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LLNL Three Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory postdoctoral appointees have been selected to attend the 70 th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany this June. The three selected to attend the meeting are, from left: Wei Jia Ong, Matthew Edwards and Oluwatomi (Tomi) Akindele. Three Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) postdoctoral appointees have been selected to attend the 70 th annual Lindau Nobel Laureate meeting in Germany this June thanks to the University of California President’s 2021 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows Program. The three selected to attend th...

Boston University Social Innovation on Drug Resistance Program Advocate Member Drug resistance is an inevitable biological process driven by evolution, but made worse by human behavior, threatening to usher in a post-antibiotic era. While the new products created from the Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Biopharmaceutical Accelerator's (CARB-X) preclinical product development support are an important step in preventing that; an equally important challenge is to understand the impact of human behavior on the evolution of drug-resistant microbes. The tools for this effort will be interdi...

First Air Quality Profile of Two Sub-Saharan African Cities Finds Troubling News Pollution Up to 5 Times Over International Guidelines Dan Westervelt setting up a low-cost air quality monitor. Ambient air pollution is a global public health crisis, causing more than 4.9 million premature deaths per year around the world. In Africa, it has surpassed AIDS as the leading cause of premature death. According to one study, air pollution—specifically, fine particulate matter (PM2.5)—may cause at least as many as 780,000 premature deaths annually in Africa and worsen a significant number of disea...

Author:  February 9, 2021 This article continues Climate.gov’s series of interviews with current and former fellows in the NOAA Climate and Global Change Postdoctoral Program about the nature of their research funded by NOAA and what career and education highlights preceded and followed it. Over the past 30 years, the Postdoctoral Program, funded by NOAA Climate Program Office, has hosted over 200 fellows. The Program’s purpose is to help create and train the next generation of researchers in climate science. Appointed fellows are hosted by mentoring scientists at U.S. universities an...

Auburn professor Bodewits’ work included in NASA’s Hubble timeline Published: February 17, 2021 Decrease Font Size Font Size Increase Font Size Article body NASA recently included the work of Dennis Bodewits—an associate professor in Auburn University’s Department of Physics in the College of Sciences and Mathematics—in a timeline highlighting the history of the revolutionary Hubble Space Telescope. Bodewits used the telescope to study the composition of Comet 2I/Borisov, the first interstellar comet to pass through our solar system, and his findings—originally pu...