The News Review:
- India France sign accord to set up chemistry laboratory
- Agriculture is Altering Mississippi River Chemistry
- Develop the right chemistry with science CNR Rao urges students
- Green Chemistry a hit
India France sign accord to set up chemistry laboratory
Times of India – Jan 25, 2008
Council for Science andIndustrial Research (CSIR) Director General Samir K Bramhachari and FrenchNational Science Research Institute President Catherine Brechignac signed theagreement for creation of an International Laboratory in Sustainable Chemistry. The Indian Institute ofChemical Technology (IICT) Hyderabad a CSIR laboratory will implement theprogramme in partnership with the French body for molecular chemistry onmolecular photonics. Both thecountries on Friday also signed a memorandum of understanding to set up aninternational associated laboratory in the field of neuro sciences. ALTEN an advanced engineeringand technology consulting company based in France announced 60 scholarships forthe next three years to students of premier Indian engineering schools forhigher studies in French institutions.
Agriculture is Altering Mississippi River Chemistry
Environment News Service – Jan 25, 2008
Eugene Turner and graduate student Whitney Broussard along with their colleagues at Yale tracked changes in the discharge of water and the concentration of bicarbonate which forms when carbon dioxide in soil water dissolves rock minerals. Bicarbonate in rivers plays an important long-term role in absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide a greenhouse gas. ceans then absorb this carbon dioxide but become more acidic in the process making it more difficult for marine organisms to form hard shells – a necessary function in coral reefs.
Develop the right chemistry with science CNR Rao urges students
Hindu – Jan 25, 2008
Rao delivering a lecture at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore on Thursday. BANGALRE: “I think all this Sensex information technology and horse racing are destroying the country but I still have hope” said C. R Rao scientist and chairman Science Advisory Council to the Prime Minister while imploring students to take up research and publish their work at a seminar on “Birth and growth of Solid State and Material Chemistry”. The lecture held at J.
Green Chemistry a hit
Bulletin – Bulletin (subscription) – Jan 25, 2008
substring(0 thispageresult. The course title is simple: Green Chemistry. Its meaning is easy to misinterpret. The term “green” carries a lot of baggage. For many it conjures images of environmental activists compost piles and tofu.