RICHLAND -- A free public presentation on the chemistry of beer and ale is planned for 6 p.m. Monday at the Battelle Auditorium in Richland.
Mark Thomson, a chemistry professor from Ferris State University in Michigan, will discuss the role of chemistry in the development of regional styles of beer and ale and how each step affects the final product's color, bitterness, aroma and taste.
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CBC board to meet for retreat Friday
CBC board to meet for retreat Friday
Columbia Basin College's annual board retreat is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in the Beers Board Room on the Pasco campus.
Topics of discussion include the student success plan and campus security.
Henry Lee
Henry Lee
Henry Lee, 48, of Kennewick, died Sept. 20 in Kennewick.
He was born in Kowloon, Hong Kong, and lived in the Tri-Cities for 18 years.
He was a chemistry and health occupation teacher at Southridge High School in Kennewick.
Computational chemistry talk at PNNL on Tuesday
Computational chemistry talk at PNNL on Tuesday
The public is invited to attend a lecture by Italian computational scientist Michele Parrinello on Tuesday at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
In his technical talk, "Proteins in Motion," Parrinello will discuss how studying a protein's structure can expand our understanding of how proteins operate and work. He will focus on the computational chemistry technique of metadynamics.
Parrinello is a professor of computational sciences at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, and a professor of computational chemistry at Scoula Normale in Pisa, Italy.
WSU Tri-Cities to honor region's chemists Friday
WSU Tri-Cities to honor region's chemists Friday
Washington State University Tri-Cities is sponsoring a reception to celebrate the region's chemists and chemistry students.
The free event will begin at 5 p.m. Friday in the West Building Atrium on WSU Tri-Cities' campus, 2710 Crimson Way in Richland.
Chemists who were recently designated as fellows by the American Chemical Society will be honored, as well as 50- and 60-year members.
On this day: Sept. 26, 1980
On this day: Sept. 26, 1980
Who would have believed those old aluminum beer and pop cans would be as good as gold? They were for 8,265 Tri-Citians who were paid a total of $49,000 in the first eight months of this year for their old cans by Reynolds Aluminum Co.
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