Archives for the Month of March 2010 on Chemistry Undergraduate Blog
GSkyTeach (Contact Dr. Barkley for more information)
Western Kentucky University has recently been awarded a $5.4 million
dollar grant over five years to prepare physics, chemistry, and
mathematics teachers for high schools in Louisville, Kentucky. The
program called “GSkyTeach” is recruiting graduating seniors or recent graduates with majors in the above three disciplines, but no teacher preparation. The program will pay trainees $30,000 plus benefits during the year of preparation and all tuition costs to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching degree. At the end of one year of preparation, the graduates will be employed by the Jefferson County Public Schools at a starting salary of $42,000.
GSkyTeach is an exciting new program very different from traditional teacher preparation. If you know of seniors or recent graduates for whom this program might work, it is a tremendous career opportunity.
Attached is a copy of our brochure you can download.
Also, there is a website:
information about the program and an online application form.
Contact Dr. Barkley if you are interested in being nominated: mdb4@case.edu
REU at University of Toledo
National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduates REU "Site Exploring Structures of Molecules and Materials” at The University of Toledo Department of Chemistry. Funding is likely and that we should attempt to run the site this summer, June 1 through August 6, 2010. The attachment is a page from the upcoming American Crystallographic Association “RefleXions” newsletter.
Contact by email at REUChemistry@utoledo.edu
REU at University of Arizona (Expected due date 4/1/10)
Here is an excellent summer research opportunity at B2 sponsored by the NSF.
This is a great opportunity. The program is targeting (but not limited to) students that come from groups underrepresented in science. Students will have their living and travel expenses covered and get $5000. They will get a chance to work on a research project at B2. The overall topic is environmental and Earth system sciences. Specific topics are listed in attached file with the description of the program that Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, program PI, prepared for distribution. They expect that deadline for applications will be April 1st.
Rhode Island Teaching Fellows (Deadline3/22)
Rhode Island Teaching Fellows (RITF) is an opportunity to use your degree in chemistry to become a certified chemistry teacher who is committed to raising student achievement in RI. Based on our partner districts’ needs, RITF has extended our final deadline for 2010 applications to March 22, 2010. We are looking for outstanding individuals with backgrounds in math, science or English related fields, to join our community of dedicated educators.
March 22 is the final deadline to apply to become a certified teacher through Rhode Island Teaching Fellows for the 2010-2011 school year!
Through Rhode Island Teaching Fellows, individuals with a college degree and minimum 3.0 GPA in math, science or English can apply to become trained and certified as teacher through our program (no education coursework or experience is necessary). Go to the RITF website to find out more about our eligibility requirements.
Are you interested in learning more about Rhode Island Teaching Fellows and how you can be part of the movement to close the achievement gap in RI?
Potential applicants may go to www.RhodeIslandTeachingFellows.org to learn more about how they can join our community of dedicated educators in RI’s high-need classrooms.