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The Initiator is published yearly by the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University for its students, alumni and friends to inform them about the department and serve as a channel of communication for our community. Readers with comments or questions are urged to send them to The Initiator. The department is headed by Bruce Armitage.

Editor-in-Chief
Bruce Armitage

Editors
Jocelyn Duffy, Amy Laird

Contributing Writers
Jocelyn Duffy, Kirsten Heuring, Amy Laird, Ryan Noone, Heidi Opdyke, Ben Panko, Ann Lyon Ritchie

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Matthew Salyers

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Online Magazine
Iulia Dumitriu

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