The Sanitary Engineer Looks Forward

The Sanitary Engineer in Public Housing *

Sanitary engineers do not yet realize the important part they are destined to play in the development and management of low-rent housing. Less than a score of American engineers in public health have had day-to-day work in the public housing program, and not all of these have been privileged to participate directly in the business of planning, building, and operating low-rent dwellings. Public ...

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care looks forward to 2009

Osteopathic Medicine and Primary Care, which enters its third year of operation in 2009 under the umbrella of BioMed Central, continues to promote and advance open access publishing through universal online access without charge, indexing in PubMed and archiving in PubMed Central, retention of authors' copyright, and expeditious peer review. Notable accomplishments during 2008 included a median...

The Sanitary Primer

Coordinating the Human Looks

Prescott et al. take a step forward in studying primate morphological evolution by a cellular anthropology approach. Through epigenomic profiling of in-vitro-derived cells, the authors identify and characterize candidate cis-regulatory elements underlying divergence in facial morphology between human and chimp, shedding new light on what makes us (look) human.

Educating the Humanitarian Engineer

The creation of new technologies that serve humanity holds the potential to help end global poverty. Unfortunately, relatively little is done in engineering education to support engineers' humanitarian efforts. Here, various strategies are introduced to augment the teaching of engineering ethics with the goal of encouraging engineers to serve as effective volunteers for community service. First...