Chemformation
The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department
Volume 12, Number 5
Friday, February 2, 1996
Next Issue: Friday, February 9, 1996. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, January 30. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-393, Department of Chemistry, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617/253-4080; 617/258-7500 (fax) or e-mail to lkn@mit.edu. Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.
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SEMINAR CALENDAR
- Dr. Donald M. Kurtz, Jr.
- University of Georgia, Athens, GA
- "Structure and Functions of Bacterial Non-heme Iron Proteins"
- Wednesday, February 7, 1996
- 5:00 p.m. MB-23 at Harvard
- Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar Series
- Refreshments @ 4:30 PM in MB-9
- Francis De Rege
- MIT
- "The Synthesis, Structure and Uses of Zirconium Main Group Heterobimetallic Compounds"
- Wednesday, February 14, 1996
- 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
- Refreshments @ 3:30 Moore Room
- Professor Gary A. Molander
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- "Organometallics as Tools in Selective Organic Synthesis"
- Thursday, February 15, 1996
- 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
- Refreshments @ 3:30 Norris Room
- Professor Dennis P. Curran
- University of Pittsburgh
- 1996 Karl Pfister Lecturer in Organic Chemistry
- "Radical Reactions in Organic Synthesis: New Synthetic and Stereochemical Strategies"
- Thursday, February 22, 1996
- "Hydrogen Transfer Reactions in Organic Synthesis: Beyond Tributyltin Hydride"
- Friday, February 23, 1996
- 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120
- Reception on 2/22 in Norris Room immediately following lecture
Spring Term Registration!!
Reminder to graduate students: registration is February 5th in the Norris Room beginning at 9:00 a.m. Professor Seyferth reminds all first year graduate students that they must have their research supervisor sign their registration form before he will approve it. Furthermore, all advanced graduate students who are registering for any subject other than thesis and seminar also must have their registration forms signed by their thesis supervisor before seeing Professor Seyferth.
MIT Chemistry Outreach Program: Organizational Meeting
Are you interested in Being a Star? Doing chemistry that almost always works? Collaborating with people from outside of your research group? Showing High School students that chemistry is relevant and can be fun? Interested in Free Travel?
Then come to an organizational meeting of the MIT Chemistry Outreach Program on Monday, February 5th at 5:30 p.m. in the Norris Room (18-490). Pizza will be in abundance!
The MIT Chemistry Outreach Program is a group of graduate students which travels to area high schools every spring and performs amazing and spectacular chemistry feats. If you are interested but unable to attend Monday's meeting, contact Kathy Lee or Melanie Bartow at x3-1836, kllee@mit.edu, msbartow@mit.edu.
Tax Workshop for US Citizens and Resident Alien Graduate Students
The tax information workshop sponsored by the Graduate School office for graduate students who are U.S. citizens or Resident Aliens will be held on Thursday, February 15, 1996 from 2-4 p.m. in Room 10-250.
Parking Notice!
Please note, the 1996 parking process is drawing to a close. If you have not yet applied for parking please contact Melissa immediately at 3-1803!
Positions
- Pharmaceutical Peptides, Inc., Cambridge, MA: Part-time student opportunity as a biochemist. PPI is using biological and chemical structural diversity techniques to discover and develop new therapeutic agents for cancer. A position is available in the company for a research assistant to help in the development of biochemical assays to support the company's research program. The strong possibility of full-time summer employment will exist for qualified individuals.
- Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey: A position exists for a senior scientist in drug discovery and would provide research support for both Ortho/McNeil Pharmaceuticals in the US and Europe. Applies modern reactions to the design and synthesis of medicinally active agents. Qualifications include knowledge of modern organic reactions and spectroscopic techniques with post-doctoral experience preferred.
Faculty Positions
- The University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island: Invites applications for a tenure-track appointment to teach organic chemistry. Research programs related to environmental, marine, health or materials science preferred.
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