On-Line Academic Chemistry Employment Clearinghouse

Sponsored by the Trtinity University Cheminformatics Web Site

With the increasing difficulty in locating employment in the chemistry community, we wish to announce a new facility to aid in the search for jobs in the academic chemical community. The Trinity University Cheminformatics Web site, originally sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, is now operating an academic employment clearinghouse on the Internet. Access to this clearinghouse is open to all, without charge, using the gopher or world-wide web navigation systems. This service will list employment opportunities in the chemical academic community, including jobs at the professor, instructor, post-doctoral, and graduate research assistant levels. Employment opportunities will be broken down into six categories (disciplines): analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry, education, and biochemistry.

How to access the Clearinghouse

To access the clearinghouse, you must have Internet access and either a gopher or web client. Access via gopher can be obtained by pointing your gopher client at hackberry.chem.trinity.edu port 70. Access via the web is through URL: http://hackberry.chem.trinity.edu:70/1/ChemJob

How to Submit an Entry to the Clearinghouse

Submission of a job listing is accomplished by electronic mail. The ad must be sent to

     chemjob@hackberry.chem.trinity.edu

and the Subject: line must have the following format

     Subject: discipline institution name

where discipline is ANALYTICAL, BIOCHEM, EDUCATION, INORGANIC, ORGANIC, or PHYSICAL (note that these terms do not have to been in caps) and the institution name is whatever name you wish to use as the heading of your listing. An example subject line is:

     Subject: organic StarFleet Academy - Assistant Professor

The listings will be ordered alphabetically by institution name. The body of the message is format free and you may include as much detailed information you wish. Keep in mind that while this service is offered at NO CHARGE, very long files can lead to problems with maintenance of the service. An institution may submit more than one ad. Institutions are encouraged to place separate entries for every position offered. Listings will be maintained for 45 days and then automatically deleted. Once the file is deleted, feel free to resubmit the ad if the position is not yet filled. Once a listing is received, a return message will be sent to confirm the transmission. Entries will be added to the directories at midnight (CST) every day.

Questions and Comments

Please direct all questions and comments to admin@hackberry.chem.trinity.edu.

This is an experimental server and we are very pleased to welcome all suggestions for improvements! (For example, if the academic clearinghouse proves successful, we will open this up to industrial and government employment opportunities.)

Steven Bachrach / Trinity University / admin@hackberry.chem.trinity.edu