Rhonda Woerndle, process development chemist at Monsanto, has won the 2016 St Louis Section Chemical Science & Technology Award. The announcement came from the Award coordinator and past winner, David Rhee. Rhonda received her undergraduate chemistry degree with honors in 1999 from Knox College in Galesburg, IL; soon thereafter she started her career as a […]
Committee chairships don’t turn over very often [so zealously are those appointments guarded by appointees (right? … RIGHT?)], so it is worth noting when one does. One of the biggest jobs we do as a local section is to recognize and publicize excellence in all aspects of the chemistry enterprise. That job is largely the
This one is being resurrected literally from yesteryear (a word that will be forever linked in minds of a certain age with the Lone Ranger). It’s almost too old to report—too embarrassingly old—but Excellence deserves its due, even if it is overdue. The Salute to Excellence was presented to Jost Chemical Company on October 25th,
We have no idea how, and no excuse for, this bit of congratulatory news slipping our consciousness, but we are now prepared to eat crow and congratulate. Our own Lisa Balbes, Career Services Coordinator extraordinaire, has been selected the 2015 Howard & Sally Peters Award recipient. The announcement dates to last September, so this post
Friday, October 16th, directly after the Saint Louis Award Symposium Glen Echo Country Club*, 3401 Lucas & Hunt Road, Saint Louis, MO 63121 6:30 pm cocktails (open bar), hors d’oeuvres (candied bacon, veggie stuffed mushroom caps) 7:00 pm banquet —mixed green salad with choice of house or Italian dressing —tenderloin Oscar (tenderloin topped with crabmeat)(fish
The speakers have been lined up, the venue set, talks titled. The Saint Louis Award Symposium—Friday, October 16th—will feature a who’s-who of rising local and national material scientists. Come for the science; come back for the banquet. Materials Science comes to St. Louis honoring Sophia Hayes Department of Chemistry, Washington University 2015 Saint Louis Award
Pegah Jalili, 2015 Chair of the St Louis Section–ACS and Chair of the Midwest Award Jury, has announced the winner of the 2015 Midwest Award: Professor Robert Blankenship of Washington University. Dr Blankenship was born and grew up in southeast Nebraska. He received his BS in Chemistry from Nebraska Wesleyan University (1970) and obtained his
Jim O’Brien, Immediate Past Chair of the Saint Louis Section–ACS and Chair of the Saint Louis Award Jury, has announced the winner of the 2015 Saint Louis Award. Sophia Hayes is Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St Louis. Her BS is from UC Berkeley in Chemistry. She spent three years in energy and
Kathleen Dwyer, chemistry teacher at Maplewood–Richmond Heights High School, has been cited as a recipient of the prestigious Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Dwyer is one of only two Missouri teachers selected. The other is Ruth Knop, Parkway West Senior High School mathematics teacher. The winners are selected by a panel
On March 13 or 14, hopeful chemistry students from area high schools gathered to compete in the Saint Louis Section High School Chemistry Contest. Places are based on a written test. The Regular Division exam is open to students who are in their first year of high school chemistry (other than an AP course); the
