Wednesday, May 9, 2007 3:00PM

Farrell Learning and Teaching Center Rm. 212

This Wednesday join us for our last meeting of the semester.  If you have enjoyed the programming this year and would like to see more of ABBGS next year, definitely come and let us know how we can better serve YOU. This is also your chance to get more involved if you like; importantly we will hold officer elections for 2007-2008. *(officer descriptions attached)

If for nothing else come join us for CAKE as we celebrate the success of our inaugural year and the successful defense and upcoming graduation of our historian Elizabeth Sitati-Farnsworth. Liz will be moving on to a promising Postdoctoral position at the National Institute of Health this coming summer (we will miss you Liz!!). If you know other graduates please feel free to bring them as well.

To maintain the life and vibrancy of ABBGS we need all those interested to take an active role, we’re here to learn how to be independent researchers but also to be leaders in our fields in and out the lab.

Also a HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who supported the Ethiopian Medical Text Book Drive, led by Damien Fair (neuroscience PhD student) and Rahel Nardos (BJH resident). We collected over 400 quality books and ~$3,000 that will benefit the medical students of Addis Ababa University School of Medicine, Ethiopia
Check out our page at www.abbgs.org for pictures.

Thursday, May 10, 2007

Lunch 11:45, Seminar 12:00PM

RSVP for lunch by Tuesday (8th)

McDonnell Pediatric Research Building Rm. 8101

Have you ever had an opportunity to talk with an important scientist for a few minutes but were unable to produce an intelligible sentence about the scope and impact of your work? Do you find yourself tongue-tied at lunches with speakers and faculty? Well, this seminar will help you to tackle these fears and present tips that will allow you to “Sell Yourself Short”.

Learn tips to presenting a coherent advertisement of you in a short period of time, which may greatly influence your ability to be remembered by the right people. These networking skills can be applied at conferences, at dinners, or in chance meetings with those who could have an impact on your career. The seminar will be presented by Dr. Harvey Fields PhD.

Students, postdocs, and all those interested are invited!!!
We will provide lunch for all who RSVP by Tuesday (8th).
For everyone else feel free to bring your own lunch and join us as we learn more about networking from an extremely accomplished and dynamic speaker!!

Speaker information: Dr. Fields received his PhD at Washington University in Chemistry, Prior to this he was employed at Proctor and Gamble as a technical manager and a lead engineer.  Dr. Fields is currently the assistant director for academic programs in Washington University’s Cornerstone: Center for advanced learning.