Cincinnati Children’s Research Foundation is proud to announce the second biennial Postdoctoral Recruitment Symposium on September 5-7, 2013. This symposium will provide a unique opportunity for outstanding senior graduate students from top graduate programs to meet and interview with faculty at Cincinnati Children’s.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is actively recruiting candidates to participate in the 8th NIH National Graduate Student Research Conference, to be held October 6-8, 2013 in Bethesda, Maryland. The purpose of this event is to recruit outstanding young scientists to postdoctoral positions in the NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP).

Congratulations to lithium anode maker SiNode Systems for winning the Rice Business Plan Competition and walking away with $900k in cash and in-kind prizes.

The Beiling Wu Prize in Writing, named for a former Northwestern graduate student in the humanities, will be given a doctoral student who wrote the best essay on literature or literary culture in the first year of his/her program. The amount of the award is $1000, which will be added to the student's stipend.