MIT Amgen UROP Scholars Summer Program

ACS Nucelar and Radiochemistry - Summer 2014- stipend available

I am writing to request your assistance in identifying outstanding undergraduates who might be interested in, and qualified for, the program.  As you already know, we are seeking curious and highly motivated students with strong science backgrounds. If selected, these students receive an all-expenses paid opportunity to complete a 6 week summer course in Nuclear and Radiochemistry in either CA or NY. They also earn hours (tuition paid) of undergraduate chemistry credit through either San Jose State University or SUNY-Stony Brook.  Selected students also receive a stipend of $4,000.

An announcement for the Nuclear and Radiochemistry Summer Schools that can be posted is attached to this request. It describes the application procedure and the background we hope applicants will have when applying. This information and an on-line application form can also be found on the web at:

http://chemistry.missouri.edu/nucsummer/index.shtml

The deadline for applications is February 1, 2014. Please distribute this announcement to your undergraduate students and encourage them to consider this unique opportunity! If you or your students have any questions about the ACS sponsored program, please do not hesitate to contact me using the information below.

Thanks, in advance, for your assistance.

Sincerely yours,

J. David Robertson

National Director, ACS Summer Schools in Nuclear and Radiochemistry

Department of Chemistry

University of Missouri

Columbia, MO 65211

573-882-5346

robertsonjo@missouri.edu

Dr. J. David Robertson

Professor of Chemistry

Associate Director, MURR

573-882-2240

UNCF/MERCK Science Inititative

THE UNCF● MERCK SCIENCE INITIATIVE

It's a Chance of a Lifetime Through an Extraordinary Partnership

UMSI brings together UNCF, The Merck Company Foundation and Merck Global Diversity Inclusion to offer 37 annual awards to outstanding African American students and postdoctoral researchers:

• 15 undergraduate scholarships
• 12 graduate dissertation fellowships
• 10 postdoctoral research fellowships

But besides funds for tuition, room and board and fees, there's also institutional support through grants to the science departments of award recipients and research grants. And along with knowledge, you'll develop a career, with hands-on research training, mentoring relationships and networking and career advancement through the Association of UNCF/Merck Fellows.
African Americans hold less than three percent of PhDs in biology, chemistry and engineering today. Opportunities created by UMSI aim to increase the numbers of minority students in sciences and engineering.
Thanks to UMSI, more than 500 students and scholars have found support, knowledge, careers and advancement

 Apply Below!!!

http://umsi.uncf.org/applyonline

Moving Day hosted at Georgia Tech Neuroscience Club - Nov. 9, 2013

On November 9th, GTNeuro along with the National Parkinson's Foundation are raising awareness for Parkinson's Disease through an event called Moving Day hosted at Georgia Tech.  We are in need of students willing to volunteer at our event as well as walk in our trail across campus by assisting those afflicted with Parkinson's.

If you are interested in volunteering for the event, please email Arjun Meka (arjunmeka@gmail.com) or Emily Young (emily.ryoung9@gmail.com). You may sign up at the following link:

 

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/155u2D9LXjouvrbmACzF5fDowEIAxBo6_x0L9Uap45aQ/viewform

I hope you can take a moment to read this note from our beloved Billiee Pendleton-Parker :

"I am not Michael J. Fox.  I am not Linda Ronstadt.  I am not Mohammed Ali.  I am not former President Bush.  I am a face in the crowd. I have been a face at Tech since 1987. I am a face that is almost 62 years old. I am Billiee Pendleton-Parker, and I have been diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s Disease.

Being hospitalized two years ago for an unknown ailment led to two CT-scans, an MRI, being bed-ridden, using a wheel-chair, progressing to a walker, undergoing over a month of in-patient/residential  physical and occupational therapy, and my favorite thing: free cupcakes.  Well, that’s what I told my neurologist that they should call a lumbar puncture—folkss would be insisting “Sign me up!”

I take medication three times every day to help lessen leg and arm tremors. I wear sensible, but cute, shoes. I utilize technology (including elevators) daily. I love “The Big Bang Theory” and “Criminal Minds.” I voluntarily gave up driving; difficult, but necessary. I have a staggeringly wonderful support system of loving friends for whom I am eternally grateful. I reached out (thanks to Google) to the National Parkinson’s Foundation to see how I, as a community service volunteer and activist, could help—offering our beloved Georgia Tech as the  venue for the inaugural Atlanta Moving Day.  This is a morning of awareness-raising for and education about Parkinson’s Disease—with aa goal of securing at least $100,000 to aid much-needed research.

I am not a statistic. I am, and continue to be, just a face in the crowd—but it’s a “Tech face”—and one that II hope you’ll see lurking about campus for years to come.  I depend on you, our future neuro scientists and researchers and brilliant brains in all academic areas, to walk for Parkinson’s on November 9—”to help continue to and finish the $100 million NIH-driven brain mapping project—to be supportive of any and ALL ‘faces in the crowdd’—because you just may know one of them.  I have Parkinsonn’s, but Parkinson’s doesn’t have me. :) :)

As Anne Frank once said: “I don’t think of all the misery but of all the beauty that still remains.”

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Thank You,

Jordan Glasgow

Neuroscience Club at Georgia Tech

Vice President of Marketing

Undergraduate Research Fair, sponsored by Pi Tau Sigma, Nov. 12, 2013

This semester on Tuesday, November 12th from 10 am to 12 pm in the Student Center Ballroom, Georgia Tech is proud to be hosting its first semi-annual Undergraduate Research Fair, sponsored by Pi Tau Sigma, the Mechanical Engineering Honors Society on campus. The goal of this event is to simplify the process of finding and hiring high quality undergraduate research students for your labs, and will resemble a career fair. Our vision is to offer a single-point of interaction for undergraduate students, and professors or graduate student mentors, to discuss research opportunities and assess fit for a particular project or lab. We hope that this event will serve to increase the number of qualified undergraduate research students applying to your labs and to improve the efficiency of interviewing and hiring these students. We invite professors and/or graduate student mentors from all COE labs to attend.

Representatives from each lab will be set up with a table, and provided with complimentary snacks and refreshments. Undergraduate students will be required to bring a current copy of their resume for admission, and will be able to visit booths that they are interested in to discuss the previous and future research projects that each lab is involved with. Professors or graduate student mentors can take this opportunity to review the student’s resume, ask them questions about their skill sets, and if the match seems promising, can exchange contact information, or, if desired, set up a secondary interview with the professor or lab group in the coming weeks. Each participating lab group will select a one-hour time slot during which they plan to attend the fair. Lab representatives are encouraged to bring posters of your previous research in order to give the students a visual example of your work’s results and impact.

To ensure that the students are adequately prepared for the event, Pi Tau Sigma will be hosting two information sessions the week prior to the Undergraduate Research Fair, to work on resume preparation and provide general information regarding the research areas of those labs registered to attend the Fair.

Below is a link to an RSVP form for the event.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1w5eukSdg2OsItXqy_3tjVv3ZxjChjvBswfxb5jbBY7A/viewform

Please pick a time slot that you would like to attend, enter your lab name, and submit a one to two sentence summary of the broader impact of your lab’s research. The RSVP deadline is November 9th.

We hope to see you there!

Best Regards,

Dr. Caroline Genzale
Assistant Professor, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
caroline.genzale@me.gatech.edu

Emily Simonds

Research Chair, Pi Tau Sigma, 

Mechanical Engineering Undergraduate

esimonds3@gatech.edu

Spring 2014 Management Special Topics course - 2 new courses

The information below may be applicable to any juniors or seniors who can take management courses or have open electives and are interested in sustainability in a business context, consulting, innovation, and/or real world experience working on a dynamic sustainability project with a company.  The projects course has a prerequisite whereas the innovation course does not. Both are restricted to only juniors and seniors.  It was a senior level restriction and that will be updated today if it has not been already.

I wanted to introduce myself and our center and let you know about 2 new courses we have developed that I will be teaching in the spring.  Our new Center for Business Strategies for Sustainability launched earlier this year and I joined Georgia Tech as Professor of the Practice of Sustainable Business as well as director of the Center in July.  See below and attached for more information.

In addition to these courses, if you have students that are especially interested in sustainability in the business context or would be interested in projects, co-ops, internships, volunteering with us, please let me know.  We are still in early launch / set-up mode here this school year but are interested in understanding the demand, interest, and opportunities across the Institute as we develop our priorities and activities over time.

http://scheller.gatech.edu/news_room/news/2013/articles/howardconnell.html

Here are the course descriptions. Feel free to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

MGT 4803 Sustainable Business Projects

Prerequisites: MGT3150, Principles of Management, or MGT 4102 Management Consulting.

Current senior restriction; will likely be junior/senior restriction shortly.

The purpose of this course is to help you gain a working knowledge of the various and evolving ways firms approach sustainability (environmental and social) and then apply this learning by solving a real problem for a company in a consulting team environment.  In addition to readings and class activities, during the course you will bid on and be assigned to a real-life sustainability consulting project for a company and work on a team with classmates for 8 – 10 weeks. Your performance on this project, both individually and as a team, will be a major component of the final grade. For those of you interested in working directly in areas related to sustainability during your careers, this class will help you gain critical knowledge and skills towards that goal. For others it will offer a valuable point of view on a subject of increasing importance to managers and leaders across all functions and industries.

The class will focus on three main areas: sustainability topics and frameworks, basic consulting skills and tools, and specific needs or challenges on your consulting projects.  We will use a variety of methods including readings, research, written assignments, group exercises, lecture, and discussion. 

MGT 4803 Innovation Tournaments for Sustainability

No prerequisites.

Current senior restriction; will likely be junior/senior restriction shortly.

This course guides students through a systematic process for idea generation, selection, and impact with a focus on environmental or social issues that need to be solved.  It puts structure around the process of innovation by teaching frameworks and methods for mastering innovation, supported by logic and empirical evidence. While this may seem daunting if you have never flexed your entrepreneurial muscles, I guarantee you will have a lot of fun and learn a lot from it.

The learning objectives of the course include learning a process- and design-thinking based view of idea generation and business model design, refining a business model using the business model canvass concept, understanding trade-offs between economic, environmental and social objectives, and developing research and synthesis skills using doing in-depth environmental/social impact analysis. The course starts with idea tournaments, a process that leverages the wisdom of the crowd. It continues with the application of basic experimenting/prototyping and business model innovation frameworks, emphasizing a systematic risk-limiting pathway to realizing entrepreneurial outcomes, with sustainability metrics in mind.

The course is instructor-guided in terms of process and basic tools, but almost entirely student-driven; doing the research, generating the ideas, finding the information and the resources you need at each stage will all be your responsibility. Expect this to be a demanding, but rewarding process. The learning from the process, the research, the feedback and the experience will help you whether you want to capitalize on a business opportunity in a company, or whether you want to strike out on your own one day.

College of Science Homecoming Event: Friday, Nov. 1st!!!

Tech Talks Presentation Competition-Entry Deadline November 4, 2014

GTNeuro - Meeting October 24, 2014

GTNeuro will be holding a social event, this Thursday, in order to raise awareness for Moving Day, a walk for Parkinson's Disease on November 9th. In addition, we are recruiting volunteers to participate in Team Buzz, a campus wide community service event, on Saturday, 10/26. We would be grateful if you could forward the following message to your listserv, which extends an invitation to join GTNeuro at these events.

Thank You,

Jordan Glasgow

Neuroscience Club

Vice President of Marketing

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GTNeuro is participating in Team Buzz on Saturday, 10/26, to assist Jacob's Ladder with building a garden for autistic children.

Team Buzz is a campus wide community service event that includes various projects with the ultimate goal of enhancing Tech's surrounding community. Team Buzz begins at 7:30 AM and ends at 3:00 PM. However, we will only be working for portion of this time as Team Buzz has other fun activities in which to participate.

For those interested in volunteering for Team Buzz, you can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vJGQ6hJLtm8tuFwsBZHuHXxahkiWb7Hae712OyoNu_c/viewform.

Also, you will need to register on the Team Buzz website, http://main.teambuzz.org/joinagroup. The Group Name is GTNeuro, and the Access Code is Brainz.

In addition, there will a social event on Thursday, 10/24, to raise awareness for Moving Day, a walk for Parkinson's Disease on November 9th. There will be food and refreshments as Billiee Pendleton-Parker speaks to the Club about Parkinson's. The event will be held on 1st floor steps of Clough at 4:30 PM on Thursday, 10/24.

For those interested in coming to the Moving Day Social Event, please RSVP here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/169993486540694/

Georgia Teaching Fellows - Information session October 30, 2014

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Georgia Teaching Fellows � Information Session for Science Majors on October 30

How will you use your science background to make a difference? Georgia Teaching Fellows are accomplished seniors who commit to becoming exceptional teachers in our highest-need districts across Georgia. Teaching Fellows develop the skills to hit the ground running on day one and continue improving for years to come. We’re highly selective - we hold the highest standard for teacher effectiveness of any teacher preparation program in the country, and last year, only 8% of applicants successfully met our standards for admission, training and entry into the classroom.

Science majors are invited to attend an exclusive session with Georgia Teaching Fellows on Wednesday October, 30 at 3 pm in Skiles 114. Drop in between 3 � 4 pm to find out how to join this elite group of educators.

UG researchers - SURC adbstracts due November 1.

The Department of Chemistry at the University of Tennessee Knoxville will be hosting the 46th ACS Southeast Undergraduate Research Conference (SURC) on Jan. 30 and 31, 2014. Abstracts are due by Nov. 1^st, 2013. Please encourage your chemistry undergraduate students to attend and present their research.

A tentative conference program is attached.  Students will have the opportunity to give an oral presentation or present a poster, tour the department, and attend a Keynote Lecture and Awards Banquette.  A total of $2,500 monetary awards will be given to best presentation(s) and poster(s) in each area of chemistry. Graduate recruiting booths will be available all day on Friday Jan. 31^st. 

With generous support from our sponsors, we are able to reduce the conference registration to $10/student and $0 for minority students. We are also providing up to $200/person travel support for first 10 minority students who submit their abstracts.

Additional information regarding registration, accommodations, and abstract submission is available at SURC website.

If you have additional questions, please contact SURC coordinator Rachel Rui.

Tentative Meeting Schedule

Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014

• 5:00 - 6:30 Registration (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 6:30 - Welcome Reception (University Center, 213, Ballroom)

Friday, Jan. 31, 2014

• 7:30 - 8:00 Breakfast & Registration & Poster Set Up (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 8:00 - 3:00 Graduate School Fair (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 8:00 - 09:30 Oral Presentations (University Center, 241, Auditorium)
• 9:30 - 10:00 Break, Poster Set Up (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 10:00 -11:30 Morning Poster Presentations (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 11:30 - 1:00 Lunch, Afternoon Poster Set Up (Students on their own)
• 1:00 - 2:30 Afternoon Poster Presentations (University Center, 213, Ballroom)
• 2:30 - 4:00 Oral presentations (University Center, 241, Auditorium)
• 4:00 - 5:30 Department Tours
• 6:00 - 8:00 Awards Banquet & Speaker (University Center, 213, Ballroom)

Pre-teaching scholarship deadlines

Also at www.preteaching.gatech.edu.

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APPLICATION DEADLINES

 

All deadlines and events are also listed on the Pre-Teaching website.

November 1, 2013: deadline to apply for the National Science Foundation Robert Noyce I-MAST scholarship through Georgia State and Georgia Tech to become a secondary (grades 6-12) science teacher

November 1, 2013: deadline to apply for Kennesaw State University Master of Arts in Teaching programs for spring 2014

November 11, 2013: 1^st of 4 deadlines to apply for Georgia Teaching Fellows (see below section in this newsletter)

November 12: 1st of 3 deadlines to apply to the Boston Teacher Residency program for the 2014 – 2015 school year. See the separate section below in thiss newsletter.

November 15, 2013: deadline to apply for University of Georgia Master of Arts in Teaching programs for spring 2014

December 2, 2013: deadline to apply for the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships (2^nd of 3 deadlines)

GRE strategy session - Fall 2014

FREE GRE STRATEGY SESSION BY THE PRINCETON REVIEW

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. in Cllough 129

Come to this free strategy session hosted by the Pre-Teaching Program and a representative from The Princeton Review, a leading company in test preparation for the SAT, ACT, GRE and other exams. Learn test taking strategies and tips about how to improve your score and perform at your best!

Tutors needed - Clough - spring 2014

The Center for Academic Success is accepting application for tutors and PLUS Leaders for next semester.  I would be grateful for any students that you may recommend for these positions.  We are looking for students who have made an “A” in any course they wish to tutor, are competent in the content area, maintain at  3.0 GPA or higher, and have great interpersonal skills. 

1-to-1 Tutoring:

http://success.gatech.edu/tutoring/1-to-1/become-tutor

PLUS:

http://www.success.gatech.edu/plus-sessions/become-a-plus-leader

-- 

Christy Lock, M.Ed.
Assistant Director of Tutoring and Peer Learning Programs
Center for Academic Success
Clough Commons, Suite 283
(O)404.894.1945
(F)404.894.1980
christy.lock@gatech.edu

SCI Scholars--Summer 2014 Internships for Undergraduates

Dr. Andrew Lyon, Chair
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dear Dr. Lyon,
We are pleased to announce the fifth year of the summer internship program, SCI Scholars, for chemistry and chemical engineering undergraduates.
The program is a joint effort of the Society of Chemical Industry (SCI) America International Group, the American Chemical Society (ACS), and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), and was developed to introduce chemistry and chemical engineering students to careers in the chemical industry.
Exceptional sophomores and juniors with a GPA of at least 3.5 and who are majoring in chemistry or chemical engineering are encouraged to apply.

Program details:

• Thirty-five scholars will be chosen for internship positions in the summer of 2014.
• SCI Scholars receive $6,000-$10,000+ for a ten-week internship.
• Students will be awarded a certificate and an additional $1,000, which can be used for any purpose, such as participation at an ACS or AIChE meeting.
• Scholars nominate a high school chemistry teacher for recognition. Teachers will be awarded a certificate from SCI and $1,000, which can be used for professional development or classroom materials.
• Applications are due December 14, 2013.
• Interested students should visit www.acs.org/sci to fill out an application and get more information.

I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward (or post) the SCI Program Flyer PDF at www.acs.org/sci to any students you think might be interested in the program, as well as to any faculty members who could help promote this program to their students. Thank you for your assistance in bringing this exceptional opportunity to the attention of your undergraduates.

Sincerely,

Mary M. Kirchhoff, Ph.D.

Director of Education

American Chemical Society

GT MedLife meeting - Fall 2013

Dear MEDLIFErs,
The winter break is quickly approaching, and with it comes the opportunity to embark in an amazing journey and participate in MEDLIFE's Mobile Clinics. A MEDLIFE Mobile Clinic is a basic medical clinic that we bring directly to the poor. Staffed not only by general practitioners, each Clinic provides patients with dental, OB/GYN, and pediatric care, as well as access to preventative tests. As a Mobile Clinic participant, you will have the opportunity to work closely with and learn from our medical professionals as they identify individuals in need of follow-up care. In addition, you will work alongside our staff at patient intake, triage and pharmacy, and also help run our educational programs. And, you will also get the chance to participate in a community infrastructure development project. Plus, you will also get the chance to discover a new country, meet new friends, and have tons of fun while at the same time making an everlasting impact in the life of the families we help.

In our Mobile Clinics you will have the chance to go to Cusco, Lima, Kilimanjaro, New Delhi, among others.

If you would like to find out more about our trips, no strings attached, come to our Mobile Clinics meeting this Thursday (10/10/13) in the Instructional Center Room 209 at 8:00pm.

What: MEDLIFE Mobile Clinics Meeting

When: Thursday (10/10/13) at 8:00pm

Where: Instructional Center Room 209

If you have any questions please bring them to the meeting, or shoot me an email to jdmv3@gatech.edu

Considering Graduate School?

Dear Chem and Biochem majors,

If you are considering going on to graduate School, you should take a look at this guide produced by the American Chemical Society.

http://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/students/graduate/planning-for-graduate-work-in-chemistry.pdf

If you have some interest, I encourage you to engage in undergraduate research at an early stage in your time at GT.  This will help you decide if graduate school is a good choice for you and also help ensure that your applictaion is competitive. Good graduate schools look for students with considerable prior research experience and ideally publications/presentations that have come out of their research, as this best indicator of a good outcome in graduate school. As experimental research is not quick, it is important to start relatively early in your time as an undergraduate.

Nationally only ~65% of students entering chemistry PhD programs leave with a PhD.  The most common reason for a student to leave graduate school without an advanced degree is that the reality of graduate school is different from the student's expectations. If you have spent a significant amount of time doing undergraduate research at GT, you will already have a good picture of what life in a high quality graduate program is like.

Best wishes, Angus Wilkinson

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Angus P. Wilkinson

Professor and Associate Chair, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering (Courtesy)

Georgia Institute of Technology

901 Atlantic Dr.

Atlanta, GA 30332-0400

A) How Do I Get Started Undergraduate Research? - Fall 2017

Revised Fall 2017

How Do I Get Started with Undergraduate Research?

Great question! We currently have about 25% of our undergraduates involved in research within the School during any given semester, and we'd love to see that number increase! Here are some tips on getting started.

1. Figure out with whom you'd like to work
Check out the faculty biographies on the School homepage. Don't worry if you don't understand everything in the bio--it's very specific to the area of research. Just use it to get a general idea of what the professor does and whether you'd be interested.

2. Draft an email to the professor to request a brief appointment to discuss their work and the possibility of working with them. The email should be succinct but also convey the following information:

• your class (FR, SO, etc.)
• what CHEM courses you've taken, especially lab classes
• if you took any AP science courses, those can also be listed
• why you are interested in research, in general (I want to make my resume look better is not a good reason--even if it's true :D )
• why you are interested in this research in particular

Some professors like for you to include a resume as an attachment. This is probably more pertinent for students farther along in their academic careers.

Tips for making a good first impression

• Be professional--do NOT start the email with, "Hey" or use first names
• Err on the side of being too formal
• Proofread--and have someone else proofread for you (Dr. Shepler is always happy to do this)

You may have to email several professors to find someone that has space and resources for you and you are interested in working with. Be patient and persistent!

4. After you get a position
Congratulations! Now we need to make sure there is a record of your work. You can sign up for academic credits or do this on an audit basis. The latter just means that you are not paying for the credit hours and you are not receiving credit for them. It's just a record keeping method and it's nice for you for the work to show on your transcript.

Fill out the permit request form at this link.
2698 = FR/SO standing, audit based
2699 = FR/SO standing, credit based (pass/fail)
4698 = JR/SR standing, audit based
4699 = JR/SR standing, credit based (letter grade)

The "adviser" is your research adviser, not your academic one.

Return the form to Ms. Branch in Boggs room 2-90A. She will set up the course in Oscar and email you with the CRN. Be sure to read the information at the bottom of the form detailing what is expected of you at the end of the semester (copy of lab notebook for 2698/9 and report for 4698/9).

Please also note that the research permit form is due 58 hours before registration closes in phase II.

Chemistry Internship in the Atlanta Area - October 2013 deadline

I am Dr. Candice Bridge, Educational Outreach Director at the Defense Forensic Science Center (DFSC) located in Forest Park, GA. I manage our University Internship Program and I am reaching out to you today asking for your assistance. The DFSC is currently looking for junior chemistry students who are interested in applying their knowledge in the area of forensic sciences. We have a need for an intern in our drug chemistry branch to acquire, analyze and disseminate spectral data that benefits forensic drug chemists around the United States. Due to the prevalence of the every-changing synthetic drug environment, it is necessary that the forensic drug chemists stays ahead of the curve by sharing spectral data.

We are seeking interns who meet the following qualifications:
- Junior chemistry student
- Knowledgeable of the Microsoft Office Suite
- Internet research skills
- Self motivated and can work independently
- Minimum GPA: 3.0
- US Citizen
- No felonies (Note: we do background check)
- Knowledgeable of website design (beneficial)
- Knowledgeable of maintaining message boards (beneficial)

Some of the intern’s responsibility will be:
- Researching current and past publications for relevant material to forensic drug chemists and adding it to the site
- Reviewing and proofreading the chemical, spectral and other data currently on the Forendex website
- Researching legal decisions that are relevant to forensic drug chemists (e.g. DEA scheduling of illicit drugs)
- Finding vendors or psychoactive sites and adding links to the Forendex website
- Finding relevant chemical and physical data to support identifications
- Analyzing novel psychoactive substances and adding the generated data to the Forendex website

This internship is a PAID opportunity for the student. The full-time stipend is approximately $2,500/month. We are looking for a part-time intern who can work 12-14 hours a week for up to a year and the stipend would be adjusted accordingly. Attached is our brochure which gives an overview of our program.

If you can recommend one student that is interested and willing to participate, please send me a copy of their resume, their unofficial transcript, and a proof of citizenship (birth certificate or passport). This is a pressing need for the Forensic Drug Community and thus the deadline for applications is Wednesday, October 09, 2013.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please feel free to contact me or Danielle Green.

Best Regards,
Candice

Candice M. Bridge, Ph.D.
Educational Outreach Director
Office of the Chief Scientist
Defense Forensic Science Center
W: 404.469.5925
candice.m.bridge.civ@mail.mil

Danielle Green
CTR, Wylie
DFBA RDT&E Program
W: 404.469.7517
danielle.a.green.ctr@us.army.mil