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11/01/2024

Mentor Training Opportunity

In early 2025, Laura Rico-Beck will facilitate 2 mentoring sessions for postdocs. Please use this form to sign up and indicate which time is preferred for both days.

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11/01/2024

CLS-CNRS Collaboration

CLS received a $50,000 award from the France Chicago Center to support student/postdoc mobility for four projects we proposed and fund a workshop on Physics of Living Systems in Paris, France!

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11/01/2024

Upcoming: Physics Pedagogy Colloquia – 11/21/24 & 4/24/2025

As part of one of the CLS goals to examine culture and practices of Physics education, we’ve invited two experts on these topics to give a Physics Colloquium. Geraldine Cochran is speaking on 11/21/2024 and Catherine Crouch will be visiting on 4/24/2025.  Prof. Cochran is an Associate Professor at U. Ohio and will be speaking on “Understanding the Community Cultural Wealth of Physics Graduate Students and Implications for Graduate Programs.”

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11/01/2024

Call for Volunteers for Inaugural CLS Trainee Advisory Committee

We are looking for 1-2 more volunteers, preferably  theory/computation student(s)/postdoc(s), who are interested in launching the CLS Trainee Advisory Committee and the Trainee Seminar and Coffee Hours in 2025.

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10/01/2024

CLS Seminar and Townhall

Please RSVP for the CLS Town Hall and Symposium on 10/23  1-5 pm by Friday (10/18)
1 -2 pm  CLS Trainee Town Hall (with Lunch) 
All trainees in CLS laboratories are welcome to join Margaret (CLS Director) over lunch to talk about the research and training environment facilitated by the Center.  We’ll discuss what activities the Center is doing, what could be improved and/or started to enhance our local research and training environment.  
2-5 pm Lightening Talks & Poster Session (GCIS W301/303 and WERC Atrium)
We will have an afternoon of lightening talks, posters and prizes!  Please come present your work and learn about the awesome work being done across the center. 
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10/01/2024

A reminder the CLS provides support for trainee travel and undergraduate research

CLS funding information to support trainee travel to conferences is found here.

Details regarding support for undergraduate research in CLS labs can be found here

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10/01/2024

CLS activities starting up this quarter

The CLS QBio journal club - meetings will be held every other Friday at 2pm in GCIS E223. Join the listserv for future updates and sign up here to volunteer as a presenter.

The CLS Chalk Talks series - talks will be every other Friday at 12pm in GCIS E223. Join the listserv for future updates and sign up here to volunteer as a presenter.

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08/30/2024

Apply for CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship

Please advertise our CLS Postdoctoral Fellowship and encourage outstanding junior colleagues to apply! Deadline is November 1, 2024.

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We are looking for a few (1-3) individuals - who may be a motivated advanced graduate student, postdoctoral fellow or faculty member - who are interested in curation and development of curricular materials for Biological Physics/Physics of Living Systems. Please see here for more information.
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