Members of our local section continue to make splashes in the big pond that is national ACS. Eric Bruton, Chair of the section in 2012 and current Councilor, provided a commentary for C&E News (vol. 98, issue 45, November 23, 2020) about career planning and resources. The bottom line is that we can often take […]
Cynthia Chapple, whom, coincidentally, we just announced as the 2021 Chair-elect of the St Louis Local ACS Section, has been making a career out of proactively advancing involvement of Black women in STEM careers. That’s in addition to her day job as senior research chemist at ELANTAS PDG, developing innovative protective coating technology for electronics
Join ACS colleagues for a virtual ACS Industry Career Day on Saturday, November 21st at 10 am Central time. During this virtual event, an expert panel of young industry-based chemists will explore topics such as transitioning from academia to a career in industry, building non-technical skills, and more. Following the panel discussion, stick around for
… we can now report the results of the Local Section 2021 Officer balloting.* Taking or retaking up their respective positions, officially on January 1st, but unofficially as of Continuity Night on December 10th, are: Chair-elect Cynthia Chapple Secretary Henry Rohrs Treasurer Jeff Cornelius Directors Rhonda Woerndle, Bill Doub, and Cristina DeMeo Councilor Donna Friedman
Last night, November 12, the Board of Directors of the Saint Louis Section approved a statement on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, expanding on the statements issued by national ACS and affirming our values and support. Chemistry as a discipline is not pursued in isolation. Our coworkers, classmates and colleagues are human beings first, and chemists second.
(sung to the tune of The Gold Digger’s Song (“We’re in the money…” which, alas, we are not.) We have just heard from Luis Echegoyen, President of ACS, that we are finalists for a ChemLuminary award in the category, Outstanding or Creative Local Section Younger Chemists Committee Event. The nomination was for “Wrightonpalooza”, our Section’s
Is a bee sting acidic or alkaline? Which element has the shortest name? What compound gives Mars its distinctive red color? If you think you know the answers to these questions, you should have been at the Cocktails with Chemists Group virtual happy hour and trivia night on October 7! Over Zoom, we had three
Earlier this summer, we reminded you about the series of free daily webinars presented by national ACS. Now we find that Michael Gross, Professor of Chemistry at Washington University, and our 2002 Midwest Award winner, will be telling us all about Protein Footprinting Applications in Structural Biology in a free webinar sponsored by The Analytical
It was almost business as usual for the governance aspects of the Fall 2020 National ACS meeting, as councilors met virtually, in committees and en banc, to address their responsibilities. The Councilor Talking Points document always reports national meeting attendance, and, somewhat surprisingly, it wasn’t too far down in our COVID-19 era, possibly reflecting the
This is it: the report on the past Spring’s virus-curtailed area Science Fairs, that you’ve been waiting half the summer for. (Half the semaphore?) (A hemi-semaphore?) As reported by GSM Sundaram, the local section Science Fair coordinator. Missouri Tri-County Regional Science and Engineering Fair, March 7 Grades 9-12 DivisionSecond Place: Lakshita Senthil, Grade 9, Fort
