ChemformationChemformation
Volume 15, Number 6
Friday, February 19, 1999
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The Arthur D. Little Seminar Series in Physical Chemistry Monday, February 22, 1999 4:30 p.m. in Room 6-120 Refreshments @ 4:00 p.m. |
Professor Richard Friesner Columbia University "Ab Initio Electronic Structure Calculations: From Small Molecules to Proteins" |
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Tuesday, February 23, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Reception in Moore Room (6-321) |
"Accurate Models of Complex Chemical Systems: Development of the Next Generation of Molecular Modeling Force Fields and Continuum Solvation Models" |
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Thursday, February 25, 1999 5:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Joint Arthur D. Little and Harvard/MIT Seminar @ MIT PLEASE NOTE LECTURE TIMES |
"Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction" |
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Wednesday, February 24, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. |
Chuan He Lippard Group "Model Studies of Dinuclear MetalloenzymesÓ" |
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Wednesday, March 3, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Inorganic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 p.m. |
Richard P. Kingsborough Swager Group "Electrochemical Investigations of Polythiophene-Transition Metal Hybrid Materials" |
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Thursday, March 4, 1999 4:00 p.m. in Room 6-120 Seminar in Organic Chemistry Refreshments @ 3:30 in 18-490 |
Professor Mark Lautens University of Toronto "Synthesis of Bioactive Compounds via Bicycle Templates" |
Graduate fellowships are available through the MIT/Merck Collaboration Program for students with a strong background in math, physical sciences, and/or engineering while doing graduate studies in sub-sections of a department of engineering, physical or mathematical sciences. Doctoral students beginning their second, third or fourth years of graduate studies are eligible. Students selected will be required to take one course in biology or related science each of the two semesters of the first year of support and to participate in a symposium held typically on the MIT campus to discuss research before Merck representatives and MIT colleagues. To apply send eight copies of the packet which should include a face page, (contact committee), your undergraduate transcripts, GRE's (if available) GPA, MIT course record, a two page description of the research proposed and two letters from MIT faculty of whom is your supervisor to: Ms. Gurukarm Khalsa, Administrative Staff Assistant, Biology Headquarters, Office 68-132, 258-0494, fax 253-8699, email: gkkhalsa@mit.edu. The recommendation letter should be addressed to: ÏCommittee MembersÓ and may be mailed, faxed or emailed by the referees to the above. The application deadline is April 1, 1999. Please contact Professor Boris Magasanik, 253-2637, bmag@mit.edu. with questions. Information may also be obtained from Professor Bonnie Berger, Math, Tomas Lozano-Perez, EE&CS; Bruce Tidor, Chemistry, and Peter Kim, Biology.
A workshop will be held for those international scholars: including staff, researchers and faculty members who need tax assistance on Thursday, February 25, 1999 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:30 in the Student Center, La Sala De Puerto Rico sponsored by the International Scholars Office. Topics include: tax requirements for international researchers and faculty members in the US, residency status for tax purposes, treaty provisions, filing requirements, and types of income subject to US taxation. There will be an opportunity for questions and answers.
Dean Isaac ColbertÌs office holds competitions for several industrial and endowed fellowships, which are administered and awarded through the Graduate Education Office. This year they include:
Eli and Dorothy Berman Fund Fellowship: One unrestricted award, for tuition and health insurance for one semester, not renewable. First preference is for graduates of the Technion in Israel; second preference is for any Israeli graduate student and third preference is for any graduate student conducting research with a professor at MIT who has ongoing ties with the Technion in Israel.
Victor J. De Corte Graduate Fellowship: Variable awards, unrestricted, partial tuition for one semester, not renewable. Eligibility is supplemental scholarship aid for students of Belgian nationality.
Ida M. Green Fellowship: Five awards, each department may nominate one MIT senior woman who will be entering a graduate program at MIT, and one non-MIT woman. Unrestricted field with tuition plus a stipend of $1500 for nine months, non renewable. Nominees must be entering women graduate students.
John A. Lyons Fellowship: There are variable awards, unrestricted for tuition plus a stipend of $1450 per month for up to two years. Graduates of Boston College, born within a 20-mile radius of the Massachusetts State House. Preference (though not absolute) to applicants of Irish descent, and of the Roman Catholic Faith.
Henry Bromfield Rogers Fellowship: Two awards, unrestricted for tuition plus a stipend of $1450 per month for one semester, not renewable. Eligibility includes women graduate students.
Whitaker Health Sciences Fund Fellowship: One award for life sciences or bioengineering for tuition plus a stipend of $1,450 per month for 12 months with a possible renewal. Eligibility includes: doctoral students in the life sciences or bioengineering, devoting more than 50% time to thesis research.
Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Fellowship: There are variable awards, unrestricted for tuition and /or stipend as determined by the Hugh Hampton Young Selection Committee for nine to twelve months, not renewable. Nominees are recommended to the Hugh Hampton Young Memorial Fund Council which makes the final selection. Candidate qualifications (from the memorandum of agreement): 1. More consideration is given to personal qualifications and character than to academic record; 2. A desirable candidate should be one whose qualities and character show a high promise of becoming a successful leader and coordinator; 3. A creator of new ideas; 4. Ïan individual of high integrity and moral character with a strong will and determination to accomplishÓ; 5. Have exceptionally broad interests and 6. Possess strong interdisciplinary interests.
Submit nominations to Professor Dietmar Seyferth in Room 4-382A by Wednesday, March 3, 1999, and include: A completed copy of the application award form, (obtain from Susan Brighton in graduate office, 2-204), a brief (1-2 page) research summary from the student or, for first year students a copy of the nomineeÌs Statement of Objectives from his/her application for admission; a c.v. and transcripts; and at least two letters of recommendation from faculty in the department (for currently enrolled students), or from the applicantÌs admission folder. Awards will be announced by the second week of April. Please contact Dean ColbertÌs office with questions at 253-1940.
Call Ed Udas at 253-4505 or stop by room 6-026 if students, faculty, or staff need help in organizing their MIT space.
Bob DiGiacomo will be coming in on Wednesdays or Thursdays to pick up any glass blowing work that you may have available. Please bring any work to room 6-031 or call Ed Udas or John Annese at 3-4505. Bob will do the work on a first-come, first-served basis
University of CA at Berkeley: Postdoctoral fellowship to start anytime in 1999 or early 2000, the goal of the project is to understand the dynamics of chemical bond breaking for the ground electronic states of molecules and thus to develop quantitatively predictable models for both thermal and state-selected unimolecular reactions. Contact: Professor C. Bradley Moore, Dept. of Chemistry, University of CA, Berkeley, CA 94720-1460. Email responses preferred:cbmoore@socrates.berkeley.edu (510) 642-3453, and fax is (510) 6543-5326.
E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA: Opportunities exist on the new Chemical Dynamics Beamline at the Advanced Light Source to study reaction dynamics and photochemistry of radicals. Check the website:www.lbl.gov/chemicaldynamics Those interested candidates should send a cv and arrange for two letters of recommendation (email preferred to) Dr. Arthur G. Suits, Chemical Dynamics Group, MS6-2100, E.O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, (510) 486-4754, fax is (510) 486-5664, www.lbl.gov/~agsuits
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas: Has a position in inorganic/organometallic chemistry for research on functionalized polyoxometalate systems. Must have a Ph.D. in chemistry with expertise in the synthesis and characterization of ari-ligands, multinuclear NMR techniques, and/or polyoxometalate chemistry is preferred. Send materials to: Professor Eric A. Maatta, Dept. of Chemistry, Kansas State University, 111 Willard Hall, Manhattan, Kansas, 66506-3701, eam@ksu.edu
RhÔne-Poulenc, Research Triangle Park, NC: Has an opening for postdoctoral fellow in their discovery group to develop new technologies for high throughput synthesis and combinatorial chemistry using solid phase chemistry, Part of the position will require the conception and optimization of reaction schemes to target molecules, as well as the spectroscopic determination and purification of resulting chemical libraries. Please contact: Professor Mike Malaska at email: