A New Tool Comes to BSCEB

By: Steven Hart This news may take your breath away…especially because Dr. Torres’ new microscope is the only anaerobic set-up on campus, and because it has so many possible applications for your environmental biotechnology research!  Confocal BRIGHTFIELD, DIC, and EPIFLUORESCENCE modes are all possible, within an anaerobic glove box (+ or – O2), and with… Continue reading A New Tool Comes to BSCEB

Bon Voyage, Melanie Hekeu!

Here’s to the most dedicated visiting scholar I’ve ever encountered! Melanie Hekeu has her last day today, and I’ve been incredibly lucky to have worked with someone who demonstrated so much sincere scientific curiosity and obvious joy in the process of research — even when her mentor was “burning the midnight oil”. Melanie: although you… Continue reading Bon Voyage, Melanie Hekeu!

Yoho and Rittmann Find Little Coverage of Climate Change, Energy Technologies, and Environmental Issues in Undergraduate Textbooks

ASU Now and Miami University featured alumna Rachel Yoho and BSCEB Director Bruce Rittmann’s recent article, “Climate change and energy technologies in undergraduate introductory science textbooks,” in the journal, Environmental Communication. Yoho and Rittmann examined more than 15,000 pages from current editions of 16 leading physics, biology and chemistry undergraduate textbooks published between 2013 and 2015. … Continue reading Yoho and Rittmann Find Little Coverage of Climate Change, Energy Technologies, and Environmental Issues in Undergraduate Textbooks