(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
We are excited to bring back cocktails with chemists in the virtual format. Please join us for a virtual night of fun with trivia and socializing! This event will include chemistry trivia and a virtual happy hour. We look forward to seeing and catching up with everyone! We will be doing three rounds of 10
Later in October, all members will receive an email link directing them to their electronic ballot for 2021 officers. Bios and information about the candidates are below. Chair-Elect: Cynthia Chapple, Managing Director, Black Girls Do STEM; Senior Reseach and Development Chemist, ELANTAS PDG, Inc. Service to the Section: Co-chair, Committee on minority affairs (2018-present), Steering
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
Editor’s note: this announcement was supposed to go out in April. We apologize to Ms. Falkoff and the members of the award committee for the delay. Please join us in congratulating Sarah Falkoff, the St. Louis Section–ACS High School Chemistry Teacher-of-the-Year. Sarah is a teacher at Clayton High School. She believes there is so much
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
In response to the killing of George Floyd, ACS President Luis Echegoyen has issued a statement reaffirming ACS’ core value of diversity, inclusion, and respect, and has announced specific actions taken by national ACS in furtherance of those goals. The Saint Louis Local Section endorses and embraces those goals. Our own commitment to action begins
While we’re keeping you in the know about local section members making noises on larger stages… Cynthia Chapple, our Minority Affairs coordinator, was featured in a St. Louis Business Journal virtual symposium on “how racism has impacted their lives, impeded their careers and shaped the path they tread today.” The journal invited “a group of
