Bateman finished his undergraduate studies at HSU in 2003 and completed his doctoral work in 2009 at the University of Arkansas, where he studied organic synthesis. He has been at HSU since 2009, according to his LinkedIn profile. Rowland, whose specialty is listed as theoretical chemistry on HSU’s chemistry faculty website, completed his undergraduate studies at Texas A&M University in 2002 and finished his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.
by Bethany Halford | November 19, 2019
Funk, a lawyer who has been with Lonza since 2009, had been CEO only since March. He took over from Richard Ridinger, who had been at the helm for about 7 years and oversaw the company’s 2016 acquisition of the drug-delivery firm Capsugel for $5.5 billion. Funk had previously led Lonza Pharma & Biotech, a core business that had about $3.1 billion in sales last year, a 14% increase over 2017.
by Michael McCoy | November 17, 2019
—Layoffs on the mind “Chemjobber on how to not lose your identity in an uncertain economy” I’ve been working in industrial chemistry since 2009, and I haven’t been laid off yet. But like bad yields and tricky emulsions, layoffs have always been with us, and layoffs are never far from my mind. I remember as a child waiting for a bus on a busy city street with my father, an engineer, as he glumly mentioned to me that his workplace was undergoing a “reorganization.”
by Chemjobber | November 12, 2019
Seeing is believing (2009) In the early days of chemistry, researchers could indirectly figure out what molecules looked like by measuring X-ray diffraction patterns and then calculating the molecules’ structures. Around 2009, Leo Gross of IBM Research–Zurich and coworkers used STMs to directly generate such images.
by Mitch Jacoby | November 10, 2019
That is a different picture from the one we described 10 years ago when the US was in the midst of an economic recession and the unemployment rate reported by the 2009 ACS salary survey had shot to 3.9%, the highest in decades. Accompanying the ACS salary survey data is the latest edition of Bench & Cubicle, in which Chemjobber offers a primer on salary negotiations.
by Bibiana Campos Seijo | November 03, 2019
“Similarly, the 2009 Silver Eagle refinery fire was also caused by the failure of piping that had thinned due to corrosion.” The CSB’s final report is due early next year. /safety/industrial-safety/US-Chemical-Safety-Board-urges/97/i42 20191027 2,376 kg of HF released when pipe ruptured at Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery Concentrates 97 42 /magazine/97/09742.html US Chemical Safety Board urges better refinery inspections, HF substitutes Industrial safety, safety, chemical regulation, policy, refinery, fire, explosion, hydrofluoric acid, HF, pipe, corrosion con govpol Jeff Johnson safety industrial-safety policy chemical-regulation CSB urges better refinery inspections, HF substitutes Chemical & Engineering News US Chemical Safety Board urges better refinery inspections, HF substitutes US Chemical Safety Board urges better refinery inspections, HF substitutes
by Jeff Johnson | October 27, 2019
The increase reversed a 24.2% decline in fine particulate pollution from 2009 to 2016. Causes of this change are increases in both economic activity and wildfires and a decrease in enforcement of the Clean Air Act, says the analysis, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Most of the pollution increase took place in the Midwest and West.
by Cheryl Hogue | October 27, 2019
And by 2009, a team at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, had created a helical bot that was recognized by Guinness World Records as the “most advanced mini robot for medical use.” The tiny swimmer, about 20 μm long, made from semiconductor materials and controlled by a magnetic field, was designed to mimic the swirling flagella that bacteria use to move around (Appl.
by Cici Zhang, special to C&EN | October 20, 2019
Similarly, at its Caponago, Italy, site, where AstraZeneca manufactured the anesthetic propofol before CordenPharma bought the site in 2009, the company has invested $25 million in a lab and fill-and-finish plant necessary to attract new customers. Thermo Fisher Scientific is also operating a network of plants that were mostly acquired from pharmaceutical companies, according to Michel Lagarde, senior vice president of pharmaceutical services.
by Rick Mullin | October 13, 2019