NRL Rojas

Some tips for electronic submissions

nrojas — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:01:28 +0000

(1) Always cc yourself and your groupmates when sending files to your profs, clients,
etc. so you can test if the email service is working properly, the attachments are
attached properly, etc.

(2) Use a proper subject line to avoid getting your mail classified as spam.

(3) In the body of your message, say something about what you are sending, and who are
sending it (e.g., attached are files ____ from Group No. N, with members blah…, of course number XX section YY).

(4) Rename the file you are sending in a way that makes sense to your recipient, so that
it would be easy to track. Your papers are more likely to get lost of they say
homeowork.doc vs. Sci10_Activity1_Group15_appliancecalculation.doc, or your cv for internship if it
says cv.doc rather than DeLaCruz_Juan_cv2011.doc.

(5) Do get a formal looking email account name for your professional life. Keep your
sweetiepie@yahoo.com account for personal matters.

A new semester!

nrojas — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 09:10:15 +0000

It’s another new semester, this time entirely biochemical. More focus on the wonderful molecules of life!

for Sci 10 for Friday, June 25

nrojas — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 09:52:33 +0000

We’re moving our class to Berchmans AVR starting Friday, June 25, 2010. Our last day at SEC C-201 is Wednesday, June 23.

For Ch 247.53

nrojas — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Student profile sheet: Student_Profile_Sheet_gradstudent_word (please submit before July 6, sooner is better)

Syllabus: Ch247_53_syllabus_v3 (corrected grading system, 2010 June 16)

Yahoo group site: admu_ch247_53@yahoogroups.com. Please give your full name when applying for membership.

Happy birthday, Charles Darwin!

nrojas — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:37:22 +0000

Thanks, Abi, for the reminder.

Folks, check out http://www.routesgame.com/home/ for genetic games and more.
Plus http://www.darwin200.org/ and other sites to see what’s going on.

2008.11.10. Welcome to a new semester!

nrojas — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:47:05 +0000

Hello, everyone! Welcome to a new semester!

For those taking my Ch 253 class, please check out the class website at http://ch253.wordpress.com.

The Sci 10-DD site and the ASMPH YL5 pages are on this site– just click on the tabs above.

I’m looking forward to the new semester, and I hope you are too!

– Nina

2008.09.12. We’re Number 1!

nrojas — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 03:11:59 +0000

No, not the basketball team, because that race is not yet over. The chemists are number one!

Joseph Unsay topped the Chemists Licensure Examination for 2008. We also got the highest passing rate for any school in the country. Congratulations to our new licensed chemists!!!

Full story and full list of successful examinees at http://www.philstar.com/archives.php?aid=20080911200&type=2.

208.09.10. Latest news on the Origin of Life

nrojas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:46:50 +0000

Wired Science is right on time with some new developments on the Origin of Life– they have a crew of reporters watching closely the latest from a major meeting on the origin of life.

The latest on simple protocells assembled in the lab of Jack Szostak, a bottom-up experimental approach: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/biologists-on-t.html.

And more on a complexity-and-computation approach, which tackles chemical evolution, or pre-evolution, by Martin Nowak and Hisashi Ohtsuki: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/before-evolutio.html.

Cool!

2008.09.10: Large Hadron Collider Up and Running [Protons]

nrojas — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:27:41 +0000

Whoops, I nearly wrote down Proteins instead of Protons up there. Habit, I suppose. Here’s a video clip from New Scientist about the Large Hadron Collider at http://www.newscientist.com/video.ns?bctid=1785292087&DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=specrt10_head_Inside%20the%20LHC. See www.newscientist.com for more. Wired also runs a more quirky coverage of the LHC.

BTW for a more fun video, check out Large Hadron Rap by Kate McAlpine at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM and lyrics at https://www.msu.edu/~mcalpin9/lhc_rap/largehadron.html.

It’s origin of the universe time in Sci 10, and the timing is perfect.

Nina

Goodbye, Prof. Randy Pausch (1960-2008)

nrojas — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:13:45 +0000

Just saw last night the news that Randy Pausch passed away from pancreatic cancer last Friday, July 25, 2008, at this home Virginia, leaving behind his wife and children.

Goodbye, Randy– your “Last Lecture” touched the lives of so many. Your courage and zest for life inspire us, even those who just watched you on YouTube and read your book, or maybe saw you on Oprah’s show.

Some links:

LA Times/Chicago Tribune news: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/reviews/critics/la-me-pausch26-2008jul26,0,5191339.story?page=1
His “Last Lecture” at Carnegie Mellon University on September 18, 2007 (~75 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo&feature=related
His ~10 minute version for the Oprah show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tIyt8oSLVs
His website: http://download.srv.cs.cmu.edu/~pausch/
His book’s website: http://www.thelastlecture.com/