Tag: Synthesis

A Synthesis of Styles

Francisco Zúñiga’s father was a sculptor, the creator of hundreds of religious sculptures. Like many of his siblings, Zúñiga took classes in drawing, and around the age of sixteen, he began training as a sculptor in his father’s workshop. Zúñi...

Racial Synthesis: A Personal Vision on Harmony

The topic of “racial synthesis” (a new but apt term I just coined) is very important to me as a young Christian black intellectual living in rural America at Taylor University–a predominantly white institution. For my experience in black America, I have had a unique childhood: rais...

Week 2: Synthesis, Sense-Making

For week 2, we were required to make sense of and coagulate the information we gathered and assimilated through the research conducted over the last couple of weeks. Before the last Ideation and Prototyping class, we had on Tuesday, we as a team had the opportunity to have a candid conversation with...

Natural Product Synthesis in the 21st Century: Beyond the Mountain Top

The review provides a broad perspective on natural product total synthesis and where the field may be headed in the future by Professor Ryan Shenvi. The introductory sections establish some key concepts and terminology around chemical synthesis and natural products. Chemical synthesis joins molecule...