The News Review:
- Making a meal with chemistry: An unconventional seminar at McDaniel…
- Chemistry International — Newsmagazine for IUPAC
- Colour A Social History
- Major-league questions to ponder in a post-Bondsian baseball world
- Education Calendar: Sept. 23
- Western Washington University president announces her retirement
Making a meal with chemistry: An unconventional seminar at McDaniel…
Free with registration – Baltimore Sun – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 23, 2007
23–Forget the beakers test tubes and Bunsen burners. In Peter Craig’s Kitchen Chemistry the required lab supplies include a kitchen knife tomatoes onions and a cutting.
Chemistry International — Newsmagazine for IUPAC
Chemistry International – Sep 23, 2007
The Congress is organized by the Russian Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and Moscow Government. The Mendeleev Congress which is the most prestigious national meeting of Russian chemists also embraces leading chemists and technologists from all over the world. The scope of the XVIII Mendeleev Congress covers all the major trends and problems of modern chemistry. The program includes plenary and invited lectures as well as oral and poster communications in the areas of pure and applied chemistry materials science chemical technology and chemical education.
Colour A Social History
guardian.co.uk – Sep 23, 2007
99 48ppIn the easter hols of 1856 William Perkin all of 18 and a student of the new-tech chemistry experimented in his amateur lab at the family home in Shadwell London. He had a sample of aniline distillate of coal tar the gunky waste from the manufacture of gas for street-lighting from which his tutor had been synthesising organic compounds and he hoped to transmute it into quinine the treebark-derived anti-malarial drug essential to empire. Instead he obtained a sludge containing five per cent of a colouring matter which separated out for want of anything else to do with it save clog the drains stained a silk cloth lustrous purple. His discovery was the first true synthetic dye mauveine; after it dye creation became the basis of industrial chemistry which revealed in time the molecular structures of nitro-glycerine aspirin sulpha drugs petro-plastics and even the quinine substitute mepacrine which tinted the skin yellow as it warded off malaria. Perkins retired moderately prosperous at 36 by which time the chemical output of united Germany dominated the world.
Major-league questions to ponder in a post-Bondsian baseball world
San Francisco Chronicle – Sep 23, 2007
At least Bonds had been spurned when he decided to control the information. McGwire wouldn’t have lost any face by letting the Cardinals do the honors. — What does team chemistry have to do with this?A lot. therwise the option of keeping Bonds in San Francisco at a steeply discounted salary would have come up. Magowan said it didn’t. The Giants didn’t bother asking because: A) they knew he wouldn’t go for it; and B) Bonds is a weight on the team far beyond the payroll. Forget his attitude and even his defensive skills… He can’t run the bases reliably and he rarely runs out grounders. He can’t at age 43 handle the rigors of a full baseball season without resting at random junctures. Bonds may not be solely responsible for the chemistry but it has to change dramatically. It was disturbing enough to hear Matt Morris questioning the team’s desire to win but his comments could be – fairly or not – attributed to unhappiness about his own performance. Then Bengie Molina stepped up and said the team had inadequacies in the hustle department. n Friday night Molina received the Willie Mac award as the most inspiring member of the team. His colleagues not the media did the voting.
Education Calendar: Sept. 23
Norwich Bulletin – Sep 23, 2007
The department of chemistry will host six seminars this fall. All will be at 4:30 p. in Brown Auditorium. – Monday: “Body Disconnect Men’s and Women’s Separation from the Body Following Appearance and Physical Competence Threats” by Tara Broccoli 2002 doctoral candidate in social and health psychology at Rutgers University.
Western Washington University president announces her retirement
diverseeducation.com – Sep 23, 2007
lin Award one of the American Chemical Society’s highest honors. She has published extensively in the field of chemistry and is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In her years at Western university enrollment grew from 9300 to 12100 full-time equivalent students. The faculty increased from 456 to 627. She has overseen the addition of a number of new campus buildings and worked on plans to expand the campus to the Bellingham waterfront. The university said Morse would spend her last year providing for a smooth transition finishing the university’s accreditation process raising money lobbying the Legislature and completing the first union contract with faculty… The university said Morse would spend her last year providing for a smooth transition finishing the university’s accreditation process raising money lobbying the Legislature and completing the first union contract with faculty. She earned her doctorate and master’s degrees from Michigan and her bachelor’s degree from hio’s Denison University. She is married to retired Western chemistry professor Joseph Morse and has two adult sons. –Associated Press © Copyright 2008 by DiverseEducation. com Top of Page. style1 {color: #FFFFFF}–>.