Univ. of Tennessee Chemistry REU

We are now accepting applications to our 2015 REU, so we would like for students in your department to first know about it.

It’s a 10-week program. All undergraduate students are eligible to apply. Selected students will be joining a research group to work with faculty members and graduate students on a specific project. They will also receive free housing, free parking on campus, and a stipend around $5,000. 

We also offer 9 seminars in all areas of chemistry throughout the program along with many workshops such as resume building and ethics. Last year participants also visited Oak Ridge National Lab and Eastman Chemical Company. We plan to continue offering site visits this year.

It’s a great opportunity for students who are interested in research or would like to consider grad school after graduation.

More information can be found at: http://www.chem.utk.edu/reu/index.html. Online application: http://www.chem.utk.edu/reu/apply.html. 

The application deadline is February 1^st 2015.

Please forward this to all that you think will be interested and do not hesitate to contact me if you or your students have any questions.

Thank you and have a good day!

Rachel Ru, Ph.D.

Recruiting, Publicity and Development Coordinator

Department of Chemistry

Buehler Hall 616

University of Tennessee

Knoxville, TN 37996

Phone: 865-974-8019

http://www.chem.utk.edu

New Ventrure looking for CHEM intern - Spring 2015

My name is Roxanne Kaiser, and I am a senior in the Scheller College of Business. Currently, I am in the process of beginning two start-up companies, one of which, desperately needs the assistance of a chemistry or (preferably) organic chemistry student.

I was hoping you may direct me on how I may go about finding a student in the Chemistry department who would be willing/interested to work part-time on a product development project (and being compensated for their time and work).

Any and all insight from you would be greatly appreciated, as this is a huge step for me to move forward with my business! Thank you in advance for your help and I look forward to hearing back from you soon.

Kindest regards,

Roxanne kaiser

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Roxanne K. Kaiser

Supply Chain Management

Operations & Logistics

Georgia Institute of Technology

rkaiser7@gatech.edu

2015 InVenture Prize

The 2015 InVenture Prize is looking for Georgia Tech students (or recent graduates) with interesting ideas for possible inventions. It normally attracts engineers, but I believe science students are every bit as innovative. The InVenture Prize Competition is now the largest college invention competition in the nation, and often students are intimidated. They forget that our finalists and winners often started as a simple idea in somebody’s dorm room.  In addition to their own ideas, these inventions may be derived from class projects, or even research where the original idea was not derived from faculty or external funding, as students retain all intellectual property rights for their invention. We are asking your help to identify potential InVenture Prize contestants you may know and encourage them to sign-up for the InVenture Prize Competition at www.Inventureprize.gatech.edu . If these students have any questions, want any advice about developing their inventions, or are looking for additional team members to complement their skills, please encourage them to reach out to me (pete.ludovice@gatech.edu) or Chris Reaves (chris.reaves@gatech.edu) from the Center for Academic Enrichment. Feel free to share this message with your colleagues.

Your help is greatly appreciated in this matter,

Pete Ludovice

Director, Center for Academic Enrichment

Associate Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

www.enrichment.gatech.edu/staff

pete.ludovice@gatech.edu

(404) 385-4026

REU: MIT Amgen-UROP Scholars Program

MIT summer research program - Summer 2015

You may be familiar with the Amgen Scholars Program, a summer research

program in science and biotechnology.  The Massachusetts Institute of

Technology is a participant in the Amgen-UROP Scholars Program for a ninth

year.  UROP is MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program. The

mission of the Amgen-UROP Scholars Program is to provide students with a

strong science research experience that may be pivotal in their

undergraduate career, cultivate a passion for science, encourage the

pursuit of graduate studies in the sciences, and stimulate interest in

research and scientific careers.

During the summer 2014 program, MIT hosted 15 visiting scholars who

engaged in research under the supervision of MIT's foremost faculty and

leading researchers.  In addition to the visiting scholars, ten MIT

undergraduates participated in the program. Over the past eight summers,

over 200 students have conducted research through this program.

We are soliciting applications for students to engage in research as part

of the summer 2015 Amgen-UROP Scholars Program. I request your assistance

in distributing this announcement to your colleagues and encouraging young

scholars on your campus to submit an application. While spending a summer

in Boston and gaining research experience, your students will be paid a

stipend; room, board and transportation to and from Boston will also be

covered by their appointment. All students will live on-campus in one of

our undergraduate residences. This community of young scholars will share

in the excitement of research by participating in a faculty-led seminar

series, workshops, poster session and a mid-summer symposium at UCLA

(travel, room and board are covered).

MIT is delighted to invite undergraduate students from other colleges and

universities to join our research enterprise. We value the knowledge,

experience and enthusiasm these young scholars will bring to our campus

and appreciate this opportunity to build a relationship with your faculty

and campus.

I have attached a brief description of the Amgen-UROP Scholars Program.

The URL listed on the document directs interested faculty and students to

a website with additional details, application and contact information.

Thank you for sharing this information with your colleagues and

undergraduate students. We look forward to receiving applications from

your students.

Sincerely,

Julie B. Norman

Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education Director, Office of

Undergraduate Advising and Academic Programming

mit-amgenscholars@mit.edu

new journal for undergraduate research publications

I would like to extend an exciting publication opportunity to your undergraduate students. I work as a copyeditor for The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence, a peer-reviewed undergraduate research publication published by JUR Press and headquartered at Colorado State University. Our journal is registered with the Library of Congress, features the best in undergraduate work in all research and creative disciplines from all over the country, and has an international audience. Our journal provides an opportunity for students to receive publication credit while at the undergraduate level. Benefits of this include enhancement of a resume for possible graduate program applications, introductory experience with the publication process, and the confidence and validation that comes with seeing your work in print.

We invite you to explore our website jur.colostate.edu for more information about how our straightforward, year-round submission process works. If our journal is something that appeals to you, we invite you to share this information with your colleagues and undergraduate students. Please let me know if you would feel comfortable passing this information along by responding to this email. I can also answer any additional questions you have about our organization.

Thank you for your consideration, and we look forward to receiving research, artwork, and creative writing from your undergraduates.

Regards,

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David Hinson

Copyeditor

The Journal of Undergraduate Research and Scholarly Excellence

JUR Press

dhinson.jur@gmail.com

CDC looking for recent BS graduates - Fall 2014

The CDC is looking for recent BS graduates for work in an analytical toxicology lab.

The Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) Laboratory in the Division of Laboratory Science at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention uses state of the art techniques to develop analytical methods for monitoring human exposure to environmental contaminants. The developed methodology is applied in studies aimed at identifying and quantifying exposures to environmental contaminants in human matrices, including human sera and milk. Our laboratory has two primary functions: 1.) to assess people’s exposure to environmental contaminants, both in the general population and in certain targeted populations at special risk of exposure; and 2.) to identify the potential for adverse health effects observed in these populations, that may originate from chemical exposures. The POPs Laboratory is devoted to development and implementation of high throughput analytical methods, utilizing a high degree of laboratory automation, to determine human body burdens of chemicals such as: 2,3,7,8-subsituted chlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans, polychlorinated naphthalenes, polychlorinated biphenyls, persistent organochlorine pesticides, and polybrominated diphenyl ethers. This position will be responsible for biological sample preparation utilizing various extraction techniques and laboratory instrumentation. The candidate should be proficient in the general principles of analytical and organic chemistry be comfortable working in a laboratory with biological specimens. The position, itself, will be filled through a Fellowship program provided by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE). For ORISE program information, please go to http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/dls/orise.html.

Please contact:

Richard S Jones 

rlj9@cdc.gov

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

National Centers for Environmental Health

Persistent Organic Pollutants Laboratory

Team Lead, Research Chemist

SURI (Summer Undergraduate Research Internship) at UT-Austin

GTPN-SA Poster Session-Abstracts Due Nov. 7th