An Ever-Growing Collection of News, Features & Achievements
Lab Mock-up. A sampling of representative fume hoods, lab counters and casework, cabinets, sinks, and cabinets has been available since Wednesday of last week for examination by those who will be overseeing our new laboratory facilities. The lab mock-up shows that we will have great-looking facilities when the tower construction and Daniels renovation are completed. …
By Kaine Korzekwa, Department of Biochemistry Graduate students attend multiple conferences during their educational careers. But after his first successful trip to the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) conference, Joseph Kim decided to get more involved and was recently named Communications Chair for MSA’s Student Council. Kim, a physical chemistry graduate student in the lab …
Daniels Eighth Floor. Installation of sprinklers began last week and is proceeding according to plan. Last Monday morning about a dozen people from the construction team, FP&M, and chemistry checked that the eighth floor was ready for workers to begin drilling through walls and installing pipes. Occupants of the eighth floor had prepared the area …
New Tower. While many of us have been celebrating holidays the construction team has been working hard to raise our tower higher and higher. What they had achieved by the end of the year is shown here: On Thursday, December 19, a concrete pump truck occupied the loading-dock area to pour the west side of …
Dr. Kenneth T. Gillen (Ph.D. 1970, Noggle) will be honored for his technical competency and contributions to rubber technology as winner of the 2020 Melvin Mooney Distinguished Technology Award. He was featured in Rubber News here. and as a Science & Technology winner here. Gillen worked for the Sandia National Laboratories, as a polymer chemist, …