The Chemistry Lab Building was cleared for a chemical leak after a student discovered an open container with a potentially explosive liquid Saturday afternoon, officials said.

Steven Locicero, a UF chemistry graduate student, was working in a lab Saturday afternoon when he saw a damaged container of trichlorosilane, a chemical that could explode if exposed to water. He said he was concerned the exposed chemical could be a danger and reported the chemical at about 5:20 p.m.

I just wanted to be sure it was safe, the 28-year-old said.

University Police shut down Buckman Drive for more than an hour until 6:45 p.m. and blocked off foot traffic near the building.

Lt. Kristy Sasser said UPD assisted Gainesville Fire Rescue and evacuated the lab building.

GFR District Chief Joseph Hillhouse said Locicero placed the container in an over-pack container, which would block any leaks, before he evacuated the building.

(The chemical) doesnt play well with others, and we have to be safe about this, Hillhouse said.

The hazardous materials team went into the building and used air monitoring devices to see if the chemical was airborne but did not detect anything, Hillhouse said. He said the container could have erupted at any time, and the chemical may have already dissipated.

The lab where the chemical is found is used to make solid materials, Locicero said.

Hillhouse said the chemical no longer presents a hazard.

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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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As part of its continuous efforts to reach out to the Seguin community, Texas Lutheran University will host its third annual CHAOS Chemistry Night on Thursday.

The acronym CHAOS is Chemistry Happens with Adventurous Outstanding Scientists, chemistry professor Dr. Allison Bray said. It is a hands-on event where we will have chemists doing science for K-12 students in the community. We will also be doing some high-powered chemistry demonstrations, but also tie it back to a theme this year, which is the chemistry of the earth.

TLU hosts this event because the science department enjoys sharing its knowledge with the community, Bray said.

Its difficult with the federal curriculum in schools to incorporate a lot of large-scale science and hands-on science, she said. We figured this was a way for us to share what we know with the community, and its also a great opportunity for our students to act as teachers and practice explaining science to the younger generation and hopefully get them excited and help them to be scientists, as well.

The event will include multiple stations both outside and inside, Bray said.

Well have one that includes art, so a station of rust and rust paintings. They can create their own rust very quickly, she said. Students are going to have the opportunity to make snowflakes, which is tricky in Texas of course. Theres also a room where they can experience all sorts of glow-in-the-dark items.

Bray said the event will be a great learning opportunity for students.

The kids will not only be learning about science, but theyll also be having fun doing it, she said. It tends to be a very exciting and dramatic event with really unusual experiments.

Director of Marketing and Communications Ashlie Ford said TLU holds events like this as an outreach to the community.

We welcome them on our campus and we really see ourselves as a community partner, she said. This is another way we can share the expertise of our faculty with children and their family, particularly to spark interest in the sciences.

The CHAOS Chemistry Night is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Jackson Park Student Activity Center.

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Dec 24, 2016; New Orleans, LA, USA; Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston (3) gestures after a third quarter touchdown against the New Orleans Saints at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome. Mandatory Credit: Chuck Cook-USA TODAY Sports

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There was a lot of talk about how new Buccaneers receiver DeSean Jacksons attitude towards the off-season and OTAs may not gel so well with a guy like Jameis Winston, who is constantly working to improve and get better. That Jacksons time away from the team during those workouts may rub some the wrong way.

In 2015, Winston and receiver Mike Evans had their moments, but a lot of the time it appeared as thought the two of them were just a little bit off. Before the 2016 season, the two worked together to develop their chemistry and get better together rather than relying strictly on off-season workouts held by the Bucs. They would meet at local high school fields and work.

Now, it appears as though Jackson is getting in on the action.

On an appearance on ESPNs First Take, Jackson spoke about how the three were getting together in the coming days to start developing that connection that bond that will be the difference come game days this season.

Were plannin. Were actually about to in the next couple of days were supposed to be going to Houston and working out with Mike Evans and Jameis. Things like that, to have the intangibles to were not in season, were not in off-season workouts with the team and hes gathering guys together, working out, that really shows a lot to me. He reached out to me and was like, Come on out, Im gonna take care of everything for you. Its just things like that. Im excited to go out there and work out with him.

At 22 years old, Jameis is already working tirelessly at his craft and ensuring that come game day, his two top targets are going to be on the same page with him. The full interview is below which has some great nuggets about his decision to join the Bucs when Stephen A. Smith stops steering the conversation back to the Eagles with his full-fledged homer card in plain view.

Off-season workouts will begin soon with the draft right around the corner. Say what you will about DeSean Jackson and his attitude towards OTAs or off-season activities, but it doesnt appear as of now that he is having any problems working out with his teammates this off-season.

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Class 12 students of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) who took their chemistry exam on Saturday said it was the easiest of all the papers so far.

It had a lot of numerical questions and most were directly from the textbooks. Many students submitted their answer scripts much before time. Teachers too said it was the easiest chemistry paper set by the CBSE in recent times.

The chemistry paper was the easiest so far. I had lost all hope after the mathematics paper since it was a tough one. But I am glad that they compensated for it with the chemistry paper. I am hoping for a good result, said Yash Gupta, student of DAV Public School.

I expected the chemistry paper to be easy this year and that is exactly how it was. Our school had prepared us for a paper that was much more difficult than what we got. It was a balanced one, I turned in my answer script an hour early, said Anchal Shah, a student of Delhi Public School, Sector 45.

Ishan Mehra, a student of Suncity World School, said the questions were from the NCERT syllabus itself and answering them was a cakewalk.

All my classmates were pleased with the question paper, said Neha Singh of Rotary Public School.

The students exiting the exam venues were content with the paper and their work. Teachers too said most of the questions were the those that were discussed and practised in the classroom.

Students can now heave a sigh of relief as the difficult exams are over. What remains is the physical education paper scheduled for next month.

But the tension doesnt end there as now students will begin their preparation for the tough to crack IIT-JEE exam on April 2.

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The second-ranked Florida softball team has reached the midpoint of the season with just one loss and carries a 19-game winning streak into this weekend's three-game series against fourth-ranked Auburn.

The remainder of the season, however, still looms ahead.

It startsSaturday when the Gators (27-1, 5-0 SEC) and Tigers (27-3, 2-1) square off at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium at 6 p.m.

Senior left-hander and 2016 first-team All-American Delanie Gourley feels it's all about trust.

Our team chemistry is just really, really good this year, she said. That's something that you can't ever force. When that happens like it did this year, that's something really special.

We feed off each other a lot, whether it's from our workouts or from practice or for games. That is really what has set this season off.

Gourley (11-1), the reigning SEC Pitcher of the Week, has 105 strikeouts and leads a staff that has posted a 0.54 ERA while holding opponents to a .128 batting average.

Kelly Barnhill (10-0, 0.23 ERA, 119 Ks) and Aleshia Ocasio (5-0, 0.55 ERA) also have been outstanding.

Auburn will counter with pitchers Kaylee Carlson (15-0, 0.93 ERA) and Makayla Martin (12-3, 0.98 ERA).

Five Gators Kayli Kvistad, Sophia Reynoso, Amanda Lorenz, Justine McLean and Nicole DeWitt have started every game this season.

We've been working hard. You can't ask for much more, DeWitt said. We go out here and we want to win games. We can't have any doubt in ourselves, so being able to believe in each other is going to be a huge key.

We don't focus on who is in the other dugout. We focus on ourselves and playing Florida softball.

UF has outscored the opposition by a 199-21 margin.

In addition, the Gators have made just six errors for a nation-leading .991 fielding percentage.

A huge part of how we've been playing is the relationships that we have with each other, DeWitt said. We have such strong bonds that can't be broken. We're constantly together. Even when we have an off day, we're still hanging out. We all enjoy being around each other. That's a huge thing.

UF also is doing the right things off the field.

They're student-athletes, coach Tim Walton said. They know priority number one is to go to school and do the things that they need to do.

The top-five showdown with the Tigers will be the first of six remaining SEC series for UF, which just two weeks into the league schedule is the lone remaining team unbeaten in conference play.

We're going to come out, keep doing what we've been doing and just play how we play, especially when we're playing at home in front of our amazing fans, Gourley said. We're going to come out and have fun.

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For more than a decade, Facebook and Google algorithms have been learning as much as they can about you. Its how they refine their systems to deliver the news you read, those puppy videos you love, and the political ads you engage with.

These same kinds of algorithms can be used to find billions of molecules and catalyze important chemical reactions that are currently induced with expensive and toxic metals, says Steven A. Lopez, an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern.

Lopez is working with a team of researchers to train machine learning algorithms to spot the molecular patterns that could help find new molecules in bulk, and fast. Its a much smarter approach than scanning through billionsand billionsof molecules without a streamlined process.

Were teaching the machines to learn the chemistry knowledge that we have, Lopez says. Why should I just have the chemical intuition for myself?

The alternative to using expensive metals is organic molecules, and particularly plastics, which are everywhere, Lopez says. Depending on their molecular structure and ability to absorb light, these plastics can be converted with chemistry to produce better materials for todays most important problems.

Lopez says the goal is to find molecules with the right properties and similar structures as metal catalysts. But to attain that goal, Lopez will need to explore an enormous number of molecules.

Thus far, scientists have been able to synthesize only about a million molecules. But conservative estimates of the number of possible molecules that could be analyzed is a quintillion, which is 10 raised to the power of 18, or the number one followed by 18 zeros.

Lopez thinks of this enormous number of possibilities as a vast ocean made up of billions of unexplored molecules. Such an immense molecular space is practically impossible to navigateeven if scientists were to combine experiments with supercomputer analysis.

Lopez says all of the calculations that have ever been done by computers add up to about a billion, or 10 to the ninth power. Thats about a million times less than the possible molecules.

Forget it, theres no chance, he says. We just have to use a smarter search technique.

Thats why Lopez is leading a team, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, that includes research from Tufts University, Washington University in St. Louis, Drexel University, and Colorado School of Mines. The team is using an open-access database of organic molecules called VERDE materials DB, which Lopez and colleagues recently published, to improve their algorithms and find more useful molecules.

The database will also register newly found molecules, and can serve as a data hub of information for researchers across several different domains, Lopez says. Thats because it can launch researchers toward finding different molecules with many new properties and applications.

In tandem with the database, the algorithms will allow scientists to use computational resources more efficiently. After molecules of interest are found, researchers will recalibrate the algorithm to find more similar groups of molecules.

The active-search algorithm, developed by Roman Garnett at Washington University in St. Louis, uses a process similar to the classic board game Battleship, in which two players guess hidden locations off a grid to target and destroy vessels within a naval fleet.

In that grid, players place vessels as far apart as possible to make opponents miss targets. Once a ship is hit, players can readjust their strategy and redirect their attacks to the coordinates surrounding that hit.

Thats exactly how Lopez thinks of the concept of exploring a vast ocean of molecules.

We are looking for regions within this ocean, he says. We are starting to set up the coordinates of all the possible molecules.

Hitting the right candidate molecules might also expand the understanding that chemists have of this unexplored chemical space.

Maybe well find out through this analysis that we have something really at the edge of what we call the ocean, and that we can expand this ocean out a bit more in that region, Lopez says. Those are things that we wouldnt [be able to find by searching] with a brute force, trial-and-error kind of approach.

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Through 40 games, the Los Angeles Lakers have a record of 33-7, which is not just the best record in the Western Conference by 5.5 games; its the best 40-game start theyve had since the 1999-00 season, when they finished the season with 67 wins two wins short of their franchise record.

Whats been more impressive about this season, though, is just how quickly the Lakers have come together. While its true that Phil Jackson was in his first year as head coach when Los Angeles won it all in 2000, his core four of Derek Fisher, Kobe Bryant, Robert Horry and Shaquille ONeal had been together since the 1996-97 season, and Rick Fox joined the team the following year.

The same cant be said of Frank Vogel and this years Lakers team, which features eight new players, including three new starters. In spite of that, the height of their adversity so far was a four-game losing streak against four top-10 teams in December two of which came on the road.

Obviously having arguably the best one-two punch in the league in LeBron James and Anthony Davis has been a big part of the Lakers early success, but their chemistry has also played a huge role. In fact, following Mondays win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jared Dudley went so far as to say the locker room is closer than any team hes been on in his 12-year career.

Best chemistry Ive had on a team, Dudley said. Obviously I think the other team I had was the Suns, I think 2010 when we went to the Western Conference Finals. It started with LeBron in the summertime, us going to Vegas, us hanging out, half play, half work. Its for us getting to know each other. And I think winning has a lot to do with it. Credit Frank Vogel and the staff, (with) AD and LeBron leading.

And then were having fun, man. I think we actually genuinely like each other. Weve had no beefs or hiccups, and thats very unique even for good teams, Dudley continued. We went through our four-game losing streak, and in the locker room I can be a testament in telling you, it didnt change. And when you lose three or four, people might want to play more. Might say I dont know if coach is doing this right, but we all stood even-keeled, no one got too high and no one got too low.

That last bit about players not voicing their frustrations over their roles has been especially impressive.

During the aforementioned four-game losing streak, Quinn Cook was a healthy scratch three times even though it was evident the guard rotation needed a boost. But Cook didnt complain then, and he hasnt complained about the combined 48 minutes hes played in the games since either.

Thats a stark contrast from last season, when a group of veteran players JaVale McGee among them got into a heated verbal argument with Luke Walton over their roles. Granted, that team was much worse, but the lack of drama in the locker room this season is a testament to the quality of veterans on this years Lakers team, and Dudley is among the best of them, according to James.

Dudz is great, man, one of the best teammates Ive ever had, whether hes making shots or not, James said.

Well see what happens if the Lakers run into real adversity later in the season, but as of now, theres no reason to believe theres anything they cant handle as a team, which is a good indicator that theyre a true championship contender.

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The second-ranked Florida softball team has reached the midpoint of the season with just one loss and carries a 19-game winning streak into this weekend's three-game series against fourth-ranked Auburn.

The remainder of the season, however, still looms ahead.

It startsSaturday when the Gators (27-1, 5-0 SEC) and Tigers (27-3, 2-1) square off at Katie Seashole Pressly Stadium at 6 p.m.

Senior left-hander and 2016 first-team All-American Delanie Gourley feels it's all about trust.

Our team chemistry is just really, really good this year, she said. That's something that you can't ever force. When that happens like it did this year, that's something really special.

We feed off each other a lot, whether it's from our workouts or from practice or for games. That is really what has set this season off.

Gourley (11-1), the reigning SEC Pitcher of the Week, has 105 strikeouts and leads a staff that has posted a 0.54 ERA while holding opponents to a .128 batting average.

Kelly Barnhill (10-0, 0.23 ERA, 119 Ks) and Aleshia Ocasio (5-0, 0.55 ERA) also have been outstanding.

Auburn will counter with pitchers Kaylee Carlson (15-0, 0.93 ERA) and Makayla Martin (12-3, 0.98 ERA).

Five Gators Kayli Kvistad, Sophia Reynoso, Amanda Lorenz, Justine McLean and Nicole DeWitt have started every game this season.

We've been working hard. You can't ask for much more, DeWitt said. We go out here and we want to win games. We can't have any doubt in ourselves, so being able to believe in each other is going to be a huge key.

We don't focus on who is in the other dugout. We focus on ourselves and playing Florida softball.

UF has outscored the opposition by a 199-21 margin.

In addition, the Gators have made just six errors for a nation-leading .991 fielding percentage.

A huge part of how we've been playing is the relationships that we have with each other, DeWitt said. We have such strong bonds that can't be broken. We're constantly together. Even when we have an off day, we're still hanging out. We all enjoy being around each other. That's a huge thing.

UF also is doing the right things off the field.

They're student-athletes, coach Tim Walton said. They know priority number one is to go to school and do the things that they need to do.

The top-five showdown with the Tigers will be the first of six remaining SEC series for UF, which just two weeks into the league schedule is the lone remaining team unbeaten in conference play.

We're going to come out, keep doing what we've been doing and just play how we play, especially when we're playing at home in front of our amazing fans, Gourley said. We're going to come out and have fun.

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ST. LOUIS A $53 million rehab of the Chemical Building, the century-old, 17-story red brick and terra cotta architectural gem that has sat vacant in the heart of downtown for over a decade, has won final signoff from the city.

The St. Louis Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority gave the green light this week to local development incentives for the project, including 17 years of full property tax abatement, a decade of personal property tax abatement and a sales tax exemption on construction materials. Financing is expected to close at the beginning of the year and construction to begin soon thereafter, with completion scheduled for mid-2021.

Restoration St. Louis, led by Amy and Amrit Gill, announced in April that it intended to buy the building at 721 Olive Street from a New York firm whose plans for micro-apartments had stalled. The Gills plan to add a mix of 84 hotel rooms and 72 apartments to the historic structure designed by Henry Ives Cobb and connect it to their recently completed Hotel St. Louis next door.

While the St. Louis Board of Aldermen approved the incentive package in July, conflicting personalities and the large size of the incentive package led behind-the-scenes negotiations to boil into view over the summer.

The Gills plan called for extending the 20-year tax abatement district that had been approved for use on Hotel St. Louis to also cover the Chemical Building, providing the last 17 years of tax abatement for the new rehab project. Thats despite a move by the city in recent years to no longer abate 100% of new property taxes except in the weakest neighborhoods.

City officials also gave the Hotel St. Louis project a break on half of the city sales tax on hotel rooms, up to $2.3 million. That was not included in the Chemical Building incentive package, but a personal property tax exemption was added to abate furniture and other fixtures for a decade.

I really believe this is a good use of the citys money, and necessary to restore this building, Restoration St. Louis vice president of development Laura Rebbe told a St. Louis aldermanic committee in July.

Some aldermen questioned the amount of the incentive, given the citys new guidelines, noting the developers also planned to use state and federal historic tax credits as part of the financing package.

The committee chair, Joe Roddy, has butted heads with the Gills on other projects over the years and was upset that the initial proposal included 17 years of personal property tax abatement instead of only a decade, a concession he said he had tried to negotiate. City staff indicated that the difference amounted to only about $100,000 over the life of the incentive.

LCRA Director Otis Williams made a personal plea in July to aldermen to endorse the incentives and get the building redeveloped, reactivating the block and generating new tax revenue.

I understand that many of you have concerns or have issues either with the project tax abatement or with the developer, but if we could for the sake of getting this project done, if we could have support for it, I would certainly appreciate it, Williams said at the July hearing.

With a commitment to reduce the personal property tax abatement to only 10 years, aldermen ultimately endorsed the incentive package.

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Van Buren volleyball coach Brent Reeves has the best of two worlds heading into Tuesday's 2017 opener with Southside: four returning starters and a young roster.

The Lady Pointers, who beat Northside last season to reach the second round of the 7A state playoffs, also have good team chemistry.

"I've coached a lot of sports, but I think volleyball needs more chemistry than any other sport," Reeves said. "You've got to have everybody pulling for each other. If you can do that, you can win a lot of games."

Van Buren finished 14-15 last season and 6-8 in the ultra competitive 7A-West.

Reeves, who enjoyed great coaching success at Mansfield prior to taking the reigns at Van Buren last fall, has two good hitters back in the form of Bekah Olienyk and Alex Dupree. Just a junior, Dupree was a big surprise in Reeves' first season.

Senior setter Caroline Davis and junior setter Mikelle Porter are also back in the fold.

"We're very excited about this year," Reeves said. "At this level, it seems like everybody can play, so you have to be ready every night to play. We've gelled really well. Every time we play in practice, they give it all they've got, and that's all you can ask."

Reeves is ready for his girls to take it to the next level, and that means winning five set matches.

"We talk about that all the time," he said. "Volleyball is just a mental game. Everybody can set and pass, but stepping in there and knowing you can do it is just as big.

"Obviously, every team can play."

Running a 6-2 scheme, Reeves expects good things from twin middle blockers Grace and Madelyn Doolittle and back row specialist Caitlin Perry.

"They've (Doolittles) stepped up and played well," Reeves said. "Caitlin, in our back row, she gets to a lot of balls. We just want to play hard and build some momentum."

The Doolittle twins helped lead Van Buren's ninth grade team to 17 wins last season and a second play finish in the River Valley Conference.

"We can build some early momentum," Reeves said. "I feel like you have to win some early games to stay in it. I love starting out with Southside, because Southside is a great program. Coach (Steve) Haaser and I, we go way back. Alma's a big rival for Van Buren, I discovered last year, and that's a good fun game."

Reeves has been part of a pretty amazing 20-year volleyball run where five schools Southside, Greewnood, Mansfield, Paris and Lavaca have won state championships, with eight of those coming from Southside.

"You've got great volleyball programs in this area," Reeves said. "Paris, they're amazing right now. It's been awesome to watch how it's grown."

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Brandon Marshall is about to go into the Giants Week 1 opener in Dallas without having caught a single pass from Eli Manning this entire preseason.

Unsettling, isnt it?

Even if Ben McAdoo plays Marshall for two series in Thursday nights preseason finale at New England, as he did with last years starting receivers not named Odell Beckham Jr., Manning is not expected to play.

Marshall was supposed to be the signing of the NFL offseason. The hype train for the Giants offense already left the station long ago. And granted, 11 NFL seasons buys a veteran receiver some benefit of the doubt.

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But Marshall himself even acknowledged in one of his rare interviews this preseason that McAdoos timing-based offense is much different than what Marshall is used to, and that chemistry between him and Manning is not going to happen overnight.

McAdoos answer Tuesday to what Marshall has shown him recently as far as his understanding of the offense was case in point.

He hasnt been out there very much in the last couple of weeks, the coach said, after Marshall increased his Tuesday practice workload from Mondays limited participation. I mean, today was a good day for him to get back out there and get some routes on air and then get some of the work in the team periods.

So where does this leave the Giants? Well, its beginning to look like no one will know the answer to how long it will take Marshall to acclimate until the lights come on in Dallas on Sept. 10. He has made some impressive plays in practice, but his individual talent is not a question.

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The concerns are with his fit and comfort in the context of the offense, and with his health.

Marshall played two uneventful snaps in the Giants preseason opener against Pittsburgh. And in 26 snaps in Cleveland, he missed a run block on the offenses first play from scrimmage a Paul Perkins run for no gain and then appeared to injure his shoulder on Mannings lone target of him this August, before catching one Geno Smith pass for two yards.

Marshall, it seemed, made the smart business decision not to reach for Mannings slightly overthrown deep ball down the right sideline with Browns safety Jabrill Peppers bearing down. But Peppers popped Marshall hard anyway on the left shoulder, and Marshall eventually left the game and did not return.

Marshall then stood on the sidelines for the rest of last weeks practices and did not play in last Saturdays game against the Jets normally the best preseason test for a teams starters. He only returned to limited practice participation on Monday, before increasing his workload on Tuesday.

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And yet Marshall has not spoken to the media since returning to the field. In fact, he has done only two interviews with local beat reporters since training camp opened: on July 29 and on Aug. 15. It is an unusual tactic for someone who already has dabbled in a media career with Showtimes Inside the NFL.

Marshall, 33, it should be noted, seems focused on keeping his head down and working. Beckham is the star, and Marshall is just trying to do his part, desperate to make his first trip to the NFL postseason, let alone win a Super Bowl.

Marshall has resisted any storylines about being a mentor to Beckham, as well. He is here to produce and win. Those seem to be the motives behind everything Marshall is doing or not doing at the moment.

Brandon looked good today, it was good to have him back out there at practice, knock some rust off, McAdoo said.

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The problem is that the Giants need Marshall in the spotlight not out of it if his signing is going to be worth it. They need him healthy. They need Manning and Marshall in sync. They need to see Marshall on the field.

Very soon, the hype will die down, and it will be time for Marshalls play to talk, even if he wont.

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As Chemistry Communications clients created more content and more ambitious distribution plans, manually distributing that content to dozens of native and social platforms became untenable.

Chemistry turned to Story by PulsePoint to make content distribution more cost- and time-efficient. The agency serves clients not only in content marketing, but through media buys across digital, video and radio.

The platform allows Chemistry to buy across more than 25 platforms, including social media platforms Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, native platforms like Sharethrough and TripleLift and content discovery tools Outbrain and Taboola.

With the platform, Chemistry Communications can buy media and optimize campaigns based on a metric it cares about: cost per engagement, with 15 seconds spent on a site post-click.

Our platform has been built from the ground up to focus on what happens once the reader arrives at the domain, said Andrew Stark, PulsePoints SVP of content solutions. The platform tracks details like scroll depth and scroll velocity and uses those metrics to feed optimization.

Because of the focus on post-click engagement, Chemistry saw its clients results improve when it switched to the platform.

What was shocking was that we were seeing lower CPEs and lower CPMs than all the direct platforms we were using in the past, said Jason Dille, VP of media at Chemistry Communications.

The platform which PulsePoint recently redesigned for self-service clients also improves the workflow and automates more processes.

For example, adapting images, headlines and text for 10 stories across 30 platforms adds up to at least 300 creative variations. PulsePoints platform automatically builds ad creative for each platform, which a campaign planner can immediately approve, automatically optimize or adjust either through PulsePoints suggestions or manually.

The platform also can yield qualitative insights about the clients content. A top-performing alternate headline could become the main one. And looking at how different stories resonate with audiences informs future content creation.

Although Chemistry initially used PulsePoints managed services, it has since migrated to the software-as-a-service platform to improve the workflow.

We prefer to stay away from managed service because transparency can be an issue and margins can be there, Dille said. And the agency prefers to be more hands-on. We want to make the changes for our clients.

However, the managed service did let the agency test out the solution with smaller budgets, Dille said.

Though Chemistry handles all forms of media for its clients from digital video to radio Dille believes that content marketing will evolve like the DSP landscape, as technologies emerge to deliver more strategic placements.

They are adding targeting thats similar to what we have in the DSP space, like ISP targeting, that will further evolve what performance looks like, he said. In addition, Story by PulsePoint clients can upload their own data for targeting, or use an individual platforms targeting definitions like how Facebook defines women 35-44.

As targeting and automation improve, more budgets will shift to content distribution, Dille predicted. This is going to be the future of digital advertising, he said. Content is where we are going to see higher engagement rates in the future.

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Dolphins S Reshad Jones played only six games before injuring his shoulder last season. (Allen Eyestone/The Post)

DAVIE The chemistry with fellow safety Reshad Jones isnt what it needs to be, but its coming along, Nate Allen was saying. There was no panic in his voice because, after all, this is only May.

This is what OTAs are for, said Allen, who joined the Dolphins in free agency from Oakland.

Only a few minutes earlier Tuesday, Jones addressed the media and was equally calm about one of the more pressing matters concerning the Dolphins defense, but for one other reason: He has been through this before.

If its the offseason, theres a good chance the Dolphins are sorting out wholl be lining up alongside Jones at safety. Except for a brief spell of continuity with Chris Clemons early in his career, Jones has been on an endless quest to develop chemistry with safeties ranging from Louis Delmas to Jimmy Wilson to Michael Thomas, to name a few.

I know I had a lot, Jones said. But I didnt know it was eight.

Dolphins safety Nate Allen listens to a question during a news conference during OTAs on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Injuries have played a huge role, wiping out both Jones and Isa Abdul-Quddus last year and ending Abdul-Quddus career.

That left an opening. In stepped Allen, who was taken 126 spots earlier than Jones in the 2010 draft, which is a blessing of sorts for the Dolphins. Playing the same position and having entered the league at the same time, theyve kept tabs on one another from afar.

We came out together, so I kind of knew him, Jones said. He knows ball.

Allen also knows Jones.

His play speaks for itself, Allen said. Hes who he is for a reason and hes the guy. He makes a lot of plays. Hes just a great playmaker. I could see it early and Ive watched him through the years. As Ive been in other places, Ive always watched him on tape. He stands out.

Jones made the Pro Bowl in 2015 and stood a good chance of repeating last season before a shoulder injury ended his season. From the sidelines, he watched his team qualify for the playoffs for the first time since he arrived.

It was kind of brutal for me, but I was happy for my guys, he said.

Having recently gained full medical clearance, Jones is confident hell regain top form.

I always felt like I was one of the best safeties in the league and I still feel that way, Jones said. Numbers dont lie. My numbers are top of the line of all of them.

Allen, who signed a one-year, $3.4 million deal, also believes hes 100 percent after suffering an MCL injury early in 2015 and serving as a backup with the Raiders last season. Allen said he feels comfortable, whether its at strong safety or free safety, in coverage or run support. Its largely a matter of developing an understanding with Jones.

I think were making good progress, Allen said. And its not just me and Reshad. Its the entire DB group. This is the first time Ive played with these guys and the first time a lot of us have played together, so everybodys just kind of feeling each other out.

Because once you get that chemistry in the back end, you can make it a beautiful thing.

The question is, how long will this tandem last? The Dolphins also added safety T.J. McDonald from the Rams, but hell miss the first half of the season for violating the leagues substance abuse policy.

I think we can be special, Jones said. Weve got the ball rolling in the right direction. We just have to continue to put the work in and make it happen.

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Chris Tipton poses next to the helicopter he works on as a critical care flight paramedic for Survival Flight Inc. Paramedic medicine inspired Tipton to go back to school for a masters degree in chemistry. The UMSL spring grad is now headed to medical school at Mizzou, where he used to play football while earning his bachelors degree in agricultural science. (Photo by August Jennewein)

At first glance, Chris Tipton appears an odd fit in a laboratory. The hulking former Mizzou Tiger offensive linemans big stature looks potentially hazardous surrounded by glassware and equipment.

But the truth is, Tipton is right at home. The soon-to-be masters in chemistry graduate works as a research assistant for Professor Chris Spilling at the University of MissouriSt. Louis when he isnt busy being a part-time critical care flight paramedic for Survival Flight Inc.

Through football Tipton indirectly found his true calling in medicine.

After graduating from the University of MissouriColumbia in 2007 with a bachelors degree in agricultural science, Tipton started a career path popular among his football buddies firefighting. In his training to get his emergency medical technician and paramedic licenses, he discovered he liked treating the patients more than the fire.

Tipton took a ground paramedic job in Northeast Missouri shortly thereafter and eventually became the lead paramedic for Pike County.

You handle people on the worst day of their lives, Tipton says. Youre the first person a lot of times that this person will be seeing in their whole continuum of care. So its really important, the job we do.

In his first week, Tipton delivered a baby on the side of a highway.

Youre almost scared for the tones to go off, says Tipton, recalling his early days on the job.

Hes been a paramedic for nine years now, spending the last four and half of those in the air not a place paramedics start off.

You get the sickest of the sick, he says. You might only run one call a day, but that one call has you go through almost every single skill youve possibly learned and all kinds of drugs that you would maybe use in a months time as a ground paramedic.

After some years, Tipton started to feel as if he had maxed out his paramedic certification. A drive to do more in the field of medicine led him back to school, specifically to UMSL, where he could get a masters degree and some more science classes and research under his belt before applying to medical school.

Dr. Spilling has given me a tremendous opportunity, says Tipton, who is fully funded and receives a stipend. That was the only way I could go part time as a paramedic and pursue research full time.

In the lab at UMSL, he works on creating novel therapeutic compounds for people who suffer from sepsis, a type of blood poisoning. Hes also found a lot of value in his UMSL coursework.

Class after class, light bulbs go off, he says. Ive learned a lot of the concepts at the paramedic level, but now Im learning them at the cellular and molecular levels.

Tipton scored in the 93rd percentile in the science sections of the MCAT. Hes returning to his old stomping grounds this summer, not as a football player, but as a student in Mizzous medical school/PhD program. Tipton plans on conducting cancer research and possibly doing a residency in pathology or immunology.

Helping people is a huge part of why I do what I do, he says. What Ive gotten from UMSL is seeing how the science translates to that.

This story was originally published in the spring 2017 issue ofUMSL Magazine. Have a story idea for UMSL Magazine? Email magazine@umsl.edu.

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March 23, 2017

Building upon a long legacy of supporting scientific innovation and education, professor emeritus Larry Dalton and his wife, Nicole Boand, have committed $12 million to the UW Department of Chemistry. The majority of the gift will go to establish the Dalton Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry a postdoctoral fellowship similar to those at the nations most prestigious research institutions like Berkeley and Harvard.

One of only a handful of similarly funded fellowships at public universities across the United States, this fellowship will support researchers in the postdoctoral phase of their training. This is a formative and productive time for early-career scientists as they work to obtain research experience and publications to qualify them for full-time, tenure-track faculty positions. These promising scientists often play a critical role in accelerating fundamental research into real-world applications, as they are able to focus 100 percent on the research challenges before them.

This postdoctoral fellowship will enable the Department of Chemistry to attract and support the brightest early-career scientists from across the nation, ensuring that the UW is a leader in next-generation research in the chemical sciences, said Michael Heinekey, professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry. This gift will help to elevate our department to the level of top chemistry departments around the world.

Building on past gifts to the department, this gift will also fund two endowed chairs to help the department recruit and retain top researchers. One chair will be named for Boands parents and the other named for Alvin Kwiram, UW professor emeritus of chemistry and vice provost emeritus for research. Additionally, the gift will create an endowed departmental support fund to ensure the department has flexible and reliable resources to respond to opportunities as they arise.

UW professor emeritus of chemistry Larry Dalton.Colette Cosner

Dalton and Boands most recent investment in the Department of Chemistry serves to underscore and amplify their legacy of impact at the UW. Over the years, they have established two endowed professorships in chemistry and two endowed chairs. These endowments have provided meaningful research support to the six faculty members who have held them, and to the numerous undergraduate and graduate students working alongside those faculty.

Larry Dalton has already made a phenomenal impact at the University of Washington, and to have a faculty member add to such a legacy by demonstrating this level of dedication to his field and to future generations of students and professors in the UWs chemistry department is truly remarkable, UW President Ana Mari Cauce said. I am profoundly thankful for this commitment from Larry and Nicole, which will honor his work and support innovation at the UW for years to come.

This gift follows Daltons decades of research in photonics and nonlinear optics. He joined the UW Department of Chemistry in 1998. In 2000, Dalton and his collaborators published a foundational paper in Science, which laid the groundwork for innovations in opto-electronics, with major implications for telecommunications, sensor technology and information technology. Dalton went on to found Lumera Corp. now part of GigPeak to develop and manufacture opto-electronic devices. His research was instrumental in securing a major grant from the National Science Foundation to launch the Center for Materials and Devices for Information Technology Research at the UW, which was foundational for what would become the UW Clean Energy Institute.

During his nearly 20 years in the Department of Chemistry, Dalton invested his time, energy and resources to support students and burgeoning researchers. Both he and Boand have shown through their philanthropy a deep commitment to the next generation of science and scientists. The Dalton Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chemistry, along with the newly endowed chairs and other departmental support, is a culminating expression of that commitment.

We make this current contribution in the hope and belief that it will promote recruitment and retention of the best and brightest researchers and educators in STEM fields to the University of Washington, said Dalton. Nicole and I appreciate the critical impact that STEM research has made and is making to the economy and well-being of Washington and the nation, and to the importance of quality education which assures continuation of this broader impact of STEM research.

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For more information, contact James Urton with the UW Office of News & Information at jurton@uw.edu or 206-543-2580. To arrange an interview with Dalton or Boand, contact Candice Douglass at candiced@uw.edu, 206-616-3506 or 425-214-2704 (after hours).

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Valparaiso chemistry students mentor second-graders The San Luis Obispo Tribune Some of the students were much younger than usual second-graders from Hayes Leonard Elementary working on projects with juniors and seniors in the high school AP chemistry class. Second-grade teachers Heather Treece and Sharon McCorkle have ... and more »

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Alison Ondrus Credit: Caltech

New assistant professor of chemistry Alison Ondrus says shes excited to apply the tools of traditional chemistry to the study of biological problems and thinks Caltech, with its small, interdisciplinary environment, is the perfect place to do it.

Ondrus received her PhD in organic chemistry in 2009 from MIT, where she learned to synthesize structurally complex molecules. From there, she became interested in biology and began studying the Hedgehog signaling pathway as a postdoctoral scholar at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The Hedgehog family of proteins is responsible for many basic functions in animals, including development and organization of the overall body plan. Mutations in Hedgehog pathway genes can lead to congenital deformities as well as both juvenile and adult cancers.

At Caltech, Ondrus plans to use her chemistry background to continue studying the Hedgehog signaling pathway and address mysteries about how essential small molecules, such as cholesterol, control Hedgehog activity during the development of embryos, a process known as embryogenesis.

Your PhD was in synthetic chemistry. What does this involve? In synthetic organic chemistry, you build complex molecules from scratch. You start with a hypothesis for how to make an interesting molecular structure in the most convergent, elegant, efficient way possible based on the reactions that you choose. From there, you go to the lab and try to build the molecule.

How did you go from synthesizing chemicals to studying biological pathways? Id spent a lot of time just looking at the structures of molecules and appreciating the richness of structure, so when I had an opportunity to see how the same principles translated to biological activity, a new world opened up. I started finding myself thinking more and more about all of the small molecules that are already present in our own bodies. Ive always been fascinated by human health and human development, and I started to question how these molecules participate in normal physiology and disease. I started reading to try to find examples of where people had at least circumstantial evidence that small molecules played key roles in regulating a biological pathway, in particular in human health.

Through my reading, I came across the really fascinating pathway that I now studythe Hedgehog signaling pathway.

Why is the Hedgehog signaling pathway important? Hedgehog is important in almost every aspect of how an embryo becomes a human form, and its deficiencies showcase its importance. Its responsible for establishing our body plan, from our left-right symmetry to how many digits we have. As you can imagine, defects in the pathway lead to really acute phenotypes because its so fundamental in these early processes. The pathway also plays a role in various cancers, most notably basal cell carcinomaskin cancerthe most prevalent form of cancer in humans.

We know that certain small molecules that are based on cholesterol can turn the pathway on or off, but we dont know what enzymes produce these molecules, where theyre localized, or how they interact with the Hedgehog pathway. Elucidating these cellular processes is essential to understanding how the pathway controls things like body patterning and brain development, and how that can go wrong and lead to cancer.

If we can understand what components of cholesterol metabolism are necessary for Hedgehog activity, then we can start to address much more specifically some of these medical conditions and intervene in ways that we havent yet considered.

How will you go about studying cholesterol in the Hedgehog pathway? Im going to merge the synthesis part of my background with my understanding of signal transduction to ask questions about cholesterol and related molecules, and their role in regulating the Hedgehog pathway. Small molecules are often the missing link in hypotheses regarding Hedgehog pathway signal transduction. You may have two proteins in the pathway that communicate via these very specific small molecules, but without having chemical tools to ask questions in a precise way, the mechanism remains unknown. What are the exact structures of these molecules? How do they perform this communication? Something thats unique about our lab is that we can synthesize the specific cholesterol molecules needed to answer these questions.

What do you like about Caltech? At Caltech, there are really no barriers. Nobody says you cant do something or that an idea is too unprecedented. Theres a cultural acceptance that doing new things is fundamentally exciting and valuable. Thats what I really appreciate about Caltech.

What do you like to do in your spare time? I love yoga and riding my bike, and reading both Eastern and Western philosophy. I just finished listening to the audiobook of The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn, which I recommend to anyone.

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After traveling to New Mexico from the other side of the world 16 years ago, Eastern New Mexico University Chemistry Professor Juchao Yan found himself exactly where he wanted to be: Instilling a passion for science in his students through practical applications.

"In this college, we have quite a large number of first-generation, under-prepared students, most of whom are economically strapped. Working with these students, we need enthusiasm, dedication and patience. Finding a way to inspire them and to prepare them well for jobs and for living fulfilling lives is very rewarding and is what I enjoy doing," he said.

Before beginning work at ENMU in 2002, Yan earned his doctorate in chemistry from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Changchun, China in 1997, and moved to Albuquerque, where he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of New Mexico from 1998-2001.

What fascinates you about your chemistry?

Inspired by my younger brother, I started to like Chemistry when I was in junior high. In college, the more I learned about chemistry, the more I liked it. Chemistry is about the structure, property and reactivity of matter. It's the central science, and particularly, for my expertise, what I was trained, it's analytical chemistry. Analytical chemistry, to give you a basic idea, is about the science of obtaining, processing, communicating information about the composition and structure of matter.

Particularly, this sub-discipline of chemistry tries to answer four questions: 'What is it,' 'How much is present,' 'Is your stuff there,' 'How to get pure stuff?' It turns out, analytical chemistry is truly important and fundamental to several other sub-disciplines of chemistry, for example, materials chemistry, biochemistry, environmental science, and so on and so forth.

With what I was trained, I think having the opportunity to educate young generations to be scientists is truly fascinating, and it's something I really enjoy doing.

How does teaching continue to teach you?

Learning is a lifelong process. While I teach others, I keep learning new things, and I believe that helped me teach better. To give you one example, about six years ago, when I was asked to teach forensic chemistry for our newly initiated forensic science program, at the time I said, 'Oh, no. I know nothing about that.' But, later on, the more I got involved in that, the more I learned and felt more comfortable when I come to a classroom to lecture.

What has been rewarding about teaching at a small university like ENMU?

I would say personal touch, because here, you have the opportunity to be a role model and to help everyone in your class, which is quite different from lecturing for several hundred students in a big lecture hall at big schools.

What inspired you to start teaching?

First of all, the things I know about, and second of all, the latest research advancements I learn about. Besides teaching, I also do research, and my current research project, for example, is about biofuel. We try to use algae to treat wastewater while generating biomass suitable for biofuel production, and we hope that's a win-win, because you take care of the environment, and simultaneously you find alternatives to address energy issues, and the more

I'm involved in my research, the more I feel like, in the near future, I should develop and design courses that interface the environment and energy. Involving students in ongoing research projects provides a wonderful opportunity to educate our students and to make them more marketable.

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