Chemistry Department Announcements

Attention Graduate and Undergraduate Research Students- ACS Poster Session

The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society announces the 7th Annual Graduate Student and 2nd Annual Undergraduate Poster Session. The session will be held on Thursday, January 18, 2007 at LaSalle University in Philadelphia, PA from 6:00- 8:00 pm. Abstracts for the posters may be submitted in ANY area of chemistry; prizes will be awarded for the most outstanding posters. Abstracts in ACS electronic format should be submitted to Ms. Deborah F. Kilmartin at gradposters@aol.com. The deadline for submission of the abstracts is January 4, 2007. Don't be left out... let people know what you are doing!

Advice for Young Scientists

Dr. Yen Wei has prepared a document with advice for young scientists. The advice is grouped in sections appropriately entitled, "Principles and Guidelines for Students, Postdocs and Other Research Personnel", "How to Finish Your Dissertation without Actually Dying", and "Tips on How to Write Decent Papers/Reports/Dissertations That Will Not Be Thrown Back at Your Face by Your Boss". Don't be the only one not to know the secrets of life (chemistry graduate student life anyway)- read them today by downloading the PDF document here. 4-22-06

Welcome to New Department Member

A hearty welcome to our newest staff member in the department, Dr. Dunja Radisic. Dunja has just completed Ph. D. training at the Johns-Hopkins University with Dr. Kit Bowen. Her background is in mass spectrometry and she will be the department's new Electronic Instrumentation Specialist. Dunja is responsible for our departmental mass spectrometry instruments and will be assuming responsibility for the NMR instruments (500 and 300 MHz) as her NMR skills develop. 4-10-06

Blogs or Wikis, Anyone?

Know what's going on in the cyber world involving chemistry projects in the department? See the new Web Initiatives Page for links to department related on-line initiatives.

Annual Safety Training Now On-Line

All department employees (faculty & staff), post-doctoral associates, visiting scientists, full or part-time graduate students and undergraduates doing teaching or research in a Drexel University laboratory, or those overseeing teaching or research in a Drexel University laboratory, must complete the on-line safety training modules. Go to the University Department of Safety & Health on-line training site at:

http://66.236.207.140/DrexelTrain/

If you have not registered on the Safety Training site before, click on the green button marked New Here- Sign Up. Fill in the on-line form with the required information. If you are already registered, enter your e-mail address and password, then click Go to enter the training site. Once at the site you can update your personal information by selecting the Profile button in the upper right corner of the page. Otherwise, you should click on the training modules listed on the page and complete the training.

Please note that once registered you have 30 days to complete the training. However, all training must be completed by November 15th. Failure to complete the training will result in a monetary fine determined by the Department Head.

Chem Graduate Students: On-line Grad Program Requirement Modules Available

A series of short presentations (downloadable as Shockwave files) describing various aspects of the Chemistry Department Graduate Program Requirements are available on the Graduate Forms webpage here. If you have any comments about these, including suggestions about other topics you'd like to see similar modules created to address, send them to chemweb@drexel.edu.

New Chemistry Department Logo

Congratulations to Jeff Enders, an undergraduate chemistry major, for his winning submission to the Chemistry Department Logo Contest! The logo is now in use as a background on the chemistry website and as wallpaper on various department computers. A black & white and color version of the winning logo can be downloaded here for use. A smaller version of the color logo, suitable for use as wallpaper, is found here. (10/31/04)

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