The Draper Society

The AMC is holding a Food Drive through Thursday, March 26th for the Yemaya Food Pantry in the Lower East Side. Attached please find a flyer withdetails.  AMC Food Drive

This is an event through NYU:Polytechnic University. See below message from their American Chemical Society president. You may email her for further details if you’re interested in attending. Hello all,This is just a reminder that we will be having our event, “Chemistry of Cooking”, in collaboration with the Girl Scouts tomorrow where we will be teaching young girls how to bake beard and the chemistry behind the process. 

The Draper Chemical Society is starting a program at the School of the Future with its science departments. Volunteers will visit the School of the Future weekly and mentor students working on their exhibition projects (described below) as well as tutor students who need additional help in the sciences. This is a perfect way to give back to the local community and foster interest in the sciences. Available time periods would be Tuesdays from 11:35AM-12:30PM and afternoons 3:15-4:15PM. As we are already partway into the semester, we ask that anyone interested in volunteering at the School of the Future apply by Monday, March 9th (see below).

Call for Papers for the 57TH ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH SYMPOSIUMSponsored by: The New York Chemistry Students’ Association of the American Chemical Society’s New York Section. The symposium provides an excellent opportunity for undergraduate chemistry students in the NY metropolitan area to present the results of their research. The program includes a keynote address by a Pace University graduate, Dr. Michael Alekshun, of Schering-Plough Corporation, speaking on “Contemporary Issues in Antibiotic Resistance:  Problematic Bugs and the Therapeutic Strategies Used to Treat Them”, presentation of student papers (15 minute talks to small groups), followed by a luncheon.Date: Saturday, May 2, 2009Place: Pace University, Pleasantville, 

Summer Research Program for students majoring in science, mathematics an engineering: You are invited to participate in the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Gaithersburg, MD Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) program for students majoring in science, mathematics and engineering. Students can participate in any one of the nine NIST laboratories: 

•  Building and Fire Research 
• Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology 
• Chemical Science and Technology
• Electronics and Electrical Engineering
• Information Technology
• Manufacturing Engineering
• Materials Science & Engineering
• NIST Center for Neutron Research 
• Physics

The Draper Society has been forwarded information about a job opening at Maruzen International Co., Inc. Maruzen International Co., Inc. is the company that provided molecular models for the NY Hall of Science outreach. They are looking for someone to promote the sales of their molecular models. The job description is as follows:

You are passionately patriotic and extraordinarily talented in your field, and you welcome great challenges because of the opportunities they present. You belong at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) – America’s premier intelligence organization, dedicated to protecting the country and deterring would-be aggressors. The Department of Defense and the entire Intelligence Community depend upon our people to be elite-in-class, whether they are traveling internationally to collect and analyze information, or working in Washington, DC providing administrative, scientific, technical, and management support.

If you are thinking about how to leverage your degree in business, financial management, accounting, science, engineering, information technology, public administration or international relations, DIA offers a full range of career opportunities, including positions for people with foreign language skills, as well as several entry-level programs for current undergraduate and graduate students.

For more information and to apply online, please visit:

Brookhaven National Labs is center with more than five decades of history that was started to understand the basic structure of matter. Their research includes but is not limited to the nuclear  technology, high energy physics, life and physical sciences, medicine and homeland security.

Brookhaven is a potential employer (careers and internships) for postdocs, graduate and undergraduate students in the sciences. They came searching for our students at the Fall 2008 career fair.

More information can be found on their website: http://www.bnl.gov/world/

We will be visiting Brookhaven on Thursday, Jan 15th. If you would like to attend this trip, please RSVP to wah.yan@gmail.com as soon as possible.

Are your science & engineering students looking to get into science & technology policy?

Georgia Tech now offers a PhD Program in International Affairs, Science, and Technology.

If any of your undergraduate or masters students are interested in a pursuing a PhD at a program which specializes in S&T politics and licy, then please alert them of this new opportunity. Any science/engineering majors (especially those pursuing a political science, policy, or economics minor) would be a good fit for this program.

The department’s faculty includes political scientists, physicists, chemists, computer scientists, and policy experts from across a wide spectrum of issue areas and regional specialties. Students will also be encouraged to incorporate faculty from the various science & engineering departments at Georgia Tech into their dissertation committees.

Join the Polytech chapter of the American Chemical Society (PACS) in an upcoming seminar, “LifeMap Nutrition System”, on Tuesday December 9, 2008 @ 1pm in RH205. Refreshments will be served. Randy Rosler, from GeneWize Life Sciences, will be the speaker for this event.

The presentation will touch on 3 things:

1. The Product and some of the science behind it: A unique product launch from a pioneering company. GeneWize is the world’s first company to take 14 years of research revolving around DNA, Nutrition and Genetics and combine this into a product that is customized for an individual based on their DNA.
2. The Business Model: How the parent company (GeneLink) formed GeneWize, a direct sales company to distribute this product.
3. How the company is continuing to grow even in this recession.

RSVP to polyacs@gmail.com if you would like to attend and/or need directions getting there.