{"id":4168,"date":"2013-07-27T16:25:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-27T23:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/?p=4168"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T17:14:42","slug":"franklin-marshall-welcomes-professor-gabe-brandt-92","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/2013\/07\/franklin-marshall-welcomes-professor-gabe-brandt-92\/","title":{"rendered":"Franklin & Marshall welcomes Professor Gabe Brandt ’92"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Prof.<\/a>\u00a0If Reedies ‘take the road less traveled’, then Gabe<\/strong> was a true Reedie. He and I learned to Morris dance for Renn Fayre 1990. Two years later he headed off to Africa with the Peace Corps.<\/p>\n

Gabe is joining the chemistry faculty at Franklin & Marshall College<\/strong><\/a> this summer as a biochemist with teaching responsibilities in general chemistry.<\/p>\n

A nice story from Gabe’s Peace Corps period appears on the <\/strong>Franklin & Marshall web page<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“Let me tell you about my first encounter with Franklin and Marshall. This was in eastern Mali in the early ’90’s. The sun had just gone down, and I was stranded at some general store\/gas station\/pharmacy on the road to Koutiala, watching the moon come up, drinking tea with the proprietor. He turns to me and says, ‘Your sisters have arrived.’ Since I don’t really speak French, I figured I had badly misheard. Looking up the road, though, I do see a taxi sidle up out of the darkness. Sure enough, a white woman emerges, looking like you do when you spend four hours on marginally paved roads in a Peugeot 504 with ten other people. Fair enough. The next person to appear looks to have teleported in from a Gap advertisement, every shevel fully accounted for, glowing white T-shirt reading ‘Franklin & Marshall College’ in the moonlight. So, I’ve known for a long time that dust doesn’t even stick to F&M students.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0If Reedies ‘take the road less traveled’, then Gabe was a true Reedie. He and I learned to Morris dance for Renn Fayre 1990. Two years later he headed off to Africa with the Peace Corps. Gabe is joining the … finish reading Franklin & Marshall welcomes Professor Gabe Brandt ’92<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168","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=4168"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4171,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4168\/revisions\/4171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/chemistry_news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}