The United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2015 as a call to action and identified 169 specific targets to help guide these actions.
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2020
The path from graduate student to professor is a rewarding but arduous journey that requires advancing through multiple stages of career development.
A security advisory released by the Dept. of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) in February detailed the response to a recent cyberattack on a natural gas compression facility
A hydrogel platform embedded with microbes is allowing chemical engineers at the Univ. of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) to produce medicines and chemicals nearly anywhere
Empirical differences in the number of citations and the salaries of men vs. women in academia are well documented. In the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, the differences are even more apparent
Chemical engineers at Aalto Univ. in Finland have created an eco-friendly, sustainable adhesive based on plant-derived cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs). Thanks to the CNCs, the adhesive is extremely strong — at the nanoscale, these crystals have strength comparable to that of steel
Transforming an Industry: Using Wood As a Feedstock for Petrochemicals; Gender Study Explores Publishing Gap Between Men and Women; Recent Cyber Attack Raises Alarm; Producing Medicines and Chemicals, Anytime, Anywhere; An Eco-Friendly Cellulose-Based Adhesive
Dr. John H. Evans serves as Vice President, Yeast Innovation, at AB Biotek, a division of the global yeast manufacturer AB Mauri. Previous to his role at AB Biotek, Dr. Evans was Vice President, Science & Technology, at the ethanol producer POET, where he also was Director, Cellulosic Ethanol and lead the POET-DSM Steering Committee for Project LIBERTY, the POET-DSM Advanced Biofuels joint venture in cellulosic ethanol. Previous to joining POET, Dr. Evans was Research Director at GeoSynFuels, a cellulosic ethanol start-up company in Golden, Colorado. Dr. Evans also consults in...Read more
Natecia Williams is a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Emory University. In 2013, She earned her Ph.D. investigating the role of non-coding DNA in transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of retinal neurons at Washington University in St. Louis. During her Ph.D. candidacy, she received a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (F31) from the NIH. She performed her postdoctoral research at Emory University, studying the biological mechanism behind retinal degenerative myopia. During her postdoctoral fellowship, she was awarded...Read more
