The Research Office Incentive Programs is accepting applications for the RERF 2016 solicitation. The intent of the RERF program is to enable faculty to acquire, repair, renovate, or improve equipment directly used for research. Program guidelines and application: http://research.oregonstate.edu/incentive/research-equipment-reserve-fund. Information: Debbie Delmore at debbie.delmore@oregonstate.edu. Deadline: Jan. 11.

The OSU Women’s Giving Circle is currently accepting proposals for grants to be awarded in May 2016. The applications are due by Friday, Jan. 15. For more information please visit http://www.osufoundation.org/s/359/foundation/index.aspx?sid=359&gid=34&pgid=4389. Questions contact Kellie Parker at 541-737-4691 or Kellie.Parker@oregonstate.edu.

Accordingly, the American Chemical Society is pleased to announce a competition for the eleventh Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowship.  This fellowship offers two years of financial support for a scientist who has received or will receive a doctoral degree from a group of selected US chemistry departments in 2015-2016, and who wishes to study a problem at the biology-chemistry interface.

Irving S. Sigal Fellowships are currently awarded at two year intervals.  Since a very large number of nominees could result from an invitation to each US chemistry department awarding the doctoral degree, ACS has decided to divide the graduate chemistry departments into five groups, with a different group of departments invited to participate in successive competitions.  Your department at Oregon State University is invited to nominate a doctoral student who seeks postdoctoral funding for 2016-2018.

The ACS invites your department to nominate one graduate student who has received or expects to receive a doctoral degree in any field of chemistry during 2015-2016, and who would like to pursue postdoctoral study at the biology-chemistry interface.  ACS places no restrictions on the nominee, such as age or nationality, beyond the criteria in the previous sentence.  We need to receive the name, postal mail, and email address of your nominee by COB January 29, 2016.  You may send in your nomination by email, fax or mail, but you may only nominate one student to participate.  The nominee will be invited to complete and return by March 25 an application we will e-mail to him/her.  Announcement of the Sigal Postdoctoral Fellow is anticipated by late June 2016. It is expected that the Sigal Fellow will commence the two years of postdoctoral study by January 1, 2017.

Thank you for your cooperation in identifying outstanding candidates.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely yours,

Askar Fahr, Ph.D.
Program Manager
The Irving S. Sigal Postdoctoral Fellowships

American Chemical Society
1155 Sixteenth St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

email: a_fahr@acs.org
telephone: (202) 872-6207
fax: (202) 872-6319

Oregon Sea Grant’s Summer Scholars Program is a ten-week program placing high caliber undergraduate students from around the country with public agencies (federal, state, and local) to provide students with hands-on experience under the mentorship of a career professional. Applications due Feb. 22. For more information and application instructions: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/fellowships/summer-scholars

OSU tenured/tenure-track, senior instructor, and emeritus faculty are invited to submit honors course proposals for 2016-2017 athttp://honors.oregonstate.edu/course-proposals.  Any course in the General Catalog may be offered as an honors course; proposals for interdisciplinary colloquia are also welcome. Faculty may apply for Meehan course development grants of up to $3000 to develop experiential learning opportunities for honors courses.  For more information:tara.williams@oregonstate.edu or 541-737-6412.  Deadline: Jan. 15.

The Greenwall and Whitehall foundations are both accepting letters of intent for their January deadlines.

 

Greenwall Foundation

The Greenwall Foundation will fund the next cycle of its bioethics grants program, Making a Difference in Real-World Bioethics Dilemmas, to support research to help resolve an important emerging or unanswered bioethics problem in clinical care, biomedical research, public health practice, or public policy. Our aim is to fund projects that will have a real-world, practical impact. Priority for funding will be given to collaborative projects involving a bioethics scholar and persons working in other fields in which bioethics dilemmas arise, for example, clinical care, scientific research, technology innovation, or public service. Projects may be either empirical or conceptual/normative. Letters of intent are due January 8, 2016 by 12:00pm ET, for projects to begin on or after July 1, 2016.

 

For this cycle, priority topics are:

• Ethical and policy issues in new approaches to protecting research participants.
• Ethical and policy issues related to advances in biomedical research and the translation of research into clinical practice, including:

o   The increasing use of big data and mobile health applications in clinical care and research;

o   Advances in neuroscience and in research and clinical care of persons with degenerative brain diseases; and

o   The impact of changes in the FDA regulatory process on access to new therapies and the safety of approved therapies.

• Ethical and policy issues that are particularly salient in certain cultural, ethnic, and demographic communities, including dilemmas arising in health disparities research, in clinical and system interventions to reduce health disparities, and in clinical care. We are particularly interested in policies and procedures that, while neutral on their face, may have unintended adverse consequences in practice for certain groups.

 

The Greenwall Foundation will fund 10% indirect costs to the grantee institution for salary and benefits only. More than one applicant may apply from each institution, but principal investigators may submit only one letter of intent per funding cycle.

 

http://greenwall.org/making-a-difference.php

 

 

Whitehall Foundation

The Whitehall Foundation assists scholarly research in the life sciences through its research grants and grants-in-aid programs. It is the foundation’s policy to support those dynamic areas of basic biological research that are not heavily supported by federal agencies or other foundations with specialized missions. The foundation emphasizes the support of young scientists at the beginning of their careers and productive senior scientists who wish to move into new fields of interest.

 

1)      Research: Research grants of up to $225,000 over three years will be awarded to established scientists of all ages working at accredited institutions in the United States. Grants will not be awarded to investigators who have already received, or expect to receive, substantial support from other sources, even if it is for an unrelated purpose.

 

2)      Grants-in-Aid: One-year grants of up to $30,000 will be awarded to researchers at the assistant professor level who experience difficulty in competing for research funds because they have not yet become firmly established. Grants-in-Aid can also be made to senior scientists.

 

To be eligible, applicants must hold the position of assistant professor or higher; have principal investigator status; and be considered an “independent investigator” with his/her own dedicated lab space or with lab space independent of another investigator.

 

Letters of Intent must be received no later than January 15, 2016. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit full applications by June 1, 2016.

 

http://www.whitehall.org/grants/

 

 

Please forward as appropriate. If anyone wishes to apply, please have them send me a copy of the LOI. As always, our office is available for assistance.

NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC (NANO3D) is a fast growing start up company that develops novel micro- and nanofabrication plating technologies, products and services for semiconductor, clean energy, touchscreens and biomedical markets. By employing the brightest minds, NANO3D creates the innovations that shape the future of technology.

 

Job Summary

Plating Engineer works as a member of a team at NANO3D SYSTEMS LLC to develop, implement and maintain the micro- and nanofabrication plating processes. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there’s no telling what you could accomplish.

 

Key Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in plating, specifically focused on improving / optimizing process chemistry and controls for electrolytic and electroless nickel, cobalt, iron, tin, copper, palladium and alloy plating.
• Extensive knowledge of plating processes, process chemicals and equipment as well as plating bath metrology.
• Strong material and metallurgical knowledge of metals, especially copper, tin, palladium, nickel, cobalt, iron and their alloys.
• Experience with the use of statistical tools and methods for determining process capabilities, troubleshooting problems, process controls and design of experiments (DOE).
• Ability to manage time to maximize productivity.
• Good team working and communication skills.
• Attention to detail and accuracy of recording information.
• Awareness of commercial importance of products and ability to plan and prioritize work accordingly.

 

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement the novel micro- and nanofabrication plating technologies.
• Develop and optimize novel bath chemistries to obtain desired film properties, and to specify process parameters needed to scale the bath to industrial wafer plating tools.
• Prepare, characterize and optimize plating solutions; prepare and measure the film mechanical, microstructural, thermal, and chemical properties; and transfer of the process from benchtop cells to full wafer equipment.
• Participates in defect reduction teams and implements process improvements based on demonstrated improved yield results.
• Interfaces with other engineering, quality and manufacturing team members.
• Work to maximize productivity and meet targets and deadlines.
• Focus on Safety and environmental regulations.
• All other duties as required.

 

Education:

BS or MS in chemical engineering, chemistry or material science.

 

Work Location:

MBI/ONAMI in Corvallis, Oregon.

 

Contact information: dubin@nano3dsystems.com

Amber Hames is a graduate fellow at Argonne National Laboratory. She works on recycling used nuclear fuel using pyrochemical processing. She’s from Homer Glen, Illinois, and attended Lewis University, earning a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She is working on a doctorate in chemistry.

1) What inspired you to work in STEM?

Since I was in first grade I wanted to work in science. I remember saying I wanted to be a veterinarian, then an astronomer, and then an eye doctor. It was high school when I realized that I love chemistry.

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The University Of Missouri’s Research Reactor Center is seeking a postdoctoral fellow with training in sonochemistry, analytical, or radiochemistry to work in the area of post detonation nuclear forensics.  The work will include development of novel sonochemistry and inorganic fusions methods for rapid dissolution of surrogate nuclear debris.  Independent research, publication, and participation in grant writing are also expected.  Knowledge of ultrasound chemistry, mass spectrometry and/or inorganic chemistry is desired. The initial appointment will be for a one-year period, with possibility for renewal based on performance and availability of funding.  The position is supported by funding from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).  To apply, please email your CV to Dr. John Brockman at brockmanjd@missouri.edu by January 5^th, 2016.

 

The University of Missouri is an equal opportunity/access/affirmative action/pro-disabled and veteran employer.