ChemformationChemformation
Volume 15, Number 7
Friday, February 26, 1999
Chemformation is published by the Office of the Department Chairman. Please convey items of interest (or mailing list changes) to Linda Earle, Room 18-390, 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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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" |
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Wednesday, March 10, 1999 5:00 p.m. at Harvard University MB-23 (Pfizer Lecture Hall) Harvard/MIT Inorganic Seminar Refreshments in MB23 before seminar |
Dr. John E. Ellis University of Minnesota "New Developments in Low-Valent Early Transition Metal Chemistry" |
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Thursday, March 11, 1999 5:00 p.m. at Harvard University MB-23 (Pfizer Lecture Hall) Harvard/MIT Physical Chemistry Seminar Series Refreshments in MB23 before seminar |
Dr. Shaul Mukamel University of Rochester Title TBA |
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The 1999 George Büchi Lectures in Organic Chemistry |
Professor Masakatsu Shibasaki The University of Tokyo |
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Thursday, March 17, 1999 4:00 p.m. in E25-111 Reception follows in 18- 490 |
"Recent Progress in Multifuctional Asymmetric Catalysis" |
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Thursday, March 18, 1999 4:00 p.m. in 6-120 Refreshments outside 6-120 @ 3:30 |
"Recent Progress in Asymmetric Heck Reactions" |
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.
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. "An individual of high integrity and moral character with a strong will and determination to accomplish"; 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.
Air Products and Chemicals Inc. seek Ph.D. students Ïsummer internsÓ with experience in chemistry and chemical engineering from May-September. Among the positions include: a Ph.D. physical chemist or chemical engineer with some experience in gas adsorption, some exposure to zeolite science and a working knowledge of computer operations. Experience with UNIX or VI editor would be helpful. Please send resumes to: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Carol Keene-University Relations A31K3, 7201 Hamilton Blvd., Allentown, PA, 18195 or to Keeneca@apci.com Electronic resumes preferred.
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
Case Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH: Seeks assistant professor beginning in the fall of 1999. Research activities in one or more aspects of polymer synthesis, surface and/or interfacial properties of polymers, and biomimetic and/or bioactive polymeric materials are of particular interest. Check their website at: http:k2.scl.cwru.edu/cse/emac/. Send materials to: Professor Alex M. Jamieson, Chair, Dept. of Macromolecular Science, 314 Kent Hale Smith Bldg., Case Western University, Cleveland, OH 44106-7202.
Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, ME: One-year organic appointment to teach organic chemistry and other courses beginning August of 1999. Check their website at: www.bowdoin.edu Send materials to: David S. Page, Chair, Dept. of Chemistry, 6600 College Station, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME 04011-8466.
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