I am very pleased to announce that the full-text of the ACS Style Guide is now available online.
"The ACS Style Guide is an established and definitive source within and beyond the chemistry community, educating researchers on how to effectively communicate scientific information.
To download CSD, please go to: Cambridge Structural Database at Stanford.
Be sure to check out:
Changes in the CSD System in 2013
Rewarding Your Best Research
The Reaxys PhD Prize is awarded for original and innovative research in organic, organometallic, and inorganic chemistry, which demonstrates excellence in methodology and approach by a candidate currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD after January 1, 2012.
Three Prize Winners will each receive a check for $2,000.
Applications Invited for CSA Trust Jacques-Émile Dubois Grant for 2013
The Chemical Structure Association (CSA) Trust is an internationally recognized organization established to promote the critical importance of chemical information to advances in chemical research. In support of its charter, the Trust has created a unique Grant Program, renamed in honor of Professor Jacques-Émile Dubois who made significant contributions to the field of cheminformatics. The Trust is currently inviting the submission of grant applications for 2013.
The committee has released the final report on creating safety cultures. The report provides guidance, suggestions, examples, and recommendations that will help strengthen the safety culture in two- and four-year undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral programs. It identifies:
"The ACS Presidential Commission on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences released its report, Advancing Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences, at a news conference at the National Press Club on December 10th. The report identifies major changes critical for ensuring that graduate education serves the needs and aspirations of students and society as a whole. The report includes five key recommendations addressing these issues: curriculum, financial support, laboratory safety, career opportunities, and mentoring postdoctoral students.
Since its inception in the early 1970s, email has become a durable form of communication – one that presents a massive problem for donors, repositories, and researchers. Over 140 billion email messages are sent every day, and many, if not all have research value as part of an archival collection. Email is used for more than just communication. It is used for collaboration, planning, sharing, conducting transactions, and as an aid to memory – a self-archive. It documents relationships – personal, business, and communal. Our reliance on and daily use of email over the past 40 years has developed rich archival material with a secondary benefit of recording social networks in the header information of senders and recipients.
The Department of Special Collections at SUL proposes to address important facets of stewarding email archives that have not been tackled in previous projects. Characteristics of email such as its relatively stable format standardization as well as the inherent structure itself – header, body, attachments – make email an ideal candidate for automated tools to support archival workflows, such as appraisal and processing, as well as benefitting the user through discovery and delivery.
Free Tech Briefing
CUDA - Programming Your GPU
TODAY, Jan 18
SPECIAL TIME -- 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Turing Auditorium (Polya Hall, Room 111)
PRESENTERS: Levi Barnes and Steve Rennich, NVIDIA
NOTE: Attendees who want to follow along and do the exercises during the session should bring a laptop with SSH client installed.
CUDA™ is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).
http://blogs.nvidia.com/2012/09/what-is-cuda-2/
The Opportunity Job Fair is a School of Engineering / Career Development Center Event.
Ph.D. and REU students will be showcasing their research. Meet with over 130 companies/government agencies.
Reception: Friday, January 25
Huang Terrace 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
President John Hennessy keynote speaker at 5:30 PM
Job Fair: Saturday, January 26, 2013
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Huang Terrace and Forbes Family Center
For more information, contact Dr. Noe Lozano 650-862-7063 or CDC Job Fair Manager, Jim Frizzell.
The Journal of Biological Chemistry (JBC), the most highly cited journal in the life sciences, has deployed 21 subject-based specialty sites on the HighWire Open Platform.
