{"id":3856,"date":"2009-07-21T22:22:48","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T05:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/21\/happy-birthday-reed-aleksander-hicks\/"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:47","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:47","slug":"happy-birthday-reed-aleksander-hicks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/happy-birthday-reed-aleksander-hicks\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday, Reed Aleksander Hicks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/html\/hicks_randall@wheatonma.edu\"><b>Randy Hicks<\/b><\/a>, a longtime fixture in the Chem 101\/102 labs, the Chem 102 <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.reed.edu\/chemistry\/index.php?id=P292\"><b>end-of-year fireworks display<\/b><\/a>, and one of two discoverers of the <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.reed.edu\/chemistry\/index.php?id=P248\"><b>Periodic Table of the Cupcakes<\/b><\/a>, wrote to me last summer (yikes!) from his (then) <a href=\"http:\/\/wheatoncollege.edu\/Faculty\/RandallWHicks.html\"><b>new location<\/b><\/a> in the Chemistry department at <b>Wheaton College<\/b> with wonderful news. He and Jennifer had just &#8220;published&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/Hicks%20baby%20announcement%2008.pdf\"><b>Synthesis of a novel biochemical composite material: Reed Aleksander Hicks<\/b><\/a> on August 3, 2008 (follow the link for full publication and description). Which means that Reed Aleksander is getting ready to celebrate his first birthday. Have a happy one, Reed (and ask for ice cream).<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reed Aleksander Hicks 080308.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/Reed%20Aleksander%20Hicks%20080308.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"307\" height=\"212\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div>Added July 22, 2009: Randy happens to be visiting Oregon this week and he wrote, &#8220;I&#8217;m in Salem, at Willamette, right now<br \/>\nparticipating in CUR&#8217;s proposal writing institute. I have a draft due<br \/>\nin&#8230;2 hours. At the conclusion of the workshop on Thursday, I will be<br \/>\nheading north to extend my stay.&#8221; And he sent me a current picture of Reed Aleksander.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/Reed%20Aleksander%20Hicks%20072109.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reed Aleksander Hicks 072109.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/files\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/Reed%20Aleksander%20Hicks%20072109-thumb-252x168.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px;text-align: center\" width=\"252\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Hicks, a longtime fixture in the Chem 101\/102 labs, the Chem 102 end-of-year fireworks display, and one of two discoverers of the Periodic Table of the Cupcakes, wrote to me last summer (yikes!) from his (then) new location in&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2009\/07\/happy-birthday-reed-aleksander-hicks\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Happy Birthday, Reed Aleksander Hicks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4350,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}