Title Jobs, collaborations, and women leaders of the global chemistry enterprise / H.N. Cheng, editor, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, New Orleans, Louisiana, Marinda Li Wu, editor, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, Bradley D. Miller, editor, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC

Published Washington, DC : American Chemical Society, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 420 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps Series ACS symposium series ; 1195 ACS symposium series ; 1195. Contents Jobs, collaborations, and women leaders of the global chemistry enterprise: an overview -- Jobs, careers, and global mobility. Supply and demand of chemists in the United States -- Mothers who are chemists in American academe: resources to support academic parents in chemistry -- How does ACS promote international experience and global mobility? -- Innovations from international collaborations. ACS international activities: mechanisms to advance member-serving global engagement -- International year of chemistry: our celebration -- International collaborations -- Pittcon/ACS international visiting scientists program -- The Malta conferences: fostering international scientific collaborations toward peace in the Middle East -- Pacific polymer federation: a model for international cooperation -- Perspectives from the Brazilian chemical society (SBQ) -- Towards a sustainable partnership between ACS & FACS: what's next? -- International research funding in the chemical sciences: latest developments -- International collaborations in R & D: an Indian perspective -- Building global capabilities and delivering continual innovation at 3M -- Ingenuity in the global market: how to leverage open innovation to achieve results for your organization -- Seed, foster, believe, dream and act: capacity building in Kenya by Novartis Global Discovery Chemistry, Seeding Labs, the International Activities Committee, and the Computers in Chemistry Division of the ACS between 2010-2014 -- Science for Haiti: international collaborations to advance Haitian science and science education capacity and innovation -- Women leaders of the global chemistry enterprise. A retrospective view of my 70 years in chemistry -- Ten lessons from a lifetime of science -- From building roads to building peace: a woman chemist's odyssey -- The magnificent journey -- Partners for progress and prosperity: a personal and professional journey -- Two decades of research on natural products chemistry from Brazilian biodiversity: inspirations and motivations -- Portrait of a professional life: work, challenges, and satisfaction, all achieved in small steps -- Academic and personal evolution through thirty-eight years: two parallel tracks? -- Peace and satisfaction at the end of a lot of work, obstacles, efforts, and challenges -- Chance and destiny on the road to becoming the first woman professor of chemical engineering in Romania -- My experience being a woman and a professor of chemistry in Morocco -- Experiences of a female chemist in South Africa -- Glimpse of my scientific path: the quest continues -- Challenges and opportunities in Indian science: my experiences -- Participation of women scientists and engineers in Japan -- Achieving work-family harmony: my experiences as a chemist and a housewife Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Hoffman, Darleane C Jacobs, Madeleine Lerman, Zafra Margolin Nalley, Ann Wu, Marinda Li Silva Bolzani, Vanderlan da Galagovsky, Lydia R Loeb, Barbara Walsöe de Reca, Noemí Elisabeth Jinescu, Gheorghiţa El Rhazi, Mama Martincigh, B. S (Bice Susan) Islam, Samira Ibrahim Kantam, M. Lakshmi Kurihara, Kazue Tantayanon, Supawan American Chemical Society Pacific Polymer Federation Sociedade Brasileira de Química Federation of Asian Chemical Societies 3M Company Novartis (Firm) Subject Chemistry -- Vocational guidance. Chemical industry. Chemical workers. Women chemists. Women executives. Chemistry. Vocational guidance. Women. Executives. Mothers. Research. Chemistry Vocational Guidance Chemical Industry Women Administrative Personnel Mothers Faculty Chemistry -- economics Research Support as Topic Research Inventions Chemistry -- education Science -- education Congresses Career Choice chemistry. vocational guidance. executives. mothers. research (function) women (female humans) SCIENCE -- Chemistry -- Industrial & Technical. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Chemical & Biochemical. Women Vocational guidance Research Mothers Executives Chemistry Chemical industry Chemical workers Chemistry -- Vocational guidance Women chemists Women executives SUBJECT Kenya Haiti Form Electronic book Author Cheng, H. N., editor Wu, Marinda Li, editor Miller, Bradley D., editor ISBN 9780841230682 0841230684

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