Wednesday, March 30, 2022
The Triumph of the Geese
Monday, March 21, 2022
International Day of Forests | United Nations
Today, March 21, 2022, is International Day of Forests | United Nations: Forests cover one third of the Earth's land mass, performing vital functions around the world.
Jungle : how tropical forests shaped the world-and us / Patrick Roberts
Finding the mother tree : discovering the wisdom of the forest / Suzanne Simard
Monday, February 07, 2022
Manish Mehta with four alumni published in Journal of Chemical Crystallography
The Mehta lab recently published research on "the extent of spontaneous cocrystallization for 14 cocrystal systems, at four levels of humidity. [Their] results show cocrystal formation in all 14 systems to varying extent and are consistent with literature reports that higher humidity correlates with more rapid cocrystal formation."
Davies, Riley D. '19, Vigilante, Nicolas J. '18, Frederick, Aaron D. '16, Mandala, Venkata S. '15, Mehta, Manish A., Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry. 2022. The effects of humidity on spontaneous cocrystallization: a survey of diacid cocrystals with caffeine, theophylline, and nicotinamide. Journal of Chemical Crystallography. DI 10.1007/s10870-022-00922-8. Early access, January 2022. Download at SpringerLink.For a bit of background on crystal engineering, see the article with that title by Roger Bishop in the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, online.
Tuesday, February 01, 2022
More than 100 titles added to Oxford Scholarship Online
Did you know? We have access to a treasure-trove of ebooks in Oxford Scholarship - more than 100 titles are added every month, all indexed in OBIS. Find them with these steps:
- select the tab for E-Books
- input: "oxford scholarship" in the search box
more than 1200 books will listed and described. Here's a shortcut. These two seem particularly timely!
Science Wars: The Battle Over Knowledge and Reality.The Contagion Next Time. Just what we don't want to hear... but there will be a next time, for certain. This book will help us learn how we can make sure that society is prepared, and that we will have a common goal for getting through these challenges - most importantly, with the intent to support social and racial equity
There is so much more to explore - either through OBIS, our online catalog, or browse directly in Oxford Scholarship Online.
Celebrating Black Achievement in Science: book display
Books shown (in order on display):
- Notable Black American Scientists
- Swimming Against the Tide (also an ebook)
- Interrogating Whiteness and Relinquishing Power
- George Washington Carner: A Life
- Edward Bouchet (also an ebook)
- Diversifying STEM
- Benjamin Banneker (more on B. Banneker)
- Making Black Scientists (also an ebook)
- To Fathom More
- Multicultural Science Education (also an ebook)
- A Quantum Life: My Unlikely Journey From the Street to the Stars
- Contributions of African American Scientists
- Blacks in Science and Medicine
- George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol
- Growing Diverse STEM Communities
- Blacks in Science, Ancient and Modern
- Black Scientists, White Society, and Colorless Science
- Broadening Participation in STEM (also an ebook)
- Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century
Thursday, January 13, 2022
Three seniors, I. Leavy, J. Kibitel, and R. van der Merwe, are co-authors with researchers from other institutions
Abanyie, F., Acharya, S. D., Leavy, I., Bowe, M., & Tan, K. R. (2021). Safety and Effectiveness of Intravenous Artesunate for Treatment of Severe Malaria in the United States-April 2019 Through December 2020. Clinical Infectious Diseases, 73(11), 1965-1972. 10.1093/cid/ciab570
James Kibitel of Bay Shore, NY, with researchers at Oregon State University, the Linus Pauling Institute and the College of Pharmacy, Corvalis:
Muchiri, R. N., Kibitel, J., Redick, M. A., & van Breemen, R. B. (2022). Advances in Magnetic Microbead Affinity Selection Screening: Discovery of Natural Ligands to the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein. Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, 33(1). 10.1021/jasms.1c00318 (Early access, Dec. 2021)
Rochelle van der Merwe of Saint Paul, MN, with researchers at University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston:Nazari, H. K., Karimaghaei, C., van der Merwe, R., Montalbano, M., Taglialatela, G., Vargas, G., Zhang, W. B., & Motamedi, M. (2022). Age Dependence of Retinal Vascular Plexus Attenuation in the Triple Transgenic Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease. Experimental Eye Research, 214. 21410.1016/j.exer.2021.108879
Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Shuming Chen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry, publishes in Angewandte Chemie-International Edition
Huffman, B. J., Chu, T., Hanaki, Y., Wong, J. J., Chen, Shuming M., Houk, K. N., & Shenvi, R. 2022. A.Stereodivergent Attached-Ring Synthesis via Non-Covalent Interactions: A Short Formal Synthesis of Merrilactone A. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition. 61 10.1002/anie.202114514 First published 24 Nov. 2021.
Monday, December 20, 2021
Lisa Ryno publishes with past and present members of her lab: Buck, Paladino, Nagashima, Brezel, Holtzman, and Urso
Luke Buck '21, Maddison Paladino '21, Kyogo Nagashima '24, Emma Brezel '17, Josh Holtzman '21, and Sarel J. Urso '16 coauthored a publication with Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lisa Ryno in Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology titled "Temperature-dependent influence of FliA overexpression on PHL628 E. coli biofilm growth and composition." [as noted on the Ryno Lab blog]
Front. Cell. Infect. Microbiol., 17 December 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcimb.2021.775270