THE INITIATOR

Department of Chemistry

© 2023

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 army@andrew.cmu.edu. The department is headed by Bruce Armitage.

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Bruce Armitage

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Jocelyn Duffy, Associate Dean for Communications

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Jon Lee Andrade, Bruce Armitage, Jocelyn Duffy, Bruce Gerson, Kirsten Heuring, Kaitlyn Landram, Heidi Opdyke, Amy Pavlak Laird

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