Even in the midst of pandemic, life goes on … with modifications. Suzy Hartmann, past chair of the St Louis Section–ACS and chair of the award jury, has announced the winner of the 2020 St Louis Section ACS Award to be Richard Loomis, Professor of Chemistry at Washington University in St Louis. Richard A. Loomis […]
Well, would you look at that! Donna Friedman — former Chair, Chemical Bond business manager since forever, and long-serving/suffering Councilor — has an article in a recent Chemical & Engineering News on unit governance. Units, if you’re not up on the jargon, refers to Local Sections and Divisions of the ACS. And each one has
Literally, wait for it: it has been rescheduled for February, 2021. Planning, pandemic preparedness, and the co-sponsorship have combined to make it less than optimal to hold the event in November 2020, as originally planned. This edition of the UGRS continues to be co-sponsored with the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) and will again be
Chris Spilling, long-time Alternate Councilor of the Saint Louis Section and winner of the 2009 Saint Louis Award, has been named Vice-chancellor of Research and Economic and Community Development at the University of Missouri–Saint Louis. Chris has been a member of the Chemistry faculty at UMSL for 31 years. The position is a new one
Does the St. Louis Section–ACS Younger Chemists Committee have a deal for you? Would we ask if the answer were “No”? (HINT: Yes and No in that order.) Join our local section YCC for this free workshop, where you will learn how to utilize Strengths-Based Development to understand your strengths and aim them at the
The Saint Louis section Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) partnered with the Chicago and Nashville Local section YCCs to offer a virtual three-week professional development series to our local YCC communities. Running from mid-May to early June, 2020, the series brought together chemistry professionals from each representative local section to lead workshops on job application preparation,
Many of us are already working from home as we socially and collegially and professionally distance. Why not also learn from home? The ACS Webinars program is free for members and meets on a wide variety of career-oriented, technical, and general-interest topics almost every weekday at 1 pm Central time. A few upcoming examples: Failure:
The Younger Chemists Committees of the St. Louis, Chicago, and Nashville local ACS sections invite you to join them for a free three-week, cross-sectional professional development series. Chemistry professionals from each of the sponsoring local sections will lead virtual workshops on topics organized chronologically from application preparation to interviewing to negotiating and onboarding: navigate your
In the next few weeks, you will receive a Google Forms link about nominations for the 2020 election in which officers are elected for terms beginning in 2021. Please consider nominating one or several of your talented colleagues to participate in the governance of the local section and contribute to the building excitement in the
Sophia Hayes (Chair, St. Louis section) gave a TEDx talk in St. Louis “Science the Heck out of Climate Change”, just released on YouTube. It’s an 8 min. video, highlighting how chemists and materials scientists have helped address problems in atmospheric pollution, from catalytic converters (for acid rain) to new carbon capture materials for CO2.
