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From: Suzanne Howard <showard**At_Symbol_Here**WELLESLEY.EDU>
Subject: Lab Accident
Date: Jul 28, 2007 16:43 UTC
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This was in today's Boston Globe. Brandies is in Waltham, MA. Brandeis students are burned at lab Two Brandeis University students suffered burns yesterday in a fire at a laboratory on the campus, said Dennis Nealon, a university spokesman. Emergency personnel were dispatched to the lab in the Edison-Lecks building a little after 11 a.m. According to a preliminary investigation, the two students, one male and one female, spilled ethanol in an experiment hood and were cleaning it up when it ignited. Both students were taken to Massachusetts General Hospital and were in stable condition, Nealon said Suzanne Howard Director, EHS Wellesley College 781-283-3882