Memorial Service 1/20 3pm for Rune Nielsen, Memorial Church

Dear Friends

The Microsystems Laboratory and friends of Rune Thode Nielsen will be remembering our dear colleague and friend at a memorial service in Memorial Church at 3pm on Thursday January 20th, 2011. Rune died in a car accident on December 18, 2010 and we lost a shining star that day. Even if you did not know Rune well, I would be very grateful for your support of our lab and his local community, especially since his family cannot travel from Denmark for this service.

We will also celebrate Rune's life at a reception following the service at approximately 4pm in Bechtel International Center. We realize that everyone who met Rune has something wonderful to share about him and his enthusiastic and endearing personality. In advance of the service, we will be collecting pictures, letters, and tributes to Rune to share with each other and his family, more details are available on our webpage at:

http://microsystems.stanford.edu/wiki/In_Celebration_and_Memory_of_Rune

Rune was an international graduate student from Prof. Anja Boisen's laboratory at Denmark Technical University; he was a visiting researcher and active labmember at the Stanford Nanofabrication Facility and in the Microsystems lab since March 2010 as part of his MS program and thesis.  He was an outgoing and amazing individual with a passion to improve the world and a positive attitude and support to share with everyone around him. He will be remembered well and he will be missed. I hope you can join us.

Beth Pruitt

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Beth Pruitt, Ph.D., P.E.         
Associate Professor
Silas H. Palmer Faculty Fellow Department of Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
group website: http://microsystems.stanford.edu/
email: pruitt@stanford.edu

fax: 650-725-1587