Comments from Faculty Members
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 16:52:24 -0800
From: Lisa Rosenberg <lisarose@uvic.ca>
To: jandraos@yorku.ca
Subject: careerchem.com
Dear Dr. Andraos,
I recently came across the website you've developed to describe the
demographics of the Canadian academic chemistry scene. What a useful
resource! I recently attended a graduate school information session
hosted by undergraduate students at McMaster University, and I
pointed many of the students I met towards your site to see what they
should be asking of and about graduate supervisors.
However, you've got a mistake in my scientific lineage! I did one
postdoc at the CNRS with Jean-Jacques Brunet, and a second at the
University of Iowa with Richard Jordan, but I did not work with Chris
Foote at UCLA - that was another Lisa Rosenberg. It's very
interesting - she actually did work on organometallic rhodium
complexes (as did I). I am very sorry to not be able to scoop her
publications into my own cv.
Thanks for helping to promote us all.
Sincerely,
Lisa Rosenberg
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Dr. Lisa Rosenberg, Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry, University of Victoria
P.O.Box 3065
Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3V6
(250)-721-7173 (tel) (250)-721-7147 (fax)
http://www.chemistry.uvic.ca/rosenberg/
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 12:55:08 -0800
From: Alexandre Brolo <agbrolo@uvic.ca>
To: jandraos@YorkU.CA
Subject: info
Hi,
I just want to give you some info about my scientific career that seems
to be missing. I did a two years pos-doc (following my PhD with Irish)
in a collaborative project between Peter Norton (UWO) and John Hepburn
(UBC). So, I consider both of them as my pos-doc supervisors.
Thanks, and I really enjoy going through the site.
Alex
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Alexandre G. Brolo
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Victoria
Victoria, BC,
P.O. Box 3065,V8W 3V6
Phone: (250) 721 7167
FAX: (250) 721 7147
http://www.chemistry.uvic.ca/brolo/brolo.html
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 23:06:54 -0400
From: Scott A. Mabury <smabury@chem.utoronto.ca>
To: jandraos@yorku.ca
Subject: ottawa
dear john,
i thought you ran a very good session on 'faculty' hiring etc at the
csc/iupac meeting. well done.
a few data that need correcting...toronto 2002: Jumi Shin (you have
yumi) and add Scott Prosser are both new and both at UTM.
2001...Lakshmi Kotra is in pharmacy not chemistry although we
cross-appointed him.
we're searching for 4 new people this year: 1) synthetic organic; 2)
biological chem; 3) tier I crc phys chem/nano materials; 4) tier I
crc environmental.
again thanks for your session.
kind regards,
Scott Mabury
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Associate Professor of Environmental Chemistry,
Chair of Chemistry,
Director of ANALEST, Analytical Lab for Environmental Science
Research and Training
80 St. George St.
Department of Chemistry
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON M5S 3H6
Canada
smabury@chem.utoronto.ca; 416 978-1780 (phone) 416 978-3596 (fax)
http://www.chem.utoronto.ca/staff/MABURY/Index.htmDate: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:55:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Andraos <jandraos@yorku.ca>
To: Scott A. Mabury <smabury@chem.utoronto.ca>
Subject: Re: ottawa
Dear Scott,
Thanks for your message. I was very pleased with feedback from students
and postdocs. The organizers of the 6th Annual Chemistry and
Biochemistry Graduate Research Conference (Nov. 14/15), who were in
attendance, have kindly invited me to give the same talk at Concordia
University.
The CSC will be hosting this workshop on an annual basis and plans
to expand this career type seminar for industrial positions as well.
This second workshop would be given by someone from the chemical industry
in Canada. It would run separately on the day the Career Fair is held so
students can have opportunities to attend both workshops.
Data on the website will be updated in the next few weeks so your
information will be included. Thanks. Please don't hesitate to point
out any further errors, omissions, additions, etc. beyond the UofT info.
Regards,
John Andraos
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 16:23:05 -0700
From: Robert E Campbell <robert.e.campbell@ualberta.ca>
To: jandraos@yorku.ca
Subject: Careerchem.com
Dear Dr. Andraos,
While undertaking my recent job search, I found the information
contained at your website very enlightening. It is truly an amazing
resource for postdocs seeking faculty positions in Canada. Now that I
have a position in Canada, it is nice to see my own name in your list
of new Faculty for 2003. I thought I could help you out by letting
you know that my postdoctoral supervisor was Roger Y. Tsien in the
Department of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.
http://medicine.ucsd.edu/pharmaco/rytsien.html
http://www-chem.ucsd.edu/Faculty/bios/tsien.html
Would you mind if I put a link to careerchem.com from the links page
of my research group website (not up yet)?
I appreciate your effort and dedication. Thanks again,
Robert
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Robert E. Campbell
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
T6G 2G2 CANADA
Phone: (780) 492-1849
Fax: (780) 492-8231
Email: robert.e.campbell@ualberta.ca
Web:
http://www.chem.ualberta.ca/faculty/campbell.htmDate: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 08:38:24 -0700
From: Robert E Campbell <robert.e.campbell@ualberta.ca>
To: John Andraos <jandraos@yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: Careerchem.com
Dear John,
The most useful information for me was finding out about the academic
history of specific individuals that would be hosting me or
interviewing me during my job search. With this information I could
find personal connections (i.e. common acquaintances) or brush up on
their areas of interest. I can't make any specific suggestions of
things missing from the site. Ideally, it would be in html format
with hyperlinks to cross reference multiple appearances of the same
name. External links to personal webpages would be nice as well but
this would be a huge effort.
Thanks again for developing this valuable resource.
Robert
>Dear Robert,
>Thanks very much for your feedback. Sure, go ahead and place a link from
>your webpage. What specific information did you find useful? Are there
>other aspects that are missing from the site that you would like to see
>included?
>Best wishes,
>John Andraos.
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 19:59:19 -0300
From: John M.W.Scott <jmscott@avalon.ucs.mun.ca>
To: John Andraos <jandraos@yorku.ca>
Subject: Re: GENEALOGY OF CHEMISTS RELATED TO R.E.ROBERTSON.
Dear John,
Jim Hyne (Calgary), Ken Leffek(Dalhousie), Alan Queen(Manitoba) and
myself(MUN) were all post doctoral fellows(PDF) at NRC with Ross Robertson.
On the other hand, Alan Stein (MUN) was a summer student. PDF's generally
stayed with Ross for two years although there were some exceptions to this.
In contrast, summer students were in the Ross' lab. for ca.3-4 months.
Granted no distinction is to be drawn between summer students and
PDFs, there should be two further people on your map. These are STEVE
HARTMAN who is still on the faculty of Brock University according to the
Brock University web site. He published one paper with Ross
S.Hartman and R.E.Roberson Can.J.Chem. 38,2033,(1960).
The second person is the late JUNE G. WINTER (maiden name Martin).
June was a colleague here at MUN for ca. twenty years until she left to
Calgary University where here husband was appointed Vice President Finance.
June published one paper with Ross which was considered important enough to
be referenced in the second edition of Hammett's book on Physical Organic
Chemistry.
J.G.Martin and R.E.Robertson J.Am.Chem.Soc. 88,5354 (1966).
June did a M.Sc. with me here at MUN and a Ph.D. with Derek
Banthorpe at University College London. Her Ph.D. was also partly supervised
by Sir Christopher Ingold. This means that June is related directly and
indirectly to Ross Robertson. June published seven papers with me. One of
these is mentioned in the revised version of J.March's text on Organic
Chemistry.
Finally if you want to extend you map further from the Robertson off
shoots then Peter David Golding did an M.Sc.and Ph.D. with me and served on
the faculty at MUN for over twenty years. He published several papers with
me and
was on several papers with Ross Robertson, Michael Blandamer and myself.
Trusting you find this information useful,
John (Scott).
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 17:42:13 -0500
From: Sabine Montaut <smontaut@nickel.laurentian.ca>
To: jandraos@yorku.ca
Subject: career chem homepage
** High Priority **
Dear Dr. Andraos,
My name is Sabine Montaut. I have attended the workshop for the careerchem homepage you presented during the CSC conference in Vancouver in 2002. At that time I was a postdoc and your advices on how to reach a faculty position were extremely useful. Your website was an excellent source of information during the process of getting a faculty position. And it worked ! I have been hired on July 2004 as assistant professor at Laurentian University (department of Chemistry and Biochemistry). I was happy to find my name on your list of the "new faculty in 2004" !
I am sending you this message to complete the information concerning me:
1. I have defended my Ph.D. thesis in 1999.
2. My Ph.D. supervisors were Professor Isabelle Fourasté and Dr Gérard Vilarem (Not Nicolas Fabre as it is written in the table).
3. My Postdoc supervisor name is M. Soledade C. Pedras (Not M. Soledades C. Pedras).
Best wishes for 2005 !
Best regards,
Sabine Montaut
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Dr. Sabine MONTAUT
Assistant Professor
Laurentian University
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
935, Ramsey Lake Road
SUDBURY, ON P3E 2C6 CANADA
Phone: 1-705- 675-1151 ext: 2185 (office S-315)
Fax: 1-705- 675-4844
Email: smontaut@laurentian.ca
http://chemistry.laurentian.ca/
Professeur Adjoint
Université Laurentienne
Département de Chimie & Biochimie
935, Chemin du Lac Ramsey
SUDBURY, ON P3E 2C6 CANADA
Téléphone: 1-705-675-1151 poste: 2185 (Bureau: S-315)
Télécopie: 1-705-675-4844
Adresse électronique: smontaut@laurentian.ca
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