Pathways for Science Careers in the Cosmetics Industry

MetroNY AWIS invites you to our upcoming event:
Panel Discussion and Networking event on Science in the the Cosmetics Industry
May 8th, 6:30-8:30 pm

Register at http://www.meetup.com/MetroNY-AWIS-Meetup-Group/events/166156842/

Pathways for Science Careers in the Cosmetics Industry

Join us for a career panel and networking event featuring a diverse panel of scientific experts from cosmetic and personal care companies featuring remarks from David Smith, Executive Director of the Society of Cosmetic Chemists. Learn how scientific expertise is used in the cosmetic and personal care industry and explore career opportunities and factors that lead to success in these industries.

Christina Andrianov, M.A. (R&D Manager at Mast Global Technical Service,Limited Brands), Marianne Mota Paulino, M.S.(Senior Process Engineer at L’Oreal), Alisa Vasilenko, Ph.D. (Manager of Luxury Development at L’Oreal) and Dulce Almario, M.S., (Director of Product Innovations at Victoria Secret Beauty) will present in a panel discussion.

The Panel will be moderated by Amanda Weyerbacher, Ph.D., who has worked as a Senior Scientist in the Product Safety and Toxicology Department at L’Oreal USA Research and Innovation.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Please note: this is not a job fair featuring employers.

About the speakers:

Marianne Mota Paulino started her career with L’Oreal USA in 2009 as a formulation chemist of hair styling products. In 2012, she transferred to her current role in the pilot team where she is in charge of developing efficient processes for the hair category. As a Sr. Process Engineer, she also ensures technology scale-up and the successful manufacturing of new product launches. Prior to this position, she earned her M.S. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, where she studied the release of PEGylated proteins from PLG microspheres. She also worked as an intern in 3M and Procter and Gamble (P&G), where she had the opportunity to work on the development of new industrial adhesives and consumer studies for sanitary napkins, respectively. She obtained her dual B.S. in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from University of Florida in 2006.

Christina Andrianov has over 15 years of experience in the Cosmetic Personal Care Industry. She has worked for Mast Global Tech Services since January 2006. As an R&D Manager, she oversees all personal care product development for Victoria Secret Beauty. She manages a team of chemist to ensure a wide variety of formulas meet marketing expectations for aesthetics and meet the stringent timelines. Her team also has to ensure the
formulas are compliant with global regulations and are reproducible on larger scale. Prior to this position, Mrs. Andrianov worked at Ciba Specialty Chemicals (today known as BASF) in the Personal Care Division researching to see if various technologies from different departments could be transferred and applied to Personal Care products. She has also worked for other companies like Outsourcing Services Group, L’Oreal USA – the Maybelline division, Estee Lauder – Clinique Treatment Lab. She earned her M.A. in Cosmetic Science from Fairly Dickinson University, Teaneck NJ in 2003, B.S in Chemistry from SUNY at Stony Brook, NY in 1994.

The panel moderator, Amanda Weyerbacher, previously worked as in Senior Scientist in the Product safety department at L’Oreal. In this role, she managed the clinical safety testing program of multiple consumer products across a wide array of global brands for market launch, ensuring compliance with international regulatory requirements and claim substantiation. Prior to
this position, Dr. Weyerbacher earned her Ph.D. in Pharmacology at Cornell University’s - Weill Cornell Graduate School of Biological Sciences in New York City in May 2009. In her dissertation research, she identified critical pain signaling proteins, cytokines and immune/
central nervous system interactions as relevant drug targets for clinical pain control in an animal model of persistent pain. From 2001-2003, Dr. Weyerbacher was a Clinical Research Associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In this role, she managed up to ten active Phase I and II clinical trials, defining and monitoring project scope, timelines and deliverables from project initiation to close-out. She earned her B.A. in Biology-Chemistry from Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY in May 2001.


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Free Event! The Mysteries of Ice Cream on April 29

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It might not be prime ice cream eating weather quite yet, but for this month's Masters of Social Gastronomy lecture, we're bringing summertime to Brooklyn no matter what the thermometer says.

Hear the tale of vanilla ice cream, a commonplace flavor with a rare and exotic past. We'll take a hard look at the science that makes ice cream tick and see if we can harness the DIY spirit to craft up astronaut ice cream in your very own kitchen.

The wide range of curious flavors will be on full display, with 19th-century artichoke-and-tomato ice cream and other adventuresome (and masochistic) creations.

Plus! We'll be giving away a signed copy of the new Ample Hills Creamery Cookbook and have some treats along the way.

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Collective Behavior in Ant Colonies and Beyond
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Program begins at 7 pm

Collective behavior takes many forms, such as emergence, self-organization, superorganism, quorum sensing, artificial intelligence, and dynamical networks. Stanford University biologist Deborah Gordon will discuss her research on ant colonies to investigate systems that operate without central control.Location: Wallach Orientation Center

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are we humans? or are we dancers?

one of the first lessons that they teach you when you are learning to dance any social dance is the following:
practice! dance with as many people you can, have a lot of different dance experience and learn with all of them. Therefore, it is not correct and you must avoid the attachment to only one partner. Indeed you accumulate errors and get use to the other person way to dancing. The professionals claim that you must dance with other people, even if you have a stable partner. they consider stupid and counterproductive for you evolution to get stuck with only one follower or leader.
Now, that is in the dance floor... but isn't it the world a huge dance salon. Aren't we learning how to live or how to dance. If this analogy is truth, and we are dancers, then why all this social pressure to keep only one partner? why is bad to enjoy different songs with different people.
Evolutionary the system of a couple has given advantage to the survivor of the offspring. Socially we had created so many rules to keep everything under control that it looks that we can only dance one style per time. Are we limiting ourselfs superimposing external rules?
perhaps in case we found a great dancer, the one that we love to dance with is the event that keep us away of the desire to try other styles.

the pursuit of happiness

Want a Happier Life?


Realize that enduring happiness doesn't come from success. People adapt to changing circumstances—even to wealth or a disability. Thus, wealth is like health: its utter absence breeds misery, but having it (or any circumstance we long for) doesn't guarantee happiness.

Take control of your time. Happy people feel in control of their lives. To master your use of time, set goals and break them into daily aims. Although we often overestimate how much we will accomplish in any given day (leaving us frustrated), we generally underestimate how much we can accomplish in a year, given just a little progress every day.

Act happy. We can sometimes act ourselves into a happier frame of mind. Manipulated into a smiling expression, people feel better; when they scowl, the whole world seems to scowl back. So put on a happy face. Talk as if you feel positive self-esteem, are optimistic, and are outgoing. Going through the motions can trigger the emotions.

Seek work and leisure that engages your skills. Happy people often are in a zone called "flow"—absorbed in tasks that challenge but don't overwhelm them. The most expensive forms of leisure (sitting on a yacht) often provide less flow experience than gardening, socializing, or craft work.

Join the "movement" movement. An avalanche of research reveals that aerobic exercise can relieve mild depression and anxiety as it promotes health and energy. Sound minds reside in sound bodies. Off your duffs, couch potatoes.

Give your body the sleep it wants. Happy people live active vigorous lives yet reserve time for renewing sleep and solitude. Many people suffer from a sleep debt, with resulting fatigue, diminished alertness, and gloomy moods.

Give priority to close relationships. Intimate friendships with those who care deeply about you can help you weather difficult times. Confiding is good for soul and body. Resolve to nurture your closest relationship by not taking your loved ones for granted, by displaying to them the sort of kindness you display to others, by affirming them, by playing together and sharing together. To rejuvenate your affections, resolve in such ways to act lovingly.

Focus beyond the self. Reach out to those in need. Happiness increases helpfulness (those who feel good do good). But doing good also makes one feel good.

Keep a gratitude journal. Those who pause each day to reflect on some positive aspect of their lives (their health, friends, family, freedom, education, senses, natural surroundings, and so on) experience heightened well-being.

Nurture your spiritual self. For many people, faith provides a support community, a reason to focus beyond self, and a sense of purpose and hope. Study after study finds that actively religious people are happier and that they cope better with crises.

Digested from David G. Myers, The Pursuit of Happiness (Harper Paperbacks, 1993)

Google glasses: NAY or YAY?

From a simple user perspective...
They offered the glasses to me, and after a first excitement to say yes and get them, i rejected the ofter... Why?
Glass pros: they look super cool and you can adapt them to you own glasses. They are light and after a few minutes they almost feel natural. You can call, write, watch and make videos, all in a very simple and easy way.
They are the future, besides any questioning, the tech future is going straight to have this kind of devices on behalf of the rectangular phones. So why waiting?
Glass cons: the technology is in diapers, they need more feedback and enhance some functions in order to provide a high level service. They are expensive ($1500). Most of my friends swear that they wont walk next to me if I using the glasses... plus my boyfriend extremely emphasized he does not want me to use them...

Some ecology #ADayWithoutWaste is a sustainability awareness campaign that is inspiring us to understand how our individual actions can come together to create lasting change, benefiting our environment and our future.

http://www.globalcitizen.org/Content/Content.aspx?id=5c0c61d8-e52a-4f9c-ae0b-489aa2717227
Hey,

One-third of the food produced on the globe is wasted - that's almost 1.3 billion tons per year.

Pledge to go #ADayWithoutWaste on Wednesday and do something about this!