Safety chef: Help with laboratory inspections, routine monitoring of compliance, group job assignments, draft SOPS, and overall lab cleanliness. Run the place like a kitchen that has to anticipate spot inspections by the county health inspector. (John)
Chemical waste proctor: Monitors waste, documentation, and submission. (Anastasia)
Hot plates / vacuum pumps / ovens / rotary evaporators / balances / syringe pump: Monitor maintenance schedules; watch for equipment abuse. Calibrate balances and ensure their cleanliness. (Tolani, Olivia)
Surface laboratory: Care, feeding, and user training on LB trough, AFM, and critical point dryer (John, Anastasia)
Optical microscope laboratory: Care, feeding, and user training on optical microscopes, contact angle measurement, and chip cutters (John, Anastasia).
Freezers and refrigerators: Tidiness, care, and organization. (Ifeanyi)
Glove box: Care, feeding, and user training (Ifeanyi, Ben)
Solvents: Maintain stills and solvent purification system. Maintain a supply of active 3 A molecular sieves. (John)
Computers: Install software, maintain licenses, monitor appropriate usage. Make sure things work. Maintain printing supplies: paper, toner, etc. (Ifeanyi)
Hydrogenation: Maintain the various hydrogenation apparatus (pressure recording, plumbing bits, safety, o-rings, leak whack-a-mole, safety (fire! Pd catalysts! H2! pressure!) (Ifeanyi)
HPLC and GPC: maintain and repair the HPLC (Tolani)
Web page: content, backups, etc. (Ben)
Group data: maintain group file server and backups (Ben)
Purchasing: ordering and receipt tracking (Ben, Anastasia)