Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Reasons to be Cheerful..Part 3




The productvity (in terms of publications) of the UT/ORNL Center for Molecular Biophysics has doubled over the past year: from about 20 publications per year to about 40. And so we build, adding more bricks to the edifice resting on the great laws of science, laws that I see in "The Settle Bed" by Seamus Heaney (above):



"....an inheritance

Upright, rudimentary, unshiftably planked

In the long ago, yet willable forward

Again and again and again"









Friday, August 26, 2011

The Art of Splette


My ex-graduate student Thomas Splettstoesser is very talented in scientific graphics. The images below of his graced the front page of the ORNL web site and various other places. (If he sends me more I'll post them too). See more of his work here.














Mighty Microbes (again)