他（几乎）从不打领带
J.C. Poutsma of the William & Mary chemistry department is featured this week in a piece headlined “作为一名科学家意味着（几乎）从不打领带” on ScienceLives, a cooperative venture between the National Science Foundation and the LiveScience web site.
ScienceLives是一个基于对10个问题的回答的专题。 科学家们回答了各种各样的问题，从他们研究的社会效益到他们在佳博体育里播放的音乐类型。 (In the Poutsma lab, heavy metal rules—and he’s not talking about a section of the Periodic Table.)
“We want to try to bring a human perspective to the research field,” said Joshua Chamot, media officer at the NSF and a 1998 graduate of William & Mary. “A lot of times, stories about scientists or engineers get framed in certain ways. 原型被应用或者视图被归类。 The idea here is to let the researchers give a little bit of behind-the-scenes background on what they actually do day-to-day.”
该功能包括展示普茨马的两个侧面的照片。 在其中一张照片中，这位衣着整洁的化学家带着弗吉尼亚州州长蒂姆·凯恩参观了他在综合科学中心的新佳博体育。 另一张照片显示，普茨玛穿着KISS t恤，披着斗篷，在2007年学院举行的筏子辩论上与人群打交道。
Chamot explained that NSF’s partnership with LiveScience has been a fruitful one, generating a variety of features about NSF-supported scientists and their work. They’re popular, too; 查莫特说，《生活科学》的网站功能产生了多达10万次点击。 读者也可以对这些故事发表评论。 One reader concluded his or her remarks by writing, “…it is great that Dr. Poutsma is so excited about his work and I hope he will continue to inspire and find new approaches in the lab and classroom.”
Any NSF-supported researcher at William and Mary who is interested in being considered for a ScienceLives feature should contact 乔·麦克莱恩, director of research communications at the College, at jmmccl@wm.edu.