Paper in Polyhedron

Congrats to Magda, Timm and Tias on our paper being published in the journal Polyhedron. The paper details some of Magda's work while a Masters student at Manhattan College. The link to the paper can be found here: link.

Beakers

I love when you expect something from Google search and get the unexpected.



I didn't know Dr. Bunsen's last name was Honeydew.

Setting goals

Well, the new semester is about to start (how exciting). At the start of every semester, I set goals for what I want to accomplish before the semester ends. My goals for this semester are to submit a paper that I've been sitting on, and finish off a paper I'm currently in the process of writing. On top of that, I have two conferences to go to (SETAC and the UMass Sediments conference) where I am giving presentations. I also want to get down to Hopkins at some point, and we have an ABET visit to get through.

Oh, and let's not forget I'm teaching 4 classes too. It's time to get ready!

Ciba High School Chemistry Institute

On July 28, the Ciba High School Chemistry Institute visited the Environmental Engineering Labs at Manhattan College for the annual "Filter Design Competition." The students did a great job! Check out the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/richeql/CibaHighSchoolChemistryInstitute2008

GRC 2008

Just got back from the Environmental Sciences: Water Gordon Conference in Holderness, NH. The organizers (Deb Swackhamer and Bill Ball) did a fantastic job, despite the bad weather! I was told by the attendees that my talk "Developing Modeling Approaches for Metals Risk Assessment" went well, so it was a good meeting. It was good to see everyone again!