The study also found that White principal investigators (PIs) have secured NSF funding at increasing rates since at least 1999, a finding that contrasts with a common sentiment among White researchers that they have had more difficulty acquiring funding over time, says Christine Chen, a postdoctoral researcher at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, who led the work.
by Krystal Vasquez | August 03, 2022
“She really wants to work at this interface of disciplines between chemistry, polymer science, biology, and materials,” says polymer chemist Ron Zuckermann of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Tran worked before starting her PhD. Tran’s group in Toronto has explored novel materials, including peptide-like polymers called peptoids that self-assemble into nanomaterials; polymers that can be made from crops and other renewable sources; and soft, flexible bottlebrush polymers.
by Sam Lemonick, special to C&EN | July 15, 2022
Folt, who became a principal investigator on the project, says it was a testament to Wetterhahn’s reputation that so many people trusted her leadership and wanted to be part of the project. The project also showed Wetterhahn’s innovative approach to science. “She was absolutely a pioneer in big-team, interdisciplinary, problem-based science,” Folt says, adding that Wetterhahn also understood the need to address public policy and community education in research programs on this scale.
by Sam Lemonick, special to C&EN | June 08, 2022
—Lawrence Tabak named acting head of the NIH “Glycoprotein researcher has been principal deputy director at the agency since 2010” Lawrence Tabak has been named acting director of the US National Institutes of Health. Tabak took over Dec. 20 from Francis Collins, who retired as director after holding the position for over 12 years.
by Andrea Widener | January 02, 2022
Here’s chemist and historian Larry Principe. Lawrence Principe: It didn’t make sense to me that chemistry suddenly sprang out of nowhere at some point in the 18th century. Kerri: Larry’s a professor at Johns Hopkins University, and he studies the history of alchemy as a window into the origins of modern chemistry. Lawrence Principe: So, much of what I’ve been doing is trying to figure out what kind of practices and ideas the alchemists had and how those relate to later chemistry to argue for a continuity of ideas and practices, really, from the Middle Ages, or even before from the Islamic Middle Ages, up to the present.
by Gina Vitale | January 22, 2021
—HIST Award to Lawrence Principe “” Lawrence M. Principe, the Drew Professor of the Humanities at Johns Hopkins University, is the recipient of the 2020 HIST Award for Outstanding Achievement in the History of Chemistry. Principe is a coauthor on several history of science books, including The Correspondence of Robert Boyle, Alchemy Tried in the Fire, The Secrets of Alchemy, and The Transmutations of Chymistry: Wilhelm Homberg and the Académie Royale des Sciences. The HIST Award includes an engraved plaque and a check for $1,500, which will be presented to Principe at the fall American Chemical Society national meeting in San Francisco. /people/awards/HIST-Award-Lawrence-Principe/98/i11 20200321 98 11 /magazine/98/09811.html HIST Award to Lawrence Principe ACS News, awards acs-news Linda Wang people awards Lawrence Principe Courtesy of Lawrence Principe This is a photo of Lawrence Principe. ACS News awards Lawrence Principe HIST Award to Lawrence Principe Chemical & Engineering News HIST Award to Lawrence Principe HIST Award to Lawrence Principe
by Linda Wang | March 21, 2020
Dragic—an optics specialist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign—and coworkers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory undertook a comprehensive experimental and theoretical study to evaluate a large number of potential fiber materials, including the oxides of strontium, aluminum, barium, and phosphorus.
by Mitch Jacoby | March 16, 2020