Chemformation

A Weekly Newsletter from the Office of the Department Chairman

Volume 11, Number 20
MIT Department of Chemistry
Friday, March 17, 1995

The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, March 21 at 5:00 p.m. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Eve Diana, Room 18-390, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/253-4080; 617/258-7500 (fax) or send electronic mail to evediana@mit.edu

Macromolecular Structure/Function Seminar

Doug Auld

Schimmel Lab

"Combinatorial Strategy Applied to tRNA Recognition by Two Class I tRNA Synthetases"

Monday, March 20, 1995

12 Noon in Room 68-181

Modern Optics & Spectroscopy Seminar

Ronald R. Parenti

Lincoln Laboratory, MIT

"Adaptive Optics for Astronomy"

Tuesday, March 21, 1995

11:00 AM in Room 37-252

Refreshments to follow seminar

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Michael J. Maroney

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

"The Roles of Nickel in Hydrogenase"

Wednesday, March 22, 1995

4:00 PM in Room 6-120

Refreshments at 3:30 in Lobby 6

Lie Groups Seminar

Bertram Kostant

MIT Department of Mathematics

"Structure of the Truncated Icosahedron (e.g. Fullerene or C60, viral coatings) and a 60 Element Conjugacy Class in PS1(2,11)"

Wednesday, March 22, 1995

4:30 PM in Room 2-147

Organic Chemistry Seminar

Jack Szostak

Massachusetts General Hospital

"Searching RNA Sequence Space for New Rybozymes"

Thursday, March 23, 1995

4:00 PM in Room 6-120

Refreshments at 3:30 in Room 18-490

UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

For more information on the opportunities listed below, please check with the Chemistry Education Office in Room 2-325.

Research Opportunities/Fellowships

• Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA offers research fellowships to undergraduate students to conduct research with scientists at the Ecosystems Center of the Marine Biological Laboratory. Fellowships include $1200 stipend per month for 2-3 summer months, research costs, and travel expenses.
  
  

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

For more info on the opportunities listed below, please check the blue binders in Headquarters.

Faculty Positions

• Pennsylvania State University, Erie, PA. Position open for a Lecturer to coordinate freshman laboratories and to teach lower division courses in chemistry.
  
  
• College of St. Francis, Joliet, IL. Position open for an assistant professor in biochemistry to teach general chemistry and biochemistry, and to establish an undergraduate research program.
  
  
• University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA. Position open in the Urban Scholars Program to teach math and science during the summer.
  
  
• University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. Position open for a full professor with an established ongoing record of research and funding. Those with interests that complement the department's research focus on materials and biologically related chemistry are especially encouraged to apply.
  
  

Postdoctoral Positions

• Prof. Stephen R. Leone, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO has an opening for a postdoc in his group to study kinetic-energy-enhanced neutral beam etching.
  
  

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