Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus Lecture, April 17, 2013

Join the Chemical Heritage Foundation on Wednesday, April 17, for "Michel-Eugene Chevreul and the Material Cultures of Color in 19th-Century France," A Rohm and Haas Fellow in Focus lecture by Laura Anne Kalba.   Lecture begins at 6:00 pm with Dessert and Coffee at 7:00 pm.  Admission is free.   Please register online or contact Carin Berkowitz at 215-873-8289 or cberkowitz@chemheritage.org 

The Department of Chemistry presents Dr. Daniel Nocera's lecture on The Chemistry of Solar Fuels, Thursday, April 25

The Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions, Department of Chemistry, Villanova University presents Dr. Daniel Nocera, The Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy, Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology at Harvard University.   On Thursday, April 25, 2013, Dr. Daniel Nocera will lecture on The Chemistry of Solar Fuels in Room 132, Driscoll Hall, at 4:30 pm.  The public is invited to attend.

On April 24, 2013, The Department of Chemistry presents the Jean Dreyfus Boissevain Lectureship for Undergraduate Institutions with Dr. Daniel Nocera

Dr. Daniel Nocera, The Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy with the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Harvard University will present a lecture on The Global Energy Challenge.   This will take place on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 in the Villanova Room, Connelly Center, Villanova University at 4:30 pm.    The public is invited and encouraged to attend this lecture.   RSVPs are appreciated.   Call 610-519-4881 or email amanda.grannas@villanova.edu

Dr. Daniel Nocera
The Pattterson Rockwood Professor of Energy
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Harvard University

Alumni Survey

Dear Department of Chemistry graduate,

I am writing to ask for your participation in an upcoming survey for our most recent B.S. in Chemistry degree recipients (graduating classes 2004 to present). Your participation in this brief survey will provide valuable input that will help to evaluate and strengthen our programs. While this survey is targeted to those of you who graduated under the current curriculum, we intend to seek input from other graduating classes in future surveys.

 You can expect to receive an email message from Villanova that will prompt you to participate in an electronic survey on behalf of the Department of Chemistry.  Up-to-date contact information will ensure that you receive this important message. If your contact information has changed, please let us know by sending an email to advance.develop@villanova.edu.

Thank you for considering this request. Your feedback is invaluable as we make well-informed decisions concerning the growth and improvement of the programs in the Villanova University Department of Chemistry.

 

Wm. Scott Kassel, PhD

Associate Professor & Chair

University of Maryland - Baltimore Open House on April 13, 2013

Join us at our University Open House, Satruday, April 13, 2013 from 9 am to 3 pm, to explore the seven professional schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore.   We are now accepting registrations for this event at www.umaryland.edu/OpenHouse.   Registration deadline is April 7, 2013.    This is an opportunity for students to explore the professional and graduate education, research, patient care, and public services offered by the University of Maryland, Baltimore.  There will also be opportunities available for student scholarships, leadership and community involvement. 

Green Corps is Looking for College Graduates

In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.  Click here to find out more.  In your year with Green Corps: You’ll get great training with some of the most experienced organizers in the field: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people such as Adam Ruben, political director of MoveOn.org, and Bill McKibben, author and organizer of the 350.org. You’ll get amazing experience working on environmental issues across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Food and Water Watch and Environment America all across the country.  You’ll have a real impact on some of the biggest environmental problems we’re facing today: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep the Arctic safe from drilling, that led to new laws that support clean, renewable energy, that convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans and much, much more. You’ll even get paid: Green Corps Organizers earn a salary of $23,750. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program with a pre-tax monthly salary deferral. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify. And when you graduate from the program, you’ll be ready for what comes next: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment. In the next few months, we‘ll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2013-2014. We’re looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.  If you think you’re one of those people, then click here to submit your application to join the 2013-2014 class of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing. Green Corps’ yearlong program begins in August 2013 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the country.  Candidates must be willing to relocate. For more information, fill out our online interest form.

 

CHF presents Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes: Creating knowledge in the Early United States - March 15, 2013

The Chemical Heritage Foundation will present a lecture by Conevery Bolton Valencius on  Vernacular Science of the New Madrid Earthquakes:  Creating Knowledge in the Early United States  on March 15, 2013 from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm.   CHF - 315 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA  19106.   Open to the public and free admission, but you must register.    If you have any questions or trouble registering, please email:  enews@chemheritage.ccsend.com 

Penn State University (Climate Science) Summer Research Assistantships

Summer 2013 research assistantships are available in the area of climate science within the Department of Meteorology at Penn State University (University Park Campus). Appointment is for ten weeks, starting 3 June 2013. Positions are ideally suited for atmospheric science, ecology, physics, mathematics, and engineering undergraduates. During the summer, field and laboratory research activities will be done at Penn State University and will require 40 hours per week. Responsibilities include research experimental design, data acquisition with state-of-the-art instruments,  analyses of data sets, numerical modeling, writing of research reports, and presenting findings at research symposia. Examples of research projects include impacts of natural gas mining on regional air quality and climate, forest carbon sequestration, cloud condensation characteristics of aerosols, and gas and aerosol transport in the lower

atmosphere. The research assistantships are ideally suited for juniors and seniors who plan to go to graduate school.  Interested candidates can submit a job application via email to Professor Jose D Fuentes (E-mail: jdfuentes@psu.edu) or Dr. Jon Nese (E-mail: j2n@psu.edu). Applications should include a cover letter, a resume, a list of courses taken in undergraduate school and associated grades, and names of two references.

St. Joseph's University Chapter of Sigma Xi 24th Annual Call for Abstracts

The 24th Annual Sigma Xi Student Research Symposium will be held on Friday, April 19, 2013, at Saint Joseph's University in Philadelphia. Undergraduate and graduate students working in the areas of Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, the Natural, and the Social Sciences are invited and encouraged to present the results of their work in the poster sessions.  We expect, as in previous years, over 100 students from the region's colleges and universities to attend.

The Symposium will commence at 5:00 PM on the Saint Joseph's University Campus in Philadelphia, PA.  It will open with the keynote address in the Wolfington Teletorium in Mandeville Hall. The poster sessions will start at 6:45 in the Campion Student Center.

This year's keynote speaker is Dr. Irene Pepperberg, Research Associate and Lecturer, Dept. of Psychology, Harvard University, and Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Psychology, Brandeis University.  Her talk is entitled "Numerical Competence Studies on a Grey Parrot."  This talk is free and open to the public.  Dr. Pepperberg will also be this year's recipient of the Christopher Clavius, S.J. award.  This award recognizes the work of inspirational scientists, researchers and policy makers.  Clavius, a Jesuit mathematician and astronomer is best known as an architect of the modern Gregorian calendar and as an inspiration to such thinkers as Kepler, Descartes and Leibniz.  As one of the world's foremost authorities on animal cognitive capabilities, Dr. Pepperberg is particularly deserving of this award.  Indeed, over the course of her impressive career she has been the recipient of many fellowships, grants, and awards.  Her book, The Alex Studies, describing over 20 years of peer-reviewed experiments on Grey parrots, received favorable mention from publications as diverse as the New York Times and Science. Her memoir, Alex & Me, was a New York Times bestseller and won a Christopher Award. She has presented her findings nationally and internationally at universities and scientific congresses, often as a keynote or plenary speaker, and has published numerous journal articles, reviews, and book chapters. She is a fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the American Ornithologists' Union, AAAS, the Midwestern Psychological Society, the Eastern Psychological Association (where she is now also a board member), and presently serves as consulting editor for three journals and as associate editor for The Journal of Comparative Psychology.

The registration fee for the symposium is $25 for students and $40 for faculty members. The optional dinner at Saint Joseph's is an additional $15 for both students and faculty.  Registration and abstracts are due by Tuesday March 19th, 2013.  For more information including online registration for the symposium, please visit http://www.sju.edu/srs.  Please share this announcement with any potentially interested students or faculty. We look forward to seeing you and your students this April.

Thomas Jefferson University Chapter of Sigma Xi Student Research Day

Thomas Jefferson University Chapter of Sigma Xi organizes Student Research Day every spring.   The main focus of this day is poster presentations by undergraduate, graduate and medical students.   The poster session offers students the opportunity for winning prizes, catching up on current discoveries in one's field, learning a new area of research, developing good verbal skills and networking.   This year the Student Research Day will be held on Wednesday, April 17th, 2013.   Undergraduate students are encouraged to submit posters of their research.   Follow this link to submit an abstract.   http://www.sigmaxi.org/chapters/web/index.php?chapter_id=156&page_id=371  The deadline for abstract submision is March 5th, 2013.   Abstract submission starts online on February 4, 2013.   Poster presentations will be judged by TJU scientists and cash prizes will be awarded for best poster in each research category. 

Environmental Internship with Green Corps for Graduating Seniors

Green Corps is accepting applications for the 2013-2014 environmental leadership and organizing program.   Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.  In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.  For more information, read below or visit our web site: www.greencorps.org.    Apply online today at greencorps.org/apply  

University of Southern California - NSF's Research Experience for Undergraduates

The University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences are soliciting applications to their summer undergraduate research program.   This is a ten-week (June 3 - August 10, 2013) program and is an opportunity for students to conduct research in residence in their Chemistry Department.   Housing, student health insurance, and travel costs are covered by the department and students will also receive a stipend.   Sophomores and juniors who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents may apply online by visiting:  http://chem.usc.edu/undergraduate/reu_prog.html    Application deadline is February 15, 2013.   For more information, please contact Anahit Martirosyan  by email at  amartiro@usc.edu.