Countdown to the Chemical Heritage Foundation Museum…

If you didn’t know already, the CHF is opening a new museum and conference center in October. To bide the time, they’ve started a blog. Check it out.

An Improbable Event at CHF 4/23

[ April 23, 2008; 12:00 pm; ] Marc Abrahams, he of the Annals of Improbable Research and the Ig Nobel Awards, will be presenting at noon on Wednesday, April 23 at the Chemical Heritage Foundation, 315 Chestnut St., Phila. He’s a Boston phenomenon that is rarely experienced here.

Also, the talk is part of the CHF’s Brown Bag Lunch series, so bring your [...]

Beyond NIH — Private funding for life science research (4/1)

[ April 1, 2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm. ] Given the current funding stagnation, it is getting harder for researchers — especially young(er) researchers — to secure grants from traditional sources, like NIH. Increasingly, they’re turning to private foundations and individual donors for funding help.

In that vein, the Chemical Heritage Foundation is holding a free brown bag session noon on Tuesday, April 1, [...]