KSU SAACS

Hi everyone,
We will be hosting Dr. John Patka on Tuesday (3/20/07) in SC 212. Dr. Patka is a Clinical Pharmacologist at Grady Memorial Hospital and will be here to speak on his career path and his graduate school experience. The discussion should be insightful for anyone considering going to pharmacy school.
-Dayne Fraser

P.S. Please bring your $5 dues. Thanks

Photos from the Dr Huang meeting

Georgia State University’s Chemistry and Biology departments have invited us to their open house/poster day on Saturday (2/24/07). They are recruiting graduate students and are offering competitive stipends of $5400/yr for MS students and approx $18,500/yr for PhD students. RSVP info.

Additional Info: Master’s info/ PhD info/ GSU Chem Department

Hi Guys,
I’m glad to announce that Dr. Zhen Huang will be our guest speaker at our next meeting on Tuesday 2/27/07 in SC 212 @ 12:30pm. He will be speaking on “Nucleic Acid Synthesis and Derivatization for Function and Crystal Structure Study”. Continue reading ‘Come see our guest speaker, Dr. Zhen Huang of GSU on Tuesday, February 27, 2007′

The first SAACS meeting of the semester will be held in SC 212 today, February 13, 2007 at 12:30pm. We will be discussing the plans for the year, including an essay contest and field trips.

Hope to see you there!

-Joe Madden

Hi guys,
Dr. Thomas McElroy is hosting a science bowl on Saturday, January 27, 2007. The science bowl is a jeopardy-like regional science competition among local high schools. Continue reading ‘Science Bowl on Saturday, January 27, 2007′

On October 10, 2006, Mark Burns from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) spoke to us about career opportunities at the GBI. He also answered the many, many questions we had.

October’s Adopt-a-Stream testing will be held Friday, October 13, 2006 @ 9:00am off Campus Loop Road in front of the Lutheran Church. As always all are invited.

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We will be having our second meeting of the Fall 2006 semester on September 26, 2006 in SC 212 at 12:30pm. Dr. Sidhu of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will be our guest speaker. He will be speaking about possible career options offered at the CDC. We hope to see you all there!

Update: Dr. Sidhu mentioned some internship and research opportunities outside of the university setting. Although university research is important, other opportunities are offered by the CDC in areas such as public health training and a myriad other internships. In addition, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) offers a summer internship program in biomedical research as well as a scholarship program.

I guess 9:00 am on Friday is a little too early for many of you guys but the rest of us had fun anyway. I’d like to give a special thanks to Cobb County Adopt-a-Stream coordinator Jennifer McCoy for giving us extra testing kits and prizes to give away. Hopefully I’ll see more of you guys next time. Where are the bio majors hiding?

We are having our monthly Adopt-a-Stream testing Friday, September 15, 2006 @ 9:00am off Campus Loop Road in front of the Lutheran Church. All are welcomed, especially biology and biochemistry majors. We need a couple of you guys.

Dr. Chris Dockery, our new faculty advisor, made some announcements at the first SAACS meeting of the Fall 2006 semester. So, for those of you that missed the meeting or were unable to jot down all of the announcements, here is a link to information regarding the presentation entitled “The Art & Science of Making Beer” at Gordon Biersch as well as the Herty Medalist Undergraduate Research Symposium being held at Morehouse College: Download me! We saw a lot of new faces today and I hope to see you all at the next meeting, especially the freshmen! Thanks everyone!

Yes, it’s true. We are having our first meeting on September 12, 2006 in SC 212 at 12:30pm. This is going to be a short meeting just to meet the officers and talk about the organization. Feel free to join. Membership fees are only $5 a semester.

Elections for the next KSU SAACS administration of the 2006-2007 academic year were held on Tuesday, April 25, 2006 at 12:30pm in SC 213. Congratulations to Joe Madden (president), Sarah Rosenbaum (vice president), Busola Adeyemi (secretary), and Dayne Fraser (treasurer). Good luck on final exams and we’ll see you next semester!

Laurene Hall, a biologist, and Pradip Shah, a chemist, from the Cobb County Adopt-a-Stream program visited with SAACS on Tuesday, April 18, 2006 at 12:30pm in SC 213. They spoke about the obstacles they have encountered while working in environmental protection and about how they have overcome some of these problems through community education. They also discussed the types of biological and chemical tests that they and their volunteer groups routinely perform on water samples from the local streams. They are extremely dedicated to improving the quality of our natural water systems here in the greater Atlanta area. Quite an engaging meeting, especially during the week of Earth Day!