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Professor Develops Ecology-Based Classification System for Microbes
While exploring Death Valley?s parched landscape, Professor of Biology Fred Cohan collected samples of compacted clay from the dry grounds. He sought a bacterium that is closely related to the microbe Bacillus subtilis, previously isolated from neighboring, gravel-based terrains.
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A Brighter Stage For Science.
A new strategy for developing the culture of science on campus calls for a 50 percent increase in the number of science majors.
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Professor of Astronomy Bill Herbst observed sand-like grains in space
These grains are the building blocks of an Earth-like planet. Sand-like grains observed in space through the reflection of light from stars. These grains are the building blocks of an Earth-like planet.
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Chemistry Faculty Earns Electrochemical Award
Chemistry Faculty Earns Electrochemical Award
Albert Fry, the E.B. Nye Professor of Chemistry, was selected as the recipient of the Manuel M. Baizer Award of the Organic and Biological Electrochemistry Division of the Electrochemical Society. He will receive the award during the 213th Electrochemical Society Meeting in Phoenix, Az. May 18-May 23. As a winner of this award, Fry will receive a $1,000 cash prize.
Wesleyan Women in Science.
Alumni Speak to Students about Medical School, Career Options.
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Sultan Speaks at Plant Science Symposium in Japan
Sonia Sultan, professor of biology, was one of 12 U.S. plant scientists invited to speak at a joint U.S.-Japanese symposium on the role of phenotypic plasticity in plant responses to global climate change in Nikko, Japan in October. Her talk was titled "Phenotypic plasticity in response to environmental changes: Scaling from the molecular to ecosystem levels." The meeting, sponsored jointly by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Japanese Academy of Sciences, brought together plant scientists working at the cellular, leaf, whole plant and ecosystem levels to work toward an integrated understanding of plant development and function under changing environmental conditions.
New Open-Access Requirement April 07,2008 at NIH.
Beginning with manuscripts accepted for publication today, all research papers financed by grants from the National Institutes of Health must be made freely available online within a year of publication.
The NIH made the text of its open-access mandate available in January at the behest of Congress. The papers must appear in PubMed Central, the NIH?s Web database.
The policy has been controversial, with critics assailing it as both too restrictive and too lax. The NIH continues to request comments on the policy.
Various universities and library associations have developed Web sites to help NIH-backed researchers comply with the policy. Peter Suber, an open-access advocate and research professor of philosophy at Earlham College, has compiled a list of the resources in his monthly newsletter. ?Lila Guterman
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Career Retreat Features Alumni, Industry and Academic Speakers
Biology, molecular biology and biochemistry students gather for day-long career presentations and discussions
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Wesleyan Alum '79, Dr. Jennifer Chayes to direct new Microsoft Research Lab in Cambridge MA.
Dr. Chayes will be one of the first women to direct a research lab run by an American corporation. She was a tenured professor of mathematics at the University of California, Los Angeles, when Microsoft hired her to do research.
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Former Graduate Student Led Study That Uncovers Eating Disorders in Young Men
Eating disorders are most often identified with young, white females, but a new study provides data showing that males and other ethnicities are not immune to developing eating disorders.
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