Lunch Table TODAY + ACS opportunity

[Janet Fischer]

POSTDOC LUNCH TABLE!!
       

A chance to meet other postdocs, socialize informally, and network.
Drinks and dessert will be provided!  Free!!
so TAKE a BREAK from the LAB!!
Just come to the BioCafe (1st floor of Building 68, near the food trucks)
at any time between 12:00 and 1:30, and look for the table with the
BLUE signs. We're all strangers unless we meet!

Organized by the Postdoc Advisory Council
TODAY's COORDINATOR:	Dr. Hauke Kolster, Lab for Nuclear Science

American Chemical Society
Academic Employment Initiative

Give a poster paper at an ACS meeting and have a job interview at the same
time!

http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=education\professional\aei.html

The needed passport to an academic career at a major university is the
offer of a tenure-track faculty position. For chemists, there are
well-understood requirements for this passport, namely years of graduate
study and doctoral research followed by postdoctoral research. However,
meeting these basic requirements is no guarantee of access to or success
in an academic career. There are guidelines, to be sure, but no
guarantees. But in spite of many undefined variables to consider in the
job search, there are ways to prepare for the process to promote success.

To assist graduate and postdoctoral students, the ACS Office of Graduate
Education   is participating in a new presidential program called the
Academic Employment Initiative (AEI). The intent of this program is
twofold: (1) to give colleges and universities exposure to a larger pool
of candidates for faculty positions than is possible through current
recruitment practices; and (2) to provide candidates the opportunity to
convey their teaching and research goals to a wider audience.

During the fall ACS meeting in Philadelphia in August 2004, those seeking
faculty positions will present a research poster, or poster expanding on
their  research interests, teaching philosophy, and experience at SciMix,
the popular interdisciplinary poster session. Faculty recruiters will have
the opportunity to meet as many candidates as reasonably possible.
Candidates will also have the opportunity to network among themselves, and
meet faculty from many more institutions than possible under existing
practices. Papers should be submitted through the the Online Abstract
Submittal System (OASYS) at http://oasys.acs.org/oasys.htm. The deadline
for submitting the AEI abstract is April 30.

Not sure how to submit a paper for AEI? Please see the instructions. If
you have any other questions please contact aei at acs.org.
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