The UBRP office has received information and application materials for a variety of research experience programs, grants, scholarships, conferences, jobs, and graduate programs. What follows is a sampling:
Research & Development (R&D) Colloquium for Undergraduates, Procter & Gamble, November 6-8 at Cincinnati, Ohio. The Procter & Gamble Company is hosting a two and one-half day R&D Colloquium for undergraduates who are interested in learning about R&D in the health and beauty care industries. The Colloquium is designed to give undergraduate students majoring in chemistry or life science a broad overview of what R&D is about in industry. The Colloquium will feature lectures on cutting edge sciences and its application to R&D. The program also will provide students an opportunity to better understand what a technical career would look like in an industrial R&D setting. The Colloquium will be offered to a limited number of candidates. The applicants must be fulltime college students, preferably in their sophomore, junior or senior years, majoring in chemistry or life science program. Candidates must be a U.S. citizen or national, permanent resident, refugee or asylee, or temporary resident under the legalization program of the 1986 Immigration Act. Procter & Gamble will pay accommodation, meals and travel expenses. Applications must be received no later than July 30, 2005. To obtain a brochure and application, please visit our website at http://www.pg.com/science/rd_colloquium.jhtml. Students can also contact Ms. Lynn Parrott at 513-622-1574 or email parrott.ll@pg.com.
Minority Trainee Research Forum, The Fairmont Turnberry Isle Resort & Club, Aventura, Florida, September 7-11, 2005. A scientific meeting for serious trainees engaged in wet bench research from the postdoctoral, graduate, medical, undergraduate and high school levels of the biomedical pipeline. Selection is based on a national competition of abstracts from wet bench research. Website: www.temple.edu/pstp to download Application and Registration Form. Abstracts must be received by July 30, 2005.
The Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) announces that registration, submission of student research abstracts, and reservation of exhibit booths are now available online
http://www.sacnas.org/enouncements1.htm for the 2005 SACNAS National Conference in Denver, Colorado from September 29-October 2.
Application deadlines vary, so don't waste any time! Check our files (LSS 348) or contact these sites directly.
