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The Age of Plastic

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ATB Interview on WPKN 89.5 FM Tonight

Director John Maher, Executive Producer Hugh Karraker
and Media Manager Marc Huberman

Dolly Curtis, host of Backstage Buzz, welcomes members of the Connecticut-based production team from the documentary film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic. 

Hugh Karraker, executive producer, John Maher, director and media manager, Marc Huberman will join Dolly to talk about the movie at WPKN 89.5 FM tomorrow night, April 7 at 10 PM. To listen from your computer, tablet or mobile phone, visit http://www.wpkn.org, then click the “LISTEN NOW” icon in the upper left margin.

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WPKN 4/7 interview

Dolly Curtis, host of Backstage Buzz, welcomes members of the Connecticut-based production team from the documentary film, All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastic.

John Maher, Director. Hugh Karraker, Executive Producer. Marc Huberman, Media Manager

Hugh Karraker, executive producer, John Maher, director and media manager, Marc Huberman will join Dolly to talk about the movie at WPKN 89.5 FM tomorrow night, April 7 at 10 PM. To listen from your computer, tablet or mobile phone, visit http://www.wpkn.org, then click the “LISTEN NOW” icon in the upper left margin.

If you miss the live in-studio interview, it will available as a podcast on http://www.wpkn.org, under Engineer David Schwartz and on YouTube under Dolly Curtis Interviews Hugh Karraker for Backstage Buzz.

They will discuss the making of the film and its worldwide distribution as an educational tool to tell the story about Hugh’s great grandfather, Leo Hendrik Baekeland, the inventor of Velox photographic paper and the first wholly synthetic plastic – Bakelite.

WPKN interview with Dolly Curtis, WPKN

The film has been airing on Connecticut CPTV Spirit Channel this week and has three more airdates next week.
– Monday, 4/8 4pm
– Tuesday 4/9 12am
– Wednesday 4/10 11am

Simply click the link to find the corresponding channel number, listed by town and cable provider. 
https://cptv.org/schedule/cable-channels/

To learn more about our national public television screenings, click https://bit.ly/2HZNeA9. Please share with your colleagues, friends and family. Throughout the year, we will post additional public television airdates and times as they become available to us.

We thank Dolly Curtis, David Schwartz and everyone at WPKN for this interview opportunity.

Learn more about your local neighbors and their achievements on Backstage Buzz.

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NYU Review

Lights, Camera, Bakelite!

The Office of Student Affairs Hosts a Fun and Informative Movie Night

NYU Tandon School of Engineering
December 5, 2018

If you don’t think of chemistry as an exciting enough topic for a movie, you probably don’t know much about the life and work of Leo Baekeland, the Belgium-born scientist who produced Bakelite — the very first thermoset plastic — and in the process changed the world.

On November 29, the NYU Tandon community was treated to a showing of All Things Bakelite: The Age of Plastics, directed by filmmaker John Maher and executive-produced by Baekeland’s great-grandson, Hugh Karraker. As a bonus, the two were on hand (along with chemist Louis Pilato) to field questions about the iconoclastic scientist; the revolutionary substance he created; and the process of filming a picture that would engage and entertain as it enlightened.

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Plastics Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony & more

On May 6th, we will attend The Plastics Hall of Fame induction ceremony and dinner.  (Leo Baekeland is one of the scientists represented

in the Plastics Hall of Fame.)

For the opportunity to meet and network with alumni and friends and learn more about Plastics 4.0 at UMass Lowell, we will attend their Department of Plastics Engineering reception and dinner on May 8th. 

We strongly support UMass Lowell’s efforts to encourage students to learn the latest developments in plastics. Please consider making a contribution to sponsor a student’s attendance at NPE2018. Gifts of $250 or more will sponsor one student’s place at the conference. Every gift makes a difference. 

Sponsorship opportunities are available.

For information, contact Sally_Washburn@uml.edu, 978-934-4821.

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Katarina Posch on Design

Katarina Posch was an associate professor of design theory and history at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY. Presently, Katarina lives in a Vienna, Austria rehab facility following a massive stroke. Donations for her basic needs and ongoing rehabilitation may be made at:
  

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