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FYI
Take Your Child to Work Day
Thursday, April 26 is MSU’s Take Your Child to Work Day. The target audience is girls and boys ages 8-14, with a supervising adult. There will be a free t-shirt to the first 100 school aged children at the Recognition Ceremony. For further information and a complete listing of tour sites and activities go to http://www.wrc.msu.edu the week of Monday April 23. |
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RESEARCH
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Dreyfus Award - Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry; deadline: May 24, 2007
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation seeks to further the development of scientific leadership in the field of environmental chemistry with a postdoctoral fellowship program. The award of $120,000 over two years will be based on a proposal, submitted by an established researcher in the field, judged to be exceptional, both in its potential for significant contributions to environmental science, both in its potential for significant contributions to environmental science, and in the arrangements to ensure the education of the fellow as required to become a leading scientist in the field. The spirit of this program is for research leaders in all areas of environmental chemistry to recruit excellent young Ph.D. graduates, preferable from outside the field, and provide them with the highest caliber of education in environmental science and research.
Additional information and application / nomination procedures are available on the Foundation Web site, http://www.dreyfus.org |
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| AWARDS, GRANTS,
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Assistant Professor Gavin Reid has won an American Society for Mass Spectrometry Research Award. The award will be presented to Gavin at the annual ASMS conference to be held in Indianapolis in June. |
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Dominique Wojciechowski of the second Floor Prep Facility/Stock Room was nominated by David Baker for a Student Employee of the Year Award.
This recognition program honors outstanding student employees for their reliability, initiative, professionalism, creativity and the quality of their work as student employees at MSU. |
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UPCOMING
SEMINARS & COLLOQUIA
Departmental
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http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Dept_Cal/CEMCal_QuickShow.asp?View=COTS&PTitle=Colloquia&PWindow=This%20Semester
Divisional
Seminars
Analytical (Fridays, 12:40 p.m., Room 136)
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Dept_Cal/CEMCal_QuickShow.asp?View=ASTS&PTitle=Analytical%20Seminars&PWindow=This%20Semester
Inorganic (Mondays, 11:30 p.m., Room 136)
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Dept_Cal/CEMCal_QuickShow.asp?View=ISTS&PTitle=Inorganic%20Seminars&PWindow=This%20Semester
Organic (Wednesdays, 3:00 p.m., Room 136)
http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Dept_Cal/CEMCal_QuickShow.asp?View=OSTS&PTitle=Organic%20Seminars&PWindow=This%20Seminar
Physical (Tuesdays, 4:10 p.m., Room 136)http://www.chemistry.msu.edu/Dept_Cal/CEMCal_QuickShow.asp?View=PSTS&PTitle=Physical%20Seminars&PWindow=This%20Semester
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Special
Seminars
"Proteins Behaving Badly: Proteins Misfolding and Aggregation in Neurodegenerateve Disease" by Regina Murphy
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering University of Wisconsin
The 9th Johansen-Crosby Lecture in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science is scheduled for April 12, 2007 at 9:10 am in 2250 Engineering Building with a luncheon at noon in the Kellogg Center, Corniche Room. Please RSVP by Friday, April 6, to JoAnn Peterson at 517-355-5135. http://www.chems.msu.edu/seminar.htm
Colloquia
and Seminars in Other Departments
Biochemistry & Molecular
Biology Department
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department
Colloquium
Genomics Technology Support
Facility http://www.genomics.msu.edu/
Colloquia and
Seminars Outside the University
The Arnold C. Ott Lectureship in Chemistry at Grand Valley State University , 1 campus Drive, Allendale, MI 49401
April 3, 6 p.m. Evening Lecture free and open to the public. "Bringing the Biotechnology Revolutioh to the Cell" Hager Auditorium, Room 119, Cook-DeVos Center for Health Sciences. Preceded by a 5 p.m. reception in Room 140
April 4, 1 p.m.Co-Opting Nature's Machineries for Chemical Synthesis, 123 Manitou Hall, Allendale Campus
For more information, call 616-331-3317 or www.gvsu.edu/chem |
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LECTURE,
SYMPOSIA, CONFERENCES,WORKSHOPS |
Mat T. Rogers Distinguished Lectureship April 18, 19 and 20, 2007. Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas
Honorary Professor of Solid State Chemistry, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK
Davy Faraday Research Laboratory, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, London Professor Chemistry
"Faraday and Franklin" Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at 4:10 pm Room 138 Chemistry Building
"The Advantages of Single Site Heterongeneous Catalysts", Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 4:10 pm Room 136 Chemistry Building
"Nanotomography and the Chemist" Friday, April 20, 2007 at 4:10 pm Room 136 Chemistry Building
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The 12th Annual Structural Biology Symposium will be held at the University of Texas Medical Branch UTMB, Galveston, TX on May 18th and 19th, 2007. This year’s symposium will focus on assembly of protein complexes and macromolecular machines.
The keynote speakers may be found by clicking onto the web site below.
Please visit the symposium web-site at http://www.scsb.utmb.edu/symposium or contact Angelina Johnson, phone: 409-772-8083, Fax 409-772-6334 or email at mailto:ajohnson@utmb.edu on on-line registration and abstract submission. |
The 2007 Crossborder Workshop on Laser Science
Dear Colleagues,
You are invited to participate in the 2007 Crossborder Workshop on Laser Science www.crossborder2007.org being held May 17th to 19th at the University of Toronto. The Crossborder Workshop is an annual student-run meeting bringing together researchers from both sides of the Canadian-American border with a shared interest in optics and laser science. The environment is relaxed and informal with plenty of opportunity for questions, learning and discussion.
This year's conference will feature invited talks from some of the world's top optical scientists in biology, chemistry, engineering and physics.
Plenary speakers will be:
*Chris Monroe (University of Michigan) - Manipulating trapped ions with light *Paul Corkum (NRC) - Attosecond pulses and attosecond measurement *Dwayne Miller (University of Toronto) - Catching chemical dynamics in action
Invited talks will be given by:
* Albert Stolow (Queen's/NRC) - Ultrafast chemical dynamics
* Franco Wong (MIT) - Quantum correlations in optical parametric oscillators
* Steven Johnson (MIT) - Advances in photonic bandgap theory and materials
* Kevin Resch (Waterloo) - Quantum computing and quantum cryptography with light
* Nick Bigelow (Rochester) - Interaction between light and degenerate quantum gases
* Joseph Eberly (Rochester) - The dynamics of entanglement, negative group velocities
* Robert Boyd (Rochester) - Quantum imaging, slow light and superluminality
* Alexander Gaeta (Cornell) - Photonic crystal fibers and active photonics in silicon
* Mikhail Lukin (Harvard) - Electromagnetically-induced transparency and the storage of light
* Cecile Fradin (McMaster) - optical investigation of biological processes
* Peter Herman (Toronto) - Photonics fabrication with femtosecond lasers
* Stewart Aitchison (Toronto) - non-linear optics and all-optical processing
* Sjoerd Hoogland (Toronto) - Quantum dot nanocrystal lasers
* Luis Orozco (Maryland) - Spectroscopy of radioactive francium and cavity QED
* Lukas Novotny (Rochester) - Near-field optics
Students are invited to submit poster abstracts for judged poster sessions.
To register and submit poster abstracts please visit us at www.crossborder2007.org
We would be happy to send you any number of posters by mail if you send your mailing address to me at radamson@physics.utoronto.ca.
Alternatively you can download and print the poster at http://www.crossborder2007.org/poster.gif
Rob Adamson
Crossborder Workshop Committee 2007
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
416-946-3162
See you in May! The 2007 Crossborder Workshop Committee
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11th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference From Small Steps to Giant Leaps – Breakthrough Innovations for Sustainability. June 25-28, 2007 Washington, DC. This conference will bring together industry, innovators and academic leaders to explore cutting edge technology in sustainability.
For more information on Green Chemistry or the Green Chemistry Institute, please point your browser to http://www.greenchemistryinstitute.org |
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Student Pugwash USA 14th National Conference on Science and Social Responsibility: Promoting the Integrity of Science April 12 – 15, 2007 National Academies Keck Center, (SPUSA) is an educational, nonprofit organization that strives to add a dimension to scientific study that goes beyond formulas and figures. Activities encourage young people to probe the reasons for scientific advancement and the implications of technology on citizens' everyday lives.
While examining all sides of an issue, SPUSA increases students' ability to think independently about the issues that affect society -- issues that range from international conflict to environmental protection, from genetics research to civil rights. SPUSA focuses on the interplay that lies at the juncture of science, technology, and public policy.
Check out the conference webpage for more information at www.spusa.org |
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MEETINGS
& CALLS FOR PAPERS |
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CWCS Center for
Workshops in the Chemical Sciences; Workshops for College
and University Instructors and Faculty 2007 Schedule. The CWCS
provides 5-day workshops for faculty and instructional staff at 2-
and 4- year colleges and universities, and individuals (postdocs,
graduate students) who plan to embark on a college teaching
career. The workshops are designed to provide a background and
modern perspective on key areas of the chemical sciences along with
methods to introduce these topics into the undergraduate
curriculum. Participation (including registration and housing)
is FREE. For more information and application
materials please visit: www.chemistry.gsu.edu/CWCS |
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1st Georgian Bay International Conference on Bioinorganic
Chemistry CanBic May 22-25, 2007 in Stockey Centre,
Parry Sound,
Ontario,
Canada
. CanBic: A satellite meeting to the
Canadian Society for Chemistry National Meeting in
Winnipeg www.uwo.ca/chem/canbic See the web site for location details, latest registration dates and
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Call
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Items for
April 27, 2007 issue of the Courier need to be submitted by April 25, 2007 to
Jeanne Basnight basnight@chemistry.msu.edu
Submission via
email is preferred. |
