Monday, February 21, 2011

Sharing resources with the developing world

This month's issue of Physics Today has a nice article Facilitating science in developing countries about a US based non-profit group Seeding Labs. It was started in 2002 by a few Harvard graduate students to send "out-dated" lab equipment to universities in the developing world.

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