Not exact matches
Accidents at
universities have also drawn scrutiny of federal oversight of
labs that work with select agents, a list of risky viruses, bacteria, and toxins that could potentially be used to cause harm.
On the national scene, meanwhile, despite remedial steps at UCLA and some other
universities and attention to the issue in scientific meetings and publications, the toll of academic
lab accidents mounts.
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.
A
university research scientist, about to lose funding and status, has a
lab accident and discovers he can see people's true intentions — which makes his situation even worse.
Accidents rise dramatically along with the number of students in a science
lab, according to Sandra W. West, an associate professor of biology at Southwest Texas State
University.
It is probably no
accident that climate - sceptic MPs like Graham Stringer (
Lab) and Peter Lilley (Con) actually studied the natural sciences during their
university education.