Oh, this is so disheartening, friends. The EPA has canceled a $20-million fund to promote green chemistry research projects with virtually no explanation of why. Read the Environmental Health News story about this sad turn of events here. In response to the decision, Graham Jones, chair of the Northeastern Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology ...
Do you know about the Policy School’s Open Classroom series? I didn’t until I stumbled into the tail end of last week’s session on the obesity epidemic. Here’s the deal, in the OC’s* own words: “Each semester we select one graduate-level seminar and open it up to the public…. Each week we feature prominent guest ...
A psychologist, a geneticist and a neurologist walk into Curry Ballroom….sorry that was lame. I thought it sounded like the start of a joke, but I guess not. Anyway, it’s true. A couple weeks ago three leading scholars in the field of linguistics participated in a language symposium organized by Iris Berent of the Psychology ...
Not me! And certainly not Gail Begley, an academic specialist in the biology department and director of the Pre-Health Advising Program. Begley’s poem “Song of Sanger,” won honorable mention in the annual poetry contest of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. In honor of my Friday exhaustion, I will sign off for the ...
…and she’s trying to get Northeastern students mad too. Because maybe if people are mad enough, she said, they’ll start making changes. Gibbs, a nationally renowned environmental activist and executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, spoke at last night’s meeting of the Husky Environmental Action Team (HEAT). Gibbs recounted the horrifying ...
Ed Yong might be my favorite blogger. He’s certainly the most prolific one I’m aware of (don’t sign up for his twitter feed if you don’t want to be inundated all day long — how do people keep up with that sort of thing?!). But more importantly he’s entertaining and good at what he does. ...
Last November the University provided funding for eleven students to attend the Grace Hopper Conference, an all-women computer science event. The conference was held in Portland, OR and attended by nearly 3000 professional, academic and student computer scientists from across the country. A few weeks ago I met with Melissa Xie, the president of both ...
Last week the Sustainability Committee invited John Warner to speak to the Northeastern community about the “green chemistry movement,” which he helped create in the mid-nineties. I realized during his talk that despite spending five years in the chemical industry and another five studying with a professor who was personally interested in the area of ...