The fourth annual Portland American Chemical Society Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair will be held on Sunday, October 22, at the SRTC Building at Portland State University, from 4-7 PM.\u00a0 We hope to have 40 or more undergraduates presenting posters about their summer research; there will be free pizza and pastries (and other food and drink).<\/p>\n
There will be $150 first prizes and possibly $75 second prizes in each of seven divisions (Organic, Inorganic, Analytical, Physical, Biochemistry, Polymers, Materials).\u00a0 Note that the chances of winning a prize are pretty high!<\/p>\n
We anticipate that representatives of many local companies and graduate schools will be present; the schedule is designed to allow plenty of time for the students to leave their posters and interact with the recruiters and other students.<\/p>\n
I am writing to seek your help in getting this information to every undergraduate attending a school in the Portland or Oregon ACS sections who did chemistry-related research during the summer of 2017.\u00a0 No one knows this better than the faculty.\u00a0 Please forward this to your colleagues, and through them (or directly) to appropriate students; in addition to those who did research on campus last summer, please try to remember those who did research somewhere else.\u00a0 Company and national lab internships count, as long as the students are able to divulge their results, and researchers from other departments are also welcome, as long as there is some connection to chemistry.\u00a0 The results need not be high impact\u2014we understand that some projects do not work as expected, but one can still make good posters about them.<\/p>\n
There is no selection process for this event\u2014any student registering may present.\u00a0 Full information, including registration instructions, can be found at the following web site:\u00a0https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/portlandacsposters\/home<\/a>.\u00a0 However, we do not want a bunch of no-shows\u2014registration should constitute a good-faith commitment to attend and present.<\/p>\n Deadline for registration is October 10.\u00a0 We need some lead time to prepare the booklet.\u00a0 To encourage early submission, there will be a $10 prize for the first 5 students who register!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The fourth annual Portland American Chemical Society Undergraduate Poster Symposium and Career Fair will be held on Sunday, October 22, at the SRTC Building at Portland State University, from 4-7 PM.\u00a0 We hope to have 40 or more undergraduates presenting posters about their summer research; there will be free pizza and pastries (and other food… Continue reading