Sentences with phrase «for chemistry professor»

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

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.

Not exact matches

«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.

Four years ago while still in school and preparing for a career in the pharmaceutical industry, one of my professors scheduled a rather large and important chemistry exam for the day after Halloween.

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.

Sheila Smith, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, says her family encouraged her to go to college and become a high school teacher «because that was a good career for women.»

Katherine Seley - Radtke, an associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), spent a year at the U.S. State Department as a Jefferson Science Fellow, a program for tenured faculty members.

«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.

Graduate students may be greener than postdoctoral researchers or lab technicians, but they are still a hot commodity, says David Meyer, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles and the senior associate dean of graduate studies for the School of Medicine.

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.

A new study by Robert Stahelin, an adjunct associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend, as well as a member of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, investigates how the most abundant protein that composes the Ebola virus, VP 40, mediates replication of a new viral particle.

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.

«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.

«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.

Past techniques involved screening more than 10,000 samples to find a novel product, said principal investigator Doug Mitchell, assistant professor of chemistry and Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) member.

For the purposes of her recent book, Balbes defined a nontraditional career in chemistry as «non laboratory, non university professor.»

Last week, Delhi police laid the blame for the worker's death on the six members of the auction committee: Rup Lal, then University of Delhi's science dean; V S Parmar, then head of the chemistry department; and professors Rita Kakkar, Ramesh Chandra Rastogi, Ashok Kumar Prasad, and Rakesh Kumar.

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.»

«We're not only about discovery science but also translation science from which we can derive benefits for mankind,» explains Mark von Itzstein, executive director of the Institute for Glycomics and professor of medicinal chemistry and federation fellow at GriffithUniversity.

«The batteries last for about 5,000 recharge cycles, giving them an estimated 15 - year lifespan,» said Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the new batteries that was published online by the Journal of the Electrochemical Society on June 20.

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

Thomas Borch, professor of soil and crop sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil and environmental engineering, and Amrita Bhattacharyya, a former postdoctoral researcher in Borch's lab, offer evidence for a new origin story for the uranium trapped underground in roll fronts.

Three atom - thick layers of molybdenum disulfide were cooked up in the lab of Jiwoong Park, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology and member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.

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.

However, after he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Frankfurt in 1963, one of his professors, Theodore Wieland, told him that the most important and exciting work was in the hunt for the viruses thought to cause cancer.

«We address a bottleneck that's been hampering the field for decades — what to do with the accumulated salts and side products when activating such switches,» says co-author Ivan Aprahamian, an associate professor of chemistry.

One common application for quantum dots is to use them as cell markers in biomedical research, says Todd Krauss, an associate professor of chemistry and optics at the University of Rochester's Institute of Optics who studies the fundamental properties of quantum dots as well as their optical properties.

Mario Molina, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, and the Center for Atmospheric Sciences at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, as well as the director of the Mario Molina Center for Energy and Environment in Mexico City.

«Our ultimate goal is to engineer microbes to make new versions of these antibiotics for our use, which will drastically reduce the amount of time and money necessary for new drug testing and development,» says Gavin Williams, associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.

With support from WPI's Center for Resource Recovery and Recycling (CR3), Marion Emmert, assistant professor of chemistry, chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering at WPI, and postdoctoral fellow H.M. Dhammika Bandara conduct research at WPI's Gateway Park in a specially equipped laboratory, one of the only such facilities of its kind in the nation.

Richmond, a U.S. science envoy as well as presidential chair and professor of chemistry at the University of Oregon, gave some examples of research and commercialization that led to products such as heart valve replacements, medications, voice recognition systems, and automobile airbags that «fell short for women» because they were designed mostly with men in mind.

A possible binding site is only functional in less than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

said Jonathon Stillman, associate professor of biology at San Francisco State University, who along with Ed Carpenter, professor of biology, and Tomoko Komada, associate professor of chemistry, led a team of researchers at the University's Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies.

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.

«There are a lot of consequences from this type of air motion,» says Elliot Atlas, professor of marine and atmospheric chemistry at the University of Miami and a principal investigator for the project.

She would advise young chemists who think of going into materials science to consider carefully the research group to which they apply for their Ph.D. «You should definitely not choose a theoretical research topic,» she says, to show that experience in applicative chemistry research gives you a head start in materials science, «and it helps if your professor is known in the field.»

«The bugs are somehow driving gene expression in the host through alteration of the epigenome,» explains John Denu, a UW - Madison professor of biomolecular chemistry and a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and a co-author of the new study.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

I often talk to graduate students who are interested in learning more about my job as a professor of chemistry at a top - tier liberal arts college and about the best way to prepare for a job like mine.

Yakobson is Rice's Karl F. Hasselmann Professor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, a professor of chemistry and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and TeProfessor of Materials Science and NanoEngineering, a professor of chemistry and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Teprofessor of chemistry and a member of the Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology.

That means that our semiconductors have similar characteristics to the known alternatives, but are much cheaper,» says professor Vytautas Getautis, head of the chemistry research group responsible for the discovery.

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.

The winner, Stony Brook University assistant professor of chemistry Thomas Allison, took home the prize for his proposal to use high - energy laser pulses to record «movies» of electrons moving through molecules.

«For the first time, we have a crystalline solid with elements that can move as fast inside the crystal as they would in outer space,» said Miguel García - Garibay, a UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry and senior author of the study.

«For a long time, we believed that all cell membrane is liquid - like, allowing embedded proteins to change their shape and perform reactions,» said Principal Investigator Wei Min, a professor of chemistry.

The model also offers a solution to a paradox that has perplexed researchers for decades and was first defined at Princeton in 1948 by the late chemistry professor Walter Kauzmann.

«We know that if you make anything cold enough it will crystallize, but this is an extremely exotic situation where you're completely avoiding that,» said corresponding author Salvatore Torquato, a Princeton professor of chemistry and the Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials.

«It's the first look at how chemistry and biology involve just a few key motions for even the most complex systems,» says U of T chemistry and physics professor R. J. Dwayne Miller, principal investigator of the study.