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.

Holiday Dinner Details

Details on our next meeting - the Holiday Dinner - have been posted to the Events page and added to the Calendar. The details are copied below:


Holiday Dinner
Date: December 10
Time: 6:30 pm
Location: Ted's Montana Grill
Renaissance Center (across Fayetteville Rd. from Southpoint)
6911 Fayetteville Rd., Suite 102
Durham, NC 27713
919-572-1210

Our December meeting will be at Ted's Montana Grill in south Durham. As usual, friends and family are welcome to join us for this holiday dinner.

** Please RSVP by December 9th with the number guests you will be bringing, if any, so I can reserve an appropriately sized table. Thanks! **

Directions: Google Maps and Mapquest both say to make a right turn onto Renaissance Parkway and then make a U-Turn.... but you can turn left at that light, then go around the little traffic circle to make another left and drive past the Best Buy and REI to get to Ted's. Alternatively, you can turn left earlier onto Herndon Rd (between Johnny Carino's and PF Chang's) and then make a right into the shopping center, and then take the first or second left. Ted's is between Moe's Southwest and REI. These directions assume you are coming off I-40 W from RTP at Exit 276 Fayetteville Rd (this is one of those newer X-style overpasses).

Looking forward to seeing everyone again. If you have questions feel free to give me a call or email reply.

Colleen Kane
FY10 President SWE-ENC
919-302-2778
easternncswe[at]gmail.com

Essay Contest files

The cover letter, instructions, and list of resources for the 2009-2010 essay contest have been posted to the site. I also added a direct link to the essay contest page to the top of the list of links on the left. Please feel free to share these files with anyone you think might be interested!

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