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Our last Fourth of July celebration while living in Baker House. A great view. We will miss it & our Baker family even more.

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Yay Kyle (& Alli!)! We’re going to miss you guys! Thanks for the great BBQ – it was great getting to see old labmates! More pictures after the jump. » Continue Reading…

Josh successfully defended his MCP thesis today.  It went really well!  He will graduate in June.  He only has to finish his edits and turn in his thesis to truly, completely, totally all the way, no holds barred, be done!  And then he will be… » Continue Reading…

Today we walked our 6th Walk for Hunger. This means we have now walked 120 miles raising money to fight hunger and raising awareness for the hunger problem in Massachusetts. Thanks to our family and friends, this year we were able to raise over $1300 and our Baker House team raised over $6500 at last count (the total is still rising). The Baker House team has now raised over $20,000 over the last 5 years.  We had 11 walkers this year. It was a great walk! There are more pictures from the walk after the jump, as well as some hunger facts. But first I want to say a quick thank you to everyone for your support, financial and otherwise. Project Bread fights hunger and advocates change in the community in which Josh and I live. It is an organization that Josh and I believe in and choose to support year after year. We thank you for your support and solidarity in fighting hunger. As the state’s leading antihunger organization, Project Bread is dedicated to alleviating, preventing, and ultimately ending hunger in Massachusetts. In addition to organizing the annual Walk for Hunger and supporting emergency food programs statewide, Project Bread also advocates systematic solutions that prevent hunger in children and that provide food to families in everyday settings. Since 1969, Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger has provided critical resources for hungry children and families in Massachusetts.

Today, The Walk for Hunger is the oldest continual pledge walk in the country, and the largest annual one-day fundraiser to alleviate local hunger. It is one of the few walks dedicated to social justice. Money raised through The Walk for Hunger funds more than 400 food pantries, soup kitchens, food banks, and food salvage programs in 128 communities across Massachusetts. The 20-mile Walk route weaves through Boston, Brookline, Newton, and Cambridge. » Continue Reading…

There is a Mrs. Mallard that nests in front of Baker House each year and loses her baby ducklings on their first walk to Charles River when they try to follow her, but follow each other, one right after the other, down a rain water drain. Our housemaster rescues them and requested Josh’s help this year, removing the drain cover and capturing the ducklings. They plopped them into a pillowcase to carry them across Memorial Drive. The rescuers led the way, coaxing Mrs. Mallard to follow by enticing her with the quacking pillowcase. They were able to gently drop each duckling into the river, and each one was able to catch up with with Mama Mallard, who wasn’t waiting around. They were so cute!

Tina flew out to Boston to celebrate her big 3-0 birthday!  We had a great time.  Though I did have one late night (really, actually an early 2am-4am morning) timepoint in lab I had to take while she was here, so she got that fun MIT experience.  Plus I did put her to work one day doing math for me.  BUT we did have fun as well.   We visited 3, read ‘em THREE, breweries while she was here.  One to celebrate each decade of her fabulous years thus far.  We’re not so great at taking pictures and we only remembered to take our picture at the Harpoon Brewery.  AND I don’t have that picture yet – it’s on Tina’s camera.  I’ll post it, if it’s cute enough, when I get it.  But we went to Cambridge Brewing Company (really known as CBC, to those in the know) for lunch one day.  We went on the Harpoon Brewery tour (with a tasting afterward) after we saw the Shepard Fairey exhibit at the ICA (it was AWESOME) and then finally we went to a JFJ staple, Beerworks.  It was a great weekend and I was so thankful that Tina chose to visit me to celebrate her big day!  Thanks Tina!  And HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

Proudly displaying some defense slides, after the fact.

Transcriptional Response and DNA Adduct Analysis of Murine Liver Exposed to Aflatoxin B1

Josh and Mrs. Ph.D.

Project Soggy Bread

The Walk was a little big soggy this year! But we had a lot of fun!  The Baker House team raised over $5,000 for the second year in a row and has now raised over $15,000 in 4 years.  YAY!!  For more information see www.projectbread.org, our yearly team page www.projectbread.org/goto/baker and our personal pages www.projectbread.org/goto/jeannette and www.projectbread.org/goto/josh.

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