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Off Campus Event: E2Tech Spring Networking Reception, 4/13

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E2Tech Spring Networking Reception with Cleantech Open Northeast
Thursday, April 13  5:30 -7:30 pm
Cloudport, 63 Federal St., Portland
Cost: $15          

Come join us at Cloudport in Portland for our Spring Networking Reception! Start off the spring season by catching up with old friends and making new, valuable connections. There will be food, and local beer from Baxter Brewing Co., and you will have the opportunity to explore Cloudport, a cool new coworking space, and the home of the E2Tech office. Click here to: Register

In addition, we will hear a few words from Cleantech Open Northeast leaders as they kickoff their 2017 Cleantech Open Accelerator & Competition. More information on this program can be found below. 

Speakers:

  • David Markley- Co-Founder & CEO, Surge Hydro (invited)
  • Tony Wood – CEO, F.E. Wood Natural Energy
  • Kathryn Elmes- Executive Director, Cleantech Open Northeast
  • Jeff Marks- Executive Director, E2Tech

The Cleantech Open is the oldest and largest cleantech startup accelerator program, with the mission to find, fund, and foster entrepreneurs with ideas to solve our greatest environmental and energy challenges. Through their annual business competition and accelerator program, they connect cleantech startups with the people and resources that will accelerate their success, and provide a national platform for public visibility.
You will hear from Cleantech Open Northeast leaders and learn more about how the program can help you grow your cleantech venture, expand your businesses’ services to young companies, or mentor entrepreneurs looking to solve our biggest environmental and energy challenges. In addition, you will hear from business owners who successfully competed in the Cleantech Open last year.
Last year two Maine companies, Delta Dewatering and F.E. Wood Natural Energy were semi-finalists, and Surge Hydro was one of four regional winners, and was awarded a recognition at the national competition in California! Surge Hydro joins two other Maine companies, Pika Energy and Rapport, who have won the regional award in the last five years.
Carry on Maine’s success and apply today!
You can learn about the Cleantech Open 2017
and the requirements for applying on the
Cleantech Open Northeast Website. 
Cleantech Open Applications are due by May 1, 2017
 
Office hours with Cleantech Open Northeast Executive Director, Kathryn Elmes, will be held prior to the event- let us know if you’re interested in meeting with her to discuss your company and this great opportunity.
E2Tech would love to help!
Contact E2Tech’s Executive Director, Jeff Marks, at [email protected]. 

Internships and Job Openings Summer 2017 and beyond

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Check out Bowdoin Ebear for internships and job openings, or make an appointment with Bethany Walsh, Assistant Director of Career Planning
email: [email protected]

Some recent postings include:
Selected Internships:
Enel Green Power North America: Business Development Intern. Energy Management Intern, Energy Markets Quantitative Analyst, Financial Reporting Analyst, ICT Network Engineering Intern, Performance Specialist Intern, Planning and Operations Support Interm
CounterpointsSRE: PACE Financing Commercial Real Estate Intern (parent referral
Reverb: Summer Intern
Midcoast Conservancy (Maine) Outdoor Adventure Intern
Coastal Mountains Land Trust (Maine): Communications & Development
Internship
Massachusetts Department of Fisheries and Wildlife: Field Botany Assistant
Appalachian Trail Conservancy: Monson Visitor enter Intern
Wolf’s Neck Farm (Freeport Maine): Summer Educator, Outreach Intern
Mount Agamenticus Conservation Program (Maine): Outreach Intern

Selected Jobs:
Natural Resources Defense Council: RAY Marine Conservation Diversity Fellowship (Alumni Referral)
Montrose Environmental: Extraction Laboratory Technician: Soil/ Water samples
GEI Consultants: Staff Environmental Scientist- geotechnical, environmental, coastal and sustainability
American Wind Wildlife Institute: Outreach & Engagement Coordinator
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: Program Officer
Resources Legacy Fund: Program Coordinator
Environmental Law and Policy Center: Sustainable Business & Innovation Fellow
Triumvirate Environmental: Environmental Specialist
Resources for the Future: Research Assistant

On Campus Event: ES Lunch- The Future of Green Careers, Wed. March 29 MU North Dining Room

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Environmental Studies Lunch: The Future of Green Careers
Join the Environmental Studies Program and the Career Planning Center for a discussion about the future of green careers with Patrick Coughlin ’89.
Wed. March 29 12:00-1:00
Moulton Union North Dining Room

Patrick is Principle and Senior Scientist at St. Germian Collins, providing environmental management and land development services. Coughlin sits on the board of E2Tech, which seeks to expand the state of Maine’s environment, energy, and clean technology sectors

This will be an open dialogue to include attendee’s questions, observations, worries and expectations for the future.

On Campus Event: Is the Press Still Free? A Conversation with Cynthia McFadden ’78, NBC News, Mon 3/27 @ 7:30 PM

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Is the Press Still Free? A Conversation with Cynthia McFadden ’78, H’12 of NBC News

March 27, 2017 | 7:30 PM – 9:00 PM | Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Award-winning journalist Cynthia McFadden ’78, H ’12 is the senior investigative correspondent at NBC News. She has reported from hot spots around the world, focusing on human rights abuses. In the last year, her work has helped lead to the president of the Maldives’ release from political imprisonment and to the commuting of Chelsea Manning’s sentence by President Obama. In the past six months alone, McFadden and her team have broken dozens of national security stories relating to Russian involvement in the US election, terrorism, and Yemen. Prior to NBC, she reported for twenty years for ABC News, the last ten of which as co-anchor of Nightline. A summa cum laude graduate of Bowdoin, she holds a JD degree from the Columbia University School of Law. Her work has been honored with Emmy, Peabody, duPont, and Foreign Press awards, among others.

Harriet Fisher ’17 and Marina Affo ’17 will moderate the discussion and facilitate questions from the audience.

Space is limited. Advance registration is required. One ticket per person.

TO REGISTER, GO TO BOWDO.IN/FREE-PRESS

On Campus Event: Watson Fellowship Info Session, Wed. 3/29 @ Noon

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Watson Fellowship Info Session
Wed. March 29 12:00-1:00
Moulton Union Chamberlain Room

The Watson Fellowship is a one-year grant for independent study and travel outside the United States awarded to graduating college seniors nominated by participating institutions.
Bowdoin ES majors Teona Williams, and David Bruce received the Watson Fellowship in 2012 and 2013.

On Campus Event: “The Acetylproteome of the Lyme Disease Pathogen: Implications for Host Adaptation and Pathogenesis”, Thurs. 3/30 @ 3:45

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“The Acetylproteome of the Lyme Disease Pathogen: Implications for Host Adaptation and Pathogenesis”

(Robert Cluss, Middlebury College
Thursday, March 30 3:45 PM
Druckenmiller Hall, room 020

Borrelia burgdorferi has emerged as the most significant vector-borne pathogen in the United States, responsible for over 30,000 reported cases of Lyme disease in 2014. The spirochete cycles between its arthropod vector, the blacklegged tick, and mammalian hosts.  Much of the research effort in the Lyme disease field is focused on identifying virulence determinants of the spirochete and aspects of host immunity that support productive infection, multiplication, and pathology.

The Cluss group at Middlebury College has generated a catalog of B. burgdorferi proteins that are modified by acetylation, which is a well-established covalent modification of proteins affecting structure and function.

In this talk, several enzymes that are acetylated and moonlight as potential virulence factors will be described.  A potential role for acetylation in the natural lifecycle of the spirochete will be considered.

 

 

Bowdoin Marine Science Semester: Interested in enrolling Fall 2017? Submit 1-2 page essay by March 30

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Bowdoin Marine Science Semester Program

The Bowdoin Marine Science Semester (BMSS) is a Fall semester immersion experience in marine field work, lab work, and independent research.

Students take four courses sequentially in three-to-four week modules taught at the Bowdoin Marine Laboratory and Coastal Studies Center in Harpswell, Maine. The module style allows for continuity of laboratory and field research.

Hands on field work and cutting edge laboratory science are a central component of the BMSS.

  • The Benthic Ecology course includes a 10 day field seminar to the Gulf of California, Baja California Sur to study the natural history and unique ecological properties of this highly productive and exceptionally diverse tropical marine ecosystem.
  • In the Gulf of Maine ecosystem, BMSS visits Hurricane Island, off Rockland, Maine, and Bowdoin’s Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick, Canada.

In both locations collection and curation of a long-term dataset to access changes in the intertidal community as climate changes in the Gulf of Maine has begun. Several cruises collect physical data and phytoplankton for the Biological Oceanography module, and the Marine Molecular Ecology and Evolution module, which also features a student driven population genomics study focusing on intertidal snails, and utilizing next generation sequencing technology.

For the Fall of 20017 Marine Semester interested students will need to submit a short 1-2 page essay explaining why they want to enroll in the Marine Semester.  Please also include any research experience you may have had in the past.

Essays for FALL 2017 are due by March 30, 2017 and must be submitted electronically to Steven Allen, Assistant Director of the Coastal Studies Center, [email protected]

The program is open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors from Bowdoin and colleges participating in the Twelve College Exchange (Amherst, Connecticut, Dartmouth, Mount Holyoke, Smith, Trinity, Vassar, Wellesley, Wheaton, Wesleyan, and Williams College-Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program (and Bowdoin).

Students from Twelve College Exchange schools should apply through the Twelve College Exchange application process for study at Bowdoin, indicating the Bowdoin Marine Science Semester under ‘courses’ and ‘intentions’.

Pre-requisite: Two of either Bio 1102 or Bio 1109 and Math 1000 or higher.

See the webpage for more information. Contact Steve Allen ([email protected]) or Rosie Armstrong ([email protected]) with questions.

On Campus Event: Chris Emdin: “What it Takes To Be a Scientist: Employing Reality Pedagogy To Transform Schools and Society”, Thurs. 3/30 7PM

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“What it Takes To Be a Scientist: Employing Reality Pedagogy To Transform Schools and Society”

March 30, 2017 | 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM | Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Chris Emdin explores participation and engagement in STEM fields and the ways that the education culture tracks students out of success in these disciplines. He uncovers reasons for youth disinterest in school and the STEM disciplines and how we can look for new educational approaches that foster participation and engagement in STEM without sacrificing rigor and content.

To address these issues, Emdin developed ‘Reality Pedagogy’, an approach to teaching and learning that provides educators with seven practical tools for improving their practice. The tools of Reality Pedagogy are designed to support STEM educators across ANY discipline in becoming more effective in transforming their classroom, and are the pillars of Edmin’s newest book, For White Folks Who Teach In The Hood and the Rest of Y’all Too.

Emdin explores what it takes to be a scientist, how educators, parents, and the general public can hone those skills in youth, and why we have no choice but to re-focus on creating a new STEM generation.

Emdin is an associate professor in the department of mathematics, science and technology at Teachers College, Columbia University, where he also serves as director of science education at the Center for Health Equity and Urban Science Education. He holds a PhD in urban education with a concentration in mathematics, science, and technology; master’™s degrees in both natural sciences and education administration, and bachelor’s degrees in physical anthropology, biology, and chemistry.

Sponsored by the Brodie Family Lecture Fund. Co-sponsored with the Center for Learning and Teaching, McKeen Center for the Common Good, Departments of Chemistry, Math, and Earth and Oceanographic Science, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Student Center for Multicultural Life.

Open to the public and free of charge.