Chemformation

The Weekly Newsletter of the MIT Chemistry Department

Volume 12, Number 21
Friday, May 31, 1996

Next issue: June 7,1996. Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. The deadline for the next issue is Tuesday, June 3. 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 email to lkn@mit.edu Back issues of Chemformation can be accessed via the Chemistry Department Website.

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President of National Academy of Sciences to Speak May 31st

The president of the National Academy of Sciences, Dr. Bruce M. Alberts, will discuss "Science Education as a Wedge for Revitalizing our Nation's Schools" at 4pm on May 31 at the Museum of Science Cahners Theater.

His talk, the latest presentation in the Forum on Public Education will touch on topics of concern to everyone with a stake in education-teachers, students, parents, professors, admissions officers, employers. The forum, a collaboration between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Council on Primary and Secondary Education and the Museum of Science, seeks to bring the public together with local and national education leaders.

Dr. Alberts, a biochemist widely noted for his study of the protein complexes that allow a living cell to replicate chromosomes during cell division, is a graduate of Harvard and was chair of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California-San Francisco before taking on the leadership of the NAS.

New Chemistry Librarian Appointed

Dr. Heahyun Yoo has been appointed to the position of Assistant Engineering and Science Librarian for Chemistry effective 1 February 1996. Heahyun holds the B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Inha University (Incheon, Korea) and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Seton Hall University. Her library degree is from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Her library experience includes an internship at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center Health Science Library and duty as Librarian of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center's Hibbs Medical Library of New York Orthopaedic Hospital. Prior to her library career, Heahyun worked as a Preclinical Research Scientist for Perstorp Pharma, Lund, Sweden where she investigated pharmacokinetical properties of various drugs and their derivatives. She is a member of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Society for Information Science.

The Chemistry Librarian is responsible for the MIT Libraries' collections in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and provides reference services and literature searching for MIT students, faculty and researchers. Articles about Special services offered by Science Library to people at the chemistry departments. The URL for this page is; http://nimrod.mit.edu/depts/science/Chemistry/mitsl.html

Cambridge TeenWork Summer Jobs Program

Do you have a summer job available for a teen? Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School students age 16 and older will be available for summer work approximately eight to ten weeks beginning July 1, 1996. If you have a summer position available for a Teenwork student, please contact Nancy Collins the MIT Teenwork Coordinator in the Personnel office in Room 19-227. Questions can be directed to Nancy at 3-8381 or Dottie Purdy at 3-4077.

Vacancies on the Chemical Hygiene/Safety Committee

Graduate students interested in joining the Chemistry Department Chemical Hygiene and Safety Committee are invited to submit their names to Professor Rick Danheiser (18-297; danheisr@mit.edu). Members of the Committee participate in inspections of department laboratories (approximately one inspection per month) and attend meetings (ca. 2 per year) to discuss and formulate Chemistry Department safety policy. No prior experience in safety-related matters is necessary.

Positions

• Genetics Institute, Cambridge, MA: A position exists in their small molecule drug discovery group to assist in high throughput screening effort to discover novel anti-inflammatory compounds. This person would interact with their multi-disciplinary team of biologists, biochemists, x-ray crystallographers, NMR spectroscopists, molecular models and medicinal chemists. The ideal candidate will have a BS/MS in chemistry and be familiar with MAC/PC/UNIX systems and computational chemistry methods. Experience with databases and automation/robotics is a plus. Please fax or send resume suitable for scanning to: Human Resource Department, Job Code 96-139, Genetics Institute, Inc. 87 Cambridge Park Drive, Cambridge, MA 02140 or fax at (617) 498-8089 or (617) 876-8847.
  
  
• Silent Spring Institute, Inc. Newton, MA: a non-profit scientific research organization, seeks researchers with strong analytical skills, to study links between breast cancer and the environment. Excellent academic record, with strong quantitative and communications skills required. Interested candidates submit letter of inquiry, resume and copy of academic transcripts to Susan Spector, Silent Spring Institute, 29 Crafts Street, Newton, MA 02158.
  
  

Procept Inc., Cambridge, MA. Résumés Solicitation.

• Position in Organic Synthesis and Combinatorial Chemistry. Interested postdocs and PhD candidates should submit their résumés to M.-T. Kouo or Kitty Valleli in the Chemistry Headquarters Office (18-390) by June 7th. Dr. Peter Pallai, Director, Rational Drug Design, will review the résumés and contact the candidates directly for interviews.

Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Emory University, Atlanta, GA: Seeks a postdoctoral fellow for the lab of Professor William Crowe to assist in the development of new synthetic organic methodology based on transition metal mediated reactions including titanium-mediated reductive coupling and molybdenum-catalyzed olefin cross-metathesis. Research experience in synthetic organic chemistry is preferred. Applicants should send a cv, short research summary, the names of two or three references and may contact Professor Crowe via mail or e-mail. Phone (404)-727-8074, e-mail chemwec@emory.edu or mail Emory University, Department of Chemistry, 1515 Pierce Drive, Atlanta, GA 30322.
  
  
• Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico: Multiple openings exist in the group CST-18 (a chemical research group that integrates the disciplines of inorganic chemistry, chemical engineering, applied physics and biochemistry to focus on scientific innovation and technical solutions to the chemical aspects of problems in defense, energy and the environment.) Key initiatives in the group include catalysis, supercritical fluids, environmental inorganic chemistry, bioremediation, actinide chemistry and processing, pollution prevention/waste minimization and advanced waste treatment technology. Positions specifically are in the following areas: Heterogeneous catalysis, organometallic chemistry, chemistry and the catalysis in supercritical fluids, environmental inorganic chemistry, environmental biochemistry and plasmas, plasma chemistry and advanced waste treatment. Interested candidates should send a cv and letter of interest and GPA's to: William Tumas, Group Leader, CST-18, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS J514, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 or call at (505) 667-3803 or e-mail at tumas@lanl.gov
  
  

Faculty Positions

• Hartwick College, in Oneonta, New York, has a one-year, full-time sabbatical replacement position for an organic chemist for the 1996-1997 academic year, the faculty member will teach sophomore level organic chemistry lecture and laboratories and may teach one lab. section for general chemistry. Ph.D. required. Applicants should submit a letter of application, resume and the names of three references to: Dr. William J. Vining, Chair, Department of Chemistry, Hartwick College, Oneonta, New York 13820, phone (607) 431-4756 or fax: (607) 431-4374. General inquiries also welcome on e-mail at viningw@hartwick.edu
  
  

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