Tim Calder, who manages the program at the university, says that all researchers need to do is peel off their gloves into one of four bins for separate waste streams. Noncontaminated gloves can go to either a landfill or a recycling facility, nonhazardous contaminated gloves go to an incinerator, and hazardous contaminated gloves go to a hazardous waste processing facility.
by Laura Howes | November 03, 2019
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: In case the museum’s 30,000 works of art aren’t enough, you can roam Klee and Calder exhibitions too. 4. Union Square: In the heart of the city’s shopping district, the central plaza is a great place to people watch. 5. Cable car turntable: Watch the famed cable cars change direction and then catch a ride to Chinatown. 6.
March 13, 2017
—Riki Kobayashi “” Riki Kobayashi, 89, the Louis Calder Professor Emeritus in Chemical Engineering at Rice University and a pioneer in the field of differential kinetics, died on July 19, 2013. Born in Webster, Texas, Kobayashi received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Rice in 1944. He served in the Army for one year before earning an M.S. in 1947 and a Ph.D. in 1951, both in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
by Susan J. Ainsworth | January 13, 2014
Padwa draws inspiration from Alexander Calder, the famous American sculptor who is credited with inventing the dangling art pieces. When the mobiles began filling his home, Padwa brought some of them to work. “I started giving away some of the mobiles I had created to my colleagues in the chemistry department,” he says.
July 18, 2011
Harping on my favorite subject, I recommend "The Chilling Stars: The New Theory of Climate Change" by Henrik Svensmark and Nigel Calder. It contains an interesting commentary about the Strad. At the time they were made, it was near the end of a mini-ice age. The wood used in the violins was dense due to the cold growing seasons.
September 07, 2009
Vincent Calder Racine, Wis. I want to express my view that Pimentel won the debate over biomass replacing petroleum, even in part, in the near future. I suppose if some low-cost enzyme or other catalyst were available to convert cellulose to glucose despite the lignin complication, the use of biomass as a practical energy source could not be ignored.
January 28, 2008
A fan of the Spanish surrealist painter Joan Miró, Bone visited the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona, where he saw the "Mercury fountain," which was created by Alexander Calder for the 1937 World's Fair in Paris. In this sculpture, liquid mercury is piped from a pool and flows down a series of curved metal pieces back into the pool.
by CELIA HENRY, C&EN WASHINGTON | September 08, 2003