Author: E. Kirsten Peters
4 article(s) found by this author.
You, too, can run a nuclear reactor
Summer 2010
Particles moving faster than the speed of light. Elements transmuted
from one to another. A million watts of power. Hands-on practice
controlling a nuclear reactor. These are some of the selling points of Chemistry 490, a specialized
elective c...
Categories: Chemistry, WSU students
Tags: Nuclear reactors, Nuclear safety
Laboratories for the new century
Spring 2010
First, six months
of planning. Then, over the summer, came the actual moving of laboratory
equipment, chemicals, papers, and all the rest. Finally, faculty,
students, and staff from four separate science buildings are now under
one roof in a ...
Categories: Campus life, Biological sciences
Tags: Molecular biology, Buildings
Electricity from a beet
Fall 2008
Chemists around the world are looking to the plant kingdom for
ideas about harvesting the energy of sunlight. Plants, after all,
have been making a living exploiting sunbeams for almost four
billion years. And part of what plants accomplish each d...
Categories: Chemistry
Tags: Solar power, Electricity
Review :: Index of Suspicion
Summer 2003
Don't read Index of Suspicion by Robert E. Armstrong until all your pets have had fresh rabies vaccinations. Using his knowledge as a veterinarian—he graduated from WSU's College of Veterinary Medicine in 1962—Armstrong has constructed a complex ...
Categories: Fiction
Tags: Mystery novels