The News Review:
- Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
- AUCET ranks released
- GERALD H. WAGMAN 82 EAST BRUNSWICK
- Iron Transport Protein Mapped
- CSTV.com: #1 in College Sports
- Oceans turning acidic decades earlier
- Corrosive seawater burps up temporarily
Daily Times – Leading News Resource of Pakistan
Daily Times – May 22, 2008
LCWU Chemistry Department Chairwoman Prof Dr Ismat Naeem said that medicinal plants were one of the scientific areas in which research was mostly focused on. She said that the HEC has increased the research on medicinal plants by funding them. She said that the LCWU Chemistry Department was provided with all the modern facilities of research and students were conducting research in various sectors. About 12 students of the department were enrolled in the PhD programme. LCWU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Bushra Mateen welcomed the guests and appreciated the efforts of the organisers of the seminar. She also applauded the efforts of HEC Chairman Dr Atta-ur-Rehman. She hoped that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) would be signed with other universities of the world in the field of chemistry… Prof Dr Iqbal Ch a renowned scientist of the country was the chief guest. LCWU Chemistry Department Chairwoman Prof Dr Ismat Naeem said that medicinal plants were one of the scientific areas in which research was mostly focused on. She said that the HEC has increased the research on medicinal plants by funding them. She said that the LCWU Chemistry Department was provided with all the modern facilities of research and students were conducting research in various sectors. About 12 students of the department were enrolled in the PhD programme. LCWU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Bushra Mateen welcomed the guests and appreciated the efforts of the organisers of the seminar. She also applauded the efforts of HEC Chairman Dr Atta-ur-Rehman.
AUCET ranks released
Hindu – May 22, 2008
Deepthi Madhurya of Kancharapalem Visakhapatnam scored the highest marks among all the girl candidates. 25 marks in the bio-chemistry test. She secured fourth rank in the test. Others who scored highest marks in the AUCET 2008 were P. Venkateswara Rao of Ramasingavaram in West Godavari district (first rank in Telugu 86. 25); Kaipa Onnu Reddy of Nallakunta Hyderabad (second rank in bio-chemistry 86.
GERALD H. WAGMAN 82 EAST BRUNSWICK
Asbury Park Press – May 22, 2008
Wagman has resided in East Brunswick for over 50 years. Wagman graduated from Lehigh University with a B. degree in chemistry and received his M. degree in chemistry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University.
Iron Transport Protein Mapped
Science Daily – Science Daily (press release) – May 22, 2008
Electrons in the sample diffract the X-rays creating patterns on a digital sensor. The technique called X-ray crystallography has been used since the 1950s to de-termine the structure of different substances. In their basement lab in the campus’s New Chemistry Building Lawrence and Sendamarai then examined the diffraction patterns created by Steap3. "It’s kind of like a contour map" Sendamarai said. "Whenever we see the peaks we know there are atoms. "Working backward they can mathematically determine the position of atoms in the protein and display them in three dimensions. The computer-drawn result a three-dimensional image that resembles tangled ribbons and strings is an picture of what the atoms of Steap3 look like.
CSTV.com: #1 in College Sports
CSTV.com – May 22, 2008
Obviously winning helps team chemistry but it takes certain leaders on the team to bring the team together. I think this group of seniors and upperclassmen have done a great job of building team chemistry through hard work through practice through off the field activities and I think it shows in our play and in our travel. We’ve traveled four straight weekends and our team is so good about it – there’s no complaining there haven’t been any issues they’ve been taking care of their business off the field with their academics and managing their time wisely. They had very productive practices so as a coach it’s been really pleasant to be around them.
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Oceans turning acidic decades earlier
Telegraph.co.uk – May 22, 2008
One recent study by Dr Halloran with Dr Debora Iglesias-Rodriguez of the University of Southampton and colleagues concluded that increased carbon dioxide is good news for microscopic ocean plants (coccolithophores) which produce greater amounts of calcium carbonate not less as many had predicted. But Mr Halloran adds: “This can occur because many biological processes benefit from the increased carbon availability but this is of no use if once the organisms have produced their shells the water surrounding them causes that shell to dissolve. “Although we think we understand the chemistry of the oceans relatively well until we understand how that chemistry is moved about by currents within the ocean there could be many unexpected consequences” says Mr Halloran. “It is important that scientists discover which areas of the ocean are most sensitive to the input of man-made carbon dioxide and then focus on how the organisms living in those locations will be effected. ” Dr Iglesias-Rodriguez adds: “The results by Feely et al highlight the urgent need to understand the effect that these ‘corrosive’ undersaturated waters will have on marine animals and plants particularly those whose survival depends upon the making of shells and skeletons of calcium carbonate. “This may be particularly important not only in corals and marine microscopic animals and plants but also on larvae of organisms that produce skeletons at early stages of development. “Direct observations in these ‘corrosive’ waters will provide key information as to how calcifying marine organisms respond to ocean acidification.
Corrosive seawater burps up temporarily
Science News – May 22, 2008
Image courtesy of Dana Greeley and Simone Alin of PMELSeawater with the potentially shell-disrupting chemistrypredicted for the open ocean after 2050 has already surfaced along North America?s West Coast scientists report. In spring 2007 the corrosive deep water rose temporarily tothe Pacific surface some 40 kilometers roughly west of the California-Oregonborder says Richard Feely of the National Oceanic and AtmosphericAdministration?s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle. Elsewhere on the continental shelf corrosivewater rolled up but didn?t surge all the way to the surface Feely and his colleaguesreport in an upcoming Science. Deeper water normally swells upward at this time ofyear. But so much carbon dioxide ? fromnatural and human-related processes ? had dissolved in the water that theupwelling had a pH around 7.