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Lunch with Professor Lauren Rossi!
Please join BUWIC TODAY at 12 pm for a lunch time seminar with Professor Lauren Rossi. The seminar will be an informal Q&A about what teaching at a mainly undergraduate institution is like. Lunch will be provided.
Dr. Lauren Rossi, Assistant Professor of Organic Chemistry at Roger Williams University
She obtained a B.A. from Wheaton College, and then earned a Ph.D. from Brown University working with Prof. Amit Basu on the synthesis and evaluation of glycosyl triazoles as glycosidase inhibitors. She then served as a Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow working in the Porco lab at BU prior to starting her position at Roger Williams. While at BU, she worked with the intensive organic chemistry lab, directing the Capstone projects, and taught organic chemistry lecture. Since 2009, Dr. Rossi has been at Roger Williams University, a primarily undergraduate institution, teaching organic chemistry and mentoring undergraduates in research. She will share some of her experiences and answer questions about this type of teaching and research environment.
Who: Graduate Students and Postdocs
When: Thursday, November 15, 12 pm
Where: LSEB 804
Lunch with Dr. Marti Head from GSK!
In addition to this week's BUWIC hosted seminar wtih Marti Head, there will be a special lunch Q&A session for grad students and post-docs where she will discuss what its like to be a director of a division in a major pharmaceutical company as well as what career decisions lead her there. Dr. Head also works with the team integrating GSK's acquisition of Sirtris and will be open to questions concerning her interactions with that part of the company and how it differs from more traditional research.
