Adding flair: Friday, Feb. 19 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/.
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Winter 2021 Undergraduate of the Quarter – Citlali Nieves Lira
Citlali Nieves Lira has been named one of our Winter 2021 Undergraduates of the Quarter and we couldn’t be prouder.
Citlali grew up near the Mexican desert, in the middle of Queretaro. When she was 14 or 15, she moved to Tigard with her father. It was a big change for her, going from the desert to the big forest. She graduated from Tigard High School, home of the Tigard Tigers. Citlali has always liked the state of Oregon. She enjoys that there are so many places to go and so many things to see. She knew she wanted to stay in state to go to college. Citlali reported that she’s a Ford Scholar, so it’s more financially beneficial to stay in Oregon, she also heard Oregon State had a strong STEM program. It was an easy decision at that point.
When Citlali was in high school she wasn’t sure what she wanted to do. The plan in Mexico was that she wasn’t going to go to college because it’s very hard for women, especially, to get into school and find support there. It wasn’t until her family got to Oregon that she started thinking maybe she could actually go to college and get a degree. She wasn’t sure what that was until she had a chemistry class. She reports having an amazing teacher, who was able to relate Chemistry to everyday life. “Everything has a reason for happening, and because of chemistry we can explain it.” Citlali’s teacher told her about an internship program with the ASE. Her teacher helped her apply for it and she interviewed with OSU Professor Marilyn Rampersand Mackiewicz, and was awarded the internship. That amazing experience was what made Citlali fall in love with Materials chemistry. “I got to learn a lot about how to actually work in a lab, what a researcher did, what the obligations of a P.I. were, and I just fell in love with the lifestyle. I liked the work you had to put in. I liked the little puzzles chemistry brings every day, although sometimes it was really frustrating because I didn’t get the results or I didn’t get what I was looking for. But at the end of the day there’s always a solution, and there’s always a way to find one, and I really liked and enjoyed that. You can always complete the puzzle, it just takes a while to gather and assemble all the pieces. Besides learning so much about chemistry, I also learned so much about managing my time in the lab, working with others, and sharing ideas, I learned a lot from Dr. Mackiewicz.”
Citlali continued working with Dr. Mackiewicz when she started at OSU. She works with silver nanoparticles and is tuning the shape and size of them. So, they make different shapes of nanoparticles: triangles, spheres, cubes, rods, and different things that could be used for more applications in chemistry.
After graduation, Citlali wants to attend graduate school for inorganic Chemistry, start working at a university and become a PI of her own lab. Her back-up plan is to work in industry, as long as her chemistry topic is fun.
Outside of school, Citlali plays tennis. She admits she’s not that good, but she loves the sport all the same. She also spends a lot of time on the Equity, Justice and Inclusion committee for the chemistry department, working to make the department more inclusive to under-represented students. She also enjoys hanging out with her friends and watching movies. Her favorite book is 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Her favorite food is Sushi.
When asked if there was anything else Citlali thought we should know, she said, “I would like to add that OSU is a pretty great community. There are many resources for people to get help and get to the place they want to be. I had a lot of help getting to school, with people advising me and telling me what to do. If you can just reach out to people that would be great, and also creates a community. Especially for all of my girls in STEM, it can be hard, and we all have got to stick together.”
We are incredibly proud of our students, and especially of Citlali for being an Undergraduate of the Quarter, and we wish her the best of luck with her future.
Science Pro
Science Pro is coming (Feb 23-25)! We’re giving away portfolios to the first 100 students who sign up and attend any of the events.
We’re bringing out a great group of professionals over the course of three evenings. There’s a panel for life sciences, and another one for pursuing careers in math, physics, and chemistry. In the night in between we have Career Pathways conversations which will give students direct contact with some awesome humans (some from across the country).
Feel free to use this blurb or cut and paste portions of the email below:
Science Pro is coming to the College of Science. Make connections with alumni and community professionals. Discover what’s out there, and get the inside scoop on what it’s like to work in industry, government agencies, national labs, or for your own company. We’re giving away free portfolios to the first 100 students who sign up (and attend) a Science Pro event. Check out the schedule and who will be there, and register today. Email gabs.james@oregonstate.edu if you have any questions.
Thanks for your support and increasing access to our students to help them grow their network and getting closer to being career-ready.
Oregon Tech: Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Oregon Tech is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor of chemistry to be a core member of our intro chem/gen chem team here in beautiful Southern Oregon (Klamath Falls), within our interdisciplinary Natural Sciences Department.
https://jobs.oit.edu/postings/3911
We have a uniformly fantastic, innovative, and forward-thinking chemistry team, we have motivated students who know what they’re about, and we are moving into shiny new teaching and student research spaces over the next couple of years. The position is open area, with a preference for candidates who can connect with Oregon Tech’s existing programs and strengths (health sciences, engineering, environment), and opportunity to support undergraduate research, but with excellence in *teaching* being the primary consideration.
Application Deadline Extended for the MEM-C REU Summer Program
I am writing to announce that the application deadline for the Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) Research Experience for Undergraduates has been extended to Friday, March 5, 2021. Please share the following information with your community and let me know if you have any questions!
University of Washington’s Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C) aims to accelerate the development of future energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery, processing, and application of complex electronic and photonic materials. The summer REU program is focused on exposing veterans and under-represented minorities to a viable and relevant career pathway focused on materials and energy research. Students will learn about relevant, state of the art content in future energy conversion, information processing, and sensing technologies through design, discovery, processing, and application of complex electronic and photonic materials.For more information on the program and how to apply, please visit: http://uwmemc.org/education/programs/reu/
Thank you,
Danica
DANICA HENDRICKSON (She/Her/Hers)
Associate Director of Education & Workforce Engagement
Clean Energy Institute (CEI)
Molecular Engineering Materials Center (MEM-C)
MolES-NanoES Building | Box 351653
Seattle, WA 98195-1653
danicah@uw.edu | 206-685-2029
Blending Your Teaching with Instructional Media Workshops
Harness the power of instructional media! Discover ways to create media and learn effective practices for remote and blended teaching. CTL and Academic Technology invite instructors and GTAs to a one-hour workshop: Thursday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m. Info:Faculty Media Center. Register: https://beav.es/Jx.
Job Opening: Surface Science Applications Scientist at Nanoscience Instruments
Nanoscience Instruments is hiring an applications scientist for our demonstration and analytical laboratory in Phoenix, AZ. If you know of any upcoming or recent graduates with a background in surface science, we are hiring a PhD level scientist to support QCM-D, opticaland force tensiometers, and nanoparticle generation instrumentation.
Job Responsibilities:
- Perform product demonstrations at application labs or at customer sites
- Perform online product demonstrations, perform sample analysis and provide sample analysis reports
- Work with product manager and sales team to meet goals for product sales
- Works with product manager and marketing to develop marketing strategy for assigned products
- Develop expertise in key applications supporting product
Requirements:
- Experience with QCM-D, AFM or other similar analytical technique
- Chemistry, Physics, or Engineering PhD with a focus on surface science
- Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally
- Because this position requires access to Government, Military, and other high security labs, US Citizenship is required
More information about Nanoscience Instruments and this job opening can be found here: https://www.nanoscience.com/about-us/jobs/materials-and-surface-chemistry-applications-scientist/
Please let any interested people know that they can send their resume directly to me and reach out with any questions.
Best,
Matt
| Matthew Dixon, Ph.D. Nanoscience Instruments, Inc. 10008 S. 51st Street, Ste 110 Phoenix, AZ 85044 Office: 480-758-5659 www.nanoscience.com |
Recipes wanted
The OSU Foundation and the OSU Alumni Association are collecting recipes to make a cookbook to benefit the Annual Food Drive. Do you have a go-to recipe that gets rave reviews every time? All profits will benefit the Linn Benton Food Share. You can either submit your favorite recipe to be included in the cookbook (even if it’s not original, that’s OK, we have a space to mark it as “adapted from”). Deadline is Feb. 22. Nominate someone that you know that has an amazing recipe that you have always tried to get your hands on. We will contact that person and ask them to consider handing over the recipe to include in the cookbook. Finally, order your cookbook today. Deadline for ordering a cookbook is Feb. 22. You can pay by check, made out to LBFS (Linn Benton Food Share). Orders will be delivered sometime in March, once the cookbook is designed and completed. Digital copies are $10. Pre-sale printed copies are $15 before Feb. 19. Late order printed copies are $18 (Feb. 19-22). For more information, email Heather Rapp.
MIT Summer Internship Opportunity
Greetings!
The MIT Materials Research Laboratory and the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center sponsor a summer research internship program for rising junior and senior undergraduates in the science and engineering fields. We would be grateful if you would bring it to the attention of your students by posting or forwarding the attached flyer where your students will see it, or pass it on to an appropriate department for posting.
This 9-week Undergraduate Research Program is currently planned to be hosted virtually in Summer 2021. If circumstances change and the program can transition to on-campus, additional support will be available for housing and reasonable travel costs. Students will learn and perform research in a broad selection of materials science subfields. In addition to providing a stipend, we will have presentations and group discussions on topics relevant to materials scientists, such as graduate school, careers in materials science, creating effective poster presentations, and management of intellectual property. At the conclusion of the program, the students present their individual research results at a virtual poster session. The summer research internship, offered each year since 1983, affords students an invaluable experience in top-notch cutting edge research.
DETAILS
Program Dates: June 9 – August 13, 2021
Application deadline: March 15, 2021 (rolling admissions)
Applicant selection and notifications by April 1, 2021
Stipend $5000
Online application at: https://mitmrl.submittable.com
The summer scholars’ program is funded by the National Science Foundation REU program (grant number DMR-1419807). MIT is an equal opportunity employer. Women, minorities and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
If we should update our mailing list with a different person at your school for future mailings about our summer research internship program, please let me know via email at aglietti@mit.edu.
Thank you!
Student Fellowship Opportunity!
The Every Learner Everywhere network is launching a Fellowship for undergraduate students with digital learning/courseware experience. Students selected for the Fellowship will receive a $3,000 stipend for approximately 120 hours of work between February 15 and July 15. Fellows will have the opportunity to meaningfully engage in one of four hands-on projects with Every Learner network partners: Research and data analysis with Digital Promise, group facilitation and workshop development with Achieving the Dream, education technology development with Intentional Futures, or student engagement and program design with SXSW EDU. Please share this opportunity with any of your students who have a passion for equity in higher education. Additional information and the form to apply can be found here, and applications are due February 5, 2021. Please reach out to tynan@intentionalfutures.com and tia@intentionalfutures.com with any questions.
We are particularly interested in receiving applications from racially minoritized, poverty-impacted, and first-generation students, and would love your help sharing this application with as many of these students as you can. Thank you in advance, and please reach out to Tynan and Tia (emails above) if you have any questions.