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Peter Wall Institute’s Major Thematic Grant awarded on Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications

By Eugene Barsky on March 19, 2012

The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies has announced that a Peter Wall Institute Major Thematic Grant of $500,000 has been awarded to Dr. Michael Wolf, Principal Investigator (Chemistry) for a project entitled “Nanomaterials for Alternative Energy Applications” for the period 2012-2016. http://www.pwias.ubc.ca/awards/thematic-programs/major-thematic-grants.php

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International Business Times article on a Study that Finds Biofuels May Be Less Green Than Fossil Fuels.

By Eugene Barsky on May 17, 2011

From ASEE daily news digest: The International Business Times (5/17) reports that researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in a study funded by the Federal Aviation Administration and Air Force Research Labs, found that “biofuels may pollute the environment much more heavily if the process used to make them isn’t done in the right [...]

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Google Translate – Useful Tool or Gibberish Generator?

By Kevin Lindstrom on November 19, 2010

Putting Google to the Test in Translation An article posted in the March 9, 2010 issue of the New York Times compares how well Google Translate, Yahoo Babel Fish and Microsoft Bing Translator compare against the skills of a human translator. Google has poured resources into improving its automatic translation service. Some of these systems [...]

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Important New Changes to the ACS Copyright Agreement

By Kevin Lindstrom on October 8, 2010

New ACS Journal Publishing Agreement expands author rights and clarifies responsibilities WASHINGTON, Oct. 6, 2010 — The American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Publications Division will begin rolling out a new publishing agreement in mid-October that expands author rights and clarifies author responsibilities. The ACS Journal Publishing Agreement (JPA) is a result of ACS’ ongoing efforts to [...]

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Web of Science Journal Selection Process

By Kevin Lindstrom on September 24, 2010

Wondering why some journals are in the Web of Science database and others are not? Read the full article here The Thomson Reuters Journal Selection Process Why be selective Thomson Reuters is committed to providing comprehensive coverage of the world’s most important and influential journals to meet its subscribers’ current awareness and retrospective information retrieval [...]

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RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

RefWorks workshops for the Sciences

By Eugene Barsky on September 20, 2010

Katherine Miller from Woodward library and myself are offering a few RefWorks workshops for our Science and Engineering faculty, students and staff: Tuesday, September 21st, 2010 at 9:30AM – 11:30AM in Koerner 217 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1087 Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010 at 10:00AM – 12:00PM in Woodward B25 – http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/1090 If you need a personal training about [...]

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Human intelligence beats computers in protein puzzle showdown

Human intelligence beats computers in protein puzzle showdown

By Eugene Barsky on August 5, 2010

The Wired magazine today has reported that: In a biology geek revenge for Kasparov’s loss to Deep Blue, human intuition has thumped artificial intelligence in the game of protein folding. Asked to decipher the fantastically complex structures of 10 proteins, a community of gamers beat cutting-edge algorithms five times. Three times they tied. Only twice [...]

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Recycled cigarette butts can keep steel from rusting – Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Recycled cigarette butts can keep steel from rusting – Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

By Eugene Barsky on July 8, 2010

A yesterday article in USA Today was an interesting read for me – “Recycled cigarette butts can keep steel from rusting“. The article cites a study , published in the American Chemical Society journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research , that shows that extracts of cigarette butts that have  been submerged in water can help [...]

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Richard Kerekes to receive the 2010 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award

Richard Kerekes to receive the 2010 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award

By Eugene Barsky on March 9, 2010

It is a very good news to us in the Science and Engineering library to hear that Richard Kerekes is to receive the 2010 TAPPI Gunnar Nicholson Gold Medal Award. From the UBC Applied Science press release: The award recognizes an individual who has created a pre-eminent scientific and engineering achievement that has proven of [...]

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More about Geoengineering…

More about Geoengineering…

By Eugene Barsky on March 4, 2010

I have a personal interest in geoengineering and I tend to read many publications that discuss these topics. Lat week Science had a short article about geoengineering that I found interesting: The Latest on Geoengineering. Eli Kintisch (26 February 2010). Science 327 (5969), 1070-b. [DOI: 10.1126/science.327.5969.1070-b] Moreover, here is a short list of books we [...]

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