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The rest of this week, Andre the Chemist and I will be talking about career advice for (relatively) young chemistry professionals. Today, I'm writing about job geography and Andre is responding at his blog. -- CJUPDATE: Andre has responded at his blog. (Truly hilarious and thoughtful.)Dear Andre:Hope that you are enjoying your summer -- and that you're getting a good workout on the minor league wrestling circuit (isn't that what unusually large academic chemists do when they're not
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From the inbox:Job Description: The Australian Synchrotron is seeking highly motivated research scientists driven by the opportunity to engage and collaborate with industry to deliver scientific outcomes in the role of Industry Support Scientists. Industry Support Scientists will play a key role in the development of partnerships and support of commercial and non-commercial users in experiment design and the effective application of the Australian Synchrotron beamline facilities. In
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Good morning! Between June 13 and June 17, 56 new positions were posted on the C&EN Jobs website. Of these, 8 (14%) are academically connected and 39 (70%) are from Kelly Scientific Resources.Thousand Oaks, CA: Amgen is searching for a B.S./M.S. associate to work on the molecular modeling team:Amgen is seeking a highly qualified individual to provide scientific computing and decision support in the area of chemical and biological informatics. As a member of the molecular modeling team, the
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Good morning! Between June 11 and June 17, there were 10 academic positions posted on the C&EN Jobs website. The numbers:Total number of ads: 10- Postdocs: 0- Tenure-track faculty: 4- Temporary faculty: 2- Lecturer positions: 3- Staff positions: 1- US/non-US: 7/3Evanston, IL: Northwestern University is searching for a Ph.D. NMR spectroscopist to run their walkup NMR facility.Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University is looking for a general/organic chemistry laboratory
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Also in this week's C&EN, an interesting set of comments reported by Michael McCoy from the annual meeting of the American Chemistry Council (the chemical industry's trade group) (emphasis mine):Through the end of March, nearly 100 chemical investment projects that capitalize on shale gas had been announced, the report found. Valued at $71.7 billion, the new plants are expected to generate $66.8 billion in annual chemical output and create some 500,000 jobs in chemical plants and
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