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Falko Schmidt selected as participant of "Humboldt meets Leibniz" 2022
Falko Schmidt has been selected to attain the prestigious "Humboldt meets Leibniz" networking event on all optics related topics from the 12th June till 15th June 2022 at Herrenhausen Palace in Hannover, Germany.
According to the event's motto,...
Post · December 23, 2021
Interview by the China Oceanic Development Foundation on Summer Camp at Xiamen University, China
Post · December 22, 2021
ProCURE Meets with the Department Chair
In June of 2021, I headed a ProCURE (Promoting Chemistry Undergraduate Research Equity) initiative to survey undergraduate chemistry students in 100- and 200-level courses. The purpose of this survey was to identify barriers undergraduate students...
Post · December 16, 2021
Working Together to Differentiate Stem Cells
I had a meeting today with an old collaborator, Alessandro Bertero. So excited for him to start up his own lab at the University of Turin in Italy! With any luck, we can soon have a CRISPR-based system in hiPSCs that will allow us to differentiate...
Post · December 16, 2021
Perspectives on the P-Value
Today, I am going to be talking about the all powerful p-value. But before I continue, let me preface this by saying I am a graduate student, not a statistician and I am still in the process of learning!
Like most graduate students, I worshiped ...
Post · December 14, 2021
Towards Greater Acceptance of Wind Energy: A Review of Community Benefit Models
Summary
Wind energy has emerged as one of the most viable and cost-effective means of addressing the intersecting problems of air pollution, energy security and climate change. Especially in Ontario, Canada however, the development of wind energy ...
Post · December 08, 2021
Toolkit for Turbines: Wind Energy Development in Ontario and Nova Scotia, Canada
This toolkit is meant as a relatively high-level lay summary of some of the key findings from Chad Walker’s (Western University) PhD research which looked specifically at the social responses to facility siting processes for wind energy developmen...
Post · December 08, 2021
Holiday Gift Ideas for the STEM People in Your Life!
Hi All,
So sorry I’ve been absent recently. Exam season has been a whirlwind! I will be doing a debrief of the semester and updating you on all the things my first semester as a PhD student has taught me, but until then, I wanted to give you all ...
Post · December 08, 2021
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