Sentences with phrase «a chemistry professor»

When MIT chemistry professor Don Sadoway received an email from Bill Gates's personal assistant in 2009, asking if he would meet with Gates, Sadoway assumed it was a prank, and ignored it.

«The economy is dependent on new materials — from active molecules for drug development to agricultural products — all these things lead to chemistry,» says Sergey Krylov, a York University chemistry professor.

Perhaps the best counter-analysis can be found here, on the PBS Frontline website, from the independent «virtual» news organization TehranBureau, and written by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI, a USC chemistry professor who has been writing about Iran, its nuclear program and its domestic developments for many years....

She said while she was a student at Cornell, a chemistry professor had given her an advance copy of an exam after she had asked for help with his class.

Kim and AJ bonded over their science geekiness (Kim's a scientist and AJ is a chemistry professor) and when the subject of how AJ's ex-wife resembled Helen Hunt came up, I made a joke about how if she was Helen Hunt, that would probably make AJ the Paul Reiser (a Mad About You reference).

Canada has a pretty decent system (had an environmental chemistry professor who was from Canada and explained their system — I trust him).

His work as a chemistry professor permits him the freedom to be at home with the girls when they are not in school.

Science is being championed in some of Buffalo's most - struggling or «high needs» schools, with the help of a University at Buffalo chemistry professor, Joseph Gardella Jr., leading the charge.

For the first couple months of the campaign, state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, Oakland Gardens attorney John Messer and New York Lottery winner and former chemistry professor Isaac Sasson of Flushing largely avoided appearing at events together, but they verbally sparred Aug. 24 at a MinKwon Center - sponsored event, then again at the Aug. 25 Queensboro Hill Civic Association meeting.

He was a chemistry professor who gave back to the community by offering local students the ability to apply their math aptitude in the lab.

While studying at New York University, she heard that chemistry professor Kent Kirshenbaum was planning a seminar series on science and food.

His father was a chemistry professor and his mother a biology professor at the University of Zagreb in their native country.

Alienated from science, Tops planned to major in business — but then he met Timothy Champion, a new chemistry professor at the university.

«Libby's method remained the only way to measure carbon - 14 in samples for several decades and was long considered the most accurate means of dating by carbon decay,» said David Mazziotti, a UChicago chemistry professor who submitted the formal nomination of the site as a historic chemical landmark to the American Chemical Society.

Agnew, 28, has done her Ph.D. work with a team of researchers — including Caltech chemistry professor James Heath — to help them develop synthetic antibodies called «protein capture agents,» which can identify, bind to and remove protein biomarkers that are indicators of disease and infection.

Led by Illinois chemistry professor M. Christina White, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in collaboration with researchers at Pfizer Global Research and Development detailed the new reactivity of the catalysts in the journal Nature.

What Colonel Tronstad, himself a prewar chemistry professor, was able to tell his men was that the Vemork chemical plant made «heavy water,» an important ingredient for the Germans» weapons research.

Tortoise with a Good Spouse For chemistry professor Rachel Austin the keys to success in balancing career and family included a supportive spouse, sound time management, and a slow - but - steady approach to research productivity.

«We found that a very simple process and a tiny bit of gold can turn a transparent film black,» said UC Irvine chemistry professor Robert Corn, whose group has created a patterned polymer material based on the findings, documented in recent papers.

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

The candidates — mostly first - timers running for House of Representatives seats — include a physicist who spent 2 decades at a prominent national laboratory, a clinical oncologist at a top - rated cancer center, a former chemistry professor at a 4 - year state college, a geologist trying to document every aspect of a tiny piece of the Mojave Desert, and a postdoctoral bioengineering fellow.

Louisiana State University - based Isiah Warner is a rare breed: an African - American chemistry professor at a major university.

As the program's academic director, chemistry professor Iona Black encourages STARS students to participate in a program - supported internship as early as the summer after their first year.

«What's new here is we figured out how to deliver a drug into the inner ear so it actually stays put and does what it's supposed to do, and that's novel,» said Charles E. McKenna, a corresponding author for the study and chemistry professor at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

«I'm impressed,» says Gabriel Miller, a New York University chemistry professor and a consultant to KeySpan Corporation, a gas and electric utility that serves New York.

«This is one way to focus our talents as synthetic chemists in a direction that can immediately help patients,» said Seth Herzon, a chemistry professor at Yale and member of the Yale Cancer Center.

He was an organic chemistry professor at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, from 1942 to 1976, where he carried out research on alkaloids, antibiotics, enzymes, and other organic compounds.

Shaul Mukamel, a chemistry professor at the University of California - Irvine, said that the Princeton research is a step forward in an important and active research field called coherent control, in which light can be manipulated to control behavior at the molecular level.

At the ceremony in Warsaw, Turner — who is a chemistry professor at the University of Rochester known for the «Turner Rules» for predicting RNA structure — said the main goal of his and Kierzek's research has been to move as quickly as possible from «genome sequence to drugs that can help cure somebody.»

A machine in University of Illinois chemistry professor Martin Burke's lab assembles complex small molecules out of simple chemical building blocks, like a 3 - D printer on the molecular level.

«I'm thrilled,» says Richard Zare, a Stanford chemistry professor and former chair of the National Science Board.

It's absolutely central, according to chemistry professor Dominick J. Casadonte Jr. of Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry professor and medical doctor Martin D. Burke, built the machine to assemble complex small molecules at the click of a mouse, like a 3 - D printer at the molecular level.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

«The data are shocking,» admits Mary Beth Williams, a chemistry professor and associate dean at Penn State.

In a 38 - page settlement with the district attorney of Los Angeles County, the regents of the prestigious 10 - campus institution agreed to «acknowledge and accept responsibility for the conditions» in the laboratory of chemistry professor Patrick Harran, where 23 - year - old University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), research technician Sheharbano «Sheri» Sangji suffered fatal burns in December 2008.

One thing that won't get you hired is sending a massive e-mail to every faculty member in that department, says Michael Doyle, former president of the Council on Undergraduate Research and chemistry professor at the University of Maryland.

Physics and chemistry professor Ahmed Zewail and his colleagues at the California Institute of Technology married two previously independent lines of research: femtochemistry, in which pairs of brief laser pulses initiate and monitor a chemical reaction, and electron diffraction, in which a molecule's structure is determined from the scatter of electrons fired at a crystal containing billions of copies of that molecule.

A chemistry professor in Florida has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the same time.

Charles Rice, principal investigator and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, OU College of Arts and Sciences, with team members Robert Cichewicz and Daniel Glatzhofer, both OU chemistry professors, has been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI.

«This molecule is now all over the galaxy and all over the universe,» noted the late buckyball co-discoverer Harold Kroto, then a chemistry professor at Florida State University.

His forebears include Benjamin Silliman, the first chemistry professor at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, whose teachings in the early 1800s helped popularize science education in the United States.

«One of the greatest uncertainties in EU environmental legislation is that we do not know the precise effects of synergistic chemicals when determining the scale of damage to nature from chemical cocktails,» says environmental chemistry professor and lead researcher, Nina Cedergreen.

As Sankaran Thayumanavan, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains, academics are often only interested in — or only funded for — solving basic research questions, while corporations like to see that a drug or device works in animals before stepping in.

«Resistance to antimalarial medication threatens the health of more than half of the world's population,» notes corresponding Paul Roepe, PhD, a Georgetown chemistry professor who authored the study with colleagues at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Kentucky.

Now, a team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin - Madison chemistry professor John Berry reports an advance that freezes one step of the process long enough to offer researchers a glimpse into the finer mechanism.

Yale chemistry professor Patrick Holland and his team designed a new chemical compound with key properties that help to explain nitrogenase.

Connected at UNU - BIOLAC workshops in Montevideo, Uruguayan chemistry professor Francisco Carrau and scientist Massimo Delledonne of Italy recently collaborated on sequencing the Tannat grape, pressings of which, thanks partly to its many seeds, produces the largest concentration of tannins — an anti-oxidant that combats the ageing of cells.

Now the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has brought felony charges against U.C.L.A. chemistry professor Patrick Harran, the head of Sangji's lab, and the Regents of the University of California for violations of safety regulations resulting in her death.

«New plutonium discovery lights way for chemistry professor's work to clean up nuclear waste.»