As I sat in the comfort of my warm bed last night, the sound of the rain pelting against my bedroom window put a smile on my face. Then I thought of those refugees who are none so fortunate. On top of what they have already lost and endured, they don’t even have tents …
Barriers To Pollution Prevention | Chemical & Engineering News Here’s an interesting piece by Cheryl Hogue of C&EN about a study by the Environmental Protection Agency. The study finds that “many industrial facilities aren’t acting to prevent the release of toxic chemicals because they aren’t aware of less hazardous alternatives.” HERE’S WHAT KEEPS INDUSTRIAL …
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How could this happen? How, in the 21st century, in a country that is modern, educated, and relatively wealthy, could such an atrocity occur? How could anyone forget how important clean water is to the health of people, especially children. How could this have gone on so long before action was taken to warn …
Donning his white coat, this doctor dances for dollars Check out this great video. There’s more to this doctor than simply medicine. Similarly, there’s more to each of us than simply chemistry, and so too for pretty much everybody. The mission of Chemists Without Borders is to solve humanitarian problems by mobilizing the resources and …
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Since September 2014, I have been managing the Chemists Without Borders team in Bangladesh. We started with a team of part time interns, all graduates of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh. We had the objective of seeing whether we could work effectively with high schools to educate the students, and through them, …
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On my list of things I could donate that I would consider life saving, I would put blood, organs, bone marrow, even clean water. Half used bars of hotel soap? That never crossed my mind. It did to Shawn Seipler, now the CEO of the nonprofit initiative called Clean the World. According to an article …
Nature is so amazing. I heard about this topic on the radio last week and was curious to learn more about it. Even with all the technological advances we have made, humans still pale in comparison to what nature figured out a long time ago. One such example is the fibers and adhesives that mussels …
Dear friends of Chemists Without Borders, I am pleased to announce the kickoff of our campaign on IndieGoGo aimed at educating high school students in Bangladesh on the dangers of drinking water contaminated with arsenic. Chemists Without Borders has provided arsenic test kits to six schools in Bangladesh to test the drinking water in their …
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by Josh Kearns * * * Hi – Your erstwhile correspondent Josh Kearns here! As a Chemist Without Borders doing work of on-the-ground relevance, you may enjoy this critical look at the continuing struggle to bring academia into accord with the real world…. * * * OK, …
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George M. Whitesides of Harvard University and coworkers have invented uMed, an electrochemical detector that uses the voice channel of a cell phone on any cellular network to transmit data for remote analysis. It costs about $25, so it could bring water quality testing to people that cannot afford expensive electrochemical instruments. It even uses …
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