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CIRM Bridges 3.0: Cal Poly Humboldt's Stem Cell Research Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmJeFnOmS_E
Applications Due Feb 15th

CIRM Bridges 3.0: Cal Poly Humboldt's Stem Cell Research Program Cal Poly Humboldt's CIRM Bridges Program is designed to produce biomedical scientists from diverse backgrounds committed to accelerating the discovery, devel...

Join us March 23 on welcoming former Cal Poly Humboldt alum, John Andre! He will be giving a talk on “Elicidating the Influence of Surface Treatments, Material Functionalization, and Additives on Adhesion at Buried Interfaces”. This talk will be cool and informative! for zoom link or meet us at Sci A 564 7 pm!

Come join the Free Radicals as we try to design our new official frisbee!! Meet us in Sci A 564 or via zoom! DM for link!

https://cen.acs.org/people/profiles/Six-black-chemists-should-know/97/web/2019/02

Black chemists you should know about These inventors, educators, and unsung heroes changed lives through their work in chemistry

✨WELCOME BACK TO SCHOOL!!!✨🥳🥳
We, at the Free Radicals, want you all to know that you’re going to do amazing things this semester! Spring 2022 will be the best yet! Stay tuned for meeting time and location for The Free Radicals club meetings!

It's now easier to email The Free Radicals

Our molecule of the week is….
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Carvone!!
Carvone is a monoterpene that exists as (R)-carvone ans (S)-carvone. (R)-carvone is recognized for having a flavor and aroma of mint! It is most commonly used for candies, personal-care products, air fresheners, and aromatherapy. In 2009, the EPA registered it for use in insect repellents! (S)-carvone is a key component of caraway and dill seed oils! It has a lot fewer uses, but is used in a popular liqueur in Europe(Kümmel) and as a way to stop premature sprouting in potatoes. About half of the commercial product of (R)-carvone is synthesized from (R)-limonene, another monoterpene.

(All resources courtesy of ACS)

Hurry! Only a couple more hours of our tshirt fundraiser for The Free Radicals! Feel free to either buy a tshirt or donate what you can!! We thank everyone who has helped us reach our goal. 💕✨

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/free-radicals?utm_campaign=mobile-campaign-page-share&utm_content=free-radicals&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link

Support 21-22 Free Radicals Club Shirts for Free Radicals Chemistry Club This fundraiser would help Humboldt State University's Free Radicals Chemistry Club go to the American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego! This meeting allows scientists to share information on their latest projects! This event can also help out club gain valuable connections to other research fa...

Who wants to see the Free Radicals go to San Diego for a ACS conference??? I DO! You can show your support, either being a fashionista(or fashionisto) by buying our ✨NEW 2021-2022 CLUB T-SHIRTS✨ or by just donating straight to our club! Who doesn’t love a little online shopping?!
Many thanks and appreciation in advance from all of us here at Free Radicals 💕💕

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/free-radicals?utm_campaign=desktop-post-launch-v3&utm_content=free-radicals&utm_medium=social&utm_source=copy-link

Support 21-22 Free Radicals Club Shirts for Free Radicals Chemistry Club This fundraiser would help Humboldt State University's Free Radicals Chemistry Club go to the American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego! This meeting allows scientists to share information on their latest projects! This event can also help out club gain valuable connections to other research fa...

🎉Woooh!!! 🎉Week one is complete and week two is in progress!
Hope everyone is feeling almost completely adjusted to being back in class and is excited to go ✨IN PERSON✨ starting next week!!
For those of you who have in person lab and need some goggles, the Free Radicals have got you covered!

Congratulations graduates!

https://www.customink.com/fundraising/hsu-chemistry-club-fundraiser

Support HSU Chemistry Club Fundraiser for Current and future activities The Humboldt State chemistry club is proud to showcase our student-made design in our official T-shirt for this year! With in-person classes being canceled this year, the Chemistry Club has been unable to carry out our typically fundraising events. Please consider supporting the club by purchasing o...

https://anchor.fm/stuffmatters

Stuff Matters • A podcast on Anchor Tune in to hear the rising Chemist Mark talk science! Hear some news, a fun fact, and the topic of every episode! Keeping it close to Chem, Mark will talk about the history, books, or questions related to his favorite field of study.

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-delivery/Without-lipid-shells-mRNA-vaccines/99/i8?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=CEN

Without these lipid shells, there would be no mRNA vaccines for COVID-19 Fragile mRNA molecules used in COVID-19 vaccines can’t get into cells on their own. They owe their success to lipid nanoparticles that took decades to refine

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/vis/2020/12/11/revealing-the-spikes-real-shape/?utm_campaign=SciMag&utm_source=JHubbard&utm_medium=Facebook

Revealing the spike's real shape Proteins have a ton of character. Though invisible to our eyes, these marvelous molecules carry out millions of microscopic jobs throughout nature. As a scientific illustrator, a regular function of my work is to visualize proteins doing what they do. Thankfully, I don’t have to make anything up. ...

Some nice biochemistry in action.

Revealing the spike's real shape Proteins have a ton of character. Though invisible to our eyes, these marvelous molecules carry out millions of microscopic jobs throughout nature. As a scientific illustrator, a regular function of my work is to visualize proteins doing what they do. Thankfully, I don’t have to make anything up. ...

Black History Month is a wonderful time to recognize the amazing science that has been given to this world by POC! Today we’d like to recognize ✨Alice Ball✨(1892-1916).
Alice Ball was born in Seattle, Washington, and graduated with her undergrad in pharmaceutical chemistry(1912) and pharmacy(1914) from the University of Washington. After this, she joined her family in Hawaii, attended University of Hawaii, and was the first black person and first woman to graduate with a masters of science in chemistry in 1915. She was then offered a teaching position and became the first woman professor at University of Hawaii at the age of 23. Her mane research was in finding successful treatments for leprosy patients. During her research, she was able to create the very first injectable leprosy treatment. Unfortunately, she passed away at 24 and was unable to witness the amazing benefits that her treatments brought to the public.
Even more unfortunate, as was common at the time, a male colleague to credit for all of her research and work after she had passed. However, in 2000 Alice Ball was recognized by the University of Hawaii for her discoveries and dedicated a plaque to her and declared February 29 as “Alice Ball Day”.

I would like to also take this time to emphasize the importance of recognizing black scientists and women today that have not been recognized in the past. Alice Ball is but another example of a successful woman whose work was taken credit for by a male colleague who had no intentions of recognizing the importance of her work.

In celebration of Black History Month
We would like to recognize:

Winifred Burks-Houck who was an environmental organic chemist and first woman president of the national organization for the professional advancement of black chemists and chemical engineers. Born in Alabama in 1950, a descendent of Harriet Tubman. First began as an environmental chemist in Livermore, California. She was integral in establishing the NOBCChE on the west coast. Her credits for the institution are:
*increasing the number of students and professional chapters by more than 100%
*increased NOBCChE visibility
*instituting new scholarships through public and private entities
*updating telephone and computer systems at the National Office

It’s important to not only recognize our black chemists and scientists, but especially women of color who are in STEM!