Overview
This data analysis and information management
assignment will provide your company with an opportunity to research topics
and people working in an area of analytical chemistry. Ultimately the
assignment will result in your company sending a memo to upper management
making the case for allocating resources to make the invitation happen and
crafting a letter of invitation to a scientist to present a seminar at St.
Olaf College on a topic related to analytical chemistry. To assist
you with this assignment, consider the introduction to analytical chemistry
that we discussed during the first day of class; you may wish to craft your
search based on where an analytical chemist works, the general activities
of an analytical chemist, or a topic of current research in the field.
In each case, SciFinder Scholar, Web of Knowledge, and Science Direct will be valuable search tools.
Places of Employment -Industries
| 3M | Eastman Chemical | IBM | Novartis | Valspar |
| Agilent Technologies | Ecolab | Kimberly-Clark | Pace Analytical | Varian Inc. |
| Aveda | Eli Lilly | Kodak | Pfizer | |
| Cargill | General Mills | Land O Lakes | Pharmacia | |
| CIMA Laboratories | Goodyear | LucentTechnologies | PPG Industries | |
| Dow Chemical | H. B. Fuller | Medtronic | Procter & Gamble | |
| Dupont | Honeywell | Merck & Co. | St. Jude Medical |
Places of Employment -Education, Government, Others....
| Colleges & Universities | MN Dept of Natural Resources | Oak Ridge National Laboratory |
| Federal Bureau of Investigation | MN Pollution Control Agency | Smithsonian Institution |
| Getty Conservation Institute | National Aeronautics & Space Administration | US Dept of Agriculture |
| Mayo Clinic | National Gallery of Art | US Environmental Protection Agency |
| Metropolitan Council | National Institute of Standards & Technology | US Food & Drug Administration |
| MN Bureau of Criminal Apprehension | National Institutes of Health | US Geological Survey |
| MN Dept of Agriculture | National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration | |
| MN Dept of Health | National Science Foundation |
Assignment
Find a scientist doing analytical work
that interests members of your company so much that you would like to invite
him/her to give a seminar at St. Olaf College sometime in the future.
A recommended first step is to browse the on-line editions of Analytical Chemistry,
Environmental Science &
Technology,and Journal of Chromatography A (Science Direct), to discover
contemporary research topics in analytical chemistry prior to doing a SciFinder
Search. Simply click on the underlined name to take you to the appropriate
website. Once you have identified a possible topic of interest, use
SciFinder Scholar and Web of Science to find publications on that topic and
scientists doing the work. You might wish to refine your search to target
specific organizations/places of employment of interest. Use SciFinder,
Web of Science, Bridge, and EndNote to build a custom bibliography for this
analytical topic.
Memo to upper management
The first written part of the assignment is to compose a
memo to upper management that outlines the case for allocating resources
to invite your selected scientist to speak to Norway Valley Laboratories
(i.e., St. Olaf College Chemistry Department). The memo will briefly
describe the significance of the scientist's work, his/her educational background
if available, and current place of employment; furthermore, it should articulate
what topic this scientist will be asked to present at Norway Valley Laboratories.
To adequately convince upper management that this person should come speak
on the topic you've selected, include a bibliography as part of the memo.
That bibliography must contain at least 6 journal or book citations, formatted
in the style found in Analytical Chemistry,and the title of journal
articles should be included.
Ferrer, I.; Thurman, E. M.; Barcelo, D. "First LC/MS Determination of
Cyanazine Amide, Cyanazine Acid, and Cyanazine in Groundwater Samples" Environ.
Sci. Technol. 2000, 34, 714-718.
Invitation to the speaker
The second written component of this assignment is a formal
letter of invitation from your company to the scientist asking them to come
to St. Olaf College and present on the specified topic. To assist you
in crafting a suitable letter, an example is available; click here
to download it. Use this example as a template and remember to include
the topic on which you wish to have him/her present.