Periodic Tabloid

At the American Chemical Society (ACS) Boston meeting I attended last week, some leading scientists convened to discuss the consequences of climate change. For every disagreement on how to tackle this problem (and whether it's a problem at all), agreements were made as well.

Sensible ________ policy. Readers may fill in the blank with whatever current issue is of high interest: scientific research, immigration, health care, economic development, jobs, climate change, space exploration, campaign financing, infrastructure renewal, etc.

Just when researchers thought it was safe to study stem cells... restrictions and controversy strike again.

Innovation is like motherhood and apple pie—everyone is for it.  Yet, how does the innovation process actually take place? How are innovations successfully brought to market? CHF’s Center for Contemporary History and Policy has been examining the subject through its Studies in Materials Innovation project.

Brownfield remediation is becoming a better-known topic lately, as more and more brownfields throughout the urban United States are getting cleaned up.

Is it important for a public understanding of science that people recognize the periodic table and the chemical information held within it? 

This week’s Chemical and Engineering News reports on the current status of women in the chemical industry.

The Center for Contemporary History and Policy’s new Consortium for Community-Based Science brings chemists and community groups together.

I just returned from a 3 day business trip  conducting an oral history for CHF’s Women in Chemistry Oral History Project.  When I got to my desk this morning one of my colleagues had been kind enough to place  a recent Chronicle of Higher Education on my desk opened to an article titled, “Why ‘Female’ Science Professor?” 

“Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.” So said economist John Kenneth Galbraith.