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I’m currently sitting in a coffee shop, spending the day working on my laptop. I’m here waiting for several boy scouts who are attending a Merit Badge University, and learning about Leatherwork,...
View ArticleScience Writing as a Chemistry Mid-career Option
Science writing offers a rewarding career option for mid-career chemists interested in making a career transition. I myself began writing full-time in late 2004 after a thirty-year career as an...
View ArticleGreen Opportunities for Your Chemistry Career
In a recent webinar, I presented information Green Opportunities for your Chemistry Career. There is a lot of interest among chemists in greening their careers, and making their processes more...
View ArticleSecond Careers in Teaching – An Interview with Jennifer Anastasoff
Jennifer Anastasoff is the founding CEO of EnCorps and its current President. Her career has been involved in engaging the corporate sector in pro bono projects as well as in education. EnCorps was...
View ArticleNetworking at ACS Meetings
The approaching ACS national meeting offers a host of networking opportunities for attendees who want to make new professional contacts: people who could be useful research collaborators or strengthen...
View ArticleLessons from ACS National Meeting
I recently had the opportunity to attend the ACS national meeting in Boston. Six rain-soaked days of meetings, meals and general merriment with 14,000 fellow chemists. While exhausting, it also...
View ArticleOral Presentations: Preparation is Everything!
Presenting our work to others, especially orally, is a large part of what we do as scientists. Sometimes this occurs through informal conversations, but often it happens at scheduled, formal...
View ArticleTake Charge of Your Training
Take Charge of Your Training At the recent ACS Leadership Institute, I participated in many discussions on the current and future state of the employment market for chemists. Much as I thought – the...
View ArticleUnemployed? Don’t Let Your Job Skills Become Rusty
Preventing your job skills from deteriorating or becoming out of date is an important issue when you are unemployed, particularly if you have been unemployed for a year or more. Job hunts are taking...
View ArticleComparative Advantages of Young Chemists to Industry Veterans
Employers hiring chemists consider new graduates and post-docs leaving academia with a very different mindset than they do industry veterans. By understanding these mindsets both industry novices and...
View ArticleHow to Write a Research Paper
For a scientist, if you don’t publish your results, it may as well not exist. Communicating the results of your experiments is crucial, so others in your field can learn from, repeat, and expand on...
View Article5 Tips for Technical Writing
There are few career paths in which technical writing skills are unimportant. For those who pursue a science track, it is even more important. Whether it’s a resume, a grant proposal, a project...
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