The News Review:
- The Green Chemistry Revolution
- Profile of Sue Gibson
- Scripps Research President Lerner Receives xford Honorary Degree
- Scientists a step closer to solving puzzle of Lou Gehrig’s disease
- Manifestations of Stereoelectronic Interactions in 1JC’”H ne-Bond…
- Scientists find cure for toxic lake algae
- I’m an analytical chemist with a two-body problem
The Green Chemistry Revolution
McGill Reporter – McGill Reporter – Jun 28, 2007
Industry and individuals use chemicals in factories plants and homes – that’s upstream – and then wash them downstream into the environment and the organisms – people included – who inhabit that environment. But there are opposing scenarios. Upstream chemists work to develop environmentally sound “green” chemical processes. Downstream scientists and engineers are developing better ways to investigate and extract the pollutants already in the environment.
Profile of Sue Gibson
Chemistry World – Jun 28, 2007
About UsRSC PublishingMembersEducationPolicyLibraryChemsocConferencesNewsChemistry World. From July 2007 she will be President of the rganic Division. Q How did you first get involved with the RSC?A As a graduate student in xford I was encouraged to attend the RSC scientific meetings that in those days were held in the Scientific Societies Lecture Theatre just off Regent Street in London. These were a fantastic opportunity to hear many of the best organic chemists in the world in the highly convivial company of enthusiastic members of the UK chemistry community. Q What do you hope to achieve as President? A My mind is currently focused on an initiative designed to strengthen links between the UK and the Indian organic chemistry communities a project whose gestation owes much to the outgoing division President Ray Jones and to RSC staff member Alejandra Palermo.
Scripps Research President Lerner Receives xford Honorary Degree
Medical News Today – Medical News Today (press release) – Jun 28, 2007
He served as chair of the Department of Molecular Biology of the institute from 1982-1986 prior to assuming the presidency of the organization. Lerner now Lita Annenberg Hazen Professor of Immunochemistry Cecil H. Green Chair in Chemistry and member of the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at Scripps Research has received numerous prizes and awards. These include the Parke Davis Award in 1978 John A. Muntz Memorial Prize in 1990 San Marino Prize in 1990 The Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the FASEB Wellcome Visiting Professor Award in 1990 The College De France Lectureship in 1991 Arthur C.
Scientists a step closer to solving puzzle of Lou Gehrig’s disease
South Asian Women's Forum – Jun 28, 2007
Joan Selverstone Valentine UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry has studied the protein copper-zinc superoxide dismutase since the 1970s long before it was implicated in ALS in 1993. Since the link was discovered Valentine?s laboratory has made more than two dozen mutant ALS-causing enzymes most of which have only one wrong amino acid out of 153 to try to understand their properties and learn what makes them toxic. ?Some of the mutant proteins are very different from the normal protein but others are virtually identical to the normal protein ? yet they all cause the disease? said Valentine a member of UCLA?s Molecular Biology Institute. ?That was the real mystery. You wrack your brain: What is similar among all these proteins” They seem so different.
Manifestations of Stereoelectronic Interactions in 1JC’”H ne-Bond…
Environmental Science & Technology – Environmental Science & Technology – Jun 28, 2007
‡ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Biography Eusebio Juaristi was born in Querétaro Mexico in 1950. He studied chemistry at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill NC) and received a Ph. in 1977 with a thesis on conformational and stereochemical studies of six-membered heterocycles (supervisor E… He has also served as Visiting Professor at ETH-Zurich and the University of California (Berkeley CA). In 1998 he received the Presidential Medal and in 2006 he became a member of El Colegio Nacional (highest academic honor in Mexico). Biography Gabriel Cuevas is Professor of Chemistry at the Instituto de Química Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. His research is principally directed to the theoretical and experimental study of stereoelectronic effects. He received his Ph. at the Department of Chemistry of Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados (supervisor E.
Scientists find cure for toxic lake algae
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“Lack of nutrients will naturally hinder the growth of algae” said Wang Xiangrong a Fudan professor and the research program leader. He added the bacteria was even able to secrete a cellulose-dissolvable enzyme that could directly kill the toxic algae. Meanwhile chemistry scholars also tried to fuse copper ions on magnetic nano-materials as copper ions can bind with algae toxin. By scattering the special nano-material into water and using another magnet to draw it up people can separate algae toxins from the water and reduce pollution. Preliminary lab experiments suggested that the nano-magnet technology was able to reduce algae toxins by more than 90 percent. The findings have been published in Small an international academic journal of nano- and micro-sciences according to Deng Chunhui professor at Fudan’s school of chemistry. In addition three undergraduate students at Fudan also worked out a scheme to curb water eutrophication by planting two ornamental plants.
I’m an analytical chemist with a two-body problem
salon.com – Jun 28, 2007
28 2007 | Hello Cary I am a 27-year-old graduate student in analytical chemistry finally rounding the homestretch toward graduation which should be in December. Looming up before me is this great decision this ominous cloud that has been hanging out in the distance the last six months but has just now decided to unleash its storm perhaps a beat or two before I was ready. The crux of my befuddlement is a particular version of the classical two-body problem: I have a great career opportunity in one part of the world and my girlfriend is going to another part of the world. We met in lab a few years ago where I was assigned to help her learn the ins and outs of doing experiments in a big lab while we were working on the same project. We started dating about a year ago with the shared understanding that each of us had our careers to mind.