Elion-Hitchings Building Tour: A Storify
As discussed in my post last week, I had the opportunity on Saturday to tour the old Burroughs-Wellcome US headquarters building in Research Triangle Park, NC. Designed in 1969 by architect Paul...
View ArticleOkay, Who’s Huffing Vicks VapoRub?
From the back end of this blog. What are you people doing out there? Credit: DJ Kroll One of the fun things about having a blog is the traffic analytics feature on the dashboard of WordPress (although...
View Article“These pernicious anti-scientific trends”
I sauntered over to Duke University this morning to sit in an auditorium and watch the Nobel medal award ceremony via nobelprize.org with some fellow researchers and writers like Anton Zuiker and Eric...
View ArticleLefkowitz IndyWeek Outtakes
The 9 January 2013 edition of the Research Triangle area’s alternative weekly newspaper, INDY Week. Photo: D.L. Anderson/INDY Week. Click on the photo to go the online article. I was fortunate to be...
View ArticleThe Nobel’s great, but take a look at this!
Bob Lefkowitz proudly displays his Nobel Prize medal (and diploma on the desk) at his Duke University Medical Center office, 20 December 2012. Photo: David Kroll As I alluded to earlier on this index...
View ArticleWatch Twitter on Saturday for #Chemophobia
This week, the Research Triangle area is hosting ScienceOnline2013, an international science communications unconference that draws Pulitzer Prize-winning science writers, big media, graduate students,...
View ArticleDr. Gina Stewart on Career Flexibility and Entrepreneurship
A cool idea! Photo: Arctic, Inc. We’re about to close up the world headquarters of Terra Sigillata to head out and convene with the PharmFamily in points north for Easter (but, thankfully, not a...
View ArticleWhy Chemistry Should Care About Humanities Higher Education
An appreciation of racial studies and African-American history are essential in placing the accomplishments of Percy Julian in perspective. The perennial question of the value of humanities education...
View ArticleDoes Ada Yonath’s Gender Really Matter?
Yes, gender still matters. “In shock from seeing Gov. Pat McCrory, center, hand deliver her a plate of cookies, Jamie Sohn, of Chapel Hill, turns back to her group across the street. ‘I was absolutely...
View ArticlePromoting Chemistry’s Positive Public Image
D’ohh, no eye protection. Credit: David R. Carroll, Creative Commons I had an opportunity earlier this month to write a short “Inside Science” piece for the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News &...
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