2010 CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence (chemical information & related sciences)

From CHMINF-L:

The scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) funded by FIZ Chemie Berlin is designed to reward graduate and postdoctoral students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.

Up to three scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be presented at the 240th ACS National Meeting in Boston, MA, August 22 - 26, 2010. Applicants must be enrolled at a certified college or university, and they will present a poster during the Welcoming Reception of the division on Sunday evening at the National Meeting. Additionally, they will have the option to also show their poster at the Sci-Mix session on Monday night. Abstracts for the poster must be submitted electronically through PACS, the new abstract submission system of ACS.

To apply, please inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net, that you are applying for a scholarship. Submit your abstract to http://abstracts.acs.org <http://abstracts.acs.org/> using your ACS ID. If you do not have an ACS ID, follow the registration instructions and submit your abstract for "CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence". The deadline for submitting an abstract to PACS is March 28, 2010. Additionally, please send a 2,000-word abstract describing the work to be presented in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by June 15, 2010. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.

Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced during the reception. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of FIZ Chemie-CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.

Reaxys PhD prize for research in organic, inorganic, organometallic chemistry

From CHMINF-L:

We are happy to announce the launch of the Reaxys PhD Prize, a competition for candidates currently studying for a PhD or having completed a PhD within the last 12 months in organic, inorganic, and organometallic chemistry.

The prize will be awarded to the candidates that demonstrate excellence in methodology and approach in a peer-reviewed publication. Three prize winners will each receive a check for $2000 and be invited to present their research at the Winners' Symposium, held at the EuCheMS meeting in Nuremberg, Germany on August 30, 2010.

All entries will be reviewed by a review board of leading international chemists, chaired by the following members of the Reaxys Advisory Board:
• Dr. P. Kocis - former Global Head Exploratory Chemistry, AstraZeneca
• Professor H. Kunz - University of Mainz, Germany
• Professor H. N. C. Wong - Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

Submissions will be reviewed based upon originality, innovation, importance to the field, applicability, rigor of approach and publication quality.

All submissions must include a PhD Supervisor letter of recommendation, a CV and a representative peer-reviewed piece of published research.

Please pass this information on to your faculty encouraging their students to submit their application.

Further details and all submissions should be made here:
http://prize.reaxys.com

Convert SciFinder client "saved answer" sets to web "saved answer" sets

From CHMINF-L (Jan 22/10):

An easy-to-use file conversion tool is now available for converting your SciFinder client saved answer set files (.sfr) to the .akx web format used in the web version.

To access the file conversion tool, go to:
http://www.cas.org/support/scifi/index.html.
A link to the tool is also available within the SciFinder Help files.