of the RCSA |
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With Alan Alda at the Kavli Prize Reception, Oslo, Norway Photo credit: Madeleine Jacobs |
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Having fun at the San Diego Science & Engineering Festival during the ACS Spring 2012 National Meeting. Photo credit: Peter Cutts Photography |
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At the 2012 ACS Staff Reception, Washington D.C. Photo credit: Arthur Lemmon
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Left: Bassam with his wife June at the ACS Heroes of Chemistry presentation at the ACS Fall National Meeting in Denver, August 2011 Right: Bassam with June and their daughter Elizabeth in Chicago, May 2011 |
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With a portrait of 1961 ACS president Arthur C. Cope. 1961 was also the year that Bassam joined the ACS, and he was honored this year with a 50-year member certificate. Cope received his PhD from UW-Madison in 1932. This picture was taken on November 7, 2011 at MIT, in the conference room dedicated to Cope. |
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With 2011 ACS President Nancy B. Jackson, presenting the 2011 Priestley Medal to Ahmed H. Zewail, Linus Pauling Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Physics at California Institute of Technology. |
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| Bassam chats with Dr. Marty Apple, President, Council of Scientific Society Presidents, ACS New Officers Recption, Washington, DC, January 25, 2011. Marty was special assistant to Bassam in 1990 while serving as NSF assistant director for science and engineering education |
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With Wisconsin Supreme Court |
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With C&E News Senior Editor Linda Wang, who took Prof. Shakhashiri's introductory chemistry course at Photo courtesy of Rudy Baum, C&E News; |
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Bassam chats with Baruch Blumberg, president of the American Philosophical Society at the kickoff of the International Year of Chemistry, January 31, 2011 Photo courtesy of the Chemical Heritage Foundation |
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With Flemish minister |
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In February and March of 2011, Bassam traveled to Belgium in celebration of the International Year of Chemistry; he appeared at Technopolis, the Flemish science center. |
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With Roald Hoffmann at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Boston, |
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Bassam is sworn in as With parents Dr. and Mrs. Zekin Shakhashiri and Dr. George "Jay" Keyworth III, science advisor to the President |
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Addressing the National Science Board at its May 2007 annual meeting |
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| With Chancellor John Wiley at the 2004 "Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, In the Lab of Shakhashiri" | |||
| The Summit on Science, March 2004, Washington DC With Dr. John H. Marburger, Science Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Dr. Rod Paige, U.S. Secretary of Education |
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Featured speaker at the With DuPont CEO Chad Holliday Jr. (l) and DuPont Senior VP & CTO Dr. Thomas M. Connelly Jr. (r) |
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"The Scientist as Educator and Public Citizen: Linus Pauling and his Era" October 2007, Oregon State University |
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Advancing the role of women in chemistry Spring 2005, UW-Madison |
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Connecting with state elected officials Wisconsin State Capitol, with Wisconsin State Representative Spencer Black |
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With Glenn and Helen Seaborg May 1988, US State Department's Thomas Jefferson State Reception Room |
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With Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle at the Wisconsin Covenant: A Path to Higher Education for Wisconsin Students April 2008, Madison, WI |
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With Dr. Frank Press, President, National Academy of Science, December 1987 |
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Greeting Singapore's Senior Minister of State for National Development and Education Ms. Grace Fu at the Science Weekend Gala, October 2008 |
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At the state capitol with Governor Carroll Campbell Jr. of South Carolina, 1987 |
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UW Head Football Coach Barry Alvarez gives a guest enrichment lecture in Bassam's introductory chemistry course |
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With MIT President Emeritus Chuck Vest (now president of the National Academy of Engineering) on the campus of the American University of Beirut, April 2006 |
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With Dr. Gail H. Marshall, Dr. Sharmistha Basu-Dutt, University of Georgia System Chancellor Erroll B. Davis Jr., and University of West Georgia President Beheruz Sethna, 2008 |
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20th Anniversary Symposium |
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Cheryl A. Martin, chair, ACS Committee on Public Relations & Communications (left), and ACS Past-President Helen M. Free presented Bassam with the 2005 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach |
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BU Alumni Association Distinguished Public Service to the Profession Award October 1987, Boston University |
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With chemistry teachers from South Africa |
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With Dr. Virginia Henderson at the African American Ethnic Academy |
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With Vice President Dan Quayle at The Annual Westinghouse Talent Search, National Academy of Sciences, March 1990, Washington, DC |
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1987 Presidential Awardee in Science Helen Stone (NC) at a White House Ceremony with William Graham, Science Advisor to the President; John Herrington, Secretary of Energy; Erich Bloch, Director, NSF; and Bassam Shakhashiri, NSF Assistant Director |
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Presidential Science Initiative Award May 1998, Sacred Heart University With fellow awardees Dr. Willard Welch of Pfizer, for development of the drug Zoloft; Don Herbert, Television's Mr. Wizard; and Dr. Kenneth M. Rosen, Vice President of the Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., for his key role in rotor craft technology |
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Once Upon a Christmas Cheery, In the Lab of Shakhashiri 2008 |
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  National Chemistry Day 1987 |
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