The Chemistry and Geology of Gold Gold has been valued for all time due to its properties of malleability and high luster. In this talk we will consider the history and geologic origin of gold and its chemical properties. Gold is one of the few elements that can be found as a metal in nature, […]

Bees! And other endangered animals The hum of bees is the voice of the garden – Elizabeth Lawrence As the world changes with the impact humans leave on it, more and more animals find themselves on the endangered list. Today we will talk about conservation, the different methods we use to achieve it, and endangered […]

Telomere to Telomere: Completion of the Human Genome Max Chatnoir (RL Mary Anne Clark, Texas Wesleyan University) In 2001, two research groups published reports on the sequence of the human genome, whose euchromatic sequence was then subsequently largely completed, chromosome by chromosome. A reference sequence was released in 2013 and updated in 2019. In April […]