Capacity Crowd Expected.....

.....for UT Arts and Sciences Commencement Honoring Dolly Parton.

The Old Bridge in Heidelberg

Three Governor's Chairs now...

..and welcome to nuclear security expert Howard Hall. The two recent appointments must be allaying concern at ORNL and UT that these chairs were not being filled, which prompted an article in the local press: UT’s Empty Research Chairs
Are the university’s lofty research aspirations rooted in reality?
Patience was rewarded.

Science Races ...

..to parse New Virus.

More things you don't have time to read?

PLoS ONE has now published over 5000 articles in two years of existence.
I see nothing wrong with that although some do.
We'll see which exclusively online open-access journals manage to gain traction.
(One I'm an editor of, PMC Biophysics, from PhysMathCentral, has just started up.)
Of course, the whole open-access experiment may be nipped in the bud if congress kills it, as it is now considering.

Booked for "Ungentlemanly Conduct"

Careful what you eat before a soccer game or this may be your punishment.

Great Salt Lake, Utah

..a home of Halobacterium salinarium, a microorganism containing bacteriorhodopsin, a light-driven proton pump that we have been working on for several years (see all publications in our home page with Nicoleta Bondar as first author).