The News Review:
- Foundation takes up case of Meramec student
- Nanochemists Discover Novel Semi-Conducting Nanotube Needed For Next…
- Postgraduate students snub science
- Wharnsby: Selanne-like breaks a trend?
- This Nobel Laureate Considers Faith and Science at a Snail’s Pace
Foundation takes up case of Meramec student
St. Louis Post-Dispatch – Jan 31, 2008
Louis Community College at Meramec that he dropped the class — and sent e-mails inviting his classmates to do the same. He never mentioned his current professor’s name or directly criticized her in the e-mails though several websites such as www. com allow college students around the nation to comment on their professors by name… He enrolled at the Meramec campus this fall to take pre-medical courses so he can apply to medical school. He said he received A’s in the four other science classes he took this semester. But he said he dropped his organic chemistry class because he did not like the professor who could not be reached for comment. Like him that professor is a non-native English speaker and was sometimes difficult to understand in class he said. He approached her a number of times to clarify the material including during her office hours but he said she was impatient. 10 he sent an e-mail to his classmates saying that he was dropping the class and hoped to get an "A" in the same class in the spring.
Nanochemists Discover Novel Semi-Conducting Nanotube Needed For Next…
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – Jan 31, 2008
31 2008) — A University of Arkansas at Little Rock chemistry professor his post-doctoral student and colleagues at Stanford University have developed a technique that could break through bottleneck that so far has stymied the scientific quest to create a new generation of electronic systems on the nano-scale. See also: Matter & EnergyNanotechnologyElectronicsTechnologyMaterials ScienceConstructionChemistry Reference… Wei Zhao professor in UALR’s Department of Chemistry in the College of Science and Math and his graduate student Xiaomin Tu now a postdoctoral fellow at DuPont Central Research and Development Wilmington Del. are co-authors of an article in the Journal of the American Chemistry Society on the ability to achieve near single type purity nanotube production. The UALR professor said semi-conducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with diameter of about one nanometer have attracted the most attention as a new generation material a possible replacement for silicon for nanoelectronics. Scientists have been unable produce the kind of uniform type of nanotubes the electronic systems would need. The UALR team found a way.
Postgraduate students snub science
Guardian Unlimited – Jan 31, 2008
The findings will be bad news for the government which is trying to get more pupils and students interested in the sciences. Physics chemistry engineering and technology subjects have not benefited from the overall growth in doctoral degrees but the report found soaring numbers of postgraduates taking psychology biology and sports science. The number of doctorates awarded psychology doctorates has grown 342% biology 54. 4% and sport science by 76. 5% since it started being counted separately in 2002. The number of postgraduates in engineering and technology rose 2… 9% over the same period while physics postgraduates fell by 3. Psychology now accounts for almost as many doctorates as chemistry and close to twice as many as physics. In standalone masters degrees science has overall held its own against other subjects in the 10 years between 1994 and 2004. But physical and mathematical sciences grew at slightly below average rates and chemistry and physics declined significantly. The engineering and technology category was static and now represents only 5. 7% of graduates compared with 9.
Wharnsby: Selanne-like breaks a trend?
Globe and Mail – Jan 31, 2008
“I think older players wanting a breather will do so but I think in these two cases they have been given a break because of the season we had” Ducks captain Chris Pronger told me. “From my understanding our team will not be doing this again in the future. Chemistry is affected too much. ”Peter Forsberg who has been trying to decide whether he’ll continue playing this season in Sweden or return to the NHL and his ankle woes is in a somewhat different situation. But Toronto Maple Leafs interim general manager Cliff Fletcher doesn’t believe a team that is interested in Forsberg will worry about how he influences chemistry. “When a team thinks they have a chance to go for all the marbles the core players in that team they’re going to welcome a player like Peter Forsberg with open arms” Fletcher said. “They’re going to say hey this is a player who will help us achieve our goals”There’s not going to be a chemistry issue when you bring in a great player… But Toronto Maple Leafs interim general manager Cliff Fletcher doesn’t believe a team that is interested in Forsberg will worry about how he influences chemistry. “When a team thinks they have a chance to go for all the marbles the core players in that team they’re going to welcome a player like Peter Forsberg with open arms” Fletcher said. “They’re going to say hey this is a player who will help us achieve our goals”There’s not going to be a chemistry issue when you bring in a great player. ” Post a comment Skip to the latest comment.
This Nobel Laureate Considers Faith and Science at a Snail’s Pace
Jewish Exponent – Jan 31, 2008
At the same time he’s been known to examine religion with a microscopic exactitude. During a recent speech and subsequent interview the co-author of ld Wine New Flasks: Reflections on Science and Jewish Tradition repeatedly invoked the words “faith” and “spiritual” when describing the wonder of seeing a natural chemical or physical process at work. “I’m an unusual scientist in the sense that while I am an atheist I have a lot of respect for religion and ritual” said Hoffmann 70 at the start of the Jan. 27 talk at Congregation Beth r in Maple Glen.