St Louis high school student Gabriel Hernandez was featured in a Post-Dispatch article highlighting his involvement with Project SEED, the ACS program that helps economically disadvantaged students learn about and pursue careers in chemistry. Hernandez is in his second summer as a Project SEED fellow, working in the lab of Professor Stephen Holmes at University of Missouri–St […]
At the St Louis Scientist Awards Dinner hosted by the Academy of Science–St Louis, Hal Harris (Professor of Chemistry, UM–SL) received the Science Educator Award, “recogniz[ing] a distinguished individual or organization on the basis of outstanding contributions to science education or to the public understanding of science, engineering, or technology.”
Ted Gast, president of Arch Paper LLC, is featured in a video “conversation starter” that describes his chemistry job to a layman. The ACS project, part of the Chemistry Ambassadors program, is intended to show members how to engage non-chemists without the intimidating jargon and technical details that can make such communication impossible. Check out
Dr Christopher D Spilling came to St Louis in August 1989 to join the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Missouri–St Louis as Assistant Professor. Prior to that he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University with Professor Tony Barrett. At UM–St Louis, he was promoted to Associate Professor
In current events, the St Louis Section has added to its trove in 2009. Arindam Roy’s energy, organizing skills, and recruitment of other officers created a continual series of meetings and special events that benefited younger—and not-so-younger—chemists throughout the year. The YCC brought home the 2009 ChemLuminary Award for Best New Local Section Younger Chemists
Richard C Larock is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He received his BS degree summa cum laude in 1967 from the University of California at Davis and his PhD from Purdue University in 1972, under the direction of Professor Herbert C Brown, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. In 1971, he was
On November 21, 2009, Walter Stern died. Walter was a chemical engineer who, in 1946, helped design the production process for saccharin, the first product of Sigma Chemical Company. When Monsanto entered the saccharin market, Sigma almost foundered. In searching for new opportunities, Sigma soon turned to ATP (adenosine triphosphate, the high-energy intermediate in almost
The cover story in the November 2, 2009, issue of Chemical & Engineering News focused on the job outlook for chemists, amid a bleak employment scene in almost all segments of the workforce. To put a human face on the statistics, the experiences of Marcel Madaras were featured: first as a research chemist for Kodak in Rochester,
William J Sun, a senior at Parkway Central High School, took second place in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. His project, undertaken with David Haslam of Washington University School of Medicine, studied the effect of golgicide A on the Golgi secretory apparatus. Each year, 40 finalists are chosen from a national pool of candidates to visit Washington,
Milorad P Dudukovic, chemical engineering professor at Washington University has been named 2009 winner of the E V Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry. The Saint Louis Section had previously recognized Dr Dudukovic withy the 1995 Saint Louis Award. The Murphree Award is sponsored by ExxonMobil Research and Engineering. Dr Dudukovic was cited for his work
