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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.

• May 27, 2010 – “Knowing Your Worth: Strategies to Negotiate for a Higher Salary or Pay for Chemical Professionals” with Meredith Dow, Partner at Proven Inc.
• May 13, 2010 – “Chemistry and Communications - A Closer Look at Scientific Careers in Publishing” with Dr. Darla Henderson, Assistant Director of Editorial Development, ACS Publications.
• April 8, 2010 – “Creating a Successful Career in Public Policy and the Chemical Industry: Lessons Not Taught in Classrooms” with Dr. Susan Butts, Senior Director of External Science and Technology Programs at The Dow Chemical Company.
• March 11, 2010 - “Developing Career Skills to Compete in a Global Economy: Observations of AMRI Operations in India, Singapore, Hungary and the United States” with Dr. Michael Trova, Senior VP at AMRI.
• February 11, 2010 - “Love Chemistry and Food? Find out how to find and build a career in the food/flavor industries” with Carolyn Fisher at McCormick.
• 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 – Chemistry & The Economy Series:

• July 8, 2010 - “Chemicals & the Economy Mid-Year Updates – Impact and Outlook for Executives and Scientists” with Paul Hodges, Chairman of International eChem, and author of the well-regarded ICIS Chemicals and the Economy blog.
• 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.

ACS Webinars -Executive View Series:

Part of the ACS Webinars program, these presentations features industry executives from small and large businesses on pertinent issues affecting the chemical and biopharma enterprises.

• February 18, 2010 - “Failure is an Option: Turning Failure into an Advantage: Story of Inspire Pharma” with Ben Yerxa, Chief of R&D, Inspire Pharmaceuticals.

ACS Webinars – Small and Medium Business Series:

• July 22, 2010 - “Living with Vertigo: An Entrepreneurial Story in the Chemical Industry” with Brian Morin, Founder, Innegrity.
• July 15, 2010 - “Venture Capital Talk: How to Sell Your Science & Get Investors” with David Porter, Managing Partner, Apposite Capital.
• July 1, 2010 – “From Laboratory to Licensing: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Along the Way” with Tom Steinberg from Roberts, Mlotkowski, Safran & Cole in McLean, Virginia.
• June 24, 2010 – “Exit Strategies – A measure of Success for Chemical Entrepreneurs and Small Business” with Kenneth Polk, Director, ACS TechCatalyst.
• June 10, 2010 – “Covering Your Elements – Understanding Professional Liability Concerns Facing Scientific Consultants and Strategies to Protect Yourself” with Richard Kissel, Partner at KPHW Law.
• May 27, 2010 – “Knowing Your Worth: Strategies to Negotiate for a Higher Salary or Pay for Chemical Professionals” with Meredith Dow, Partner at Proven Inc.
• April 29, 2010 – “Success Factors for a Consulting Practice in Chemistry” with Dr. William Golton, a founder and first Chairman of the Chemical Consultants Network, and Vice President (ret.) of The CECON Group, Inc.
• April 22, 2010 – “Raising Capital with Angels: What They Don’t Tell You at Business Schools” with Mike Elconin, President, Tech Coast Angels.
• March 25, 2010 - “How to Grow Your Small Business into a Large Corporation: The Story of SAIC and the Secret Sauce of Employee Ownership” with Martin Staubus, Beyster Institute.
• February 25, 2010 - “East Meets West: Global Opportunities in Asia Pacific” with Ronghui Gao, Business Development Director, BioBay Park, China.
• 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.
• 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.

ACS Webinars - Professional Growth & Development Series:

Part of the ACS Webinars program, these presentations features subject experts on topics and issues of personal growth for scientific professionals.

• June 3, 2010 – “Effective Technical Writing – Tips and Strategies Every Scientist Should Know” with Dr. Aline Harrison, the instructor for Effective Technical Writing Short Course offered by the American Chemical Society Office of Professional Education.
• May 6, 2010 – “From a Beaker to a Bottle: Overview of the Drug Discovery and Development Process for Small Molecule Therapeutics” with Ann Newman, Ph.D., Seventh Street Development Group.
• April 15, 2010 – “US Immigration for Foreign-born Scientists and Engineers- Employment, Green Card, and Travel” with Martin Lawler, Lawler & Lawler.
• April 1, 2010 – “How Chemistry is keeping your Food Safe – Application of ultra high pressure liquid chromatography in a Food Safety Laboratory” with Walter Hammack, Florida Department of Agriculture.
• March 18, 2010 - “Staying ahead of the game: Recent innovations in computational methods for drug discovery” with Woody Sherman, Vice President of Applications Science at Schrodinger Inc.
• March 4, 2010 - “Online Monitoring for Water and Wastewater Processes – Global Sustainablilty at Your Fingertips” with Ed Askew of Askew Scientific Consulting.

ACS Webinars - Green Chemisty and Sustainability Series:

Part of the ACS Webinars program, these presentations feature topics that catalyze the implementation of green chemistry and engineering principles into all aspects of the global chemical enterprise.

• July 29, 2010 - “Department of Commerce Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative – Government Resources that Support Sustainable Manufacturing” with Morgan Barr, International Economist, DoC Sustainable Manufacturing Initiative.
• May 20, 2010 – “Green Chemistry: Innovation and Application for the New Decade” with Anne Wallin, Dow Chemical

ACS Webinars - Prized Science Series:

Part of the ACS Webinars program, the Prized Science series feature chemical luminaries and ACS award winners who discuss their cutting edge research and personal journey in the sciences; they are heroes who impact our world in ways both great and small.

• June 17, 2010 – “A Life of Innovation – Finding Your Passion” with David Walt, Robinson Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, and a successful entrepreneur.

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.