It has been on my to-do list for awhile and now, I am doing it! I will be visiting the Chemistry Department on Wednesday, November 11 at 1pm. I will make camp in Disque 209 (the undergraduate lounge) for an hour. The purpose of my being there is to offer assistance on using our resouces and services. This is an experiment. After a couple of attempts, if it is successful, I want to may my visits routine. So come with your questions, suggestions, or just to get to know each other. 
Librarian Coming to the Chemistry Department
September 22, 2009
Julia Child and Primordial Soup
A colleague (thanks Emily) just sent me this video of the master of French Cooking demonstrating, well the chemical soup that started life? It is classic Julia Child. Who’d a thunk, getting a chef to do science.
August 17, 2009
Have you used SciFinder lately?
SciFinder is a research discovery tool that allows college students and faculty to access a wide diversity of research from many scientific disciplines, including biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, materials science, agricultural science, and more!
Follow along and explore Fuel Production from Biomass in SciFinder:
July 2, 2009
Chemistry on Stamps
| A while ago, while searching for some stamps relating to Punt (ask me about this sometime), I came across a site specializing in science on stamps and quite to my surprise, I found a whole world of Chemophilately!
Well, I couldn’t ignore the challenge, so I created a library exhibit of Chemistry on Stamps in Hagerty Library. It is located on the second floor near the stairs. If you are in the area, please stop by and check it out. Many thanks to Dana who collected books from our collection related to the stamp topics, Ashley for putting the display together and Tony Addison’s lab for contributing some chemistry glassware for a little eye spice. |
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If you wish to explore Chemophilately further…
Articles:
Chemistry on Stamps (chemophilately)
Rappoport, Szi
Acc. Chem. Res., 1992, 25 (1), pp 24-31
Chemistry on Stamps
Schreck, James O.
Journal of Chemical Education, 1986, 63(4), pp283-87
A Postage Stamp History of Chemistry
Miller, Foil A.
Applied Spectroscopy, 1986, 40(7), pp911-924
Web Sites:
Russian Topical Stamps: Chemistry
http://stamprussia.com/chemistry.htm
Sci-Philately – a Selective History of Science on Stamps
University of Buffalo Libraries
http://library.buffalo.edu/asl/exhibits/stamps/
Chemistry on Stamps
http://teacherspace.swindsor.k12.ct.us/staff/dwhite/StampSite/index.htm
Chemistry and Physics on Stamps
Philatelia Chimica et Physica
http://www.cpossu.org/
Visit Philadelphia’s Own:
Chemical Heritage Foundation
CHF has an impressive collection of postage stamps featuring famous chemists and important chemical discoveries.
June 18, 2009
The Future is Plastics
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The May issue of Canadian Chemical News has just come across my desk. I was struck by the headline: Plastics Go Green. Inside are a couple of articles, Plastics Under Attack–The Other Side and Oxo-Biodegradable Plastics, Addressing the Problem of Plastics Persistence in the Environment. |
These links are restricted to Drexel University community.
May 20, 2009
Common Chemistry
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Substance SearchWelcome to Common Chemistry™ from Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a web resource that contains CAS Registry Numbers for approximately 7,800 chemicals of widespread general public interest. Common Chemistry is helpful to non-chemists who know either a name or CAS Registry Number® of a common chemical and want to pair both pieces of information. The CAS Registry Number is the universally recognized unique identifier of chemical substances and is often found on packaging and on articles of commerce. While not a comprehensive CAS Registry Number lookup service, Common Chemistry does provide a way to quickly and easily find names or CAS Registry Numbers for chemicals of general interest. CAS has collaborated with Wikipedia in developing this resource and encourages you to use the Wikipedia link (when available) or other sources of general information on chemistry, to learn more about these chemicals. |
May 18, 2009
ACS Redesigns Journal Web Pages
Have you had a chance to scope out the new web pages of ACS journals? They are packed with a lot of stuff, but one that I would like to point out is the link to SciFinder Scholar appearing at the article level of the journal. This link takes you to the sign-in page for SciFinder, where you can search Chemical Abstracts for related articles to the one you just found. You also are given options for different kinds of “pdf” versions of the paper. Check it out!
Go to ACS journals page and explore your favorite journal: http://pubs.acs.org/action/showPublications?display=journals
May 11, 2009
RSC Acquires ChemSpider
I just got the announcement from the Royal Society of Chemistry on their acquisition of ChemSpider, a free online resouce based on structure searching, which was blogged earlier on DrexelChemistry. For more information on the acquisition go to: RSC acquires ChemSpider
For information on ChemSpider go to: http://www.chemspider.com/
I just hope that this resouce STAYS free!
May 1, 2009
Science? Art? Dance? Gosh!
The Science Dance Match-Up Challenge
John Bohannon
| Thank you for taking part in the following experiment. You are about to see four dances. Each of them is based on a different scientific research article. Your task is to match the dances with the science that inspired them. |  |
We use science and art for very different things. Science helps us to simplify the universe by deciphering its physical laws and history. In a certain sense, we use art to do the opposite. Artists take the simple, everyday material of our lives and turn it into unique, complex experiences. The dances you are about to see are an extreme merging of both.
They are the final output of the 2009 AAAS/Science Dance Your Ph.D. Contest. They started with the purest form of scientific communication-research papers that supposedly leave little room for more than one interpretation-and transformed them into modern dance, a medium in which individual interpretation is the essence.
This is Science: Jenn Liang Chaboud from Matthew Chaboud on Vimeo.
If not a single person correctly guesses what science these dances were based upon, it certainly won’t make them artistic failures. The goal of the choreographers was to make art, not study guides. Nonetheless, this is an experiment worth doing. When art jumps out of science, can we retrace its path?
Check out the rest….http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/324/5925/332b
April 17, 2009
The All Results Journals: Chemistry
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The All Results Journals is a family of open-access electronic-only journals publishing “secondary” results across the fields of Chemistry, Biology, Nanotechnology and Physics. At present, within the research community, more than 60% of the experiments fail to produce results or expected discoveries. Even though, as in many cases this would be frustrating from an objective point of view, this high percentage of “failed” research generates high level knowledge. But generally, all these experiments have not been published anywhere as they have been considered useless for our research target. The All Results Journals: Chem focuses on recovering and publishing those experiments that either failed or led to “unexpected” results within all areas of Chemistry. The publication of these results has an essential value in any real science-based empirical knowledge. We hope being a must-read journal when starting a new project in any field of Chemistry. Please visit ABOUT for more details and our Author Guidelines for submitting your work.
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