Search Results for: label/Helen W. Dodson Prince

• Notable Women in Science: Historical Astronomers

  s for a woman in math was very difficult, and she longed for something more. She married a Russian astronomer, Alexander Vyssotsky, the same year she finished the requirements for her Ph.D. The degree was awarded when she was 35. She relocated to the University of Virginia to follow her husband’s career. Dr. Vyssotsky was hired as an instructor while her husband became an assistant professor. As a team, the Vyssotskys discovered dwarf stars using…

  Authored by Adrienne Roehrich on December 28, 2012

• Biology Explainer: The big 4 building blocks of life–carbohydrates, fats, proteins, and nucleic acids

  …ll selection of different materials: bricks, mortar, iron, glass, and wood. Arranged in different ways, these few materials can yield a huge variety of structures. We encountered functional groups and the SPHONC in Chapter 3. These components form the four categories of molecules of life. These Big Four biological molecules are carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, and nucleic acids. They can have many roles, from giving an organism structure to be…

  Authored by Emily Willingham on June 8, 2012

• After Newtown missteps, journalists get guidelines

  …almost twice as likely to say that they don’t want to live or work near a person with mental illness if they read an article about a person with mental illness involved in a mass shooting, according to a study published March 20 in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Interestingly, this tendency is the same even if the article avoids any mention of mental illness. This may be because this link between violence and mental illness is deeply engrain…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on March 27, 2013

• Modern Chemists

  f analytical chemistry. U.S. Ramsey Fellow is no longer offered. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow is awarded to scientists and scholars of outstanding promise. Outstanding Women in the State of Maryland awards women under the age of 40 for their achievements already made in an early career.  The American Cyanamid Faculty Award   The Henry Hill Award recognizes distinguished service to professionalism.  The Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching J…

  Authored by Adrienne Roehrich on April 23, 2012

• Good Deeds, Good Science: Hope & Heroes Children’s Cancer Fund

  A few days ago, I received an email from my friend HelenJonsen about a fundraising effort that is very near and dear to her heart.  Helen and her family are volunteering for the 3rdAnnual Hope & Heroes Walk to show their support for the clinic that helped her own daughter, in her journey with cancer.  Taking place on April 29th, 2012 in Manhattan’s Clinton Cove Park, this fundraiser is to help ensure that the unique clinical care program…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on April 25, 2012

• Bipolar brings anxieties beyond mood shifts

  …egnant, it’s pretty much Tylenol or narcotics or nothing at all for pain.  I turned her down, even though my headaches are too stubborn for Tylenol.  I don’t like to keep narcotics in the house, I said. It’s a long story. I’m 27, happily married, with our first kid on the way. I have a close-knit group of friends, a healthy social life, a successful career doing something I love. And I have bipolar II disorder. I lied to my midwife. My dislike of…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on March 1, 2013

• Motherhood Defined: It is in the heart of the beholder

  …u how it impacted your kid. As my nana always said, “It’s always the mother’s fault.”  I just hope that as the time passes I get more credit than blame for how my kids turn out. Helen Jonsen, Mom of 4, @Helen_Jonsen  Motherhood is how you stretch your heart in ways you never thought possible. It’s how you love through the ups & down, the challenges that life brings. And, it lasts a lifetime from that first…

  Authored by Jeanne Garbarino on May 11, 2012

• The average human vagina

  …nserted before the material dried, the mold is removed. Though this paper included only two participants, a few years later the same researchers (plus a couple of others) published another study that examined vaginal molds of 39 women. In these women, all Caucasian, vaginal lengths ranged from almost 7 to almost 15 centimeters (2.75–6 in) with diameters between 2.4 and 6.5 cm (~1–2.5 in). A later study classified the diversity of vaginal shapes:…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on April 1, 2013

• Image Caption Test Post

  …nserted before the material dried, the mold is removed. Though this paper included only two participants, a few years later the same researchers (plus a couple of others) published another study that examined vaginal molds of 39 women. In these women, all Caucasian, vaginal lengths ranged from almost 7 to almost 15 centimeters (2.75–6 in) with diameters between 2.4 and 6.5 cm (~1–2.5 in). A later studyclassified the diversity of vaginal shapes: c…

  Authored by Glenn Dixon on April 5, 2010

• Depressing genes

  me overzealous and attack their own body’s tissue, often leading to serious health problems and death. Only rarely do gene variants cause primarily negative consequences, such as BRCA1, the breast cancer gene, or APOE epsilon 4, the early-onset Alzheimer’s disease gene. If insurance companies did, in fact, try to weed out clients based on their genetic make-up, they would soon find that most gene variants that put carriers at risk for some diseas…

  Authored by DXS Contributor on May 17, 2013