Sentences with phrase «chemistry departments»

The 2017 AASHE Conference & Expo was my second conference where I worked with a group of faculty and professionals to put together a session on our work in green chemistry and to advocate that chemistry and chemistry departments have a place at the table when it comes to campus sustainability initiatives.

The way became clearer in 2012 when The Dow Chemical Company, spearheaded by William Banholzer, at the time the company's chief technology officer, approached chemistry departments at several universities, including the University of Minnesota, offering to work with them to improve lab safety.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

The place where this kind of education really goes on is with graduate students because when they eventually get jobs, it is in chemistry departments, and bioengineering departments, and chemical engineering departments, and biology departments — all over the map.

Answering the call has led me to build community far beyond the halls of the chemistry departments.

Selected samples taken from the cannabis seized by the police in the three largest cities in Denmark is analysed at the forensic chemistry departments on a monthly basis.

I've been in lots of different chemistry departments now and this is a very good one, I would say.

In the UK, we have seen a sharp rise in schoolchildren opting to study the subject, and such strong demand for university places that most chemistry departments are full.

Therefore I applied for PhD positions at a number of different chemistry departments and finally decided to go to the Ludwig - Maximilians - University in Munich.

However, in a separate speech to high technology businesses in Cambridge today, shadow chancellor George Osborne warned that under Labour, 19 physics and ten chemistry departments had closed.

«She started to cycle these gel capacitors, and that's when we got the surprise,» said Reginald Penner, chair of the university's chemistry department.

He does his graduate work at Harvard's organic chemistry department and by his mid-thirties becomes Merck's senior director of basic chemistry.

«Our national prominence has come at just the right time,» said Fred Rolfe, a professor in NIU's chemistry department and chairman of the athletic board.

They should see more improvement in the chemistry department as the season wages on than most, as they are still just learning each other's Games.

The program was created by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Isiah M. Warner, a former chair of the chemistry department at LSU who is now vice chancellor of the University's Office of Strategic Initiatives.

«Fortunately, our chemistry department had just hired a young theoretical chemist who introduced me to computational chemistry, and I learned there was a place for me in chemistry without having to endanger my health,» he says.

So Aziz, along with colleagues in the chemistry department, looked to nature for a more practical solution.

After winning the Leadership Award, the vice chair of the chemistry department, Dr. Larry Anderson, told me that while he was cleaning out this office, he had come across the original application file of an OSU alumnus who was probably the first African American to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry at the university.

After my first year as a faculty member in the chemistry department of a small liberal arts college, I felt more certain than ever that my strong desire to remain childless was even more of an advantage than I had previously realized.

The Berkeley group's success is «really heroic,» says James Heath, a chemist at the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped discover fullerenes: «Every chemistry department in the world has been making fullerenes.

First, WSU has a well - respected chemistry department with a faculty that conducts cutting - edge research in a number of areas.

To imply that the LSU chemistry department did not have its share of social woes would be a gross exaggeration.

Leaving the chemistry department behind doesn't have to mean leaving chemistry behind.

What made the LSU graduate chemistry department different was that it was actively taking strides to establish rapport among individuals beyond race, gender, and cultural lines.

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.

Immigrant students facing language and cultural barriers are another part of the mix, adds Paris Svoronos, chair of the chemistry department at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, New York.

The minority presence in LSU's graduate chemistry department made my transition more palatable, however.

Yellowlees was promoted to head the university's inorganic chemistry department in 2002, and she became the head of the School of Chemistry 3 years later.

JiJi began a tenure - track faculty position in the MU chemistry department in 2005; Cooley followed suit a year and a half later.

Then I spent a year in Ireland, at the chemistry department of Trinity College, Dublin, where I was doing computer simulations for the first time.

«The dean of the college that was responsible for the chemistry department shut down research for some extended period of time» to investigate the incidents, he says.

As a Ph.D. student in the chemistry department, she is unusual in that she has already experienced some of the «culture shock» that others in her department are just hearing about.

As it happened, Katonah was the home of the Hickrill Chemical Research Foundation, an outpost of Yale's chemistry department, and Finch found his way into the foundation's labs when he was 16.

In the personal - chemistry department, we just wanted a good fit with the corporate culture.

The document came together after about a year of work, triggered by a December 2013 chemistry department town hall meeting that Brozek attended.

«Professor Weitao Yang's group in the Duke chemistry department provided critical theoretical insights that helped us understand what was happening.

«Almost every manufacturing process uses colloids in some form,» says Terence Cosgrove, an independent expert in the field at Bristol University's chemistry department.

But meetings with UCLA officials — including the university fire marshal, the chemistry department chair and Chancellor Gene Block — produced no new information.

Nelson is a member of the American Chemical Society and has served on the board of industrial advisors to the University of Alabama's chemistry department.

I am a PhD student in the chemistry department at the University of Hull, but I come from a very remote town, Yi Ning, in the Xinjiang Ugur autonomous region near the border of the former Soviet Union, now Kazakhstan.

Years later, when she joined the faculty, she was one of just three women in the chemistry department.

His effort began 2 years ago, after the head of the chemistry department called a town hall meeting to discuss the results of a departmental survey that identified areas of dissatisfaction.

He has noticed that UC Berkeley's chemistry department has more official mechanisms in place to support its students.

Dean Khaledi joined UTA in early 2015 as Dean of Science, after chairing the chemistry department at North Carolina State University.

With Elda Sanchez, a collaborator at the National Natural Toxins Research Center and chemistry department at Texas A&M University - Kingsville, and colleagues at HHMI, UW - Madison postdoctoral researchers Noah Dowell and Matt Giorgianni got to work tracing the genetic origin and evolution of rattlesnake toxins.

I am also proud to acknowledge that LSU has become the nation?s leading producer of African - American PhDs in chemistry during my tenure as a faculty member and chair of the chemistry department.

Its 45 - member department has five Latino faculty members — the highest number of Latinos in a single chemistry department.

This week was filled with tradition as seniors climbed the Morehead - Patterson Bell Tower and Carolina's chemistry department celebrated 200 years of breakthroughs and innovation.

In a report released on Oct. 19, CSB presents details of one of them — a Jan. 7, 2010, accident in a Texas Tech University chemistry department lab in which a graduate student lost three fingers on his left hand, burned his hands, and injured his eyes.

He started by building replicas of alchemical furnaces and glassware, including distilling apparatus, with the help of Indiana University's chemistry department.