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Date Upcoming Events and Deadlines View as calendar August 14-23 ACS at the Illinois State Fair, Springfield, IL A group of ACS sections sponsors a booth. The St Louis Section has sent volunteers to work in the booth since 2004. Volunteers typically work four- or eight-hour shifts as greeters or presenters of hands-on activities. A sign-up grid will be available soon. Check back for information as it becomes available. For additional information, contact Keith Stine at kstine@umsl.edu, or (314) 516-5346. September 10 Board Meeting at Glen Echo Country Club 17 Younger Chemists Committee Career Night 6–8 pm at Sigma-Aldrich R&D Center, 2909 Laclede Avenue, St Louis, MO 63103 Expert panel • Q & A • Networking • Food • Free More details here or contact royarind@yahoo.com. 19 Boy Scout Chemistry Merit Badge clinic ... for 40+ teen-age boy scouts. If you’re interested in helping out in the hugely popular event, please contact Lisa Balbes at lisa@balbes.com or (314) 966-5298. 24 Special Interest Group Patent Primer: What an Inventor Needs to Know About Patent Law, a presentation by Janet Hendrickson, PhD chemist and patent attorney at Senniger Powers, an intellectual property law firm. She helps her clients procure patent rights in the USA and around the world and supports her clients’ capital acquisition and due diligence activities. Some knowledge of patent law is important to chemists’ careers. Newly graduated chemists as well as experienced chemists will find this talk interesting and informative. 6:30 pm in the Gast Conference Room of the Weidenbaum center, Seigle Bldg (#92 on campus map, 3.6 MB pdf), Washington University main campus. October  8 Board Meeting at Glen Echo Country Club 16 St Louis Award Symposium The award jury considers nominations in April, after nominations close on March 31. More details here as the winner is determined and the symposium takes shape. 17 St Louis Award Banquet 21–24 44th Midwest Regional ACS Meeting hosted by the Iowa Section in Iowa City, Iowa The meeting’s website is www.mwrm2009.org. Check back occasionally; the site will be updated with new details as they become available. Greg Friestad is the General Chair for MWRM 2009. November 12 Board Meeting at Glen Echo Country Club 15 Nominations for High School Chemistry Teacher Award due Criteria for nominees, details for nominators, and information about the award itself are here. December 10 Continuity Dinner – General Meeting – Board Meeting, including inauguration of new Chair, Henry Godt Memorial Lecture, more. Check back here for details and plan to come. 2008 calendar 2009 year-to-date Tell me what you think of this new feature. Try the Agenda view, which is quite similar to our traditional Events Calendar. If you are a Google Calendar user and you want to embed this calendar in your own, the address of the STL ACS calendar is http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/k84dmsl9i3fboo445jpiccfra4%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

The American Chemical Society was founded in 1876. It is the world’s largest professional society for a single scientific discipline, with a membership of over 160,000 chemists and chemical engineers in the USA and world-wide.

The Saint Louis Section–ACS was organized in 1907; its territory (map, popup) comprises the counties of St Louis, St Louis city, St Charles, Jefferson, Ste Genevieve, Warren, and Lincoln in Missouri; and Madison, Jersey, Macoupin, Montgomery, Fayette, Bond, and St Clair in Illinois. We have a rich history, including receiving and bestowing many awards. We have been fortunate to have many wonderful volunteers serve as officers over the years. We currently have over 1,800 members in the St Louis area.

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