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C&EN: Show us where you work!

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Via C&EN, a fun contest: 

C&EN wants to showcase the diversity of chemistry labs across the world, and across disciplines. Is your building particularly cool? Show us! Do you have something that’s unique to your lab, from a mascot to a fun way of celebrating key milestones? Share it with the world! Is your lab just the equipment that you take with you to work in the field? We don’t discriminate. Show us, and the readers of C&EN, where you work.

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The involuntary criminals behind pig-butchering scams

Technology Review  

This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. There’s something so visceral about the phrase “pig-butchering scam.” The first time I came across it was in my reporting a year ago, when I was looking into how strange LinkedIn…

Ex-Proud Boys leader stares down decades in prison for Jan. 6 case 

TheHill.com 

The former leader of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, is staring down decades in prison at a sentencing hearing on Wednesday after being convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Prosecutors have requested 33 years in prison for Tarrio, the highest sentencing sought for anyone convicted in connection...

Serial killers are becoming a rarity despite Gilgo Beach

TheHill.com 

Rex Heuermann, a Long Island architect arrested this summer in the highly publicized Gilgo Beach murders, may go down as one of last in a vanishing species of American criminal. Hundreds of serial killers roamed the nation in the 1980s and 1990s, captivating the public imagination and inspiring such popular culture brands as the film...

Lobbying World: WestExec adds CIA alums

TheHill.com 

Kevin Higgins and Paul Farley are now senior advisors at the influential consulting firm WestExec Advisors. Both worked at the Central Intelligence Agency for more than three decades, experience Nitin Chadda, WestExec co-founder and managing partner, said “has proven critical in enabling our clients to access and navigate new business opportunities in the U.S. and...

Climate anxiety on the rise as heat, disasters provoke fear

TheHill.com 

Story at a glance Britt Wray’s fears about a warming planet came to a head in 2017 when she and her partner first talked about having a baby. Wray worked as a science communicator at the time and was bombarded with scientific reports on climate change “day in and day out," as well as reading several bombshell articles on the subject that came out that year. “It was really this question of...

House conservatives flirt with shutdown: 'So be it'

TheHill.com 

Congress is racing the clock to fund the government ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline as the threat of a shutdown looms — but to some House conservatives, a shutdown isn’t much of a threat at all. A handful of hard-line Republicans are brushing off — or even embracing — the possibility of a shutdown, arguing...

Afghan refugees are stuck in US limbo as Congress fails to move legislation 

TheHill.com 

Tens of thousands of Afghan evacuees living in the U.S. have reached the second anniversary of the withdrawal with no permanent way to remain in the country as lawmakers repeatedly fail to advance legislation to solidify their status.  Almost as soon as Afghan evacuees began to arrive in the U.S. — a group that now...

Ward and Santi Earn Atlantic 10 Field Hockey Weekly Honors

English Field Hockey 


Janelle Ward earned her first A-10 weekly honor on Monday

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Saint Joseph's graduate student Janelle Ward and senior Lily Santi were named the Atlantic 10 Field Hockey Defensive and Offensive Players of the Week, respectively, the conference office announced on Monday afternoon.





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