For some, infection causes the smells that people typically relish or find comfort in—like the morning’s coffee— to trigger a full-throttle sense of disgust or revulsion. Kelly is well placed to explain the overwhelming effects that a loss and distortion of smell can wreak and how the pandemic brought those changes into focus.
by Laura Howes | September 26, 2022
—Local sections participate in Chemists Celebrate Earth Week 2022 “Chemists engaged the public in a week of events on insect chemistry” From April 17 to 23, American Chemical Society members from 83 local sections and two international chemical science chapters engaged the public in hands-on activities and demonstrations as part of Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW).
by Nina Notman, special to C&EN | June 25, 2022
Baking a cake tea towel Printed with all the chemistry you need to whip up something scrumptious, this tea towel costs about $24 from the Chemist Tree. Catalyst spiral notebook Write or doodle in this adorable notebook for about $18 from Flaming Imp. Chemistry-lab canvas shoulder tote You can show off your chemistry or go incognito with this reversible bag for $25 from Cognitive Surplus. Caffeine-constellation camper mug Coffee’s key component gets a constellation-inspired look on this mug for $25 from Two Photon Art. Overnight reaction sticker Let your lab mates know what’s happening in your hood with this $3 sticker from the Chemunnie shop on Etsy. Please send comments and suggestions to newscripts@acs.org. /business/consumer-products/CENs-2021-holiday-gift-guide/99/i41 20211107 99 41 /magazine/99/09941.html C&EN’s 2021 holiday gift guide consumer products, gift guide newscript Bethany Halford business consumer-products Playmobil Chemunnie Luciteria Science The Chemist Tree Flaming Imp Cognitive Surplus Two Photon Art Child's toy that has three figures in a chemistry classroom with books, lab bench, and chemistry equipment.
by Bethany Halford | November 07, 2021
Often, I would end up meeting her in the lab late on a Friday or Saturday night for a couple of hours before heading out for some time together at a coffee shop or at a late-night diner and then collapsing into bed. I always found her meeting me in the lab a little embarrassing or awkward, but she expressed something that I really appreciated: “The only way out of this place is through the lab.”
by Chemjobber | February 13, 2019
That is, I am more likely to interact with people on social media whom I recognize as chemists from my ACS interactions, and I then look for them at my next ACS national meeting. A professional network like ACS can serve as your local coffee shop if you interact with it through your student chapter or your local section. Just like at a coffee shop, the regulars are there waiting to talk with you, and you are missed when you are not there. Much like a global coffee chain, ACS can also offer you opportunities to network beyond your neighborhood through local section meetings, regional meetings, and national meetings.
by Rigoberto Hernandez, District IV Director | March 05, 2018
People describe a flooded basement as smelling like a wet dog, or the scent from a new variety of coffee as having notes of currant and chocolate. The problem, says Michelle Francl, a computational chemist at Bryn Mawr College, is that what smells of currant and chocolate to one person may be a plain cup of joe to others.
by Carrie Arnold, special to C&EN | November 21, 2017
Citrine, which has eight Ph.D. materials chemists on its staff of 26, has completed two rounds of investment, most recently a $7.6 million series A led by Innovation Endeavors, Prelude Ventures, and Data Collective. The World Economic Forum selected the company as one of the 30 most promising technology pioneers for 2017, and Citrine won the World Materials Forum Start Up Challenge Award this year.
by Rick Mullin | November 06, 2017
Since summer 2016, C&EN has followed three chemists—Northwestern University’s Julia Kalow, Cornell University’s Song Lin, and University of California, San Diego’s Valerie Schmidt—as they navigated their new jobs at competitive research institutions. What follows is a chronicle of their frustrating, exhausting, rewarding, and gratifying first year. Learn everything, all at once Sitting at a coffee shop in Evanston on an unseasonably warm June morning, Julia Kalow mapped out everything that had gone into arriving at this moment. She had shown up at Northwestern just days earlier, but the planning for her new lab began months ago—pretty much from the moment she accepted the job here. If Kalow felt any major stress over this next big step in her career, she didn’t show it as she settled in with her coffee. Prone to pull her longish brown hair back into a ponytail and favoring khakis and solid-colored tops, Kalow was decidedly at home with herself, a quality that would prove helpful as she navigated her new role.
by Lisa M. Jarvis | May 18, 2017
But even then, he deliberately does not have coffee at home. Marks says he prefers to wait until he reaches his office to have that first cup of joe. “It’s psychological. It motivates me to get going.” It’s hard to imagine that Marks, 72, needs motivation. He exudes the stuff. To colleagues who know him well, and even to those who know of him only through his scientific publications and presentations, Marks has a reputation for being a chemistry workaholic.
by Mitch Jacoby | March 30, 2017
“Researchers ponder how pushing nitrogen into specially brewed coffee imparts a smooth, creamy flavor” Before Nate Armbrust was even working as a food scientist at Portland, Ore.-based Stumptown Coffee Roasters, he was daydreaming about how to push bubbles into a cold cup of coffee. Armbrust first tried carbonating coffee, but he quickly realized it was a terrible idea.
by Lisa M. Jarvis, Jessica Morrison | August 24, 2015