Assistant Professor Trevor Phister spoke about food microbiology as part of the Dean Seminar Series Jan. 12 in the Living Arts Lounge. Phister joined Drexel University in 2004, and teaches microbiology in the College of Arts and Sciences. In his lecture, titled "Studies in Food Microbiology from Foodborne Illness to Why Your Wine Smells like a Wet Dog", he spoke about the subsets of food microbiology, including food safety, fermentations and biotechnology, as well as his own specific research interests.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is making space news headlines again.The Huygens probe separated from its mothership, Cassini, racing to the largest moon in the solar system, Titan Christmas Day. Huygens will reach the surface of Titan.
Vamsi Chemitiganti talked about network security from a hacker's perspective Jan. 13 in University Crossings. Chemitiganti has been working in the field for over six years as a programmer and network administrator for Siemens. Currently he is designing a Hospital Information System for Siemens.
CEO Steve Jobs announced several new Apple products lined up for the year at the MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on Tuesday. The highlighted products included several that can be considered economy models of Apple's historically high-priced line of computer products.
You are in mortal danger! At any moment, your life could be snuffed out like a faint flame in a January snowstorm. Now that I got your attention, let me get to the point of this commentary. Pollution - What do you think of when you hear that word? Giant smoke-stacks belching out thick black smoke into the air? A giant concrete pipe emptying questionably colored liquid into a lake or river? On a crisp, clear January morning, when you're looking at the Center City skyline with a bright blue sky as the background from the Drexel campus, do you ever think of pollution? Probably not.
While new iPods and miniature computers were being introduced at the MacWorld Expo in Los Angeles, CA, over 500 miles away in Las Vegas, NV the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was in full swing. With over 1.5 million square feet of gadgets, there were so many products that every attendee was sure to get knocked off their feet at least once.
Microsoft released a beta version of its new anti-spyware application Jan. 6 ("Microsoft releases anti-spyware software", The Triangle, Jan. 7, p.18). The application is an adapted version of recently acquired GIANT software's anti-spyware application and offers quick and full system scan capabilities.
You probably thought you were getting a leg up on your peers when you began financing your World Book or Britannica Encyclopedia collection in junior high. Of course, that was before you learned how negligent it was to cite such resources in a "true" research paper, and the phrase "looking up" was replaced with "Google-ing".
Every week I write an article for the Sci-Tech section about the occult. For some reason, no one ever cares, unless I write about UFOs, in which case I receive grammatically poor death threats and get called names on the Triangle message boards. As much as I wanted to write about UFOs this week to see what new words people would invent to describe me (9 out of 10 illiterate peasants seem to prefer "The Iron Craptic" instead of The Iron Skeptic, which is a reference to that show on the Food Channel where that Japanese Liberace forces cooks to do his bidding), I just couldn't help it.
