▸ Changes to ACS Career Fair in San Francisco
CREDIT: ELKE SCHOFFERS (SPOTLIGHT); LINDA WANG/C&EN (ALT)
The ACS Career Fair, which will be held at the American Chemical Society national meeting in San Francisco, will look and feel slightly different than previous ACS Career Fairs. The biggest change is that the career fair will now be part of the expo. “We wanted to bridge the gap between expo and career fair,” says Garretta Rollins, senior membership associate in the Office of Career Advancement at ACS. “By being in one place and uniting together, employers will get to see more candidates walk through.” Anyone attending the meeting can visit the career fair, speak to recruiters, drop off their résumé, and request on-site interviews. In addition, companies participating in the expo can now post jobs and take advantage of on-demand interview rooms. Access to the career fair jobs database, where members can create a profile, search available jobs, and request on-site interviews with participating employers, remains an exclusive member-only benefit. Additional member-only services include résumé reviews and mock interviews, which will be offered across the hall from the expo in Room 102 of the Moscone Convention Center. Career Pathways workshops will be held at the W Hotel. An immigration law firm will be available at the career fair to answer visa-related questions. Head shots will also be available on a first-come-first-served basis. Career fair hours will be the same as the expo: Sunday, April 2, from 6 to 8:30 PM, and Monday and Tuesday, from 9 AM to 5 PM. For more information about the ACS Career Fair, visit www.acs.org/content/ acs/en/careers/career-fair.html.—LINDA
WANG
▸ ACS hosts Academic Leadership Training Workshop On Feb. 26–28, 31 faculty members and 15 academic leaders from primarily undergraduate institutions and R1 research universities participated in the Cottrell Scholars Collaborative Academic Leadership Training (ALT) Workshop (C&EN, March 7, 2016, page 47 ), held at the American Chemical Society headquarters building in Washington, D.C.
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Local section spotlight In February, the American Chemical Society Kalamazoo Section celebrated its 75th anniversary with a dinner, cake, and awards at Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Michigan. The local section was chartered in September 1942 at a meeting of the ACS Council in Buffalo, N.Y. Thirty-six chemists attended the first official meeting of the section. Today, the local section is very active and continues to grow. Some highlights include Chemistry Day at the Kalamazoo Valley Museum, a Science Café field trip to Journeyman Distillery, and Chemists Celebrate Earth Day activities at Kalamazoo Nature Center and at Celery Flats City Park in Portage, Mich.—LINDA WANG
2017 Academic Leadership Training Workshop participants. Now in its second year, the three-day workshop offers practical advice and tools to help participants enter academic leadership roles such as research center director, department head, or dean. Participants listened to panel discussions and engaged in exercises on topics such as developing a vision for their organization, generating leadership plans, identifying their strengths as leaders, resolving conflicts, and learning strategies for effective fund-raising. Participants also had an opportunity to network with one another. “One of the greatest challenges facing academic leaders is finding their successors,” says Rigoberto Hernandez, lead principal investigator on the ALT Workshop. “This workshop is a deliberate attempt at increasing the number and the effectiveness of future academic leaders.” In addition to the panel discussions, mock interviews gave participants a taste of what it
would be like to interview for an academic leadership position. “With this experience in hand, they will know how to prepare for their next academic leadership interview and be more likely to get it,” Hernandez says. The workshop is supported by ACS and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement’s Cottrell Scholars Collaborative, a network of academic scientists aiming to improve undergraduate and graduate science education at colleges and universities throughout the U.S. For more information, visit oxide. jhu.edu/ALT.—LINDA WANG
▸ Petroleum Research Fund announces grant recipients The American Chemical Society Petroleum Research Fund has announced the recipients of research grants for 2016. The ACS Board of Directors approved 202 grants worth a total of $20.2 million for advanced scientific education and fundamental research related to petroleum and other fossil fuels. More information and the list of grantees are available at www.acsprf.org. Click on “About ACS PRF.”—LINDA WANG
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