Rachel Carson: Humanizing Nature

Rachel Carson Syndrom

For years some ecologists have been convinced that pesticides are contributing to a decline in amphibian species around the globe. From an apparent epidemic of deformed frogs in Minnesota to the near disappearance of yellow-legged frogs from California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, pesticides have been considered prime suspects. This suspicion is no doubt rooted in the belief by the ecological com...

Natural history in America. From Mark Catesby to Rachel Carson

RUTH HALL, Marie Stopes. A biography, London, Deutsch, 1977, pp. 351, illus., £5.95. The fascinating story of Marie Stopes (1880-1958) has been told twice before, but this will rank as the best biography of a powerful and extraordinary woman. Mrs. Hall writes well, and by means of the voluminous material available, together with interviews with survivors who were involved, successfully comes to...

Rachel Udelhoven

The DMSO reductase family consists of proteins that catalyze oxygen atom transfer reactions. These proteins are characterized by a mononuclear Mo center that is ligated by one or two molybdopterin cofactors (through the two thiolates). DMSO reductase itself is ligated by two molybdopterin cofactors and catalyzes the reduction of dimethyl sulfoxide to dimethyl sulfide. This reaction is important...

Rachel Esselstein Research Statement

My research interests involve Finite Model Theory and Descriptive Complexity, an area of research nestled in the intersection of Combinatorics, Logic and Computer Science. Inspired by Ehrenfeucht–Fräıssé games, I have been studying local properties of regular colored graphs– in particular, the computational complexity of realizing a given set of neighborhoods in a graph.

Economic History Scott Carson