Exchange 2004: Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Schedule:
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Sun 4/18:
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Arrive in Boston and check in at the College Club (44
Commonwealth Ave.). Visit the top of the Prudential Building (SkyWalk).
Evening Dinner at Durgin Park in Faneuil Hall.
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Mon 4/19
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Attend the Patriot's Day Red Sox/Yankees baseball game (Red
Sox won!). Watch the Boston Marathon.
Evening free time.
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Tues 4/20
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Morning tour of MIT Chemistry Department.
Lunch at the Border Cafe in Harvard Square.
Afternoon tour of the Harvard Campus and Chemistry Department.
Evening free time.
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Wed 4/21
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Morning bus trip to Pfizer in Groton, Connecticut.
Introduction to Drug Development at Pfizer.
Lunch in the Pfizer cafeteria with company representatives.
Afternoon lecture on Drug Discovery.
Tour of the new Research and Development facility at Pfizer.
Bus trip to Newport, Rhode Island.
Short walk along the ocean cliffs past the famous mansions.
Dinner at Christie's on the Bay in Newport.
Bus trip back to Boston.
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Thrus 4/22
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Morning visit to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA).
Lectures on art and artifact conservation and authentication.
Tour of the analytical laboratories for conservation and authentication.
Lunch in the MFA cafeteria.
Afternoon private guided tours of select American paintings and
sculptures.
Student free time in the museum.
Steering Committee Dinner Meeting on the future of the Exchange Program
at the Armani Cafe.
Evening performance of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (Britten, Nyman,
and Beethoven) at Symphony Hall.
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Fri 4/23
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Morning workshops on resume writing and interviewing at the
Northeast Student Chemistry Career Fair (Brookline Holiday Inn).
Buffet Luncheon at Fair.
Afternoon Job Fair.
Evening dinner at Jacob Wirth's (theatre district) sponsored by Genzyme.
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4/24 |
The
Sixth Annual Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC).
Welcoming
Remarks by ACS President, Dr. Charles P. Casey. Morning oral research
presentations by students. Buffet Luncheon. Afternoon student poster
session. Keynote Address by Dr. Stephen J. Lippard (MIT). Awards
presentation. Evening farewell banquet at Boston University's Management
Building.
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Sun
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Return
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Program Sponsors:
NESACS
Genzyme
Pfizer
Strem Chemicals, Inc.
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Press:
The Nucleus 2004 Vol. LXXXIII, No. 3
(pdf file, 1.3 Mb)
Reports:
Account of Exchange 2004 by NSYCC-NESACS
(pdf file, 316 kb)
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Pictures
Photos @ NCYCC.ORG
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The German group visits Harvard Yard: (left to right) Jan Phillip
Weyrauch (Stuttgart), Tanja Schaffer (JCF President), Sebastian
Fritzsche (Leipzig), Jan Mueller (Hamburg), Frank Sischerl (Konstanz),
Ulrike Helmstedt (Leipzig), H. Martin Mueller (Bonn), Franz Dornhaus
(Frankfurt), Benjamin Malte Rossbach (Munich), Melanie Schnell
(Hannover), Christian Ducho (Hamburg), Peter Quast (Braunschweig),
Susanne Bieller (Frankfurt), Jens Tschmelak (Tuebingen), and Dr. Kurt
Begitt (GDCh)
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