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Please note that the Friend lab is no longer accepting new members, as Prof. Friend has assumed the role of President of the Kavli Foundation ( more information).

The Kavli Foundation has selected Dr. Cynthia M. Friend, Theodore Williams Richards Professor of Chemistry at Harvard University, as its next president. Dr. Friend will assume this post January 1, 2021. Cynthia Friend named incoming president of the Kavli...

A profile of Prof. Cynthia Friend accompanied her inaugural article in PNAS as a member of the National Academy of Science in September. The profile follows Friend from cow-pasture golf and car repair in her early life in southern Nebraska, through her...