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Other Events: San Francisco Victoria Bragin, shown at the piano during her concert at the Fall 2005 ACS meeting. She also spent some time discussing music with her audience, including the career of chemist– composer Alexander Borodin.
Musicians from the Caltech chamber music program are, from left to right: June Wicks, violin; John Keith, cello; Victor Kam, piano; Christina Vizcarra, viola; and Shelley Chang, violin.
photo by Delores Bing
The ACS Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) and the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) are sponsoring a concert 5:30–7 p.m. on Tuesday, September 12, 2006, to be held in the Ralston Room of the Palace Hotel, 2 New Montgomery Street (two blocks from the Convention Center). Jeff Seeman and Vicki Bragin have again teamed up to celebrate fine music and special chemistry, as they did at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Washington, DC. Bragin (shown in the photograph, top right), the winner of the prestigious Van Cliburn International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in 2002, will once again perform her piano magic. The concert will also feature members of the chamber music program at Caltech (shown in the photograph, bottom right). The musicians are all are either Caltech chemistry undergraduate or graduate students. The concert is free.
photo by Aalok Mehta, C&EN
Chemists Making Music
Equipping the 2015 Chemical Technology Workforce Equipping the 2015 Chemical Technology Workforce is a symposium designed to highlight ways industry, academia, and workforce and professional organizations can work together to prepare the current and future technical workforce. This collaborative ACS initiative will take place Tues-
day, September 12; it will kick off with an all-day Presidential Event, with both panel discussions and interactive presentations. Participants will be encouraged and supported in the development of local programs based on the Event. For more information, visit http://www.ChemTechLinks.org (accessed Jun 2006).
Academic Employment Initiative Will your department be hiring new faculty this year? If so, plan to attend the Academic Employment Initiative (AEI) at the Sci-Mix poster session on Monday evening, September 11, from 8–10 p.m. in the Moscone Center. This is the third year of the AEI, an ACS presidential program designed to support the academic hiring process by making it easier for departmental representatives to meet and interact informally with candidates. This year at the meeting in San Francisco, candidates seeking faculty positions will present posters about their current research, expanding on their research interests, teaching
philosophy, and experience. Faculty recruiters are invited to take advantage of this opportunity to meet as many candidates as possible. Brief biographical sketches of each of this year’s candidates will be available at http://www.chemistry.org/ aei.html (accessed Jun 2006). Further information can be found at that Web site or by writing to
[email protected]. This event is cosponsored by PRES, CWD, CHED, CEPA, CMA, SOCED, WCC, PROF, and CPT. It is organized by the ACS Office of Graduate Education and ACS Department of Career Management and Development.
About San Francisco
Traveler Tips The Web site of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau provides a comprehensive visitor’s guide that can help you plan your trip to the Bay Area. From maps to coupons and suggestions on where to eat, shop, and play, the site has all the information you need. Don’t miss out on all that San Francisco has to offer! Visit http://onlysf.sfvisitor.org.
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Local Transportation The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) connects both the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and the Oakland International Airport (OAK) to downtown San Francisco and every other point of interest in between. For ticket and schedule information visit http://www.bart.gov/ (both sites accessed Jul 2006).
Vol. 83 No. 9 September 2006
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Journal of Chemical Education
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