aspuru-list April 2011

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Alan's on azimuth

by J D Whitfield

Hey James, Maybe people in the group would like to know that Alan made azimuth! http://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2011/04/25/equinox-summit/ Cheers! Jake -

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Fwd: NERSC 2011 Supplemental Allocation Award

by Alan Aspuru-Guzik

Alán Aspuru-Guzik | Associate Professor Harvard University | Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology 12 Oxford Street, Room M113 | Cambridge, MA 02138 (617)-384-8188 | http://aspuru.chem.harvard.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: <allocations(a)nersc.gov> Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:52 PM Subject: NERSC 2011 Supplemental Allocation Award To: aspuru(a)chemistry.harvard.edu Cc: sule.atahan(a)gmail.com, jschrier(a)haverford.edu, lvogt(a)fas.harvard.edu Dear Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Your DOE Office, BES - Chemical Sciences, and NERSC are pleased to announce that you have received a supplemental 2011 award for your ERCAP request 84191, titled: "Computational design of novel organic photovoltaic materials with improved hole- and electron-transport properties.". This is the "May hopper time distribution", which may be used on all MPP systems for the rest of Allocation Year 2011 (through January 9, 2012). Your supplemental MPP award is: 81,000 MPP hours for repository m702 If you have any questions about your award, please contact your DOE Allocation Manager. For contact information see: http://www.nersc.gov/users/accounts/allocations/doe-science-offices-program… You are also welcome to use the NERSC magellan cloud testbed; time used there does not come out of your MPP award. See:http://www.nersc.gov/users/computational-systems/carver/running-jobs/qu… Please acknowledge NERSC in your publications of work resulting from the use of NERSC resources: "This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231." Information related to NERSC users, accounts, and allocations is available in the NERSC Information Management (NIM) system. You access NIM at http://nim.nersc.gov using your NERSC login name and NIM password (as you did to make your allocation request). A good reference is the PI Guide to NIM:http://www.nersc.gov/users/accounts/nim/nim-guide-for-pis/. To add users to your repository click the "My Stuff" menu in NIM's top left main menu and select "Add/Revive User". Note that users new to NERSC are required to sign and return the Computer Use Policies form. No user account can be activated until this is done. The form is at: http://www.nersc.gov/users/accounts/user-accounts/nersc-computer-use-polici… Also note that it is against NERSC policy to share usernames and passwords; each user must have her or his own user account. See: http://www.nersc.gov/users/accounts/user-accounts/account-policies/ We rely on our website: http://www.nersc.gov/ for informing NERSC users of changes that occur as well as for general NERSC documentation. We also use email lists to inform users of changes. Some lists are created automatically for all active users; the most important communications are sent to these lists. We encourage you to join the NERSC Users Group email list, nug. See: http://www.nersc.gov/users/announcements/email-lists/ We look forward to working with you. If you have any questions, please contact the NERSC consultants via email (consult(a)nersc.gov) or telephone (1-800-66NERSC menu option 3, 1-510-486-8611). Sincerely, -- NERSC Allocations Supportallocations(a)nersc.gov510-486-8611

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Food by the printer

by Jacob J Krich

Popcorn and tortilla chips are by the printer. Thanks for the helpful comments from everyone today! Jacob

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Practice Job Talk(s)

by Jacob J Krich

Hi group, I have a job interview on May 2-3 and would love to get some help with coarse- and fine-tuning my talk. I'm going to practice it twice, on Monday and Thursday. Please don't torture yourself by coming to both! Coarse-tuning: Monday 1pm in Division Room. Fine-tuning: Thursday 3pm in Division Room. Thanks in advance for your help! Jacob

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, TOMORROW, April 26, 3 pm, 34-401A

by Cathy Bourgeois

*Please note tomorrow's seminar is in Grier A conference room: 34-401A Kindly forward to your groups and post in your area - thanks ___________________________________ Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:00 PM Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A* "Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research" Prof. Mircea Dincă, MIT Abstract Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline solids wherein inorganic nodes are connected by organic ligands to give rise to highly ordered and monodisperse micropores with diameters ranging from 0.5 to ~ 2 nanometers. The micropores are responsible for unprecedented surface areas occasionally exceeding 5000 m2/g, making MOFs popular choices for energy applications in H2, CH4, and CO2 storage and capture, among others. The crystalline nature of these materials, however, also makes them attractive candidates for studying photophysical phenomena in ordered and/or confined organic chromophore aggregates. Indeed, conformational and/or structural confinement of organic dyes inside the walls of MOFs has been shown to drastically modulate the absorption and emission properties of such molecules. The various applications of MOFs in energy research, with an emphasis on their potential utility in controlling dye aggregation, light harvesting, and other photophysical properties will be discussed. Bio Mircea Dincă was born in Romania and obtained his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2003. He did his graduate work at UC Berkeley on the synthesis and characterization of microporous metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage and catalysis. After a two-year stint as a postdoctoral associate working on electrochemical water splitting with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT in 2010. His group's research is concerned with the synthesis of new microporous materials and their physico-chemical properties, with a current emphasis on metal-organic frameworks. Light refreshments provided The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [qip] Tuesday April 26

by Edward Farhi

Hi Quanta We will meet tomorrow in 6-310. Best, Eddie ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Edward Farhi Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics Director Center for Theoretical Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology 6-300 Cambridge MA 02139 617 253 4871 ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] ANNOUNCEMENT: Excitonics Seminar, TUES, April 26, 3 pm, 34-401A

by Cathy Bourgeois

Please forward to your groups and post in your area ______________________________________ Center for Excitonics Seminar Series Announcement Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:00 PM Grier A Conference Room: 34-401A "Crystalline Microporous Metal-Organic Frameworks: Opportunities in Energy Research" Prof. Mircea Dincă, MIT Abstract Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline solids wherein inorganic nodes are connected by organic ligands to give rise to highly ordered and monodisperse micropores with diameters ranging from 0.5 to ~ 2 nanometers. The micropores are responsible for unprecedented surface areas occasionally exceeding 5000 m2/g, making MOFs popular choices for energy applications in H2, CH4, and CO2 storage and capture, among others. The crystalline nature of these materials, however, also makes them attractive candidates for studying photophysical phenomena in ordered and/or confined organic chromophore aggregates. Indeed, conformational and/or structural confinement of organic dyes inside the walls of MOFs has been shown to drastically modulate the absorption and emission properties of such molecules. The various applications of MOFs in energy research, with an emphasis on their potential utility in controlling dye aggregation, light harvesting, and other photophysical properties will be discussed. Bio Mircea Dincă was born in Romania and obtained his bachelor's degree in Chemistry from Princeton University in 2003. He did his graduate work at UC Berkeley on the synthesis and characterization of microporous metal-organic frameworks for hydrogen storage and catalysis. After a two-year stint as a postdoctoral associate working on electrochemical water splitting with Prof. Daniel G. Nocera, he became an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at MIT in 2010. His group's research is concerned with the synthesis of new microporous materials and their physico-chemical properties, with a current emphasis on metal-organic frameworks. Light refreshments provided The Center for Excitonics is an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science and Office of Basic Energy Sciences

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] easter eggs next to printer

by Stéphanie Valleau

Hi group, I put some easter eggs by the printer in the big office (which I had left over from my section), Semion has eaten most of them but there may be some left so feel free to come and grab some, Best, Stephanie

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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] HUCE Weekly Calendar Email April 21 - May 5

by Center for the Environment

Highlights: Monday, April 25: The Harvard Food Literacy Project presents a lecture on sustainable agriculture by farmer, philosopher, author, and sustainable food advocate Fred Kirchenmann. Friday, April 29: HUCE’s lecture series on Energy Materials welcomes Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, for a presentation on "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials." April 30 through May 8: The Cambridge Science Festival celebrates Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math -- events around the area make science accessible, interactive and fun for everyone. Calendar Listings: Tonight 6:00pm HMNH Lecture and Booksigning Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge, MA Join Australian scientist and author Tim Flannery at Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet, a lecture and booksigning. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#here April 22, 2011 8:45am - 6:30pm MIT Sustainability Summit 2011 Microsoft Nerd Center Cambridge, MA "Bridging Thought and Action: Creating a Sustainable Organization." Speakers include Gary Hirshberg, CE-YO of Stonyfield Farm, Dr. John Ehrenfeld (with Andy Hoffman), Amy Domini founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments, Jeffrey Fulgham, Chief Sustainability Officer of GE Power & Water and many more. http://sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu 8:45pm MSI Chalktalk Breakfast HUCE Seminar Room, 24 Oxford St, 310, Cambridge, MA "Adapting to codon manipulations: synonymous mutations in bacteria." Deepa Agashe, FAS-OEB. Host: Chris Marx. http://www.msi.harvard.edu/ov_dir.html 10:00am - 12:30pm Sawyer Seminar on Energy Transitions Pardee Center, 67 Bay State Road Boston, MA Seminar 8. GEOGRAPHIES OF ENERGY. Seating is limited, registration required. http://www.bu.edu/pardee/2011/01/09/sawyer-seminars-spring/ pardee(a)bu.edu 12:00pm - 6:30pm Workshop: "Energy and Environment: A Global History" HUCE 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge The workshop is the first in a series of events hosted by the Energy History Project, an initiative that explores the ways in which the historical study of energy use and its transformations can contribute to the understanding of economic, social, and environmental change. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~histecon/energy/globalhistory/ Contact Name: Philipp Lehmann plehmann(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:00pm EPS Day Harvard University Department of Earth and Planetary Science 20 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA April 23, 2011 3:00pm - 6:00pm Soccer Tournament for Sustainable Energy Quad Lawn (rain location: QRAC right next to Currier) Harvard University Cambridge, MA Soccer tournament benefiting sOccket (www.soccket.com), a soccer ball invented recently by four Harvard students that converts kinetic energy to electricity, powering a light for up to 3 hours with only 15 minutes of play. Contact Name: Jennifer McKee jmckee(a)fas.harvard.edu 617.455.7962 April 25, 2011 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "When Technology Meets Reality: Macondo and Managing Technological Complexity." Richard Sears, MIT Visiting Scientist & Senior Science and Engineering Advisor to the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:00pm MCZ Lunchtime Seminar MCZ 101 Seminar Room 26 Oxford St Cambridge, MA "Developing a parsimonious theoretical model to explain spatial and temporal patterns of diversity in a tropical forest tree community." Ryan Chisholm, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Tropical Forest Science, Davies Lab. Contact Name: Catherine Weisel cweisel(a)oeb.harvard.edu 617-495-2460 12:15pm - 2:00pm STS Circle Lecture 124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100, Room 106 Lecture features Xaq Frolich (STS, MIT) for a talk on "Accounting for Taste: Regulating Diet and Health on Food Labels" http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts 4:00pm Fred Kirchenmann on Sustainable Agriculture Sever Hall 113 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA A lecture and discussion about the future of sustainable agriculture by farmer, agrarian philosopher, author, and sustainable food advocate Fred Kirchenmann. 6:00pm 3nd Annual IERG International CleanTech Panel Adams Conservatory Harvard University Cambridge, MA In Cooperation with: The Public Diplomacy Collaborative and Adams House, featuring Jim Hunt, Chief of Environmental & Energy Services for the City of Boston; and Dave McGlinchey, Senior Program Leader for Energy and Environment at Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences 6:30pm - 9:00pm Panel Discussion: Novel Business Models and Success Stories in Cleantech Foley Hoag LLP - Emerging Enterprise Center, 1000 Winter St., #4000, Waltham, MA Join the Kellogg Alumni Club of Boston on April 25th at 6:30 pm to discuss business model innovation in the clean technology sector. Registration and fee ($30). http://kelloggcleantech2011.eventbrite.com/ Contact Name: Makarand Joshi myjoshi(a)gmail.com 7:30pm Do Something Reel Film Festival Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA PLANEAT: This visually stunning film tells the story of the scientists, farmers and chefs tackling one of the greatest problems of our age: Western culture's love affair with meat and dairy. www.coolidge.org/showtimes 7:30pm Science on Screen Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA Alfred Hitchcock’s classic tale of avian terror THE BIRDS paired with a talk by Ted Stankowich, PhD, a Visiting Postdoctoral Scientist and Teaching Fellow in Harvard’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology. http://www.coolidge.org/science April 26, 2011 3:00pm OEB Faculty Search Candidate Seminar HUH Seminar Room Harvard Herbaria 22 Divinity Avenue Cambridge, Ma "Contrasting plant diversification patterns amongst different neotropical forest biomes." Toby Pennington, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Reception to follow. All are welcome to attend. http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/news_events/seminars.html 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Jennifer Lake jlake(a)fas.harvard.edu 4:30pm STS Secondary Field Open House Contact Name: Samuel A. Evans (617) 496-0807 Maxwell Dworkin Room 115 33 Oxford St Cambridge, MA The Secondary Field of Science, Technology and Society (STS) is aimed at students who wish to deepen their understanding of the workings of science and technology in relation to other social institutions and processes. STS is available to candidates for the PhD, DDes (Doctor of Design), and SJD degrees. http://www.hks.harvard.edu/sts/field/ 6:00pm - 8:00pm MIT Enterprise Forum UK Trade & Investment One Broadway Cambridge, MA "Energy SIG Event: Desin-an-Incubator: Greentown Labs Clean Energy Accelerator." Students free, registration required. http://www.mitforumcambridge.org/events/energy-sig-event-design-an-incubato…... 7:30pm Do Something Reel Film Festival Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA BAG IT - This highly entertaining and eye-opening film follows everyman Jeb Berrier as he navigates our plastic-reliant world. www.coolidge.org/showtimes April 27, 2011 4:10pm Seminar in Environmental Economics and Policy L-382 Harvard Kennedy School 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA Maureen Cropper, Resources for the Future. "Policy Response to Pandemic Influenza: The Value of Collective Action." http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/events-calendar/seminar-in-environme…... Jason_Chapman(a)harvard.edu 7:30pm Do Something Reel Film Festival Coolidge Corner Theatre Brookline, MA URBAN ROOTS - Filmmakers Mark MacInnis, Leila Conners (writer/director of "The 11th Hour") and Mathew Schmid tell the powerful story of a group of dedicated Detroiters working tirelessly to fulfill their vision for locally grown, sustainably farmed food in a deserted, collapsed city cut off from real food and limited to processed fast food. www.coolidge.org/showtimes 8:00pm - 9:00pm Environmental Action Committee Meeting Quincy House Spindell Room Harvard University Cambridge, MA Everyone interested in learning about the EAC and/or learning how to help make a difference for the environment is welcome. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~eac/ Contact Name: Jackson Salovaara jsalov(a)fas.harvard.edu April 28, 2011 7:30pm Movie Screening: The Economics of Happiness Emerson Hall 210 Harvard Yard Cambridge, MA The Economics of Happiness restores our faith in humanity and challenges us to believe that it is possible to build a better world. Harvard Screening on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125840954159194 April 29, 2011 12:00pm Energy Materials at Harvard: "Energy and Environment Nanomaterials" Maxwell Dworkin G115 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge Featuring Yi Cui, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University Contact Name: Brenda Hugot bhugot(a)fas.harvard.edu 617-496-1788 April 30 - May 8, 2011 Cambridge Science Festival Locations throughout Cambridge The Cambridge Science Festival is a celebration showcasing Cambridge as an internationally recognized leader in science, technology, engineering and math. A multifaceted, multicultural event every spring, the Cambridge Science Festival makes science accessible, interactive and fun for everyone! April 30, 2011 9:00am - 4:00pm WAZE Symposium -- On the Frontline: Overcoming the Challenges of Conservation Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston Campus The symposium will explore how policy, economics, ecology, medicine, culture and anthropology can intertwine to overcome current and future challenges in conservation. http://sites.tufts.edu/wazesymposium2011/ wazesymposium2011(a)gmail.com 9:30am - 1:00pm Harvard Alumni Global Month of Service - Trail Restoration at Harvard Forest Harvard Forest 324 North Main St. Petersham, MA 01366 We'll work in groups on simple maintenance projects along the Harvard Forest natural history trails. No special training is required. Families are welcome. Lunch will be served on-site at noon, followed by an optional tour of the Fisher Museum and a brief introduction to the research facilities and ongoing projects at the Forest. PLEASE RSVP by Friday, April 22 to hart3(a)fas.harvard.edu, specifying how many adults and children will be in your group. http://harvardforest.fas.harvard.edu Contact Name: Clarisse Hart hart3(a)fas.harvard.edu 978-756-6157 3:30pm HMNH Author Talk and Booksigning HMNH 26 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA Learn about the massive mammals that roamed the planet 13,000 years ago at "Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals", an author talk and booksigning with science writer Sharon Levy. http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#secrets May 2, 2011 8:30am - 5:00pm College GreenFest at the 2nd Annual Massachusetts Sustainable Economy Conference Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 600 Atlantic Avenue Boston, MA Improve and Grow the Economy of the Commonwealth by Advancing Business Sustainability. http://www.foundationforagreenfuture.org/upcoming_events crystal(a)isesplanning.com 12:00pm Harvard Energy Journal Club HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford Street, 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Facilitating discussion and furthering our understanding of the technical details of energy technology and science. Visit the Energy Journal website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~hejc/ Contact Name: Dan Recht drecht(a)fas.harvard.edu 12:00pm - 1:30pm Energy Technology Innovation Policy/Consortium for Energy Policy Research Energy Policy Seminar Series Bell Hall, 5th Floor, Belfer Building, HKS 79 JFK St Cambridge, MA "National Oil Companies and the Geopolitics of Energy." Jonas Meckling, Geopolitics of Energy Fellow. Contact Name: Louisa Lund louisa_lund(a)harvard.edu May 3, 2011 2:30pm - 4:30pm MIT Clean Energy Showcase Hynes Convention Center Boston, MA The MIT Energy Innovation Showcase will include poster presentations from the MIT Clean Energy Prize top 25 semi-finalists, MIT Clean Energy Prize alumni teams, and other successful energy start-ups in the area. http://enterpriseforum.mit.edu/network/broadcasts/201105/index.html 3:00pm - 4:30pm ClimaTea HUCE Seminar Room 24 Oxford St., 3rd Floor Cambridge, MA Visit the Climatea website for updates and topics of discussion. http://www.deas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/climatea.html Contact Name: Jennifer Lake jlake(a)fas.harvard.edu May 5, 2011 2011 Annual Plant Biology Symposium "Genetics of Adaptation" Registration requested. pbi(a)fas.harvard.edu http://www.pbi.fas.harvard.edu/events.htm 6:00pm "Phase Change: Maria Telkes and the Rise and Fall of Solar Energy, 1946-1963" Portico 123 Harvard University Graduate School of Design 48 Quincy Street Cambridge MA 02138 A lecture by Daniel Barber, Harvard University Center for the Environment, Ziff Environmental Fellow. http://environment.harvard.edu/about/fellows/daniel-barber --- Always check the calendar on the website for updated information. 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[Aspuru-Guzik group list] Box for donation initiative to Kenyatta University

by Stéphanie Valleau

Dear group, Regarding the department's donation initiative to students at Kenyatta University in Nairobi (see email copied below), the box for donations arrived only this morning and is in the big office, near the door of M-105 (big office). Acceptable items for donation include: - glassware (clean and unbroken) - glass joints - functional analytical equipment (ie IR and UV-vis spectrometers, HPLCs, columns) - scientific literature (including journals and textbooks). I think we can only contribute to "scientific literature"... unless someone has a spectrometer or other hiding under their desk. So if you have old textbooks or other you don't use anymore or want to give away you know where the box is. Best, Stephanie ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Danielle Raad <raad(a)fas.harvard.edu> Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:05 AM Subject: [G1] TGIF & Help Out, Clean Out THIS WEEK! To: gradstudents <gradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, othergradstudents(a)chemistry.harvard.edu, postdocs < postdocs(a)chemistry.harvard.edu>, chemlist(a)chem.harvard.edu Dear CCB, The Graduate Student and Postdoc Council (GPC) would like to bring to your attention *Clean Out, Help Out,* a new international outreach initiative in collaboration with Kenyatta University. As part of this project, we are donating unwanted scientific equipment and literature from our department to chemistry students at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya. Labeled boxes have been distributed to each lab to facilitate your donations. This Friday, April 22nd, 2011 we will have the *First Annual Spring Clean Out* We hope that everyone will take advantage of this day to focus on designating items to donate to Kenya. At the end of the day, all of the boxes will be collected and appropriately packaged. In celebration of concluding the Spring Clean Out, we are hosting a special *First Annual Clean Out, Help Out TGIF* THIS FRIDAY, at 5:00pm in the Department Center. The TGIF will feature Kenyan food along with the typical TGIF drinks and snacks. In addition, we will be providing prizes for the labs who donate the most. Come share in our excitement about this opportunity to make an impact! *Acceptable items for donation include: * - glassware (clean and unbroken) - glass joints - functional analytical equipment (ie IR and UV-vis spectrometers, HPLCs, columns) - scientific literature (including journals and textbooks). Please email harvardgpc(a)gmail.com <harvardgcp(a)gmail.com> with any questions or for more information on how you can get involved. Thank you! The GPC _______________________________________________ G1 mailing list G1(a)chem.harvard.edu http://chem.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/g1

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