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Mills Street and University Avenue. From 7 pm, Friday, June 28 through late Sunday, June 30, Mills Street will be closed and traffic will be reduced to two lanes in University Avenue. This is necessitated by installation of three trusses, each weighing about 73,000 pounds, needed to support the weight of eight floors of our …
By Stephanie Blaszczyk Science Communicator, Graduate Student (Tang Group), and 2019 AAAS Mass Media Fellow How do energetic mountains and molehills affect the folding and function of proteins? The Cavagnero Lab asked this question when investigating why bacterial proteins fold properly instead of misfolding and aggregating under physiological conditions. “If proteins in our bodies and in bacteria …
New Tower. The new tower is rising rapidly. The sequence of photos below, which starts about a month ago, show the rapid rise of the stairwell that will serve the west side of the new tower. From a concrete slab at the bottom of the excavation the stairwell has risen to from sub-basement to basement …
By Mary Hanson Department of Chemistry Physical Path Coordinator Professor Shaul Mukamel will receive the 2019-20 Joseph O. Hirschfelder Prize in Theoretical Chemistry, administered by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Theoretical Chemistry Institute (TCI). Prof. Mukamel is a Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Irvine. Mukamel is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of …
New Tower. Most of the excitement this week involved installation of two 50-ton trusses and several cross members on the steel columns that were erected several weeks ago. This process began with preparation of gravel pads to support the weight of the large mobile crane that erected the tower crane last week. The crane was …