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Lamont Weekly
Report – October 19, 2007
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OF THE DIRECTOR
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- Letter from the Director
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<>LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR
The Symposium to honor Marie Tharp that we held last Monday
was a
great success - I wish the morning session, especially, could
have
been enjoyed by a broader audience, but it was a privilege
to host ex-
NSF Director and President's Medal of Science winner Rita
Colwell for
the day, and it is a rare event when a Columbia Trustee -
in this
case Marilyn Laurie - spends so much time with us.
Thanks are due especially to Bill Ryan for help with this
event - but
also of course to all our Development and Events staff who
made it
work so smoothly. We are now formally beginning our efforts
to add
to the bequest from Marie's estate to establish an endowed
fund at
Lamont in her honor.
Interesting conversations with Chevron recruiters on Tuesday
and with
Exxon Mobil on Wednesday, and then this afternoon another
superb
lecture in our "Science of Diversity" series from
CU Business School
Professor Daniel Ames on the intriguing issues of Interpersonal
Assertiveness and Constructive Conflict.
I will be out of the office on Monday and Tuesday - I have
to be at
Scripps Monday afternoon when my daughter, Alix, defends her
Ph D
thesis. The title, by the way, is "Discovery and Description
of a
Novel Toxin within the Pan-Genome of the Waterborne Pathogen
Vibrio
Cholerae". Rather long I thought and it does not contain
a colon,
but otherwise quite impressive...
My guess is that it will be colder in La Jolla than it is
here.
Have a good weekend,
- Mike
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