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As you may have heard, Friday 9/23 will be Tony’s last day in the NMR, MS and PCF facilities. He is leaving us to take over as The Peter B. Orthwein `68 Head Coach of Polo in Cornell Athletics.

On the one hand, I am very happy, because I know how much this position means to him. Tony has been involved with Cornell polo for 18 years, he keeps and plays his own polo ponies, and he is also a well-regarded, USPA-certified polo umpire who worked collegiate national championship games among countless others over the years. What started out as a riding lesson, has grown into a hobby, a passion and now a career.

On the other hand, I am sad to see him leave us because he has been a terrific coworker and he is a wonderful human being. Despite nearly twenty years of working together, I still can’t find any silver lining to his departure. I will miss him, and I expect you will too, if you had the chance to meet him.

But move on we must, so we will begin the search for Tony’s replacement as soon as we are approved to do so. If you are interested in the position, or know someone who might be interested, please get in touch with me.

Ivan

Most of the tube collection beakers in the NMR labs are overflowing with tubes. To address this situation we are going to do the following:

1. Every Friday we will transfer all tubes from the beakers into a set of “Abandoned Tubes” bins in B-63 on the table by the north wall.
2. Every Friday we will transfer the tubes from the “Abandoned Tubes” bins to a “Free Tubes” bin.
3. You are welcome to take any and all tubes from the “Free Tubes” bin.

So, if you want your tubes back please remove them from the labs before they end up in the “Free Tubes” bin. If you want free NMR tubes, stop by on Fridays, starting next Friday.

We are using Teams as our communication platform because it is:

• Included in Cornell’s Microsoft license so it is free to us and you
• Available on all common mobile and desktop environments
• Access is controlled by NetID via Cornell login
• Lets us send broadcast and direct messages from the same platform
• You can make voice and video calls with screen sharing
• More convenient than email

Please use Teams channels to report outages, check for known issues, or to ask questions. Use the chat feature to send us direct messages. You can also video call us if you need remote assistance.

Please download the Microsoft Teams app now, and join the Chemistry Shared Facilities team using code l5kbex8 (the first character is a lower case “L”, not a capital “i”). If you run into any issues, talk to us before you go to your departmental IT staff. If you are unable or unwilling to use Teams, please share your concerns with us.

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