American Chemical Society
Graduate Education Monthly Bulletin


January-February 2009

Survey of Ph.D. Programs in Chemistry
Joel Shulman, University of Cincinnati

How does your chemistry Ph.D. program compare to others in terms of departmental size and demographics of students? Requirements for the degree? Graduate student progression and support? Developing skills that go beyond knowledge of chemistry? Answers to these questions and many others can be gleaned from the Survey of Ph.D.Programs in Chemistry recently reported by the ACS Committee on Professional Training (CPT). Read highlights of the survey


New Opportunities

IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists

ACS Division of Biological Chemistry Award

ACS Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award

ACS Graduate Student Award in Computational Chemistry

2009 Akzo Nobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research

Merck Index Women in Chemistry Scholarships


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Academic 360



Enhancing A Job Search Using Google Tools
A Case Study and Reference List for PhD Students and Postdocs
In recent years, job seekers have been able to take advantage of a number of new web tools, including several produced by Google. Jennifer Petoff, a Ph.D. chemist, has written a useful article, with easy-to-follow tutorials, on the use of these tools in the pursuit of a career in chemistry. Dr. Petoff has previously worked at Rohm and Haas and Union Carbide and is now in University Relations at Google. Read more ...



Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com

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Science News
Meetings
Extended Polymer Conjugation into the Second Dimension
Enantiopure Epoxides and Stereoregular Polyethers
Graduate Families: Parental Accomodation Policies for Graduate Students
Science in the Meltdown: Uncertainties in Research Enterprise
AACR and ACS Chemistry in Cancer Research Conference, New Orleans, LA, Feb 8-11th
237th ACS National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26
ACS 41st National Organic Symposium, Boulder, CO, June 7-11th
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Resource Spotlight

Graduate Student Symposium
237th ACS Spring National Meeting
Tuesday, March 24, 2009

Please join us at Naturally Nano to discover new connections between nature, engineering, and nanotechnology. In addition to the symposium there is also a graduate student mixer which will be held on Wednesday. Find more information here.


» See all resources for graduate students and post-docs on www.acs.org

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