The 2018 Saint Louis Award Banquet in honor of Professor James Janetka of Washington University–St Louis, was held on Friday November 2, at the Glen Echo Country Club. There were over 50 people in attendance, including current and former postdoctoral associates of Dr Janetka and graduate and postdoctoral students from the Department of Chemistry, as […]
Jost Chemical Company played host to the 14th Chemistry Merit Badge Clinic on November 10th. A full house of 52 scouts registered for the event, and 40 actually attended. About 12 professional chemists plus 5 Jost employees and 2 SLU Chemistry Club students helped run the event. The day kicked off with the scouts discussing
Save the date: Feb 25, 2019! The annual Battle of the Burets titration face-off will be hosted again this year by SIU–Edwardsville. Registration and pizza begin at 6:00 pm; then pizzas-down, goggles-on buret-wielding at 6:30. Each school may send up to two teams of two students each. Each student will do three individual titrations; the
Seems like the holiday social scene is heating up a little early: the Local Section Minority Chemists Committee is hosting a happy hour on Thursday, December 6th, at Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery and Bierhall (that’s at 4465 Manchester Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63110, for your GPS pleasure). Come and network with minority chemists and chemical
Registration for the fourth annual Washington University Chemistry Tournament (WUCT) opened on October 30th. Teams of six high school chemistry students can register at wuct.wustl.edu until February 1, 2019. The registration fee is $60. Late registrations may be accepted on a space-available basis until March 1st. The late registration fee is $85. The date of
There has long been a Saint Louis area discussion group devoted to high school chemistry teachers. It goes by the acronym SLACKERS (St Louis Area Chemistry Knowledge Educational Resource Sharers, which seems kind of forced to me, but at least it’s pronounceable). Bob Becker at Kirkwood High School is the coordinator (and more details about
Please meet Qingfeng Ge, the recipient of the 2018 Midwest Award. Dr Ge will officially receive the 74th Midwest Award and keynote the award symposium at the Midwest Regional Meeting in Ames, Iowa, on October 22nd. Dr Qingfeng Ge is a Distinguished Scholar at Southern Illinois University–Carbondale and Professor in the Department of Chemistry and
Dear Science Educator, You and your students are invited to Career Day sponsored by the St Louis Section–American Chemical Society to be held at the University of Missouri–St. Louis (UMSL) Friday, November 9th, 2018 from 9 am to 12 noon. The aim is to introduce your students to careers involving chemistry and biochemistry and have
Applications are now being accepted to participate in the 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium, to be held Friday, November 2nd, 2:30-5:00 pm in the Science Laboratory West building at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Good reasons to participate: Being an ACS member is not required. There is no charge to participate. This is an opportunity to meet folks
Our local section Councilors have just returned from the 256th ACS National Meeting, held August 19–23, 2018, in Boston. Bearing gifts. Well, a gift. Thanks, Ted Gast, for being the first to do this document dump. The document Councilor Talking Points is intended to serve as a springboard for Councilor reportage to members and discussion
