Chemformation

A Weekly Newsletter from the Office of the Department Chairman

Volume 11, Number 27
MIT Department of Chemistry
Friday, May 12, 1995

The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, May 16 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

Next week's Chemformation is the last issue before going on a summer publication schedule of once a month.

Inorganic Chemistry Seminar

Peter T. Wolczanski

Cornell University

"Aspects of Early Transition Metal Chemistry"

Wednesday, May 17, 1995

4:00 PM in Room 6-120

Refreshments at 3:30 in Room 6-321

Award

Professor Klaus Biemann will be the recipient of the 1995 Beckman-ABRF Award to be presented on July 8, 1995, at the annual meeting of the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) held in conjunction with the annual Protein Society meeting in Boston. Professor Biemann is being honored for his "outstanding contributions to the field of mass spectrometry and his role in the introduction of this technology to the biological sciences". Last year's inaugural award was presented to Dr. Frederick Sanger for his contributions to protein and DNA sequencing methodology.

UNDERGRADUATE OPPORTUNITIES

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

Positions Available

• MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering is looking for undergraduate students to assist with a one-week summer science and engineering day camp for minority students from the Fletcher School in Cambridge. Contact Susan Rosevear, Room 13-2090 or 3/0916.
  
  
• CytoMed, Cambridge, MA, a developer of pharmaceuticals for inflammatory and immune disorders, is looking for two summer interns. One position is in Organic Synthesis and involves synthesis and purification of selected organic molecules as part of their drug discovery efforts. The second is in Bioanalytical Chemistry and involves finding solutions to a broad range of chemical and biological problems using various modern techniques.
  
  
• Gillette Company, South Boston, MA is seeking candidates with a BS in Chemistry and 2-4 years experience in the fragrance/chemical industry to develop new perfumes utilizing microencapsulation technology for application to new or enhanced product development in the underarm product category.
  
  

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

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

Fellowships

• University of Louisville, Louisville, KY is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in Chemical Education. The position is a 12 month appointment (with possible renewal for a second year) beginning July 1, 1995, and involves teaching two introductory chemistry courses each semester and actively engaging in research with faculty.
  
  

Positions Available

• Gillette Company, South Boston, MA is seeking candidates with a BS in Chemistry and 2-4 years experience in the fragrance/chemical industry to develop new perfumes utilizing microencapsulation technology for application to new or enhanced product development in the underarm product category.
  
  

Postdoctoral Positions

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. A two year (one year, renewable for one year) postdoctoral fellowship will be available starting in September 1995, in the laboratory of John Hepburn. Part of the duties of the appointment will involve some undergraduate teaching. The research work to be carried out will be in the areas of 1) PFI-ZEKE spectroscopy with very short wavelength coherent light, or 2) photofragment spectroscopy, including experiments in coherent control of photofragmentation.
  
  
• University of Toledo, Toledo, OH. A postdoctoral research associate position is immediately available in the research group of Professor H. Guo. The research in this group has in the past concentrated in theoretical investigations of photodissociation dynamics of small molecules. Exact and approximated quantum mechanical methods have been used to study the dissociation dynamics of gas phase molecules of experimental interests. Particularly, he is interested in energy disposal, final state interactions and non-adiabatic transitions during the dissociation.

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