Chemistry Haiku

Chemistry

There are many laws
Newton, Charles, Boyles law
And many others

Virginia Apgar

Virginia Apgar was a physician who helped in over 15,000 births. She was also an educator in medical education, a medical researcher and a researcher, fundraiser, and educator for March of Dimes. She was born on June 7, 1909 and died on August 7, 1974. She attended Mount Holyoke College in 1929. After graduating from there she went on to Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1933 and graduated number 4 in her class, and after went to John Hopkins University, public health until 1959.

Apgar in 1937 became the fiftieth physician in the U.S. certified in anesthesiology. In 1938 she was appointed Director of the Department of Anesthesiology. From 1949-1959 she was a professor of anesthesiology at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. She was the first female professor at Columbia University and first female professor of anesthesiology at any institution. In 1949 she developed the Apgar Score System, an easy five-category observation-based assessment of newborn babies health’s in the delivery room, which is now widely used in the U.S. and other places. Apgar made a mnemonic for the five categories of the child’s health.

Appearance (skin color)

Pulse (heart rate)

Grimace (reflex irritability)

Activity (muscle tone)

Respiration (breathing)

Apgar noticed that giving the mother cyclopropane as an anesthetic had, generally, a negative effect on the infant, and as a result they discontinued the use of that in mothers. In 1959 she left Columbia and earned her doctorate in public health at John Hopkins and chose to change her career. From 1959-1967 she served as head of division of congenital malformations, National Foundation; the March of Dimes, which she helped refocus from polio to birth defects. From 1969-1972 Apgar became the director of the basic research for the foundation. From 1965-1971, she served on the board of trustees at Mount Holyoke College. She also was serving as a lecturer at Cornell University. She was the first medical professor in the U.S. to specialize in birth defects. In 1972 she published Is My Baby All Right? which was co-written with Joan Beck. In 1973, she lectured at Johns Hopkins University, and from 1973-1974 she was senior vice-president for medical affairs, National Foundation. Over her years she received four honorary degrees, 1964-1967; she received the Ralph Walders Medal, American Society of Anesthesiologists; she received the Gold Medal of Columbia University; she received Woman of the Year, 1972, Ladies Home Journal; she received an American Academy of Pediatrics prized named for her; and Mount Holyoke College created an academic chair in her name.

I chose Virginia Apgar because it's really admirable how many things she accomplished in her life time. All the firsts she had in the world. She was extremely lucky and I found that really inspiring. There is a lot of things men get to before women, and when a woman accomplishes something like Apgar did its really amazing.

Chem Vid Project

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On2mqC8qiXM

Scientist

A scientist I automatically think of is Albert Einstein. He is known for the discovery of the general relativity which effected a revolution in physics. I admire him for coming up with the E=mc^2. I haven't really put it to use yet, but everyone is always saying how great he is and I don't really know many scientists so this is the "man" i think of when someone asks me "name a scientist you know"

2 goals for the remainder of the year

1) One of my goals for this year is to actually comprehend chemistry and not just do it for the fact of getting it done, but actually have it process through and have it stay with me and remembering everything I learned this year incase I desire a sudden urge of going into forensics or something.
2) Goal number two for the rest of the year is to have most of the periodic table memorized so I do not have to flip back and forth and get down where what kind of metal/ metalloid/ nonmetal/ noble gases etc are located. To memorize these and not have to deeply search for these because I don't remember the symbol for a certain element or have the symbol but do not remember the elements name.

Reflection

1)   This exhibit was a good choice for putting in my reflection because I actually got to learn about an element and what it works well with and what kind of “superhero” I could make out of this element. I got to learn a lot of different facts about mercury. I got to learn a few how to create a superhero with it as well.

2)   I found getting to create your own superhero the best part. It was really nice being able to get crafty and finding facts out about a specific element. I loved getting to show my creative side and putting all my effort into making my thermometer man.

3)   There were a few things that were hard to find out about our elements. It was hard to write our essay in a comic form because I’m actually a terrible fiction writer. It was actually really difficult reaching my goal on getting a good story with all the right facts in it.

4)   If I could make changes to this activity again, I would make sure Thermometer Man wouldn’t fall off this time and I’d definitely try to make this ones essay a billion times better. I was really upset my 3 dimensional Thermometer Man fell off, and that at this point he’s probably not very reparable; and about my essay, I’d try to figure out how to make it more comic book like and not so much factual.

5)   There wasn’t much of an attitude that had to be put into making this a successful project. I love art projects and I was really excited to be able to do something artsy. It seemed like it was something I was good at, and it’s probably the only project I’ll do well in all year, unless the others involve being crafty too.

6)   I would give myself a 3, my answers are somewhat obvious, but they are completely and utterly what I truly believed about this project. My reflection does demonstrate my ability to judge the proficiency of my project. Some of my sentences are slightly general and not super specific, but this has all came from what I thought about this project.

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If I were an element...

If I were an element, I would be a metal.
Generally into very shiny things, pretty hard as in strong willed and hard headed, I'm pretty flexible normally when it comes to working things out around other events. I'm always pretty happy so I'm always reflecting energy off of myself. I fit most of the characteristics of being a metal, and if I really could be any element i'd choose to be one that's a metal.