WANTED: Industrial Hosts for NSF Sponsored Graduate Student Summer Internships

The State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry at Syracuse, NY seeks industrial partners to host and train Doctoral students in the areas of Chemistry and Biochemistry.  Sponsorship to be sought through the National Science Foundation Division of Cross-Disciplinary Programs.

• INDUSTRY PROVIDES 2-month training internships in an industrial research laboratory setting.  Ideally you will expose graduate students to non-classical techniques in cross-cutting areas of the Chemical and Biological Sciences. A letter supporting this project will greatly strengthen its support with the NSF.

• WE PROVIDE ESF faculty participants, including  seventeen science and engineering faculty, whose collective expertise will provide the academic underpinning for the training of some 50-60 PhD students over the progam's five year time frame. Research areas include analytical chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, plant molecular biology, cellulose chemistry,  environmental chemistry, microbiology, organic natural product chemistry, plant ultrastructural studies and polymer chemistry.

• GOAL Expose graduate students to the interdisciplinary nature of modern industrial research while developing technical, managerial and communicative skills essential to continued professional growth.

• OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU to screen, in your own environment, bright, young scientists as potential future employees.

• CONTACT Dr. Neil Price, Department of Chemistry (E-mail: npprice@syr.edu, PHONE: (315)470-6853, FAX: (315)470-6856)  will be pleased to provide further details.