September 26, 2024: Ruby and Hao presented at NASA PCE3 (the Prebiotic Chemistry and Early Earth Environments Consortium), good job!
July 25, 2024: Hayley’s paper on the 1 H-1.2.4-triazole spectrum was accepted! Congrats!
July 24, 2024: Hao’s NASA FINESST proposal was selected for funding! Yay!
July 24, 2024: Ashley Peter has joined the Widicus Weaver Group. Welcome!
June 20, 2024: The WiCOR (Wisconsin Center for Origins Research) Provisional Council has voted to appoint Susanna as provisional Director of WiCOR. Woohoo!
April 2024: Will defended his thesis and Riana passed her TBE. Congrats, Dr. Thompson and Riana!!!
March 2024: Catherine, Haocheng, and Collette passed their RP. Congrats!
December 15, 2023: Chase defended his thesis. Congrats, Dr. Schultz!!!
Thesis: Rotational Spectroscopy of Prebiotic Molecules.
November 2023: Ruby and Alex have joined the Widicus Weaver Group. Welcome!
November 2023: Morgan and Will’s paper was published in the Astrophysical Journal!
August 2023: Alejandra and Annika have joined the Widicus Weaver Group. Welcome!
April 13, 2023: Carter Brown has joined the Widicus Weaver Group. Welcome!
March 2023: Jonathan Rebelsky and Will Thompson passed their RP, and Catherine Walker passed her TBE. Congrats!
December 2022: Riana Smith has joined the Widicus Weaver Group. Welcome!
October 2022: Hayley Bunn’s paper was published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A!
September 23, 2022: The Widicus Weaver Group hosted an open house for over 60 faculties and staff to celebrate the occupancy of our new laboratory!
August 11, 2022: Group Alum Dr. Brian Hays visited our new laboratory and met Bucky Badger!
June 30, 2022: Jonathan Rebelsky passed his TBE. Happy July, Jonathan!
May 26, 2022: Colton Moore passed his TBE. Let’s go, Colton!
May 2, 2022: Connor defended his thesis and became Dr. Wright. Congrats, Connor!!!
Thesis: Millimeter/Submillimeter Wavelength Spectroscopy Of Prebiotic Interstellar Molecules With Complex Internal Motion.
April 25, 2022: Will Thompson passed his TBE. Yay Will!
April 13, 2022: Hayley defended her thesis and became Dr. Bunn. Congrats, Hayley!!!
Thesis: Rotational Spectroscopy of Nitrogen and Chlorine Containing Species to Guide Interstellar and Planetary Observations.
February 2022: Connor’s paper was published on ACS Earth Space Chem!
Wright, C. J.; Smith, R. N.; Kroll, J. A.; Shipman, S. T.; Widicus Weaver, S. L. “Extending the Millimeter/Submillimeter Wave Spectrum of Ground State Pyruvic Acid for Comparison to Astronomical Data.” ACS Earth and Space Chemistry2022, 6 (3), 482–495.
January 7, 2022: Katarina Yocum defended her thesis and became Dr. Yocum. Woohoo, Kat!!!
Thesis: The Development and Application of SubLIME: Sublimation of Laboratory Ices Millimeter/submillimeter Experiment.
December 2021: Haocheng Liang, Collette Sarver, and Catherine E. Walker have joined The Widicus Weaver research group. Welcome new graduate students!
November 2020: Colton Moore, Jonathan Rebelsky, and Will Thompson have joined The Widicus Weaver research group. Welcome new graduate students!
November 2020: Hayley’s paper was accepted for publication!
Bunn H. A., Schultz C. P., Widicus Weaver S. L. “Laser-Induced Chemistry Observed During 248 nm VUV Photolysis of an O3 and CH3NH2 Mixture.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, accepted, 2020.
October 2020: Susanna was interviewed by UW-Madison L&S about the recent report of phosphine on Venus: