ACS Career Fair On-site and Online — Aug. 28-31

The ACS Career Fair in August will be a hybrid event, fully integrating the Virtual Career Fair into the on-site ACS Career Fair to be held concurrently with the ACS national meeting at the Colorado Convention Center. This innovative online/on-site career fair will offer job seekers not only more venues to connect with prospective employers, but also more programs to gain the knowledge and skills needed to reach their career goals.

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SBIR Funding Opportunities with NCI/NIH: Priority Areas of 2012
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Business and Innovation
Time/date: 2 to 3 p.m. ET July 28

Guest speaker: Dr. Ali Andalibi is a Program Director and heads the Therapeutics and Diagnostics Section in the National Cancer Institute's SBIR Development Center.

Calling all entrepreneurs and small businesses! Have ideas and need funding? The National Cancer Institute's Small Business Innovation Research Development Center provides funding opportunities for small firms to apply cutting-edge, high-risk scientific and engineering research to commercial opportunities. Join Dr. Ali Andalibi, Program Director at the NCI, as he explains and answers your questions on securing funding from NCI. Don't miss the live Q-and-A.

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