BE Board:Directory

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Intro

On more than one occassion, particularly as a first year, I've been trying to work out who someone in BE is. For example, your talking to someone at BE.526 and you remember later they said they had a great protocol for a yeast fermentation, only you don't remember what their name was. Most other departments (e.g Chem. E) display the names and photos of all their grad and undergrad students. Seems like it would be useful for us too.

Basically, I'd like to see the info. we currently all have in the MIT directory, linked to photos and organized by class.

Action plan

I'd like to solicit feedback on this from the board and the students (I asked for a related question to be put on the student survey). If people thought it wasn't a terrible idea I will take it to Dalia, as they should have all the pictures and access to the data. If it isn't easy for them to do, we can do it ourselves given the data.

Comments?

There was a comment by Samantha to create a directory of alumni from the department. I imagine that this directory would fall into such a category. --Sri Kosuri 22:42, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)

A directory would be helpful, but the pictures we would get from the division would be our ID pictures, and as I recall, most people don't seem to like their pictures too much. Overall, I think we could setup the initial infrastructure with names, class year, and affiliated lab and then let individual people add their own picture, email if they want and other contact info. This would require that everyone in BE have an account on openwetware which may or may not be feasible. --Amy Nichols 23:46, 15 Sep 2005 (EDT)