Fri 24 Oct 2008
As the pilot announced our final descent into the Phoenix airport, I stirred from my much-needed nap. I rubbed my eyes and looked at my watch: 9:17 am (still Eastern time, of course). We’d been traveling for almost six hours now, and the sun was just beginning to crest on the horizon behind the left [...]Sat 25 Oct 2008
As panelists Ron Winslow, Betsy Mason, and Erika Check Hayden took their seats on stage, Lisa Rossi, director of communications and external relations at the University of Pittsburgh, introduced the session entitled ‘PIO Pitch Slam: Packaging, Delivery…and Placing the Story.’ In this session, we would be discussing how public information officers should and should not [...]Thu 6 Nov 2008
Photo taken from Hayden’s website I have to admit, I was a little intimidated by the prospect of interviewing Erika Check Hayden. Not that much older than I, she has already established herself as a prominent figure in the science writing community. With an undergraduate degree in biology from Stanford University, Hayden began writing for [...]Mon 17 Nov 2008
A WEEK IN THE SENGELAUB LABORATORY Searching for treatments for neurodegenerative ailments Logo taken from the Sengelab Lab webpage. 10.27.2008 – 10AM 10.27.2008 – 12PM 10.29.2008 – 10:30AM 10.29.2008 – 12PM 10.29.2008 – 3:30PM 10.31.2008 – 10:30AM 10.31.2008 – 11AM 11.3.2008 – 10AM My First Taste of the Sengelaub Lab Surgery #2 A Brief History [...]Wed 10 Dec 2008
The strongest hurricanes may be getting even stronger, a recent study found. Along with increases in ocean temperatures, wind speeds of extreme tropical cyclones appear to be rising since the early 1980s. Satellite view of developing hurricane. Photo credit Tropical cyclones plague the American coasts each year and are the costliest natural catastrophes in the [...]Sat 13 Dec 2008
My name is Jef (Jennifer) Akst. I am a biology graduate student at Indiana University Bloomington studying mating behavior and sexual selection in seahorses. (Check out my website for more information. Science has always been a passion of mine. From junior year in high school, when I was finally freed of those pesky physical education [...]Wed 17 Dec 2008
Photo credit Ever notice that a full moon rises just as the sun sets? Most of us are aware that the moonlight we see is actually sunlight reflecting off the moon so it makes sense that the moon is full when the sun is on the exact opposite side of the earth. And if that’s [...]