Civil and environmental engineering professor Philip Larese-Casanova has had a life-long love affair with metals. In his work in aquatic environmental chemistry, he looks at how metallic pollutants transform and behave in freshwater systems. “I just had an interest in the metals,” he told me in an interview last month. “Maybe it’s because I see ...
By now you’ve probably heard of the Boeing 787 Dreamliners and the problems they had in their first weeks in the air. Basically, the Dreamliner is an extremely fuel-efficient airliner. It was the first to use composite materials to reduce weight and the first to use “large format” lithium-ion batteries. Due to fuel leaks and ...
There are certain things most Americans expect to encounter on Thursday: Turkey. Mashed potatoes. A lazy afternoon. Too many lagers. A belly ache. A nod toward the things we’re thankful for. But the one thing we should perhaps be most thankful for may slip under the radar, and that is the incredible human brain, which ...
Fourth year student Christine Dunne loves to travel. During high school she spent two months in China while her mother taught accounting. Later the family ventured to Thailand, laying the ground work for wanderlust that propelled Dunne to explore nine countries on a backpacking trip through Europe last summer. Unfortunately, her major is chemistry, a ...
I’ve only been gone for a few months, but it feels like eons since I donned a pair of goggles and got my gloves dirty in a chem lab. Today I tagged along with a couple of fellow science communications ladies to peek around some of the labs on campus. First we stopped in to ...