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Events


Upcoming Events

  • October 23, 2009 (Friday) - Secondary Education from a PhD - 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Havemeyer 711 - Dr. Steve O'Malley, Stuyvesant High School Organic Chemistry Teacher

Dr. Steven O'Malley is an organic chemistry teacher at Stuyvesant High School in New York City.  Dr. O'Malley received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1999.  He obtained his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2004 under the mentorship of Professor James Leighton for his work on intramolecular silylformylation reactions and their application to the total synthesis of dolabelide D.  In 2004, Dr. O'Malley took a post-doctoral position at the University of California, Berkeley with Professor Jon Ellman

  • November 17, 2009 (Tuesday) - 3:00 - 5:00 pm, Miller Room - Dr. Charli Long, Interdisciplinary Scientst at the Food and Drug Administration
  • December 1, 2009 (Tuesday) - 5:00 - 7:00 pm, Havemeyer 717 - Dr. Boyana Konforti, Editor of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology

Anticipated future guests include:

  • An industrial recruiter from Pfizer
  • A regulatory affairs employee at Bristol-Meyers-Squibb
  • A healthcare marketer

Past Events

September 3, 2009 - 5:00-6:00, Havemeyer Patio, Ice Cream social for first year students  

August 27, 2009 - 4:30 pm, Havemeyer 7th floor, Organizational Meeting

2008-2009

 

May 28, 2009 - 5:00 pm, Havemeyer Patio, Organizational Meeting and Year-End Social

May 8, 2009 - 4:00 pm, Havemeyer 209, Atwal Career Symposium PDF 

      (1) Transforming the Culture of Organic Chemistry Learning -- Karen Phillips, Hunter College

      (2) To Teach or not to Teach: Careers in Education Panel -- Luis Avila, Columbia University; Brenton DeBoef, University of Rhode Island; Ruben L. Gonzalez, Jr., Columbia University; Emily McLaughlin, Bard College; Karen Phillips, Hunter College

March 10 and 11, 2009 - ACS Preparing for Life After Graduate School workshop (PfLAGS) Poster PDF

February 16, 2009 - 5:30 pm, Havemeyer 7th floor lounge, Post-doc panel discussion PDF

February 10, 2009 - 12:00-1:00 pm, Havemeyer 328, Pervaze Sheikh, Specialist in Natural Resources Policy -- Resources, Science, and Industry Division -- Congressional Research Service PDF

January 20, 2009 - 4:00, Havemeyer 717, Resume writing workshop

December 9, 2008 - 1:00-2:00, Havemeyer 711, Informational meeting PDF

October 1, 2008 - 4:30 - 6:00 pm, Havemeyer 209, Steve Lehotay, Lead Scientist from USDA Agricultural Research Service PDF website

September 23, 2008 - 6:00 - 7:30, Altschul Auditorium, McKinsey & Company resume preparation workshop (Joint with the Consulting Club) PDF

September 16, 2008 - 6:00 - 8:00 pm, Davis Auditorium, McKinsey & Company presentation 

August 20, 2008 - 5:45-6:45, Havemeyer Patio, Ice Cream social for first year students 

August 7, 2008 - 4:30-5:30, Havemeyer 717, Informational meeting

2007-2008

May 8, 2008 - Tom Ruttledge, Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University -

March 31, 2008 4:30-6:30, Havemeyer 209 - Atwal Career Symposium PDF

March 3, 2008 4:30-5:30, Havemeyer 711 - Oksana Cherniavsky: Working on Wall Street, The Life of a Financial Analyst

March 5, 2008 6:30-7:30, Havemeyer 209 - Ogilvy Healthworld: Is there Opportunity for Science Mas/PhDs on Madison Avenue? PDF

November 7, 2007 4:30-5:30, Havemeyer 711 - Building Effective Relationships: Introduce Yourself and Get Recognized PDF

October 30, 2007 5-6pm, Havemeyer 711 - Finding Funding for a Post Doc PDF

September 2007 Etiquette Dinner PDF

September 2007 What does industry look for in hiring medicinal chemists? Questions and Answer Session with Bristol-Myers Squibb PDF

September 2007 McKinsey & Company Recruiting Event, cosponsored with Columbia Consulting Club

August 2007 Ice Cream Social for First Years PDF

2006-2007

September 2006 McKinsey & Company Recruiting Event PDF

October 2006 Mike Holman, Ph.D., Analyst, Lux Research PDF

December 2006 Marco Pagnotta, Ph.D., Department Chair, Dwight-Englewood School PDF

February 2007 IP Panel, David J. Austin, Ph.D., Associate, Darby & Darby LLP PDF

Mitchell Bernstein, Ph.D., Science Advisor, Darby & Darby LLP

February 2007 Sonja Krane, Ph.D., Managing Editor, JACS PDF

February 2007 Tips and Tricks to Landing a Job in Academia PDF

March 2007 International Food & Fregrance

April 2007 Evaluating a Venture, Murry Low, Columbia School of Business PDF

April 2007 Post Doc Panel

May 2007 Ashok Maliakal, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Bell Laboratories PDF

May 2007 ACS Career Workshop PDF

Resume Review, Targeting the Job Market, Interviewing Skills, First Year on the Job

June 2007 Acing the Interview, Laurie Davis, CCE PDF

2004-2005

August 2005 Panel discussion about finding, applying for, and funding a post-doctoral position.

 

2003-2004

September 2003 "McKinsey & Management Consulting for PhDs" Dr. Sara Cronewett, McKinsey & Company

Septermber 2003 Scientific Grant Writing Workshop" Dr. Jaime Rubin, Columbia University, Health Sciences

October 2003 "Intellectual Property Law" Dr.Yanney, Dr. Bohm, Dr. Goldin, Darby & Darby, P.C.

March 2004 5th year grad students & faculty discuss how to get a post doc position

March 2004 Working at a Non-profit Research Institute Dr. Mark E. Van Dyke, Principal Scientist SwRI

April 2004 Putting Your Degree To Work: Practical Career Strategies for Ph.D.s,

Dr. Peter S. Fiske, CEO of RAPT Industries.

April 2004 Putting Your Degree to Work: Practical Career Strategies

Dr. Graham Abramo, Rohm and Haas

June 2004 Leadership and Your Career: Dr. Robert Schmitt, President of Parcor International

June 2004 Balancing Family and Career: A discussion with profs and grad students

 

2002-2003

October 2002 "So You Want to Be a Professor" Professors Nick Turro, Nina Shapley, Christian Rojas

November 2002 "How I Grew Up to Be a Medicinal Chemist" Dr. Adam Gilbert, Wyeth Research

December 2002 "From the Lab to Patent Law" Dr. Alan Miller, Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein

March 2003 "Drug Discovery at a Biotech Start-Up" Dr. Frank Hollinger, Locus Discovery

March 2003 Field Trip - Brookhaven National Lab Upton, NY

March 2003 Field Trip - Pfizer Central Research Groton, CT

March 2003 “The New Science of Catching Killers” Dr. Michael Baden, NYS Police .

April 2003 "The Role of Science in Homeland Security" Dr. Page Stoutland,

National Nuclear Security Admin.

July 2003 "Oil Exploration and Chemistry" Dr. Charles Flaum, Schlumberger-Doll Research

 

2001-2002

October 2001 "Transition from Postdoctoral to Junior Faculty: One Perspective" Prof. Brian Gibney, Chemistry

Novermber 2001 "Life as a Consultant: the Perspective from a Chemistry Ph.D."
Dr. Amy Michaels, Princeton Consultants, Inc.

December 2001 “Perspectives on Public Policy: The View from a Chemistry Ph.D.”
Dr .Carl Picconatto, ACS, Congressional Fellow

February 2002 "Chemogenomics: Drug Discovery for this Millennium"
Dr. Joshua Boger, CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

February 2002 “The Role of the Scientist in the Practice of Intellectual Property Law”

Joesph Eng and Arnold Rady, Morgan & Finnegan, LLP

March 2002 "Putting Your Degree to Work: Practical Career Strategies for Ph.D.s"
Dr. Thomas Miller, Aton Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

March 2002 Field Trip - Wyeth Ayerst Perl River, NY

April 2002 Field Trip - Lucent Bell Labs Murray Hill, NJ

May 2002 "Life as an Analyst: Perspectives from a Chemistry Ph.D." R.P.

May 2002 "How to Succeed in Academics and in Business without Really Trying" Prof. Richard Friesner, CU

June 2002 "Managing an Effective Job Search" Dr. Ray O'Donnell, SUNY Oswego.