Professional Development Updates

Updates have been added to the Professional Development page of the website:





GSK Scholars Symposium – January 29, 2010

Sir Paul Girolami Auditorium (R&D 5 Building)GlaxoSmithKlineFive Moore Drive CampusResearch Triangle Park, NC
January 29, 2010 - 9:00 am - 3:15 pm

Speakers:

• Prof. Karl A. Scheidt, Northwestern -- "New Approaches for the Synthesis and Exploration of Pyran-Containing Natural Products"
• Prof. John P. Wolfe, Univ. of Michigan -- "New Reactions for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Heterocycles"
• Prof. Andrew Myers, Harvard -- "Evolution of a Fully Synthetic Route to the Tetracyclines and its Implementation in the Discovery of New Antibiotics"

Directions to Girolami R&D Building 5:
From Alexander Drive, turn onto the GSK Moore Drive campus.
Continue going straight until you see the parking signs for the Scholars Symposium.
Enter the R&D Visitor's Lobby and obtain a visitor's pass at the registration desk


Small-Scale International Development Symposium – February 6, 2010 (Submit Registration Fee by February 1, 2010)

Symposium

Where: Gillings School of Global Public Health, UNC Campus
When: February 6th, 2010, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm

Benefit Dinner and Auction

Where: Morehead Planetarium
When: February 6th, 2010, 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

On Saturday February 6th 2010, the Daniel A. Okun Chapter of Engineers Without Borders will host a symposium on Small-scale International Development followed by the First Annual EWB-UNC Benefit Dinner and Auction.

The symposium, at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, will focus on the challenges of small-scale international development projects, which will be explored from the perspectives of the Triangle’s four EWB chapters. Speakers include professionals from the World Bank, Rotary International, the Louis Berger Group, Hazen and Sawyer, and UNC faculty and students.

The benefit dinner will be held at the UNC Morehead Planetarium and Science Center Banquet Hall, and will include:

• A silent auction hour with served wine and hors’d’eouvres
• A catered three-course seated dinner
• A keynote speech during dinner by Dr. Jamie Bartram, former Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Water and Sanitation Division
• A live auction
• A performance by UNC's All-male A Capella group, the Achordants

Please see http://studentorgs.unc.edu/ewb/index.php/special-events.html for program details, speaker bios, items in the silent and live auctions, and directions and parking.


27th Triangle Chromatography Symposium and Instrument Exhibition – May 20, 2010

McKimmon Conference and Training CenterNorth Carolina State UniversityRaleigh, NC

Things to Look for:

• Lunch: Served on-site as part of the registration fee
• Exhibitor Seminars: Seminar rooms where Exhibitors will give presentations on state-of-the-art topics
• Prize Drawing: Contributions by many of the Exhibitors - Grand Prize contributed by the TCDG
• Refreshments: Available in the Exhibit Hall (AM and PM)
• Continuing Education: GLP/GMP (Certificates of Attendance)
• Poster: Local student competition; local university and industry research; vendor developments
• Exhibit-Only Registration: FREE!!
• TCDG Election: Opportunity to vote for TCDG Officers.

Registration is now available. Check the TCDG website for more information: http://www.rtpnet.org/tcdg/symp.html.