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ACS Webinars – Your Career Matters! Series:
Part of the ACS Webinars program, these presentations feature speakers that address a wide variety of career topics for science and engineering professionals.
- January 14, 2010 – “Using Your Chemistry Education to Unlock Career Opportunities in the New Decade – A story from the 2010 ACS President” with Joe Francisco, ACS President 2010.
ACS Webinars – Small and Medium Business Series:
- January 21, 2010 - “Open Innovations: How can Crowd-sourcing in Chemistry Benefit ME?” with Alph Bingham, Founder of InnoCentive.
- November 2009 - “Navigating the IP landscape: Legal issues entrepreneurs and small business owners need to know” with Gianna Arnold, Partner at Miles & Stockbridge, and Director and President of Women in Bio.
- October 2009 – “What you need to know about Chemistry and the Economy! Secrets to finding hidden opportunities” with Paul Hodges, Chemical Economist with International eChem.
- September 2009 – “Government, Green Chemistry, and You: Finding and Securing Small Business Innovative Research Funding from the EPA” with April Richards, Deputy Director at the Environmental Protection Agency.
- August 2009 - “What You Need To Know About Changes in VC Landscape and Capital Raising Process” with Josh Wolfe, Managing Partner at Lux Capital.
- July 2009 – “Avoiding financing pitfalls for start-ups and small business” with Ken Polk, Director of ACS TechCatalyst.
- June 2009 – “From Idea to IPO and Beyond: Practical Lessons from an Entrepreneur” with Al Altomari, former CEO and co-founder of Barrier Therapeutic.
- May 2009 – “Weathering the Storm: Sailing Your Way through Tough Economic Times for Small Chemical Business” with Barry Streusand, an entrepreneur and founder of Applied Analytical.
- April 2009 – “Steps to successful technology commercialization for scientist entrepreneurs and small/medium businesses in lean times” with Craig S. Galbraith, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Technology Management and a GlaxoSmithKline Faculty Fellow of Economic Development at the Cameron School of Business at University of North Carolina, Wilmington.
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ACS Careers Industry Forum Teleconference – recording and text transcript
- November 2009 - “Your Career, Your Choice, Your Control: How Do You Figure Out What To Do Next?” with Dr. Luis Echegoyen, Chemistry Director, National Science Foundation.
- October 2009 – “Career Flexibility: How to Build and Balance a Successful Career in Academia and Industry” with Dr. Jim Wells, Professor, UCSF, and founder, Sunesis.
- September 2009 – “From a Lab Chemist to a Technology Broker: How to use Chemistry to Unlock Other Career Doors” with Dr. Andy Gilicinski, Director of Technology Brokerage and Innovations at Clorox.
- August 2009 - “The Chemistry of Leadership: Making Your Skills Count!” with Katie Hunt, Director, Technology Collaboration Development for The Dow Chemical Company.
- June 2009 – “Applying Chemistry in Venture Capital; how to find opportunities” with David Porter, Managing Partner, Apposite Capital.
- May 2009 – “From Chemistry Set as a Ten Year Old to Running R&D for a major Pharmaceutical Company” with John LaMattina, former Senior Vice President, Pfizer Inc and President, Pfizer Global Research and Development.
- April 2009 - “Green Chemists and Engineers- There’s Never Been a Better Time” with Robert Peoples, Director of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute.
- March 2009 – “It’s 2009, Do You Know Where Your Networks Are?” with Katie Hunt, Corporate Sustainability Director and Leader, Technology Partnerships, Rohm and Haas Company.
- February 2009 – “Anticipating the Future: 2015 & Beyond” with William Carroll, Vice President, Chlorovinyl Issues for OxyChem.
- January 2009 – “Mastering the Necessary Skills for the Present and for the Future” with Thomas Lane, Director, Global Science and Technology Outreach and Senior Research Scientist, Dow Corning Corporation.
- November 2008 – “An Alternate Career Path: Starting and Running Your Own Chemical Company” with Michael Strem, President, Strem Chemicals, and Ephraim Honig, Chief Operating Officer at Strem Chemicals.
- October 2008 – “Working as an Industrial Chemist Internationally” with Carolyn Ribes, Technical Leader, Core Research and Development, Dow Benelux BV, the Netherlands.
- September 2008 – “Career in Pharmaceutical Industry” with Magid Abou-Gharbia, former Senior Vice President & Head of Chemical & Screening Sciences, for Wyeth Drug Discovery.
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