The American Chemical Society meeting is coming up in March (near Disneyland!!) and if you are attending as a scientist and are thinking of changing jobs, then maybe you need these webinars to prepare yourself: ACS Webinars: Your Career GPS! Series Does the thought of searching for your next job make you feel queasy? It’s [...]
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another webinar!!
Posted in alternative careers, career tools, events on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Love and work – how to…
Posted in career tools, events on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another cool webinar from the ACS – perfect for dual career families and some suggestions as to how to make it work. If you have questions about how to look for jobs in such a situation, here’s the place to ask them! Chemists in LOVE: Strategies and Tactics for a Dual Career Relationship Does your [...]
Persuade yourself into a new career or getting what need!
Posted in career tools, events on January 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Another free webinar from the ACS: “Persuasion: A Crash Course for Scientists and Chemical Professionals” with Lou Hampton, President, The Hampton Group, Inc. It’s all about RESULTS. Do you know how to use persuasion to get the results you’re looking for? Whether you’re making a formal presentation to management or discussing data with a co-worker, [...]
and even more webinars
Posted in alternative careers, events on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Mark these dates on your calendar: ACS Webinars – Your Career Matters! Series: Part of the ACS Webinars program, these presentations feature speakers that address a wide variety of career topics for science and engineering professionals. * February 11, 2010 – “Love Chemistry and Food? Find out how to find and build a career in [...]
careers and food!
Posted in alternative careers, events, flavorist/flavourist, food science on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
ACS webinars are great ways to discover new job opportunities: ACS Webinars: Your Career Matters! Thursday, February 11, 2010, 2-3pm ET. “Love Food as well as Chemistry? How to Find and Build a Career in the Food and/or Flavor Industries.” Curious about the smell of cookies baking? Or how researchers try to isolate vanilla flavor? [...]
bring science to the masses
Posted in alternative careers, events, misc cool stuff, teacher, volunteer opportunities on May 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Toronto is hosting Science Rendezvous this Sat May 9th. It is a festival of science!! This is one wonderful way to get kids and older people too, interested in science and to see that scientists are not just lab slaves. Volunteering at such an event can also help scientists or budding scientists see if an [...]
glowing jellyfish = chemistry?
Posted in events, university professor on October 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The 2008 Nobel Prize for Chemistry was just awarded to researchers who identified the compound that makes jellyfish glow and used that info to make mice glow! Martin Chalfie, Roger Tsien and Osamu Shimomura made it possible to exploit the genetic mechanism responsible for luminosity in the marine creatures. Today, countless scientists use this knowledge [...]
toymaker?
Posted in articles, events, quality inspector on November 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sounds like some toy manufacturers could really use a chemist on staff!! They probably do in many cases but sometimes missing information could be deadly… Note the last few months worth of lead contamination in toys and now the latest – Aquadots poisoning! The very highly advertised craft product has just been recalled due to [...]
a science choo-choo train!
Posted in career tools, events on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here is an innovative way that India is getting chemistry out to the masses: “Exhibition on train to inspire science among youth Posted : Sun, 21 Oct 2007 “ They plan on showcases the many different ways that chemistry is incorporated in daily life as well as having labs on the cars. In a country [...]
ACS meeting in full swing
Posted in alternative careers, events on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
No, I did not go. Too hard to get away with a 5 year old to deal with – life happens. But the career fair will be open and probably hundreds of people will browse the offerings with interest – some looking for the same job in a different location and some looking for a [...]
