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Jacks to accept award from EHS on Sept. 12

Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, will be presented an award by the Environment, Health and Safety Office on Sept. 12, at 10:30 a.m., in recognition of the Koch Institute's outstanding EHS performance. Criteria used to select awardees included such requirements as timely completion and maintenance of required EHS training by all personnel requiring training and completion of EHS inspections.

A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on September 10, 2008 (download PDF).

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