Tweet (This post is written by Dr. Sean McGinnis, Director of the Green Engineering Program at Virginia Tech) “There is no such thing as a free lunch” goes the old adage. Applied to technology and … Continue reading
Tweet That (paraphrased) conversation above was one of the many we had at the first Virginia Science Festival. It was a week-long celebration of science (October 4-11), spread across Virginia. Virginia Tech hosted the first … Continue reading
Tweet “Does the fact that most of us know the names of mass murderers, but have never heard of Jan Oort, say anything about us?” That was Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson (Cosmos, Episode 3), making … Continue reading
Tweet We need about 125 litres of water to grow an apple, and about 80 litres for an orange. A glass of apple juice: 230 litres. A glass of orange juice: 200 litres. See? When done … Continue reading
Tweet What are your earliest memories of using a computer? Mine are about learning to code in GW-BASIC and playing Space Invaders – all of those on majestic, hulking cathode ray tube monitors (CRTs). I … Continue reading
Tweet (This is a post by VTSuN member Carol Johnson, where she talks about the 4th Annual Interdisciplinary Research Day (IDR Day), held at Virginia Tech on February 27, 2014. Carol is also the President … Continue reading
Tweet (This is a post by VTSuN member, Andrea Tiwari. You can reach Andrea at ajtiwari@vt.edu) As we know, carbon is the basis of life on Earth – we are all “carbon-based life forms.” The … Continue reading
Tweet Last week, The Guardian published two intriguing articles [1, 2] about Dr. Peter Higgs, by Decca Aitkenhead. It paints a picture of the Nobel laureate that I wouldn’t have imagined. About the Dr. Higgs’s take on the current … Continue reading
Tweet Last month, the second Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) conference was held in Santa Barbara, CA. Hmm.. a conference on sustainable nanotechnology – was VTSuN there too? You bet! Dr. Mike Roco and Dr. David … Continue reading
Tweet Last month (July 22-29), coffeemug was at the 2013 ACS Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy Summer School at the Colorado School of Mines (Golden, CO), along with 59 other graduate students and postdoctoral scholars … Continue reading