American Chemical Society
Graduate Student Bulletin
January 2010                               
Preparing for the Chemistry Global Enterprise
Dr. Joseph Francisco, ACS President
Joseph Francisco

"When you start in science, you are brainwashed into believing how careful you must be, and how difficult it is to discover things. There's something that might be called the ‘graduate student syndrome;’ graduate students hardly believe they can make a discovery."

                                               — Francis Henry Compton Crick (1916— 2004)

I regret that I never got to meet Francis Crick. By the time I arrived at Cambridge as a research fellow in 1983, Professor Crick had already relocated to the Salk Institute in California. Still, his collaboration with Chicago native James Watson, which led to the discovery of the structure of DNA, epitomizes the international and interdisciplinary nature of research. It is this global approach to science that is the emphasis of my term as ACS president. Read more...
New Opportunities
2010 AkzoNobel Award for Outstanding Graduate Research in Polymer Chemistry
American Nuclear Society: Mark Mills Award
ACS Agriculture and Food Chemistry: Teranishi Graduate Fellowship
ACS Division of Biochemical Technology: Student Travel Subsidy
ACS PMSE: Ford Graduate Student Research Award
IUPAC Prizes for Young Chemists
RSC: Surfaces and Interfaces Award
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Graduate Junction

Graduate Junction has a bold vision to bring together masters, PhD and postdoctoral researchers from across disciplines and around the world to create an online global community. Graduate Junction started with a simple aim:

  • To provide early career researchers with an easy way of meeting and discussing their research interests with others in a global, multi-disciplinary environment.

Graduate Junction is a not-for-profit community, run by a team of PhD researchers working on a voluntary basis. Visit the Graduate Junction here...

Piled Higher and Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com (originally published 5/3/05)

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Winners of the prizes that were offered for your participation in the online survey in last month's ACS Graduate Student Bulletin issue were drawn on January 12, 2010. Congratulations to graduate students from Northwestern University, University of Iowa and North Carolina State University who won the $100 and $50 prizes! Thank you to all who participated in our survey. Your feedback will help us shape upcomming issues of the bulletin.
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240th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA, March 21-25, 2010
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