SC EPSCoR/IDeA

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The following is a list of events or opportunities not directly sponsored by SC EPSCoR/IDeA, but may be useful to the EPSCoR/IDeA community.

NSF Water Workshop: Water Dynamics (pdf)
The Vermont EPSCoR-sponsored Water and Watershed Dynamics workshop is intended to draw together researchers from NSF EPSCoR jurisdictions to share research interests and explore areas for developing collaborations. 

2008 Maine EPSCoR State Conference
September 29-30, 2008
Wells Conference Center, University of Main, Orono, Maine

Assistant Professor Position-University of South Carolina
As part of the Faculty Excellence Initiative at the University of South Carolina, the Department of Biological Sciences invites applications for a MICROBIAL ECOLOGIST specializing in waterborne pathogens for a tenure track assistant professor position to begin August 2009.  This position is one of several in a university-funded faculty cluster, which was established to build strategic research capabilities in Environmental Microbiology with a focus in the emerging research area of /Environmental Stresses and Microbial Stress Responses/.  Research interests should include, but are not limited to, processes contributing to resilience or adaptive changes of microorganisms, especially pathogenic microbes, in response to stress in natural aquatic systems.  Topics of particular interest are the roles of natural selection and horizontal gene transfer in the adaptation to stressed environments and/or the role of phenotypic plasticity in survival and functionality under stressful conditions. The position is a 9-month academic year tenure-track appointment.  For more information about the Department of Biological Sciences, visit www.biol.sc.edu/. Applicants should include with their application a vita, statement of research and teaching interests and goals, and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least three references.  This information should be sent to: James L. Pinckney, Chair, FEI Environmental Microbiology Search, Department of Biological Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.  To ensure full consideration, applications must be submitted by October 15, 2008.

Health Speakers Toastmasters Club at MUSC
Health Speakers Toastmasters Club is designed to help its members succinctly and effectively communicate their science.  Click here for more information (pdf).