Celebrating Jonas Salk

Today's Google Doodle honors the 100th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Jonas Salk, the inventor of the first polio vaccine, and the reason we have our neighbor, the Salk Institute.

With Dr. Salk's breakthrough on the polio vaccine the number of new polio cases in the U.S. and the world dropped dramatically. He even refused to patent it.

Read more about this historic moment in time from a UCSD alumni who got the chance to meet Dr. Salk.

Other articles:
Celebrating Jonas Salk's 'big life'

Jonas Salk: The man behind the science

Open Access Week

It's Open Access Week! A week to think about the future of scholarly publishing.

Here are some recent articles:

• From the co-founder of PLOS, an interesting read called The Past, Present and Future of Scholarly Publishing.

• Nature has a special issue called, The Future of Publishing, with many articles on the open access movement.

Chemistry Nobel Prize

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to Eric Betzig, Stefan W. Hell and William E. Moerner  "for the development of super-resolved fluorescence microscopy”.

Read the press release here.