Professor Geoff Whitty CBE, 1946-2018

Professor Robert McNeill Alexander CBE FRS (1934-2016).

Robert McNeill Alexander, known to friends and colleagues as 'Neill', was a zoologist with an engineer's eye for how animals work. He used mathematical models to show how evolution has produced optimal designs. His skill was to choose appropriate models: realistic enough to contain the essence of a problem and yet simple enough to be tractable. He wrote fluently and easily: 23 books, 280 papers...

Geoff A. Parker

helping to create a low-carbon economy”. While companies now scramble to assemble their green credentials, Wal-Mart are already raising the stakes, with Leo Scott addressing a meeting in the UK this month at the invitation of Prince Charles. He promised to take nonrenewable energy “off our shelves and out of the lives of our customers”. “Forgive the jargon, but we think sustainability is cool,”...

Manuscript Manager™, CBE Style

"SMELL THE ROSES" (upper-case letters are the program's). The program thought I didn't smell the roses because I was leading too hectic a life. Although busy, I do nonetheless take time for such things, but I answered "No" to that question because of rather severe allergies! Nevertheless, as a patient who had just spent a considerable amount of time entering the data, I was pleased the program ...

A Brief History of the Cbe

not available. S07-S10 Regulatory methods: Recommendations for a suitable method for biofilm disinfectants Stephen Tomasino, Senior Scientist, US EPA-OPP Microbiology Laboratory, Environmental Science Center Abstract not available.not available. S07-S11 Caserna, nanowires, signal vesicles, and flying buttresses: Baroque architecture in biofilms Bill Costerton, Director, Center for Biofilms, Sch...

Sustaining CBE—Life Sciences Education