Lori Mehen

1940 points

Raleigh, NC

Lori Mehen is an Account Manager in Brand Communications + Design at Red Hat. She grew up in Los Angeles, CA and now resides in Durham, NC with her husband and three kids. Lori enjoys water skiing, cooking and car racing.

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Is the future of Pharma open source?

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Authored Comments

lorimehen

11 Feb 2011

sprout: Reclaiming science as a creative craft

This is great to see especially when we have a real declining interests in the sciences in this country. The North Carolina Museum of Life & Science put something similar together called, Periodic Tables, where anyone in the community is invited to local area restaurants to get together in a casual setting to talk about the sciences. Its a fun community event.
http://www.ncmls.org/periodictables