The Polymer Party
This film was created by Jimmy Wu (Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Dartmouth College), Erika Murillo (Dartmouth ‘13), and Lorie Loeb (Director of the Digital Arts Program at Dartmouth). It is a fun animation on the topic of polymers. It was funded in part by the National Science Foundation (CHE-1052824, CRI:IAD-0708209) and Dartmouth College.
The American Chemical Society offers free weekly webinars on a range of interesting topics. The latest one was on the chemistry of chocolate! See www.acswebinars.org
Kevin Meagher ‘95
So what is cotton candy? Watch as University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor of Food Engineering Richard Hartel explains how to spin piping-hot melted sugar into tasty threads, eventually cooling off and forming cotton candy.
Wayne Hayes, University of Reading, UK, and colleagues, synthesized and characterized a focused library of potential low molecular weight hydrogelators for novel inexpensive and easy to use water purification platforms. The pH switchable, color changing gels can sequester large, but varying quantities of the aromatic cationic dye from aqueous solution.
They Might Be Giants: “Science is Real”
Chemistry meets the world’s needs, is creative and is building our future, and inspires young people.
Phytochemicals, or plant chemicals, are found in a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, each one with an associated color. Did you know that blueberries get their blue hue from a chemical called delphinidin? Did you also know that that same chemical is a known cancer fighter? Find out more about why phytochemicals are so beneficial to your health in this video featuring Linda Van Horn, professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine and discover why it’s a healthy decision to eat a rainbow of fruits and vegetables
