American Chemical Society
Graduate Student Bulletin

October 2009

Building a Chemistry Graduate Student Organization
Dr. Michael T. Mury, High School Office, Education Division, ACS
Michael T. Mury

Were you a member of a chemistry student group as an undergraduate? Do you wish there were something similar in graduate school? Are you looking for a way to connect more with other graduate students in your department? Would you like a means to voice your concerns in the chemistry department or at the university level? If you answered, ”Yes,” to any of these questions, then a chemistry graduate student organization might be what your department needs!

Let me tell you how a group of us started the Chemistry Graduate Student Organization (CGSO) at Clemson University... Read more...

New Opportunities
DOE Office of Science, Graduate Fellowship Program
NSF East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for Graduate Students
IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
EPA 7th Annual P3 Awards: A National Student Design Competition for Sustainability
More grants, fellowships, scholarships, and awards
Career
Resources
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Science Careers

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Academic 360


Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee
Plan symposia for ACS national meetings while developing leadership skills and a professional network

 

 

The GSSPC Project provides:
  • a national forum for graduate students to make their views known,
  • an outlet to develop a professional network and leadership skills,
  • and more...

  • Graduate students from your university can take the lead on upcoming symposia. Find out how...

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    Graduate Student Communities

    ACS Graduate Students' Facebook Group

    The Graduate Junction

    Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee Project

    Younger Chemists Committee on Facebook

    Science News
    Meetings
    C&EN: Nobel Prize in Chemistry
    C&EN Career and Employment: Rising to the Challenge
    Los Angeles Times: Mystery surrounds attack at UCLA Chemistry Lab
    Science Careers—Tooling up: Focus Your Industry CV
    239th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010
    65th Southwest Regional Meeting in El Paso, TX
    November 4-7, 2009

    Meeting Locator (Browse Meetings, Workshops, Short Courses, and Symposia)
    Resource Spotlight
    ACS Careers Industry Forum—a free monthly teleconference featuring luminaries in the chemical sciences speaking about career issues
    On November 12 at 2:00 pm EST, Dr. Luis Echegoyen, Division Director for NSF Chemistry, will speak on “Chemistry Career Options—Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Decade.”
    Please register in advance, as space is limited.

    » Please see other resources for graduate students and postdocs on www.acs.org/grad


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