Microwave Ovens a Boon in the Lab

Microwave heating offers a simple way to do chemistry, as Nicholas Leadbeater explains.

<p>Nicholas Leadbeater outside UConn's Chemistry building. Photo courtesy of Nicholas Leadbeater.</p>
Nicholas Leadbeater.

WAMC Radio, a National Public Radio station out of Albany, produces daily Academic Minute spots in which professors speak for 90 seconds about their field of research and why it excites them. To date, several UConn faculty have been featured on WAMC, and their talks will run weekly on UConn Today.

In this week’s Academic Minute, UConn professor Nicholas Leadbeater of the Department of Chemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences explains that microwave ovens have an important place in the lab as well as in the kitchen.

To listen to Leadbeater speaking about microwave chemistry, click here.
The Academic Minute, hosted by philosopher and medical ethicist Lynn Pasquerella, the president of Mount Holyoke College, airs on WAMC Northeast Public Radio weekdays at 7:37 a.m. and 3:56 p.m.

Thanks to WAMC for the station’s permission to post these spots.

Other UConn Academic Minutes:

Why the Sky is Blue

Heat-loving Microbes Turn Waste into Energy

Evolutionary Jury Rigging

Saving Energy, Reducing Waste