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used old baby bottles as glassware, and made optical equipment with pieces of old compact disks. The two students, along with Freedhoff, the current Chapter president, decided to contact local industries and universities in addition to all science and engineering departments at their university in order to solicit equipment and monetary donations. Thus far, publicity for the event has been secured on campus, locally, and nationally, and the group hopes to be able to contribute to every science and engineering department at the Ateneo. The students find gratification in being able to encourage research and education in less-developed countries, plus the project provides an environmentally friendly way of recycling equipment that donors no longer use. The group is soliciting glassware, solar calculators, pipettes, top-loading balances, centrifuges, circulating pumps, ultraviolet lamps, thermometers, heating mantels, heating tapes, chromatographs, spectrometers, refractometers, polarimeters, microscopes, simple optics and electronics, voltmeters, computer equipment (PC), technical journals, and other lowmaintenance laboratory equipment. Monetary donations are also accepted to help cover shipping expenses and the purchase of disposable items such as pH
To donate equipment or money for the Philippines project Contact Michal Freedhoff at 716-275-2980, e-mail:[email protected];Kristen Kulinowski at 716-244-1778, e- mail: [email protected]; or Sean Moran at 716-275-3027. Checks and money orders can be made payable to the "University Outreach Society" and sent to one of the students listed above, c/o Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester, 404 Hutchinson Hall, Rochester, NY 14627; receipts and bank statements are available upon request. Contact the students involved before sending equipment to ensure that the particular items are needed.
paper, batteries, and pipettes. The shipment date is tentatively scheduled for early July 1995. MICHAL FREEDHOFF
UC—Berkeley Chapter Prepares for Exceptional Teaching Award For the third semester, the MRS Chapter at the University of California— Berkeley is gathering information and distributing a Course Evaluation Guide providing details on each class offered in the Department of Materials Science and Mineral Engineering. Both undergraduate and graduate students participate in the evaluation project. The Chapter further uses the information in order to choose a faculty member for the Exceptional Teaching Award. Timothy Sands was the most recent (and first) recipient of the Award.
The evaluation includes an overall rating for the course, the professor's teaching ability and clarity, the teaching assistants' instructing qualities, the textbook, and the homework assignments and exams. Recipients are chosen by tallying up scores based on the evaluation for each professor. Each recipient's name is engraved in a plaque the Chapter created that hangs in the department office. The recipient for the Spring semester will • receive the award this Fall. Send MRS Univers
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