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ChUME Opportunity
Join the ChUME (Chemistry Undergraduate Mentorship and Empowerment) Initiative.
ChUME was founded by six chemistry grad students and one post-doc in Fall 2013. Our mission is to foster professional long-lasting relationships between undergraduate and graduate chemistry students. In addition, we host seminars, socials, and professional development workshops every Term to assist undergraduate chemistry students in their success here at OSU and beyond.
- One hour weekly meeting with all ChUME mentors.
- Participation in ChUME events.
- Actively working with a minimum of one undergraduate mentee.
- Documenting your mentoring activities (meetings, research advising, etc) with ChUME.
- You can add an outreach activity to your grant proposals, CVs, resumés, etc.
- You hone communication skills from one-on-one/group mentoring, and public speaking skills from ChUME events.
Poster Session
Who Am I? Wednesday – Michael Burand
Name: Michael W. Burand
Area of Study / Position Title: General Chemistry Laboratory Coordinator
Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you?): I liked science when I was young since it was a way to understand how the world works. I had an excellent chemistry teacher in high school and was very fortunate to receive a scholarship to study chemistry in college.
Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties? I’m the instructor for general chemistry laboratory sections taught in LPSC. I develop course materials and manage the TAs who teach the laboratories. Occasionally I teach general chemistry lecture sections as well.
One thing you truly love about your job? It’s great to be able to work with colleagues and TAs to come up with new laboratory teaching pedagogies, and I love it when it’s clear something we’ve created is helping students gain a better understanding.
One interesting/strange factoid about yourself. I received my pilot’s license while in high school.
Portland ACS Poster Symposium
The first annual Portland American Chemical Society Undergraduate Poster Symposium will be held on Sunday, October 5, at the SRTC Building (formerly Science II) at Portland State University, from 4-7 PM. We hope to have 50 or more undergraduates presenting posters about their summer research; there will be free pizza and beer (and other food and drink).
I am writing to invite you to send grad students, postdocs, and faculty to display materials and/or pamphlets about your school at a table we will provide, and to interact with students who are interested in your graduate school.
We also need judges to determine who should receive $150 first prizes and possibly $75 second prizes in each of seven divisions. To the extent you can identify specific people who would attend, it would be most helpful to know their names, email addresses, and the divisions they are willing to judge (Organic, Inorganic, Analytical, Physical, Biochemistry, Polymers, Materials); or ask them to contact me directly, reingold@juniata.edu. This is all free of charge. Thank you!
Cheers,
Dave Reingold
Focus on ECampus – Alexandra Carlton
Alexandra Carlton is a student at the University of Southern California who recently completed the CH 331/332/337 online Organic chemistry series with OSU. She has been accepted to Bastyr Naturopathic Medical School this fall to study Naturopathic Medicine, a field she is passionate about. Alexandra says—
My vision as a naturopathic doctor is to help people live a positive balanced healthy lifestyle, educate people about their own health, cure ailments, and possibly save a life.
Alexandra has worked very hard to reach her goal; she took the Organic chemistry series online because she was not able to work it into her schedule at USC. But she points out that online Organic chemistry is not easy. Her advice to other students:
Make sure to stay on top of your work and have good time management skills. Also, get a tutor if you need it because it is one of the hardest undergraduate courses out there. If you are taking the hybrid CH 337 organic chemistry lab class, make sure you complete and do everything the first two weeks that the online class asks you to do, because when you get to the on campus 2 week portion, it is very fast paced, so you definitely have to be prepared!
When we asked Alexandra how she found OSU’s online chemistry, she mentioned that she found it online, and that OSU’s Organic Chemistry was the only online organic class her medical school would accept. That fact says a lot about our great instructors here at Oregon State! Her school also likes our series because the final class, CH 337, is a hybrid class with 2 weeks of online study, then 2 weeks of on-campus lab work in Corvallis.
Best wishes to Alexandra for her continued success in medical school, and thanks to her for sharing her story.
Who Am I? Wednesday – Paul Weatherford
1. Name: Paul Weatherford
2. Area of study / position title: Biological lab sciences / Science Storekeeper
3. Why chemistry? (What about it initially interested you, etc.)? Uh, Chemistry is the wave of the future. Creating new, exciting ways to blow up the lab was always main goal of mine!
4. Research focus (in non-science terms) or basic job duties? My basic job duties are customer service, purchasing/procurement, inventory management, receiving, problem solving and minion herding.
5. One thing that you truly love about your job? I get to see the cutting edge of new technologies being created and help facilitate their progress into reality.
6. One interesting/strange factoid about yourself. I am a fully certified PADI Divemaster and research diver with the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport, OR.