{"id":5410,"date":"2020-03-27T09:18:49","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=5410"},"modified":"2020-03-27T09:18:49","modified_gmt":"2020-03-27T16:18:49","slug":"anna-brown-05-creating-lead-free-x-ray-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2020\/03\/anna-brown-05-creating-lead-free-x-ray-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Brown &#8217;05 Creating Lead-Free X-Ray Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After <strong>Anna &#8217;05<\/strong> finished her work at Reed, she, like so many Reedies before her, decided to stay in Portland. She took her books across the Willamette and earned her Ph.D. at Portland State University under the direction of inorganic\/nanomaterials chemist, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Prof. Andrea Goforth (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pdx.edu\/chemistry\/profile\/dr-andrea-mitchell-goforth\" target=\"_blank\">Prof. Andrea Goforth<\/a><\/strong>. Her next Portland move? Apply her science smarts and create a start-up company, <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Stark Street Materials (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.starkstreetmaterials.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stark Street Materials<\/a><\/strong> (website under construction; keep checking back).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stark Street Materials&#8217; current plans call for developing new uses for bismuth, a non-toxic material (think Pepto-Bismol), in medical applications. One new product will substitute bismuth for highly toxic lead in the x-ray protection clothing that has been worn by patients and medical personnel for the past century. Watch this <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"video (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ei6Ky3rtWQM\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/strong> to learn more about Anna and Stark Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Anna &#8217;05 finished her work at Reed, she, like so many Reedies before her, decided to stay in Portland. She took her books across the Willamette and earned her Ph.D. at Portland State University under the direction of inorganic\/nanomaterials&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2020\/03\/anna-brown-05-creating-lead-free-x-ray-protection\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Anna Brown &#8217;05 Creating Lead-Free X-Ray Protection<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5410"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5415,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5410\/revisions\/5415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}