BIOCOM and BioSpace Launch Online Life Science Career Center for Southern California (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) BIOCOM, the association for the Southern California life science community, has partnered with online career center BioSpace to launch www.BIOCOMCareerCenter.org, a job-focused Web site giving employers and potential employees a one-stop shop for posting and searching resumes and job listings throughout the Southern California life science industry....more...Prana Expands Senior Management Team With Appointment of Two US-Based Pharmaceutical Executives (RedNova) MELBOURNE, Australia, April 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Prana Biotechnology Limited , a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research and development of treatments for neurodegenerative disorders, has expanded its senior management team to include two US-based pharmaceutical executives....more... Cultivating St. Louis (RedNova) By Nicholson, Jim The secret's out. St. Louis is a major center of agribusiness. Geographically blessed, St. Louis sits at the center of both the national rail and highway systems, is situated at the confluence of three major working rivers and is surrounded by prime farmland....more... UC Irvine Extension Signs Articulation Agreement with Keck Graduate Institute (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance) IRVINE & CLAREMONT, Calif.----In an ongoing effort to advance educational pathways available to students interested in the biomedical field, UC Irvine Extension has signed an articulation agreement with Keck Graduate Institute to allow transfer of credits toward the KGI Fully Employed Master of Bioscience Degree Program - a new program which allows busy professionals to obtain a master's degree ......more... Area High School Women Explore High-Tech Careers at Annual "Design Your Future Day" (Newswise) More than 300 11th grade girls from the Capital Region and across New England will participate in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's "Design Your Future Day" (DYFD) on Saturday, April 21. The event is designed to engage students in activities to inform and excite them about career opportunities in engineering, science, architecture, and technology....more... `Students should evaluate their aptitude before choosing a career' (The Hindu) CHANDIGARH: Over 2,000 students, many of them accompanied by their parents, attended Careersfest-2007, organised by ITFT at a city hotel here on Wednesday. The show was conducted by career counsellor Usha Albuquerque and her associate Sushma ......more... Endocrinology and Expectations in 1930s America: Louis Berman's Ideas on New Creations in Human Beings (RedNova) By Nordlund, Christer Abstract. In the first half of the twentieth century, hormones took pride of place as life's master molecules and the endocrinologist took precedence over the geneticist as the scientist offering the means to control life....more... Business calendar (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review) Career Development Center -- 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., 5743 Bartlett St., Squirrel Hill. "The Art of Networking." Free. For information, call Shannon Heim at 412-422-5627....more... Minnesota's job drain (Pioneer Press) With any luck, Amy Ringold won't be living in Minnesota in a few months. Unable to find a job that pays enough since she was laid off last year at a private school in West St. Paul, Ringold plans to head east to faster-growing North Carolina, where she hopes to land work as a media specialist in Charlotte....more... |