{"id":63281,"date":"2010-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/chemistry-students-and-professor-are-on-pbs-history-detectives-july-5\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T00:00:00","slug":"chemistry-students-and-professor-are-on-pbs-history-detectives-july-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2010\/07\/chemistry-students-and-professor-are-on-pbs-history-detectives-july-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry students and professor are on PBS’ History Detectives, July 5"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\t<\/a>June 30, 2010 — Undergraduate researchers Vanessa I. Kowalczyk, Megan J. Raduazzo, and Mitchell B. Myers became actual history detectives this winter. Under the auspices of Chemistry Professor Chris Brown, the chemistry majors analyzed a piece of trans-Atlantic cable found off Cape Cod.<\/p>\n


\nThe section was reportedly from a cable laid in the 1860s. Their research work was performed for a PBS affiliate in New York, which produces the show History Detectives<\/a><\/i> for an international audience. The two seniors were able to show that insulation from the cable was the same type of natural rubber used in the mid-1800s. <\/p>\n


\nA film crew visited äçÐÄvlogÃâ·ÑBÕ¾ in February to show the instrumentation used, and the students performing the analysis. <\/p>\n


\nThe segment will be aired on PBS stations Monday, July 5. Check your local listings or visit online<\/a> to see our budding scientific gumshoes.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

June 30, 2010 — Undergraduate researchers Vanessa I. Kowalczyk, Megan J. Raduazzo, and Mitchell B. Myers became actual history detectives this winter. Under the auspices of Chemistry Professor Chris Brown, the chemistry majors analyzed a piece of trans-Atlantic cable found off Cape Cod. The section was reportedly from a cable laid in the 1860s. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63283,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}