The News Review:
- Bromine spilled in Chemistry Building
- Better living without chemistry
- Four US Secondary School Teachers Recognized as Extraordinary by…
- Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals
- eMolecules Announces Version 2.0 of Its Chemical Search Engine
- Review: The Canon
Bromine spilled in Chemistry Building
Texas A&M The Battalion – May 30, 2007
substring(0 thispageresult. Even though the total volume of bromine spilled was only 150 milliliters it was enough to evacuate lockdown and bring seven fire trucks to the Chemistry Building in less than four minutes. Bromine is a volatile liquid at room temperature that is corrosive to human tissue in a liquid state and its vapors can be a severe respiratory irritant. The personnel from the College Station Fire Department Hazardous Materials and TAMU Spill Response Teams entered the Chemistry Building with specialized protective clothing and equipment. The response teams neutralized the materials along with removing some contaminated floor tiles from the site.
Better living without chemistry
Buccaneer (subscription) – May 30, 2007
jpg” >Media Credit: courtesy Anthony KramerAnthony Kramer poses with his brood sowAnthony Kramer is pursuing an Associate’s Degree in Environmental Science at Peninsula College. He also lives and works on a five-acre organic farm between Forks and LaPush. Kramer says that the lessons he learns in the natural resource management program are helping him with his hobby. Kramer’s area of specialty is plain ecosystems while the program focuses on the conifer forest ecosystem but Kramer says that the program can show him better ways to grow crops and introduce him to new crops that grow well in this area. The classes are also teaching him soil composition how local plants co-exist in our ecosystem which plants are low-impact and how to avoid using pesticides.
Four US Secondary School Teachers Recognized as Extraordinary by…
iBerkshires.com – May 30, 2007
“By attending their athletic events I show them that I value the work they are putting into this part of their lives and that likewise they should be putting the same effort into their class work. Kathryn Chang Monte Vista High School Danville Calif. Williams senior Kate Larabee says she almost did not get into Kathryn Chang’s AP Chemistry course in 2001. It was over enrolled. “But” Larabee says “I pleaded with her to let me into the course and the whining was worth it. Chang was enthusiastic for class but more importantly her enthusiasm parlayed into excitement in her students” says Larabee.
Chemical Routes for the Transformation of Biomass into Chemicals
Environmental Science & Technology – Environmental Science & Technology – May 30, 2007
Avelino Corma Canos was born in Moncófar Spain in 1951. He studied chemistry at the Universidad de Valencia (1967−1973) and received his Ph. at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid in 1976. He was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Queen’s University (Canada 1977−1979). He has been director of the Instituto de Tecnología Química (UPV−CSIC) at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia since 1990… In the same year she joined the Chemistry Department of the Technical University of Valencia as Assistant Professor becoming Lecturer in 1992 in the same department where she now teaches organic chemistry. In 1991 she was appointed a member of the Institute of Chemical Technology a joint center depending on the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Technical University of Valencia where she joined the research group of Prof. The main focus of her work is the application of heterogeneous catalysts (acid base and redox solid catalysts) to the synthesis of fine chemicals. Alexandra Velty received a B.
eMolecules Announces Version 2.0 of Its Chemical Search Engine
Genetic Engineering News – Genetic Engineering News (press release) – May 30, 2007
An improved user interface and dozens of new features make it easierthan ever for chemistry professionals to find and use the informationthey need. With an expanded database of over 6 million compounds from 150suppliers eMolecules provides the world’s most comprehensive chemicalstructures database. And unlike other providers eMolecules is freelyaccessible to anyone anywhere any time. 0 includes additional sources of valuable data includingACDlogP calculations and updated catalogs from key suppliers such asSigma-Aldrich Analyticon Discovery and Life Chemicals.
Review: The Canon
International Herald Tribune – May 30, 2007
(“Most of the time” one of them tells her “when you get an amazing counterintuitive result it means you screwed up the experiment. “) Thankfully she does not try to render something called “the scientific method” (a phrase that never passes the lips of a real scientist) but conveys the idea that science is just the attempt to understand the world with a special effort to ensuring that the things you say about it are true. The remaining chapters cover probability large and small numbers physics chemistry evolutionary and molecular biology geology and astronomy. Though the material is up-to-date Angier stays clear of cutting-edge discoveries and in-house controversies. She also wisely avoids the dreary peace-and-ecology sermon with which so many scientists feel they must conclude their popular books. Every author of a book on science faces the challenge of how to enliven material that is not part of people's day-to-day concerns. The solutions include the detective story the suspenseful race to a discovery the profile of a colorful practitioner the reportage of a raging controversy and the use of a hook from history art or current affairs.