Hi guys, Sorry for the random email, but Darren Lipomi (Whitesides Lab) wrote a great piece on plastic solar cells for a scientific writing competition. He is a finalist and needs your help to win! Darren is headed to Zhenan Bao's group to work on our collaborative screen saver project for his post doc, so please take a few min to read his article and vote for it! The link is provided below... Thanks, Leslie -- Leslie Vogt Aspuru-Guzik Group Chemistry and Chemical Biology Harvard University ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Darren Lipomi <djlipomi(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:37 PM Subject: Writing contest finalist... To: mickeykats(a)gmail.com, pkim(a)seas.harvard.edu, ichthus7(a)gmail.com, yvasquez(a)seas.harvard.edu, tlupoli(a)fas.harvard.edu, klausen(a)fas.harvard.edu, karp(a)fas.harvard.edu, jiabinxu.harvard(a)gmail.com, wang29(a)fas.harvard.edu, cyu(a)fas.harvard.edu, lvogt(a)fas.harvard.edu, jbeiger(a)fas.harvard.edu, jwu(a)fas.harvard.edu, cstan(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, jbarber(a)gmwgroup.harvard.edu, tdowd(a)rochester.rr.com, ksaxton(a)hilton.k12.ny.us, straub(a)bu.edu Dear Friends & Colleagues, This is how Barack Obama did his fundraising, maybe shameless self-promotion by email will work for me too :) I'm writing to ask you a significant (but easy) favor. My essay on "Plastic Solar Cells" made it to the final round in ScientificBlogging.com's University Writing Competition. The prizes are $2500, $1000, and $500 for the top three finishers (Dina and I have a big move to California coming up and could really use the extra cash). You can vote once a day until Nov. 22nd. To vote, just go to my essay at http://www.scientificblogging.com/intellectual_clutter/blog/plastic_solar_c… At the top right-hand side of the text, there is a grey box with a number in it and an "up" arrow. Click on the arrow to vote (the number is the number of votes so far). You do *not* need to register. Remember, you can vote once a day for three weeks. The website can be buggy - if it doesn't look like the vote registered, it probably did anyway. You might want to hold onto this email so you can use the link again. Thanks so much in advance for your help. Please forward this to anyone else who might want to vote for my essay (or for others for that matter) or is interested in popular science writing - there is a lot of good stuff on the site. Best wishes, Darren