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Visiting Poznan as a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellow
The Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences (IBCH PAS) was established almost 25 years ago, but its origins date back to 1969 when the Department of Stereochemistry of Natural...
View ArticleThe traveling biochemist: Biochemistry in Dar es Salaam
Part 1: The multinational project It sounds exotic, and it certainly is. Dar es Salaam is the biggest city in Tanzania, but is not the capital (Dodoma). It is a port with 2.5 million people in 2002...
View ArticleHardin and Knopp Publish New Textbook: ‘Biochemistry – Essential Concepts’
Editor’s Note: Drs. Chuck Hardin and Jim Knopp recently published a new textbook/workbook with Oxford University Press (2012, ISBN 97 80199 765621, website: OUP.com). Chuck described the process of...
View ArticleNew Course Offered: ‘Physical Chemistry for Life Scientists’
Have you seen the bumper sticker “Honk if you passed P-Chem”? I recently finished teaching the first semester of a new course offering designed to make P-Chem “come alive” for our students. It seems...
View ArticleNCSU Biochemistry graduates stellar students
In the May 2013 graduation ceremony, the department conferred BS Biochemistry degrees to 56 students and PhD Biochemistry to 5 students. Previous graduating classes were approximately 40:60 men:women;...
View ArticleReflections on 7.5 years of graduate school
I went to a small liberal arts college which had a very small chemistry program (some of my classes had just me and one other person). For an elective I was given the choice of either Inorganic...
View ArticleMost Bizarre Advising Session Ever
On the bench of the 5th Hole at Cedar Rock Disc Golf Course During the 2013 U.S. Masters Disc Golf Championships For fun relaxation, exercise and competition, I play disc golf. I do it a lot – it keeps...
View ArticleLaunching 2014 in Paris: The international year of crystallography
Guest Blogger Dr. Susan K. Fetics is the International Vice President, Iota Nu Chapter of Graduate Women in Science. She is a post-doctoral fellow in the Laboratoire d’Enzymologie et Biochimie...
View ArticleIt is a people business, after all
Drs. Tom Baldwin and Miriam Ziegler have been a team for over four decades. As former trainees in the Baldwin/Ziegler lab, Carole Stivers, Zak Campbell, and I felt that it was an appropriate time to...
View ArticleA few words about classroom etiquette
I’ve noticed over the past few years as electronic devices become more prevalent in our society, that students are now bringing the devices to the classroom, particularly laptop computers and smart...
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