On second thought, that headline could be a bit misleading. The truth is that Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered caesium in 1860 and named it for the sky-blue lines in its emission spectrum. But our own Natalie LaFranzo has been named Caesium. IUPAC, as part of its International Year of the Periodic Table festivities, […]
My name is Walter Gavlick, and I am the new chair of the Chromatography Discussion Group. As I take over for Doug Malkin, the previous chair, I need your help. Unfortunately, Doug’s mailing list for the group was on his work computer. When he left Monsanto, the list was lost, so I need to rebuild
[First in a series of occasional posts for the International Year of the Periodic Table.] As anyone who has been perusing their C&EN knows, the United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of the Periodic Table, and the American Chemical Society will be sponsoring a number of related events. Although 1869 may be viewed
The 2018 ACS–St Louis Section Undergraduate Research Symposium was held Friday, November 2nd, from 2:30-5:00 p.m. in the Science Laboratory West building at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Twenty-two presenters from six area universities shared work from fifteen projects. In addition to learning from each other, students had an opportunity to explain their work to a range
The highlight of the January Board meeting is always the annual budget review. The Board considers each line item request from officers and committee chairs and attempts to fit it all within the more-or-less ironclad income expectations. Well, ok, not so much. The Section virtually always budgets for a significant deficit, knowing that some of
Mentor-A-Chemistry-Class jumps into gear this spring at University City High School, our very first school partner. The Committee on Minority Affairs would like to invite all minority chemists, chemical professionals, and chemical business professionals to come with us as we introduce high school chemistry students to our careers in chemistry. The goal of this outreach
Now hear this! Our Section normally announces “Salutes to Excellence” at the Continuity Dinner. But this year … crickets. For reasons your reporter has not been able to suss out, lauding excellence was not a feature of this past December’s Continuity Dinner. Well, it was, but in other categories (cough, cough — Jeff Cornelius and
Dr. Anuradha “Anu” Vummenthala, Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Maryville University, has suggested the formation of a partnership with “Chemistry is pHun”, an outreach program of the St. Louis Section of ACS. Dr. Vummenthala had participated in a workshop where Chemistry is pHun partnered with the Math and Science Network of Greater St. Louis to
Outgoing Chair Ben Barth arranged a fine venue for our December 13, 2018, Continuity Dinner: upstairs at Pastaria, Clayton. The room was a perfect size for our group of thirty-ish members and SOs, and well shielded from the general restaurant din — so the only din was us. Due to a discrepancy in announced start
Paul J Hergenrother, holder of the Kenneth L Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry at University of Illinois–Champaign-Urbana, is the guest speaker in the MilliporeSigma lecture series, co-hosted by Saint Louis University Department of Chemistry and MilliporeSigma R&D. Dr Hergenrother’s research focuses on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of organic molecules with novel biological
