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Playing EXCLUSIVE: Sharna Burgess and Bonner Bolton Talk Explosive Chemistry on 'DWTS,' Avoiding Another Handgate
It's no secret that Dancing With the Stars pair Sharna Burgess and Bonner Bolton look pretty great together, on and off the dance floor.
The 31-year-old dancing pro and the 29-year-old bull rider have had all eyes on them this season, thanks to their explosive chemistry, which doesn't show any signs of stopping soon. On Sunday, Burgess shared a steamy pic of her and Bolton getting super close, previewing their upcoming waltz on Monday's show.
"It's been one heck of a week for @bonner_bolton and I, to be honest... kinda stressful," she wrote. "However, all the controversy aside I have to tell you... this cowboy can waltz!!! He tells me it's because it reminds him of the Texas two step... so this dance is inspired by exactly that and the culture surrounding it. He's worked his butt off and is on track to kill it tomorrow. Get ready for it loverz."
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Burgess' "controversy" mention is, of course, referring to the pair's unintentional viral moment last week, when backstage cameras caught Bolton wrapping his arm around Burgess and his hand going quite a bit lower than her waist. ET's Cameron Mathison caught up with the duo at their DWTS rehearsals on Friday, where Bolton explained how he's going to avoid another mishap.
"It got a lot of attention, that's for sure," Bolton told ET. "I'm definitely going to be more cautious of where my hands are."
"Obviously, I don't know what to do with my hands," he joked, before getting serious. "It's really .. it was so unintentional and I have all the respect on and off the dance floor for this young lady, so it's totally cool."
"We're good," Burgess confirmed. "It's alright."
The pair also acknowledged their obvious spark. The two bonded early on when Bolton took Burgess out for Cajun food on the first day they met in Texas.
"We have a great chemistry getting to know each other, but obviously we're three weeks into this thing of having met each other on his ranch, and we're having a lot of fun, but our priorities obviously are getting Bonner through this competition as far as he can possibly go," Burgess said. "So, in the meantime, we're having a lot of fun getting to know each other and we do have great chemistry."
"She's really good to get along with," Bolton added of his partner. "We actually have a lot in common, I think, in that our personalities are real similar, but that can make it kind of challenging. Sometimes, I think, I get on her nerves a little bit."
Still, Bolton didn't shut the door on a future romance between them when asked if he would ever date Burgess.
"I'm gonna have to see where that one goes, and take that into consideration, but we'll just leave that a mystery," he said.
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On Sunday, Bolton Instagrammed that he's feeling good about Monday's waltz.
"I hope it touches everyone's heart and that you all enjoy it as much as I enjoy dancing to it! #vote #teamdenimndiamonds," he wrote, alongside a cute picture of him with his arm around Burgess.
Watch the video below to see Bolton and Burgess' flirty night out at the Cowboy Palace Saloon in Chatsworth, California, last Tuesday.
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By TIM TROGLEN Reporter Published: March 29, 2017 12:00 AM
HUDSON -- A team of six Hudson Middle School students competed in the March 4 'You Be the Chemist' challenge at Great Lakes Science Center.
Hudson Middle School students qualifying for the competition included: Quinn Berichon, William Carvahlo, Hannah Ma, Carl Roessler, Thomas Banko and Andrew Constable.
One of those students, Thomas Banko, finished second and will move on to the state competition in April.
The middle school team faced teams from Harding Middle School in Lakewood, Wilcox Elementary in North Ridgeville, Lewis F. Mayer Middle School in Fairview Park, Albert Einstein Academy in Westlake, Menlo Park Academy in Cleveland and North Ridgeville Middle School.
The challenge, sponsored by Palmer Holland a national chemical distributor located in North Olmsted, was open to all Hudson Middle School students. However, the students had to qualify via a written exam, according to science teacher Rebecca Reese.
A total of 28 students initially qualified. After several sessions and a second test, the top six made the team and competed March 4, according to Reese.
"Students answered questions based on chemistry concepts," Reese said. "We competed against four other schools in the greater Cleveland area."
Each of the six students was given a T-shirt for participating.
The program was introduced to the district by Hudson parent Ron Zmich, an employee of Palmer Holland who has been working with the students on science-based enrichment activities.
"The YBTC Challenge is an interactive academic competition for fifth-through-eighth grade students focusing on chemistry concepts, history and safety...a Chemistry Academic Challenge, if you will," Zmich said. "The program begins with a local county challenge and progresses to a state challenge and finally a national challenge."
Palmer Holland took over as organizer/administrator of the You Be The Chemist Challenge initiative five years ago according to Zmich, executive advisor for the Greater Cleveland Local Challenge effort.
"The challenge is promoted by the Chemical Education Foundation for both Cuyahoga and Summit counties."
Zmich said the challenge is an electronic question/answer competition that engages students in grades fifth through eighth in learning about important chemistry concepts, historical discoveries and chemical safety. Free study materials are provided by the Chemical Educational Foundation to help students prepare for the challenge, he added.
"As an industry sponsor of the program, Palmer Holland covers all registration fees for those students participating in the local, state and national challenges," Zmich said. "Similar in format to the National Spelling Bee, the top three places from our local challenge move on to the Ohio state challenge."
The winner of the state challenge will progress to the national challenge to be held in Washington D.C. in June.
"Prizes are awarded to winners at all phases of the challenge," Zmich said. "The national champion will win prizes and a scholastic scholarship of $10,000."
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March 27, 2017 - The Wylie Lady Bulldogs are getting ready for their second round match later this week.
The Lady Bulldogs found the back of the net an amazing 12 times in their victory over Decatur in the first round last week. 11 of those came in the first half.
They're experienced, and the Lady Dogs have played together for a long time. Why is that important? One word, chemistry!
Riley Dennison said, "We have good chemistry and there's no drama. We all like each other."
Head coach Manuel Cordova said, "I think it's kind of been similar. We've kind of set a standard where we want to enjoy each other kind of be around each other. I think that makes a big difference especially once you go through adversity, like if you're willing to go through adversity with a group of girls it's going to be a lot more worth it than going in by yourself. They're excited, it kind of just shows in the warm up, how they communicate. Their team dinners they do, so it's not really a new one. I think the playoffs just kind of revive this new excitement in everybody and we're ready to go."
Coach Cordova and his team continue the class 4A playoffs on Thursday night.
They'll take on Clint in Midland at 7 p.m.
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On Friday at a university not so far away Chem Wars!
Northern Illinois Universitys Chemistry Club invites the public to its annual Spring Chemistry Demo Night at 6:30 p.m Friday in Cole Hall room 100.
This year, the Chemistry Club will put on Chem Wars, a show that will feature a number of thrilling experiments that could have been used by the big film studios in Hollywood to create the special effects in the science fiction franchises we all love and cherish.
We certainly hope that the Star Wars theme draws lots of people to come to the show," Chemistry Club President Marina Galluzzo said in a news release. "However, I am confident that when they leave they will not only better understand the chemical concepts behind these experiments but also appreciate the love of chemistry that all volunteers participating in the show share.
Faculty members helping with this years demo include Tim Hagen, Lee Sunderlin, Chong Zheng, Tim Perkins and the Chemistry Clubs faculty adviser, Oliver Hofstetter.
The annual Chem Demo really is the highlight of the year when it comes to presenting ourselves and reaching out to the community. It is an exciting opportunity to demonstrate that science is fun and that scientists are just people like you and me, Hofstetter said in the release.
While the night will include some crowd favorites from previous years, such as the liquid nitrogen bomb and ping-pong madness, the Chem Club also will serve freshly prepared ice cream at the end of the performance.
Expect bright flashes of light and intermittent periods of low light and/or darkness during the event.
Free parking will be available in the NIU Parking Deck starting at 5 p.m., except for reserved and handicapped spaces.
For information about the Chemistry Demo, email Marina Galluzzo at mgalluzzo@niu.edu.
For information about the Chemistry Club, email Hofstetter at ohofst@niu.edu.
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Alanna Schepartz, newly appointed as a Sterling Professor of Chemistry, is known for the creative application of chemical synthesis and principles to understand and control biological recognition and function.
A Sterling Professorship is one of the universitys highest faculty honors.
Schepartzs research has contributed to and shaped thinking in multiple areas, including the molecular mechanisms of protein-DNA recognition and transcriptional activation; protein design and engineering and their application to synthetic biology; and the mechanisms by which both molecules and molecular information are trafficked between biological compartments. She is also widely recognized for her design of -peptide bundles, the first and only example of a protein-like architecture that lacks even a single -amino acid.
After earning her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the State University of New York-Albany, Schepartz carried out graduate studies at Columbia University. Following postdoctoral work at the California Institute of Technology, she joined the Yale faculty in 1988. She was named the Milton Harris 29 Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry in 2000 and holds an additional appointment as professor of molecular, cellular, and developmental biology. Her other appointments have included a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professorship (2002-2007) and the inaugural directorship of the Yale Chemical Biology Institute (2011-2014).
At Yale, Schepartz has played a leading role in promoting science education and women in science. In 2002, she received a $1 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to enrich undergraduate education in chemistry by creating courses that expose students to the excitement and creativity of cutting-edge research earlier in their college careers. She was also an organizer of a conference in 2003 that highlighted the impact of women scientists historically and addressed scientific challenges for the 21st century.
The Yale professor has been honored with numerous awards for her work, including a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship, a National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, and an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship. She has received the Dylan Hixon 88 Award for Teaching Excellence in the Natural Sciences, the Frank H. Westheimer Prize Medal, the A.C.S. Ronald Breslow Award for Achievement in Biomimetic Chemistry, the Wheland Medal, and the ACS Chemical Biology Prize & Prize Lecture, for which she was the inaugural recipient. In 2010, Schepartz was elected as a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Chemical Society. From 2005 to 2016, she served the chemical biology community as an associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. In 2014, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. In 2016, Schepartz was named editor-in-chief of Biochemistry.
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(Beyond Pesticides, February 27, 2020) A new report finds that as birds and pollinators continue to decline, and chronic diseases remain on the rise, the global agrichemical industry is raking in billions of dollars from hazardous pesticides that contribute to these crises. A joint investigation from Unearthed and Public Eye finds that 35% of pesticide sales from the largest agrichemical corporations are made from the most toxic pesticides on the market.
Pesticide production was a $57.6 billion market in 2018, according to the report. While the profits of the industry are privatized, the public health and environmental effects are broad. Studies conducted over the last decade show that the impacts of hazardous pesticide use dwarf the market for these chemicals.
The impact of pesticides on public health results in a drag on the economy. Earlier this year, research from the New York University Grossman School of Medicine found that childrens exposure to organophosphate insecticides was estimated to result in over 26 million lost IQ points and over 110,000 cases of intellectual disability, totaling roughly $735 billion in economic costs each year. A 2019 study from the same scientists determined that endocrine disrupting chemicals, including organophosphates and organochlorine pesticides, were attributable to $340 billion in health care costs annually.
The damage pesticides cause to the natural world also results in significant economic impacts. Pollination alone contributes between $20 and $30 billion in economic value to agriculture each year. A 2016 review, titled The Hidden and External Costs of Pesticide Use, pinned the total environmental costs of pesticide use, including issues like bird and fish kills, loss of pest management by the killing of non-target animals, and pest resistance to pesticides to result in at least $39.5 billion in economic costs annually.
The report from Unearthed and Public Eye finds that the five major chemical companies represented by the trade association Croplife, including BASF, Bayer Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience, FMC, and Syngenta/ChemChina, sold roughly $37 billion worth of pesticides in 2018, comprising 65% of the global market. Of that group, the investigation found that 10% of leading product income from Croplife members came from chemicals considered highly toxic to bees by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
Focus of the report centered around the outsized influence Croplife members have on the sale of highly hazardous chemicals around the world, as defined by Pesticide Action Network International. In high income developed countries, Croplife companies sales of highly hazardous pesticides accounted for 27% of its market share, but in lower income developing countries, hazardous pesticide sales were nearly 50%. This is especially concerning in countries like Brazil, which is home to some of the most biodiverse areas in the world. Since the election of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonoro, pesticide approvals in that country have skyrocketed.
While it is certainly important to restrict use of the most toxic pesticides on the market, what is truly needed is an end to pesticide dependency. The ongoing success of organic agriculture shows that we can transform our farming systems from an economic drain on ecosystem services and public health to one that fosters biodiversity, delivers more nutritious foods, and adds to economic growth. Under organic, use of a limited list of least-toxic pesticides is allowed only under the conditions determined by a comprehensive organic systems plan.
If youre concerned about the use of pesticides on Brazilian biodiversity and imported foods, consider joining Beyond Pesticides boycott of Brazilian food products. And to hear more about the connection between pesticide use and adverse economic impacts, considering attending Beyond Pesticides National Pesticide Forum, where Leonardo Trasande, MD, MPP, of the NYU research team will provide a keynote talk on his research.
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Paschalis Alexandridis, UB Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The Royal Society of Chemistry is the oldest chemical society in the world and celebrated its 175th anniversary in 2016. Its mission of advancing excellence in the chemical sciences dates back to 1841 and continues today, with more than 54,000 members around the world.
The distinction of fellow recognizes members who have been in a senior position for more than five years and have made a demonstrated impact in the chemical sciences.
This is a well-deserved recognition of Paschalis many contributions to our understanding of the behavior of colloids, surfactant and polymer solutions, materials that touch our everyday lives in innumerable ways, including food, pharmaceuticals and a wide variety of personal care products, says Mark Swihart, UB Distinguished Professor, Empire Innovation Professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering. His work has been recognized by national and international awards, which raise the visibility of UB and our department. We are delighted to see that appreciation grow further.
A chemical engineer specializing in soft materials, complex fluids and nanotechnology, Alexandridis joined the UB faculty in 1997. His work impacts emerging paradigms of chemical engineering on molecular engineering of materials and on product design and development, with the goal of novel smart, nano and bio materials that benefit society.
He has authored more than 175 journal articles and 65 conference proceedings, edited two books and given more than 190 invited lectures worldwide. He is co-inventor of 10 patents on pharmaceutical formulations, superabsorbent polymers, and metallic and semiconductor nanomaterials. His work has been cited more than 18,000 times.
Alexandridis is also a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His previous distinctions include the SUNY Chancellors Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity (2011), American Chemical Societys Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal (2010), Bodossaki Foundation Academic Prize in Applied Science (2005), UB Exceptional Scholar Award (2002), Sigma Xi International Young Investigator Award (2002), Japan Research Institute of Material Technology Lecturer Award (2001) and the National Science Foundation CAREER Award (1999).
Alexandridis has served as chair of AIChE Area 1C: Interfacial Phenomena and on the executive committee of the American Chemical Society Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry. He is currently serving as co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Molecular Sciences and review editor of the Journal of Surfactants and Detergents.
His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Petroleum Research Fund, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative, and industry.
At UB, Alexandridis has served as director of graduate studies in chemical engineering, director of the materials science and engineering program, and associate dean for research and graduate education in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
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This was Professor Liebers final year as Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB) chair, and our office was in the process of considering potential successors," Stubbs said. Both Professors Dan Kahne and Ted Betley are held in very high regard by their colleagues, and both were strongly recommended for the chair role.
Stubbs said that given "the urgency of attending to the students and postdoctoral scholars in the Lieber group, the need to draw the CCB community together in mutual support, and the ongoing demands of administration of a large and complex department, we decided that co-chairmanship was a good approach. I am very grateful to Professors Betley and Kahne for their willingness to step into these roles on such short notice, and I look forward to working in partnership with them.
The interim chairs boast impressive credentials.
Betley runs Harvards Betley Research Group, which works in the field of synthetic inorganic chemistry to design new complexes capable of activating unreactive chemical bonds, says Betleys biography on Harvards website. We design catalysts comprised of first-row transition elements where precise control of the molecular electronic structure leads to reactivity in organometallic catalysis and small molecule activation."
The bio says Betley "has been recognized by the Technology Review as one of the top 35 US technological innovators, as well as by the NSF, DOE, and DOD with Early Career Awards."
Kahnes lab at Harvard, the Kahne Research Group, is interested in the problem of antibiotic resistance, his online bio says. To develop new approaches to treat resistant bacterial infections, we focus on the protein machines that assemble the outer membrane that protects Gram-negative bacteria from toxic molecules.
Federal prosecutors, meanwhile, are focused on Lieber, whos charged with making false statements to federal authorities. Hes currently free on $1 million bond and hasnt yet entered a plea.
The case stretches back to 2011, when a professor at a leading Chinese university e-mailed a contract to Lieber. He told Lieber he had been recommended for a global recruitment program, part of the communist governments Thousand Talents Plan to lure high-level scientific talent and, in some cases, reward them for stealing proprietary information, federal investigators have said.
A few days later, Lieber traveled to Chinas Wuhan University of Technology to sign a long-term agreement. When the terms were finalized, he would be paid $50,000 a month, $158,000 in living expenses, and $1.5 million to establish a research lab at the Chinese university, according to legal filings.
But Lieber kept that secret from Harvard, according to federal prosecutors, and when questioned by Defense Department investigators in 2018, denied he had ever participated in the Thousand Talents program.
Harvard officials last week said Lieber, who was arrested at his university office, had been placed on paid administrative leave.
The charges brought by the U.S. government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious, the university said in a prior statement. "Harvard is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is initiating its own review of the alleged misconduct.
Tonya Alanez of the Globe Staff contributed to this report.
Travis Andersen can be reached at travis.andersen@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TAGlobe.
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This is what climate change looks like: Growing numbers of people struggling to find abundant clean water or to grow their crops in the face of higher temperatures, volatile weather patterns, and degrading soils. Wildfires raging through the Australian bush, killing an estimated half a billion animals, and more on the way. Floodwaters from extreme storms infiltrating coastal industrial plants and combusting vats of chemicals, putting workers and other people at risk.
Climate change is happening, and scientists have warned the world to brace for more intense heat waves, longer fire seasons, more frequent extreme storms, and an acidifying and warming ocean, among other consequences. It is increasingly urgent to act now, they say, not only to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change but also to fortify ourselves against a changing Earth. We must take aggressive, rapid steps to mitigate climate change and prevent conditions from worsening, experts say. But some of the damage is now unavoidable.
To protect human lives, critical infrastructure, crucial ecosystems, and the economy, the world must adapt to climate change. The nonprofit Global Commission on Adaptation is calling for scientists and governments to meet a moral responsibility to respond in a way that improves lives and livelihoods for all. The effects of climate change will hit hardest in developing countries and small island nations. And these challenges coincide with a predicted surge in population growth.
With adaptation, there is also opportunity. As the commission writes in a 2019 report, adaptation can deliver additional social and environmental benefits that bring with them economic and environmental justice. Climate change is frightening, but there are solutions, and chemists will play a critical role in helping the world thrive.
In this issue, youll learn how scientists are tackling some of the biggest problems caused by climate change and turning them into opportunities, including feeding the world by improving access to high-quality proteins and greener pesticides, protecting our coral reefs with high-tech breeding methods, and steeling our cities against natural disasters with innovative materials science. Well also delve into how the chemical industry is learning from past disasters to safeguard its infrastructure and look at the policy changes and educational strategies we need to ensure climate resilience.
This is what adaptation to climate change looks like. Read along, and let us know how youre contributing by writing us at edit.cen@acs.org. We may share your story in an upcoming issue of C&EN.
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Despite a disappointing loss to the Sacramento Kings in his home debut game as a member of the Los Angeles Clippers, Reggie Jackson is impressed with the teams locker room.
Jackson also expressed his desire to develop chemistry with his new teammates and said the teams bond was evident after one practice which (unsurprisingly) included a trash-talking incident ignited by Patrick Beverley.
Earlier this week, Reggie Jackson negotiated a buyout with the Detroit Pistons and promptly signed with L.A., joining his good friend Paul George.
The 29-year old playmaker spent much of the his 10th season nursing a back injury, which limited him to 14 games for the Pistons. In those games, Jackson was ice cold on two-pointers (38.8 percent) but far better from deep (37.8 percent), which the Clippers hope translates to Los Angeles.
Jackson and fellow newcomer Marcus Morris both went 3-9 from the field and were overall out-of-rhythm on Saturday. Jackson got the start in place of Beverley (groin) and contributed eight points and four assists in 23 minutes, while Morris tallied six points and five turnovers.
Kawhi Leonard dropped a customary 31 points. However, with George (hamstring) also inactive, Jackson and Morris were unable to provide an adequate scoring punch something Jackson lamented after the game. Clippers head coach Doc Rivers largely chalked the loss up to a lack of cohesion with the new additions.
To Jacksons credit, he seems to have his priorities in order as he works to fit in with his new squad.
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My Chemical Romance announced their split in March of 2013 and fans were sent reeling from decimated dreams. Now, six years later they're shouting loud and clear: The band will carry on.
The New Jersey-based band behind 2000's punk-pop anthems like "Welcome to the Black Parade" and "Helena," announced a reunion show on Thursday on their social media accounts. The performers posted a black and white graphic with the word, "RETURN," which appears to be the name of the event, featuring an angelic-like statue in the background.
"Like Phantoms Forever..." reads the caption, a reference to their 2002 EP of the same name. The band has only announced one show in Los Angeles on December 20. The tickets sales begin on November 1, at 12 p.m., according to their Instagram post.
Bassist Mikey Way and guitarist Frank Iero both tweeted a link to their respective Instagram posts, with the words "California 2019" shortly after the announcement. Frontman Gerard Way posted the same message on Instagram, but guitarist Ray Toro hasn't yet posted the news on his social media platforms.
The band disbanded in 2013 after 12 years together. In the statement announcing the split, the band thanked fans and said the experience was "a true blessing." The group said they've "shared the stage with people we admire, people we look up to, and best of all, our friends."
My Chemical Romance released their debut album in 2002 but really made a splash on the music scene in 2004 with the platinum-selling "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge." It featured the Top 40 hit "Helena."
They followed that with another platinum effort in 2006, "The Black Parade," which earned their first Top 10 pop hit with the song "Welcome to the Black Parade." Their last album was 2010's "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys."
Since the split, Way created the award-winning comic "The Umbrella Academy," which was later adapted to a Netflix live-action series that premiered in February. The other band members have pursued their own individual projects.
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Set in the middle of a mass of laser equipment, researchers have managed to trigger the coldest chemical reaction in the known Universe. This feat promises to reveal some essential truths about how the building blocks of matter react at ultra-low temperatures.
How cold is the reaction exactly? We're talking in the region of 500 nanokelvin - just a few millionths of a degree above absolute zero. The frigid nature of this set-up is important, since at these sort of temperatures molecules tend to slow to the point of almost stopping.
If you want a chemical reaction to happen, tardy molecules are not what you'd typically be after.But in this case, the reduction in both temperature and speed gave the Harvard University-led team the opportunity to see something that's never been observed before: the moment when two molecules meet together and form... two new molecules.
Scientists have been able to observe the central part of a chemical reaction. (Ming-Guang Hu)
"Probably in the next couple of years, we are the only lab that can do this," says physicist Ming-Guang Hu, from Harvard University.
Chemical reactions take just a picosecond,which makes trying to capture what happens in that time frame very tricky indeed. Even ultra-fast lasers acting as cameras can usually capture the start and end of a reaction, not what happens in the middle.
Slowing the reaction in the extremely cold temperatures achieved by the team was therefore the perfect solution.
"Because [the molecules] are so cold, now we kind of have a bottleneck effect," says chemical biologist Kang-Kuen Ni, also from Harvard University.
The absolute coldest temperature in the Universe is absolute zero - but it's impossible to achieve, because it means atoms would stop completely. We can, however, get close to it.
Ultra-low temperatures mean ultra-low energy, which in turn means a much slower reaction: two potassium rubidium molecules chosen for their pliability were delayed in the reaction stage for microseconds (millionths of a second).
A technique known as photoionisation detection was then used to observe what was happening to the two molecules, giving scientists invaluable real data to help inform their models and hypotheses.
Being able to observe chemical reactions at such close quarters and at such a fundamental level opens up the possibility of being able to design new reactions too an almost limitless number of combinations are imaginable, potentially useful in everything from material construction to quantum computing.
It's a journey that Kang-Kuen Ni has been on for years working at incredibly small scales to observe and to control what happens when chemicals react with each other.
Now the team is investigating ways in which chemical reactions could be influenced or manipulated to order either changing the energies involved before the reaction happens, or even nudging the molecules to alter the reaction while it's in progress.
"With our controllability, this time window is long enough, we can probe," says Hu. "Now, with this apparatus, we can think about [influencing reactions]. Without this technique, without this paper, we cannot even think about this."
The research is published in Science.
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The liberal arts have always encompassed the natural and physical sciences, and Colorado College is no different in featuring these disciplines at the forefront of its curriculum. In our classrooms across all eight and a half blocks, science is everywhere at CC often right in front of you. Nearly 1,000 students take classes in the Department of Chemistry during any given academic year around half of the student population of the college.
With the Block Plan, CC students dig deep on their very first day in class for four hours plus afternoon lab work in the case of CH107, or General Chemistry 1 as its more commonly known. Its a lot of work, but for the huge number of students who take this course, it provides a scientific foundation for their hugely varied academic journeys at Colorado College.
On the Block Plan, the pace is incredibly fast and the workload especially time-consuming. We'd have to learn thermochemistry in the morning, perform a thermos lab that afternoon, then take a group quiz the next day, says Vivian Nguyen 20, of Texas. I took general chemistry as a requirement for the neuroscience major, but I always had a passion for chemistry in particular so I was excited to take this class.
Professor Murphy Brasuel 96 has been teaching CH107 (General Chemistry 1) at CC for 13 years. He has had ample time to come to an appreciation of the versatility and applicability of the course across the disciplines at Colorado College.
The range of students and their experiences, in this class, is really all over the map, he explains. While its mostly first- and second-year students, the challenge is to teach the material in a way that allows this massive range of student backgrounds to learn and thrive in my classroom.
I equate this class to an introductory language class, where youre learning the vocabulary and structure of a language its the same with chemistry as a discipline; you have to learn the language.
Introducing students to a range of terms, theories, and practices of the discipline, General Chemistry is one of the most frequently taught courses across the entire college.
Why? Simply put, its a required course for so many majors at CC.
Its a requirement for chemistry majors, biochemistry majors, molecular and organismal biology majors, geology majors, and neuroscience majors thats at least six majors right off the top of my head, Brasuel clarifies.
The Department of Chemistry graduates anywhere between 16 and 24 seniors per year, making it one of the smaller majors at CC. That wouldnt seem, at first glance, to mandate the class being taught so many times in an academic year. Its the aforementioned multiple majors, as well as most medical schools pre-health requirements, that mean the department sees 800-900 students pass through its classes in any given academic year.
We teach it nine times a year, the ninth time being one where its taught simultaneously by two professors, Brasuel says. Its about the nomenclature of chemistry, how we balance equations, understanding how chemicals are transformed from reactants into products, how they bond, and interact.
Embracing science is about being creative. If that sounds unconventional, thats the point, though it is understandable that one can get caught up in the volume of content and miss the creativity.
Once the foundation of knowledge is there, Brasuel explains, creativity comes in the pushing and understanding of natural boundaries, how things work, through the lens of chemical interaction.
Chemistry gives us the ability to measure and engage with the world on a micro and nano level, to put together things you cant see, to create new measurement tools for medicine, biological research, and so on.
Such is the intensity of learning with CCs Block Plan that students in the sciences, or the languages for that matter, often cover the semester equivalent of an entire weeks worth of material in a single day.
Yeah, its intense! Our professor made sure to have us perform demonstrations as a fun escape from all the lectures and practice problems we had to do, like igniting thermite on the Olin yard, says Nguyen.
The classroom is a quiet one. Not the quiet borne of disengaged students, but rather the quiet that comes with deep concentration. The sounds you hear are the clinking of beakers, the whirr of lab equipment, the whispers of students collecting and updating data.
Theyre testing the concentration of iron in Kelloggs All-Bran, a process that requires the pressurization, liquidation, and distillation of the chemical structure of the cereal. Its the chemists way of checking the nutritional data.
Its an experiment that comes with practiced intensity, vital for the specificity of the discipline. Brasuel is among the louder people in the room, bouncing from group to group, encouraging students, checking in on measurements, clarifying the lab for his students.
Lab is tied to the lecture, demonstrations, and other course material to help students tie together a theoretical, quantitative, and practical understanding of chemistry. But oftentimes, before these aspects of the course can work together, the students need to become comfortable enough with each other to ask questions and to make mistakes on their initial solutions to problems, Brasuel says.
Lab work was always hectic, but exhilarating, to be applying the concepts we learned just earlier into the experiments we had to perform that afternoon, says Nguyen.
CC students dont want to, arent used to, being wrong, and so part of the reason I switch up the groups as often as I do is to engage the students with each other, to get that comfort in making mistakes and asking questions, Brasuel explains.
What is perhaps most important about the sciences at CC is that teaching is at the heart of the discipline. Student-centered is who we are and who we should continue to be, says Brasuel.
Nearly all science faculty do conduct research Brasuels own research focuses on nano-level structure and design but that work largely takes place over the summers, with student researchers assisting faculty members for the experience and publication opportunities.
We want students coming here because weve got teachers here, not researchers who teach on the side, Brasuel says.
Ive been really impressed with my peers and colleagues who engage in teaching courses like this one, and who value it as a really important part of what we do giving students a foundation of knowledge regardless of their direction or focus here. Its a really liberal arts mindset, the idea that all knowledge, all ways of knowing, has value.
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Disclaimer: In posting this, I do not wish to do harm to any of the employees or students at Scripps. I only wish to bring justice and encourage others to come forward. Also, any statements that I make are ALLEGED. I hope that this will spur an external investigation into Scripps.
For the past decade, there has been multiple instances of sexual misconduct and academic misconduct at Scripps. In particular, the labs of Jin Quan Yu, Kim Janda (sexual misconduct), and Phil Baran. Here is a list of some of the instances:
- In the Yu lab, a student's research was stolen by a more senior member of the lab. Unbeknownst to the student, the senior member completed most of the work pertaining to the project. Yu did not object to this misconduct and instead rewarded the senior member with higher authorship than the student.
- In the Baran lab, multiple instances of sexual misconduct has occurred and Baran has been notified. In each instance the victim has been punished/blamed, with expulsion from the lab being a common outcome. One instance in particular, allegedly, involved sexual activity inside of Baran's office.
- In the Baran lab, published NMR spectras are manipulated using Mestrenova software. Solvent peaks are deleted. Additionally, yields are inflated. The yields of compounds are taken in the presence of impurities. I will not cite the exact publications due to anonymity.
- In the Baran lab, there have been multiple instances over the years where the credit for a student's work is taken by another member of the lab. Oftentimes this member is more senior.
- Within the greater institution, there have been instances of harassment due to racial background and gender. When these instances are brought forth to the administration, the victims are punished by expulsion from their labs or Scripps, or blamed for the actions of their perpetrators. In a way, they are harassed further by the administration of Scripps.
- The trip to Lake Arrowhead is an event where multiple instances of sexual misconduct have occurred. This trip is fueled by alcohol.
I also want to leave the story of Anna Owensby, a former fourth-year graduate student at Scripps: https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i32/Grappling-graduate-student-mental-health.html
To the victims of academic misconduct and sexual misconduct, please come forward. Hopefully this exposition will spur an external investigation into Scripps that will bring justice and stop the administration/faculty from ruining the careers of postdocs/graduate students. The environment at Scripps is unique from traditional universities in that their is little internal checks-and-balances to stop these injustices from occurring. Please do not be afraid to share your story anonymously.
EDIT: All parties discussed are innocent until proven otherwise. The purpose of this post is to encourage others to come forward and please reach out to the necessary authorities. You are not alone.
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Its a tall order not to be inundated with smiles and laughter during one of Philip Roskos classes at Lakeland Community College.
The 49-year veteran professor, who teaches chemistry, has been a fixture at the schools Kirtland campus for some 47 years and he is, in this reporters opinion, one of the most entertaining educators this side of Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Between his genuine affinity for chemistry; his edgy, and often comical approach to teaching and the respect he has not only for the field of education and Lakeland Community College, but also for his students and the professionals they will one day become, Roskos has cultivated the kind of educational environment that makes learning genuinely fun.
Just ask some of his students.
No matter what youre doing, career-wise, you have to take his chemistry class, said Paul Price, one of Roskos chemistry lab assistants, who said Roskos has left an indelible mark on his career path. Hes probably the biggest influence in the fact that Im getting into chemistry.
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Another lab assistant, Jamie Michaels, said Roskos passion for learning and for teaching makes him an incomparable educator.
Hes just so passionate about it, she said. And hes very selfless so humble. He would do anything for his students.
Bridgette Washburn, also one of Roskos lab assistants, said hes not the kind of teacher who looks to thin the herd, so to speak. Rather, she said, hes all about helping students prosper, no matter how they tend to learn.
Other than (teachers of) a lot of organic chemistry classes, at other colleges, hes not here to weed people out, she said. He wants us to succeed and he wants to help his students learn how they learn best.
And its that very success his students work so diligently under his tutelage to achieve that keeps the spry septuagenarian coming back for more.
Im 72 and Im still cookin! And I tell my students I say: You keep me young and Ill mature you. I will help you with your careers. I will help you mature. And they keep me young because they let me be silly.
And silly seems to work.
Just ask Price, who said he met Roskos before he even decided he wanted to get into chemistry, probably his first week on campus as a student.
Im just walking through the hallway and here comes this wild-eyed, crazy looking guy with an old-fashioned teapot thats got steam all coming out of it and he asks me: Hey would you like some tea? Price said, mimicking Roskos mad-scientist-esque countenance. So I said Sure, then he looked at me and smiled and said: You dont want any of whats in here. Its liquid nitrogen. Then he laughed and continued on down the hallway.
And thats classic Roskos, even by his own accounts.
I dont sit in my office. I dont, he said. I believe in managing by wandering around. So I wander around in the hallways and, I dont know... Sometimes I change my outfits during the day and, you know, put on a hat. We just do silly things.
He said that, for example, hell play his nonexistent brother with long hair, thanks to a cap he has with some locks sewn into it.
My name is Phil. And, sometimes, Ill come up with something like, well take a break, and Ill go back to my office and I have this hat with really long hair, because I dont have any hair... and Ill put on a jacket or something and Ill come back to class and Ill say: Phils busy and, and, uhhh, Im his brother, Bill. I got the hair. This is what keeps me going.
He said its the reliance he has on his students to learn and pass it on is another thing that keeps him going.
Hes taken that philosophy, along with his belief that Lakeland should have the most up-to-date, industry-standard tools and instruments, to such a sublime level that hes even got his students and lab assistants teaching others how to use the schools latest and greatest devices.
My plan is that I give my lab assistants and some of the students who have an interest the instructions and I say: Get the thing going, he said. And, when you get it going when you get the instrument doing what its supposed to do, you must show others.
He said thats the essence of education: To learn and pass it on.
I always want my students to be learners and teachers, he said. I want them to learn and then to pass it on. I mean, thats what humans do, isnt it?
He said it seems to do the trick, in terms of his students successes.
I mean, if you have young people, you gotta pass it on, he said. They have to learn how to pass it on. Its like a relay race. Thats my philosophy of learning by doing, then showing others your skills and passing them on. And it seems to have worked, at least according to my contact with past students.
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The two leads of upcoming drama Fight My Way shared howcomfortablethey werearound each other.
On May 15,Park Seo Joon described the atmosphere on set, saying, Even though its my first time working withKim Ji Won, wetalked a lot in the early stages of filming soit feels like weve always known each other. We have good chemistry now that were quite close.
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Our characters in the dramawere close friends ever since they were young, sowe just treat each other comfortably on set, he added.
Kim Ji Won then revealed thatPark Seo Joonwas goodattaking the lead. He makes scenes a lot more fun withhis various ideas, shecommented.
The actors then talked abouttheircharacters in the drama.
The two characters always fight but they care about eachother a lot. Its okay if I tease her butI cant stand other people bothering her. I look forward totheirrelationshipthatmoves from friends to lovers,Park Seo Joon explained.
Kim Ji Won then expressed, There willprobably besomeconflict, excitement, and confused feelings during the process of turning into lovers. I think the viewers will havefun watching us.
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The development and evolution of the chemical industry is directly responsible for many of the technological advancements that have emerged since the late 19th century.
However, it was not until the 1980s that the environment became a priority for the chemical industry. This was prompted largely by stricter environmental regulations and a need to address the sectors poor reputation, particularly due to pollution and industrial accidents.
But the industry is now rapidly improving, and this changing mindset has provided the backdrop for the emergence of green chemistry.
What is green chemistry?
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in almost every industry and chemistry is no different.
Green chemistry aims to minimise the environmental impact of the chemical industry. This includes shifting away from oil to renewable sources where possible.
Green chemistry also prioritises safety, improving energy efficiency and, most importantly, minimising (and ideally) eliminating toxic waste from the very beginning.
Important examples of green chemistry include: phasing out the use of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in refrigerants, which have played a role in creating the ozone hole; developing more efficient ways of making pharmaceuticals, including the well-known painkiller ibuprofen and chemotherapy drug Taxol; and developing cheaper, more efficient solar cells.
The need to adapt
Making chemical compounds, particularly organic molecules (composed predominantly of carbon and hydrogen atoms), is the basis of vast multinational industries from perfumes to plastics, farming to fabric, and dyes to drugs.
In a perfect world, these would be prepared from inexpensive, renewable sources in one practical, efficient, safe and environmentally benign chemical reaction. Unfortunately, with the exception of the chemical processes found in nature, the majority of chemical processes are not completely efficient, require multiple reaction steps and generate hazardous byproducts.
While in the past traditional waste management strategies focused only on the disposal of toxic byproducts, today efforts have shifted to eliminating waste from the outset by making chemical reactions more efficient.
This adjustment has, in part, led to the advent of more sophisticated and effective catalytic reactions, which reduce the amount of waste. The 2001 Chemistry Nobel Laureate Ryoji Noyori stressed that catalytic processes represent the only methods that offer the rational means of producing useful compounds in an economical, energy-saving and environmentally benign way.
A secret to cleaner chemistry
Catalysts are substances that accelerate reactions, typically by enabling chemical bonds to be broken and/or formed without being consumed in the process. Not only do they speed up reactions, but they can also facilitate chemical transformations that might not otherwise occur.
In principle, only a very small quantity of a catalyst is needed to generate copious amounts of a product, with reduced levels of waste.
The development of new catalytic reactions is one particularly important area of green chemistry. As well as being more environmentally friendly, these processes are also typically more cost effective.
Catalysts take many forms, including biological enzymes, small organic molecules, metals, and particles that provide a better surface for reactions to take place. Roughly 90% of industrial chemical processes use catalysts and at least 15 Nobel Prizes have been awarded for catalysis research. This represents a tremendously important and active area of both fundamental and applied research.
Whats the outlook?
In the past 20 years since green chemistry was established, there have been tremendous advances in the industry. Nevertheless, there remains considerable room for improvement.
The chemical industry faces a number of significant challenges, from reducing its dependence on fossil fuels to playing its part in addressing climate change more generally.
Specific challenges include: capturing and fixing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases; developing a greater range of biodegradable plastics; reducing the high levels of waste in pharmaceutical drug manufacture; and improving the efficiency of water-splitting employing visible light photocatalysts.
History suggests that society can develop creative solutions to complex, intractable problems. However, success will most likely require a concerted approach across all areas of science, strong leadership, and a willingness to strategically invest in human capital and value fundamental research.
Alex Bissember received a 2015 Green Chemistry for Life Grant from PhosAgro/UNESCO/IUPAC.
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