Master of Information Science
Indiana University
School of Library and Information Science

Admissions:
1320 E. 10th Street, LI 011
Bloomington, IN 47405-3907
Phone: 812.855.2018
Toll Free: 888.335.SLIS
Email: slis@indiana.edu

Dear Colleague:

I am requesting your assistance in bringing our graduate program in Toxicology to the attention of your undergraduate students. The enclosed brochure provides a brief overview of faculty research interests in our interdepartmental Center in Molecular Toxicology. Please display the brochure where your undergraduates will have access to it. To obtain more detailed information about our facilities and graduate program, please visit our website:

http://www.toxicology.mc.vanderbilt.edu

Enhancement of facilities and personnel over the past few years has developed our Molecular Toxicology program into one of the best in the nation, offering students excellent academic and research experience in toxicology. Students in this program participate through the departments of Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Medicine, Pathology, and Pharmacology. Each year we make every effort to attract students with outstanding ability, and we greatly appreciate your help in informing students of this opportunity.

Sincerely yours,
F. Peter Guengerich, Ph.D.
Harry Pearson Broquist Professor of Biochemistry
Director, Center in Molecular Toxicology

(Note: The brochure is many pages and not ideal for scanning and posting here. Please see Brian in the Chemistry Administrative Office, Clapp 212, if you would like to browse through it.)

I am a chemistry instructor who has developed some chemistry software for my students that I would like to bring to your attention, and make available to your students at a very reasonable price. The College Chemistry Tutor contains over 3100 General Chemistry problems in 81 different categories, and now includes 20 multiple choice tests to help your students prepare for their exams. The Organic Chemistry Tutor contains over 1100 problems in over 50 different categories, such as Nomenclature of Alkynes, Reactions of Aromatic Compounds, and Synthesis of Carboxylic Acids, and contains 16 practice tests. With each program, the students can work the problem and check their answers. Each problem has its own solution, which not only gives the answer but also shows how to solve the problem. The cost for these CDs is only $10.00.

Your students can learn more about the software and download a free trial version by going to www.chemistrytutor.net. They can purchase the software using either a credit card (through PayPal) or a check. They can order the CD or download the product for immediate use. I also sell the CDs through some college bookstores. Please contact me if you would like your bookstore to carry the software. Both the College Chemistry Tutor and the Organic Chemistry Tutor are available for Windows (2000 and later) and for Mac (OS X 10.2.8 and later).

I have attached two flyers with some information about the products, and I would appreciate it if you could post them, or announce the availability of these products to your students. I have had many college students tell me how helpful the programs were. Please feel free to pass along this information to others if appropriate. Thank you very much.

Brian McRae
Chemistry Tutor Software

I am writing from Purdue University to invite your junior and senior undergraduates to the PULSe Fall Open House on Friday, November 13, 2009. This open house serves as an opportunity to introduce your students to the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science Ph.D. Program (PULSe). PULSe provides opportunities for an interdisciplinary graduate experience in the basic life sciences for Ph.D. students.

I am calling upon you to provide this information to those students you think would benefit from an information session about the PULSe program. Our day of activities will include a meet the faculty session, lunch with current students, and a tour of lab facilities. Your students will gain exposure to some of the life science research being done at Purdue, while they are also given an opportunity to talk with faculty and students to familiarize themselves with the PULSe Program.

Some of the highlights of PULSe:

1. All students admitted to PULSe receive paid tuition and an assistantship for the entire first year of study to allow them to complete core requirements and participate in laboratory rotations. The level of support in subsequent years will meet or exceed the level of support provided in the student’s first year.
2. PULSe students carry out research rotations in FOUR labs for periods of SEVEN weeks each in Year 1, two rotations in Fall semester and two in Spring.
3. While in PULSe, students participate in a curriculum designed to provide them with the professional skills necessary for research in the life sciences. These include: scientific communication, proposal writing, and ethics.

An invitation to the PULSe Fall Open House on Friday, November 13, 2009 appears below.

All RSVP’s should be e-mailed to Dr. Colleen Gabauer, Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs, at cgabauer@purdue.edu. Should you have any questions about the Fall Open House or the PULSe Program, please feel free to call 765-494-9256.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,
Colleen L. Gabauer, Ed.D.
Director of Interdisciplinary Graduate Programs
The Graduate School
Purdue University
Ernest C. Young Hall, Room B-85
155 South Grant Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2114
Phone: 765-494-9256
Fax: 765-496-1188
cgabauer@purdue.edu
www.gradschool.purdue.edu/pulse

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Please join us at the PULSe Fall Open House to learn about graduate study in the life sciences at Purdue.

At this event, you will have the opportunity to learn more about the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science Ph.D. Program.

Event: Fall Open House for undergraduate students to learn more about the Purdue University Interdisciplinary Life Science Ph.D. Program

Date: Friday, November 13, 2009
Time: 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM (Eastern Standard Time)

Location: Room 202, Stewart Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana

Activities: Meet the faculty session, lunch with students, and tour of lab facilities.

Contact and RSVP: Dr. Colleen Gabauer at cgabauer@purdue.edu or 765-494-9256. Upon receipt of your RSVP, directions and event details will be sent directly to you. If you need special accommodations, please let us know as soon as possible.

NOTE: lunch and refreshments will be served.

The Center for Reproductive Medicine at Cleveland Clinic has an exciting summer internship opportunity for highly motivated, academically oriented medical or undergraduate students interested in a career in medicine.

The Center for Reproductive Medicine is a joint research program of the Cleveland Clinic Glickman Urological & Kidney Institute and the Ob/Gyn & Women’s Health Institute. Our Center is rated as a leading center of excellence at the world-class Cleveland Clinic, which is recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation's best hospitals, ranked as No. 4 in the country.

The Center’s summer internship offers an opportunity for students interested in gaining a research experience in human fertility and reproductive biology and the opportunity to working with world-renowned scientists and researchers. Members of our staff publish frequently in our field’s most respected journals, are invited guest speakers at important scientific/ medical meetings and courses around the world and are active in the leading professional societies in the exciting field of human reproductive medicine.

Our environment of academic and clinical collaboration offers an unsurpassed experience for students that include:

• Experiencing a state-of-the-art research environment
• Training in the art and science of conducting basic and clinical research
• Mentoring by renowned researchers at a world-class medical institution
• Developing a solid foundation for a research or clinical track career in medicine

The program’s goal is to encourage students to consider a career in medicine, whether in the reproductive sciences or another specialty of their choosing. To this end, we have designed the summer internship to offer students a wide range of high quality experiences. During this eight-week program, participants will:

• Work alongside reproductive scientists and clinicians on interesting research projects in a real laboratory setting
• Interact with reproductive endocrinologists, gynecologists, male infertility specialists and urologists and observe them in clinics or surgery
• Participate in the writing of research articles, systematic reviews and/ or invited book chapters in the field of reproductive endocrinology, assisted reproduction and/ or male & female infertility
• Participate in daily lectures, research meetings and group discussions

Students will develop an understanding of how reproductive research is conducted. Participants will also learn how to:

• Present research results in departmental meetings
• Prepare and presenting PowerPoint talks at research conferences
• Perform various data compilation and analysis techniques
• Hone their public speaking skills

We invited 20 students to participate in our program in the summer of 2009. Please visit: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/info/traininfo_int.html to view the internship course syllabus from 2009, browse through scientific presentation given by interns, review firsthand accounts of their experience and view pictures of the interns’ scientific presentation and reception.

Research work conducted during the internship may qualify for undergraduate course credit(s). Interested participants should check with their academic advisers.

Who can Apply: Undergraduate, graduate, medical students and residents.

Application and Selection:

Our selection procedure for summer internship positions is highly competitive. Interested applicants should submit the following:

1. Recent curriculum vitae/resume
2. At least two recent letters of recommendation from advisors, teachers, or persons who have a firsthand knowledge of the candidate
3. Address and telephone number for a personal interview
4. A 500-word personal statement
5. Proof of medical insurance
6. A letter stating that the participant has the necessary funding to support him/herself for the during the 8-week program (the internship is unfunded and no financial support is available.)
7. An application processing fee of USD 100.00 in the form of a money order or certified bank check only - payable to “2010 Internship in Reproductive Medicine”. This fee is nonrefundable.
8. A nonrefundable course fee of USD 1500.00 will be required from candidates selected for internship. This fee may be submitted as a money order or certified bank check (no personal checks) made payable to “2010 Internship in Reproductive Medicine”

The application should be submitted to:

Program Director
Center for Reproductive Medicine
Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue
Desk A19.1
Cleveland, OH 44195
TEL: (216) 444-9485
FAX: (216) 445-6049
E-mail: agarwaa@ccf.org

Application Deadline: March 1, 2010

Internship Dates: June 7th - July 30th, 2010

Over the past 16 years we have trained more than 200 medical students, physicians, scientists and biologists from all over the world. Additional information and details about the internship program and other opportunities can be found on our website: http://www.clevelandclinic.org/reproductiveresearchcenter/

Sincerely,

Ashok Agarwal, PhD, HCLD
Professor of Surgery
Director, Center for Reproductive Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

Tommaso Falcone, MD
Professor of Surgery
Chairman, OB/GYN and Women’s Health Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Edmund Sabanegh, MD
Head, Center for Male Infertility
Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Jeffrey Goldberg, MD
Professor of Surgery
Head, REI
OB/GYN Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Rakesh Sharma, PhD
Project Staff & Coordinator
Andrology Laboratory and Center for Reproductive Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

Sajal Gupta, MD
Project Staff & Supervisor
Andrology Laboratory and Center for Reproductive Medicine
Cleveland Clinic

RES | the School for Renewable Energy Science in Iceland is now accepting applications for its one year (90 ECTS credits) international M.Sc. Degree Program in Renewable Energy Science, for the academic year 2010-11.

The RES Program will in February 2010 complete its second year of operation when 38 masters’ degree students from twelve different countries will graduate. The students are specializing in four different fields, namely Geothermal Energy, Biofuels & Bioenergy, Fuel Cell Systems & Hydrogen, and Energy Systems. Next year a specialization in Hydropower will be added in collaboration with Iceland’s National Power Company (Landsvirkjun).

RES is a private institution of higher learning, a graduate school, affiliated with the University of Iceland in Reykjavik and the University of Akureyri in North-Iceland.

RES is seeking limited number of highly qualified students to enroll in the M.Sc. Degree Program. A number of Scholarship Awards are also available for outstanding students, including half or full tuition fee waiver.

We would appreciate if you could kindly discuss our M.Sc. Degree Program details and scholarship opportunities with some of your top students interested in pursuing a degree in renewable energy from Iceland. Currently 80% of primary energy in Iceland comes from renewable energy sources, highest of any nation. Essentially 100% of electricity generation in Iceland is already from renewable energy sources. Therefore Iceland is a good example for other nations to follow on their route to a more sustainable energy future.

For more details about RES and the M.Sc. Degree Program please see my attached letter with this email.

Please feel free to contact the Rector’s Office at rector@res.is for further information, or visit our RES homepage at www.res.is.

Best regards,

Dr. Bjorn Gunnarsson
Rector

RES | the School for Renewable Energy Science
Solborg v/Nordurslod
IS600 Akureyri
Iceland

telephone: +354 464 0100
fax: +354 464 0109

mail: rector@res.is
web: www.res.is
bio: http://www.res.is/is/page/bjorn_gunnarsson

Letter: PDF

The Department of Pharmacology at Wayne State University accepts one or two excellent students into its Ph.D. program each year. Our program is research intensive, and our students are trained in the most current methodologies.

Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions about the program.

Sincerely,

Professor Roy McCauley, Ph.D.
Graduate Recruiting Officer
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Department of Pharmacology
Detroit, MI 48201
phone (313) 577-6737

Laura Terlecky
Admissions Secretary
Pharmacology Department
Wayne State University School of Medicine
Detroit, MI 48201
PHC-PHD@med.wayne.edu

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Graduate, Postdoctoral and Senior Research Awards

As you may know, the National Research Council of the National Academies sponsors a number of awards for graduate, postdoctoral and senior researchers at federal laboratories and affiliated institutions. These awards provide generous stipends ($30,000 - $35,000 for graduate students, $42,000 - $75,000 per year for recent Ph.D. recipients and higher for additional experience), and the opportunity to do independent research in some of the best-equipped and staffed laboratories in the U.S. Research opportunities are open to U.S. citizens, permanent residents, and for some of the laboratories, foreign nationals.

Detailed program information, including instructions on how to apply online and a list of participating laboratories, is available on the NRC Research Associateship Programs Web site at:

www.national-academies.org/rap

Questions should be directed to the NRC at 202-334-2760 (phone) or rap@nas.edu.

There will be four review cycles annually. Upcoming deadline dates are:

November 1, 2009
February 1, 2010
May 1, 2010
August 1, 2010

Applicants should begin a dialogue with prospective Advisers at the lab(s) as early as possible, before their anticipated application deadline.

Sincerely yours,
H. Ray Gamble
Director of the Fellowship Programs
National Research Council
The National Academies
5000 5th Street NW, Keck 568
Washington, DC 20001

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I am a recruiter for Staffing Solutions Enterprises. One of our clients in Brecksville, Ohio currently has a need for a Polymer Chemist. Please see attachment [linked above] for details. I would greatly appreciate it if you could share this information with students and alumni. Resumes can be submitted to me at recruiter1 [at] staffsol.com.

Giannoula Sarris
Staffing Solutions
Recruiter
(P): 440-461-1652

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Dear Students,

Journal of Undergraduate Materials Research (JUMR) is accepting papers for it's Volume 4 issue.

Please submit your research work to JUMR (a peer reviewed Journal). The deadline for submitting is August 15, 2009. Only those papers receiving favorable reviews will be published.

Please note that the JUMR does not retain copy rights to your paper. You may submit it at your own discretion to any other publication. The guidelines for submitting the manuscript, along with a writing style guide, is attached (see link above). Cash prizes will be awarded to the three best papers.

Feel free to pass this flyer to your friends and contact me if you need any additional information.

Thank you

Tongan (Tony) Jin (tajin [at] vt.edu)
Raghu (r4thrida [at] gmail.com)

-JUMR Editorial Board

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2009 EAS Student Research Awards

Dear Professor:

Here is an opportunity for you to reward an undergraduate student who is doing outstanding work on a research project. The Eastern Analytical Symposium and Exhibition annually offers awards to recognize and encourage scientific promise and research talent in several undergraduate chemistry students. Each college may nominate
one student who will be a senior in November of 2009. Nominate one of your students!

Winners will receive an all expense paid trip to the EAS, be awarded plaques at an award luncheon, and have an opportunity to present their research project in a poster session. In addition, they will be able to participate in all the usual activities of a world-class
scientific convention and meet distinguished members of their future profession. Professors who nominate the winners will receive free full-conferee registration for the EAS. All professors submitting nominations will receive free admission to the exposition. The EAS will be held at the Garden State Exhlbit Center in Somerset, NJ, November 16 to 19, 2009. Full information on the EAS technical program and exposition can be found at www.EAS.org.

The awardees will be students who are already involved in research, in the broad field of analytical chemistry. Nominations should be in the form of a letter including the following:

• Your appraisal of how the student handles research, deals with problems, and gets involved in the process.
• Student's postal and e-mail addresses for both the current spring semester and the summer.

Nominations should be submitted bye-mail to student.awards@eas.org.
Questions: Contact Dr. Kebbekus at this e-address, or by phone at 609-577-2261. Nominations are due by April 30, 2009. AU nominations will be acknowledged within three days (usually the same day), so if you don't get a response, please send it again!

Please feel free to share this request for nominations with your colleagues.

Sincerely,
Barbara Kebbekus
Student A wards Chair
student.awards@eas.org

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The 2009 Overcoming Challenges Award

The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) of the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce a ca1l for applications for the 2009 overcoming Challenges Award. This award is designed to recognize a woman undergraduate from a two-year or four-year institution for her efforts in overcoming hardship to achieve success in chemistry. The recipient of the Overcoming Cha1lenges Award will receive a plaque, a monetary award of $250, and a $1,000 travel stipend for expenses to attend the Fa1l 2009 ACS National Meeting where she will be recognized at the WCC Luncheon.

Criteria
Applicant must:

• be a woman undergraduate currently enrolled in a two-year chemistry related program or pursuing a major or minor in a four-year chemistry program at a school that does not grant a doctorate in chemistry;
• have completed one semester of college-level chemistry;
• demonstrate that she has overcome hardships (economic, personal, or academic) in pursuit of her education.

The selection committee will consider four categories: improvement, initiative, successes, and grades from the previous two semesters (not cumulative grade point average).

Application Requirements
Applicant must submit:

• A letter requesting the award. The request should contain applicant's name, address, telephone number, and email address, as well as an explanation of the hardships that have been overcome and current successes;
• One letter of recommendation;
• School transcripts.

Submissions should be sent to: diversity@acs.org. Applications must be received by May 1, 2009. The award will be presented at the Fall 2009 ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC at the Women Chemists Committee Luncheon.

For more information please contact:

ACS Diversity Programs
American Chemical Society
1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036
1-800-227-5558, ext. 4524
diversity@acs.org

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I am attaching a Call for Presentation Flyer and “How to Make a Poster” seminar flyer as a reminder that the deadline for undergraduate students to apply for the Symposium is March 20th. Please encourage your students to present their capstone work, research or creative project at Intersections. More information can be found at: http://www.case.edu/provost/source/symposium/index.htm.

Bethany Pope
SOURCE
Support of Undergraduate Research and Creative Endeavors
Sears 451
LC7212
368-2180

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A local consulting form is looking for some IMMEDIATE help with a short-term project that involves literature searching. They are looking for advanced undergraduates that can help with this project.

Help is needed to characterize a large number of named organic reactions used for chemical synthesis in the fine, pharmaceutical, and some specialty chemicals markets. Specific goals include cataloging reaction characteristics such as the exothermicity and endothermicity of the reaction, whether it is conducted in deep temperature settings, whether it involves explosive reagents or end products, and so on. The chemists would be provided guidance by a consultant on our staff with a background in chemical engineering.

Please contact Professor Michael Kenney if you're interested.

Mike Kenney
Teagle Professorial Fellow
Chemistry Department
mjk56 [at] case [dot] edu
216-368-3736 (office)