Johnny Appleseed of Labs Brings U.S. Gear to Universities in Developing World

The Boston Globe has a nice feature today about a nonprofit organization, called Seeding Labs, that takes unneeded equipment from university and other laboratories in the United States and ships the material to academic labs in the developing world. Over the last six years, the group, led by a Harvard Medical School alumna named Nina Dudnik, has equipped 22 labs at universities in 13 African and Latin American countries. Next month the group, which has graduate-student chapters on five American campuses, will make its biggest shipment yet: $700,000 worth of gear for the chemistry and pharmacy departments at Kenyatta University, in Nairobi, Kenya.