News & Events

Upcoming Events  

AAAS Annual Meeting
The Center for Chemical Evolution has been invited back to represent NSF in Vancouver at Family Days at the AAAS Annual Meeting.  Be sure to stop by our booth, learn a little and have some fun!
February 18-19, Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 

 

Group Intelligence:  a mass mp3 experience
Congratulations to the Center for Chemical Evolution and Out of Hand Theater on their award from NSF to take Group Intelligence on tour! If you missed it in Atlanta, you'll find the show on tour at the Philadelphia Science Festival (April 20 & 21), the Cambridge Science Festival (April 27 & 28), and the Festival of Arts & Ideas (New Haven, June 23 & 24)

 

News & Past Events

The Creation of the World - chemistry/music event held by the Emory Chamber Music Society of Atlanta and the Center for Chemical Evolution
January 29, 2012

 

Science Trivia Night at Manuel's Tavern in celebration of the International Year of Chemistry and Evolution Science Cafes at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
December 10, 2011

 

Science at Hand Day at Fernbank Museum of Natural History
November 12, 2011

 

Atlanta Science Tavern - Peptides: A New Vocabulary in the Language of Life, Savannah Johnson
November 9, 2011

 

Buzz on Biotechnology High School Open House Outreach Event at Georgia Tech
October 22, 2011

 

CCE Sponsored Science Cafes at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Summer 2011

 

CCE Visiting Artist, Terri Dilling, opened "Assembly" Exhibition at the Portal Gallery in Atlanta
September 23, 2011

 

The Center for Chemical Evolution hosted a summer workshop for high school chemistry teachers
July 18-22, 2011

 

With Maestro of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra moderating, Martha Grover & Emory music professor Steve Everett held a public discussion on their collaboration to create a composition for a string quartet based on data from the Center for Chemical Evolution.
April 8, 2011 

 

Jeff Bada, Jim Cleaves and co-workers revisit the classic Miller-Urey experiment in their latest publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
April 5, 2011

 

International Year of Chemistry event for DeKalb County high school students
Emory University: March 4, 2011

 

Atlanta Science Tavern - Quo Vadis Evolutionis? The Return of Ancient Genes, Betul Kacar Arslan
February 26, 2011

 

AAAS Annual Meeting - David Lynn and Lelavision represent the NSF and the Center for Chemical Evolution at Family Days
Washington DC: February 18-20 

 

The Scientist is In - Betul Kacar Arslan
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Washington, DC: February 17, 2011

 

Center for Chemical Evolution Announcement and Ribbon Cutting
Georgia Institute of Technology: August 02, 2010

 

Origin of Life: Adding UV Light Helps Form 'Missing G' of RNA Building Blocks
Science Daily: June 15, 2010

 

A European Journal ChemBioChem, Cover: Guanine, Adenine, and Hypoxanthine Production in UV-Irradiated Formamide Solutions: Relaxation of the Requirements for Prebiotic Purine Nucleobase Formation
June 14, 2010

 

David Lynn:  Scientists creating life from scratch
CNN: May 23, 2010

 

A  Conversation With Jeffrey L. Bada: A Marine Chemist Studies How Life Began
New York Times, May 17, 2010

 

 

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