A Cornell University professor of psychology has a new approach to fostering networking among Latin American scientists and their North American colleagues: a special free bilingual website named CienciAmérican (Science…
Read MoreI just received the sad news that one of the legends of materials science and of science, in general, Rustum Roy, passed away last week. Although he was a stellar…
Read MoreUltrasensitive Nanomechanical Transducers Based on Nonlinear Resonance, one of ORNL’s 2010 R&D 100 award winners. (Credit: ORNL.) R&D Magazine awarded DOE and other federal labs with 50 of its R&D…
Read More[Two notes: The comments below are my opinions. Sometimes convention need to be re-examined, especially as new technology and other conventions around us change. Second, I have replaced the original…
Read MoreI once heard the old horrible saying about spouses – “you can’t live with ’em and you can’t live without ’em” – used to describe the venerable poster sessions at…
Read MoreThe DOE tells me ARPA-E still has “help wanted” signs out in several areas of the organization dedicated to high-risk, high-reward energy R&D. Program Directors: For three- year stints, ARPA-E…
Read MoreThe materials science and engineering honorary society, Alpha Sigma Mu, now has several really unique and attractive ties and scarves you won’t find anywhere else. Admittedly, these accessories are a…
Read MoreFor a change, I am going to start my macro-level observations by looking at the National Science Foundation. As indicated in the chart above the agency has only been able…
Read MoreIt’s great to see that a large number of schools that we reference in this blog made it to Bloomberg BusinessWeek‘s new list of the top 25 “best bargain” universities,…
Read MorePostdoc hell, circa 1996. What a laugh riot it must have been working for this guy at Caltech. ‘In addition to the usual work-day schedule, I expect all of the…
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