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More on coaching undergrads

More on coaching undergrads

Greetings St Louis Local Section Members! Here is an update on the “Graduating Undergrad” coaching workshops. We successfully completed the February and March workshops with 20+ attendees from SIUE, UMSL, SLU, Maryville, and Principia. At the February workshop, ACS Career Consultant Lisa Balbes gave several important tips on résumé writing

Eric Ressner 31 Mar 2021

Councilor Talking Points, exec. sum.

Councilor Talking Points, exec. sum.

St Louis Local Section Councilor Donna Friedman, just back from in front of her computer screen, where the national Council Meeting was hosted virtually, has provided us with the Councilor Talking Points (CTP) summary of Council and Board actions. Herewith an executive summary of the summary, a curated selection of

Eric Ressner 28 Mar 2021

Salary Survey title graphic

Breaking: salary survey

Everyone’s most anticipated annual article has appeared in the February 1 Chemical & Engineering News. The 2020 salary survey, formally titled, “What US chemists made before the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the 2020 ACS salary survey,” features pretty good pre-pandemic chemical employment news. The nicest tidbit: unemployment among those

Eric Ressner 11 Feb 2021

Continuity via Zoom

Continuity via Zoom

The normally festive Continuity Dinner had to take a back seat to COVID-19 this year. We did the best we could via Zoom to maintain the special traditions of this last-meeting-of-the-year. Although most of the attendees already knew most of the other attendees, we started with a round of self-introductions,

Eric Ressner 16 Dec 2020

Shelley Minteer and ACS Au

Shelley Minteer and ACS Au

Some of you may remember Shelley Minteer, who served in the Section Chair succession in [looking it up] 2009-2011. She was on the faculty at Saint Louis University, and left to take a new position at the University of Utah. Some others of you may know that the American Chemical

Eric Ressner 09 Dec 2020

More COVID rearrangements

More COVID rearrangements

No surprise, certainly, but the annual fancier-than-usual Continuity Dinner that normally coincides with the December Board of Directors meeting .... Yeah, no. We’ll be Zoom-ing instead. Regular attendees will receive an invitation a few days in advance of the scheduled December 10th meet, and RSVPers will get a link to

Eric Ressner 30 Nov 2020

Eric Bruton on career resources

Eric Bruton on career resources

Members of our local section continue to make splashes in the big pond that is national ACS. Eric Bruton, Chair of the section in 2012 and current Councilor, provided a commentary for C&E News (vol. 98, issue 45, November 23, 2020) about career planning and resources. The bottom

Eric Ressner 28 Nov 2020

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