The Department of Chemistry at Lewis & Clark College is looking to hire adjunct faculty to teach General Chemistry laboratories for the Fall 2021 semester, which begins August 30. In particular, we invite applicants who are available during the following times: · Monday, 6:30 – 9:30 pm · Tuesday, 9:10 am – 12:10 pm · Wednesday, 6:30 – 9:30 pm · Thursday, 1 – 4 pm
The lab sections are capped at 24 students each and will meet fully in-person. There is a set curriculum for the lab with support provided by the department via a weekly staff meeting. Adjunct instructors are responsible for preparing for and facilitating the lab experience, grading, student feedback, and availability to students for one office hour per week per lab section.
To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to Barb Balko at balko@lclark.edu.
The Office of URSA is excited to announce that registration for OSU’s 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium (SURS) is now open! The virtual event will take place September 13th and 14th. Please help us to increase participation by forwarding this message to your colleagues and students!
The deadline for students to register to present at SURS is August 9th at 11:59 PM. They can apply here.
OSU community members can RSVP here to attend SURS 2021 on September 13th and 14th.
Event Details:
SURS is an annual showcase for OSU undergraduates to present their research and creative projects to the OSU community. Undergraduates from all academic disciplines, in all years of study, and all stages of research or creative work are invited to present. SURS will take the form of a virtual symposium this year.
Each presenter will record a 3-minute lightning talk about their work and post it on a central Canvas page where the symposium will be hosted. The Canvas page will be distributed to OSU community members who will be able to view presenters’ recordings, ask questions, and engage in dialogue via the Canvas discussion board function. In addition, several students will be selected to give live, 10-minute plenary talks via Zoom during the course of the event. More details can be found here.
Please mark your calendars to join us for this exciting opportunity!
We appreciate your help forwarding this email to others. Please mark your calendars to join us for this exciting opportunity to support our amazing undergraduate student researchers!
Aaron Wimsatt (ChemStores Student Worker) has graduated (Chemical Engineering). Friday (6/11) was his last day. To send him off, Chemstores held a surprise gathering. ChemStores supervisor, Rusty Root took the opportunity to reward the staff for a fantastic year and all their hard work in keeping the University stocked during COVID by presenting them each a Hawaiian Shirt.
They are also looking for 1-2 UGs for this summer to help with their ceramic-coated separator production process.
The job would involve both running a prototype production line, formulation development, materials characterization, and working with our R&D team members.
UGs need to have lab experience and be very detail oriented. The lithium-ion separator business is very demanding in terms of precision & quality !
Attached a brochure to give them some idea of what they would be working on.
Any interested students should send their resume to the HR manager, Erin Hart, at ehart@entek.com.
The Purdue University Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee (GSSPC) is excited to support student attendance at the Spring 2022 ACS National Meeting by providing travel grants. Our symposium, “Mother (Nature) Knows Best: Bonding with Nature’s Proteins”, will highlight innovative research in protein chemistry from a diverse group of distinguished speakers. Travel grant recipients will be expected to attend the day-long symposium while in attendance at the Spring 2022 ACS National Meeting in San Diego.
OSU Search Advocate workshops for Spring term are available for registration. Search advocates are outside process advisors who participate on employee search committees; their goal is to encourage culture and practices that favor equity, validity and diversity. The initial workshop series is a sequence of four 4-hour Zoom workshops. Those who complete the series may choose to have their names added to the Search Advocate Directory and will be eligible to serve as advocates until September 2022. Three-hour continuing education workshops for current advocates are also available. To register, go to the new Search Advocate/Workshops website. Questions? Contact Anne Gillies at anne.gillies@oregonstate.edu or 541-760-6160.
Focused on best practices for hosting Zoom Meetings and Webinars. Short presentations on Zoom topics will be followed by Q&A with the presenters. All workshop presentations will be recorded and available within a week for those unable to attend. This week, we will focus on what to do after your event has concluded. Friday, May 21 from 2-3 p.m. Location: Zoom. To register for this event and for more Zoom information from Media Services, go to https://uit-at.oregonstate.edu/media-services-zoom/.
Register today to attend the May 27-28 Celebrating Undergraduate Excellence (CUE) Symposium presented virtually through Canvas. CUE is an annual showcase for OSU undergraduates to present their research and creative projects to the OSU community. Undergraduates from all academic disciplines, in all years of study and all stages of research or creative work will be presenting. Registration to attend CUE 2021 is required and accessible only to OSU faculty, staff and students. For more info, visit https://communications.oregonstate.edu/events/cue. For questions, contact events@oregonstate.edu.
Join a small, supportive cohort to advance your teaching skills. The Summer ’21 Blended Faculty Learning Community will focus on applying effective practices for skillful use of educational technology and for integrating synchronous and asynchronous learning activities. Apply by May 16. Funding provided.
Karlie Wiese has been named one of the Spring 2021 Undergraduates of the Quarter, and we couldn’t be prouder of her.
Karlie grew up in the Rogue Valley in Southern Oregon. She attended Phoenix High School, home of the Pirates. She originally came to OSU with the intent to major in Nutrition with the Dietetics option to become a Dietitian. OSU is the only school in Oregon that has a dietetics program.
Karlie actually really disliked chemistry when she was in high school (long, long ago in 2007, she says) and dropped the class after the first quarter. She procrastinated as long as she could before she started her chemistry courses for Nutrition. She ended up loving chemistry so much that she was always eager to dive into her chemistry reading and homework. Additionally, she was working as a tutor and really enjoyed sharing her chemistry knowledge with other students and helping them better understand the material. She decided it was time to make a big change (her senior year!) and switch from Nutrition to Chemistry with an education focus.
She’s not currently performing any research, but may help conduct some research in chemistry education over the next year, and has been toying with the idea of getting into a research lab. She has been working as a TA for the 23x Gen Chem series for the past couple of years now. Karlie reports absolutely love it and says it has really helped to solidify her decision to go into teaching chemistry. Something else that might be mildly interesting to note is that she didn’t start college until about 9 years after finishing high school, and she’ll be 32 when she finishes her bachelor’s degree. After she finishes her bachelor’s, she says, she’ll move on to grad school. She’s still figuring out if she wants to pursue a Master’s in Science Education or go for Chemistry. After grad school, her plan is to teach Chemistry at a high school, or possibly college.
Karlie is a mom to a five-year-old, so free time outside of school has been virtually non-existent; however, she enjoys hiking with her family and just being in nature. She’s definitely looking forward to this summer as it’s the first summer in 16 years that she won’t be working or taking classes. Hopefully they’ll be able to make some camping trips and explore the state. They’ve all definitely been going a little stir-crazy during these pandemic times over the past year, so a bit of fun out of the house is long overdue!
She says it’s hard to pick one, but her favorite genres are sci-fi and nonfiction. If she has to pick one, she it’d have to be The Martian, by Andy Weir.
Karlie wanted to say, “thank you to all of the instructors for being so adaptable over the past year and working hard to ensure students could continue on with their education during these unusual times!”
We’re so proud of all our Undergraduates of the Quarter for their many accomplishments and wish Karlie the best of luck with all her future plans.
Karlie says her daughter loves to help her with her Chemistry homework.
