From ghart at videotron.ca  Fri Aug 18 12:58:13 2006
From: ghart at videotron.ca (Geoff Hart)
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:58:13 -0400
Subject: Fwd: Career committee of the Caltech Postdoctoral Association?
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Thought this might be interesting to any scientific technical  
communicators near Caltech. Karin Crowhurst <karinc at caltech.edu> is  
looking for someone to speak to students. Please contact her  
directly, and if you can't attend personally but know someone who  
could, please pass along this message:

> ... we have no budget for travel expenses for this event (our  
> budget for career events for the ENTIRE year is $8000).  Anyone who  
> participates will have to be able to drive here and return to their  
> home within the same day, so I need to find someone within the  
> greater Los Angeles area that will volunteer their time.
>
> The science writing workshop is being organized and hosted by the  
> Caltech Postdoctoral Association. We are looking for people who  
> live in the Pasadena or Los Angeles area that would be willing to  
> volunteer their time to participate in a panel about scientific  
> writing as a career. The audience will be primarily graduate  
> students and postdocs. We already have science journalists and a  
> science writer with the Caltech Public Relations Office  
> participating on the panel, and are now looking for a scientific  
> technical writer who writes such documents as manuals, FDA drug  
> trial paperwork, the scientific component of patent applications,  
> etc.  The event will take place on Wednesday September 6th,  
> starting at 10am with a keynote speech, followed by the panel  
> discussion at about 10:45am. The event will end with lunch at the  
> faculty club with the panelists and a small group of interested  
> postdocs and graduate students.--Karin Crowhurst <karinc at caltech.edu>
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Geoff Hart   ghart at videotron.ca

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