One of the section’s great sucesses of 2018 were the “Cocktails with Chemists” and “Coffee with Chemists” events. We host one event per month – rotating the days, times, and locations to make it convenient for ALL St. Louis area chemists to attend. If you haven’t been yet, we encourage you to to attend – […]
Outgoing Chair Ben Barth arranged a fine venue for our December 13, 2018, Continuity Dinner: upstairs at Pastaria, Clayton. The room was a perfect size for our group of thirty-ish members and SOs, and well shielded from the general restaurant din — so the only din was us. Due to a discrepancy in announced start
Paul J Hergenrother, holder of the Kenneth L Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry at University of Illinois–Champaign-Urbana, is the guest speaker in the MilliporeSigma lecture series, co-hosted by Saint Louis University Department of Chemistry and MilliporeSigma R&D. Dr Hergenrother’s research focuses on the design, synthesis, and evaluation of organic molecules with novel biological
Section Chair Ben Barth reports that the election returns are in. Next year’s officers include:: Chair-Elect – Sophia Hayes Secretary – Henry Rohrs Treasurer – Jeff Cornelius Councilors – Lisa Balbes and Natalie LaFranzo Alternate Councilor (3-year term) – Brent Znosko Alternate Councilor (2-year term) – Leah O’Brien Directors – William Doub, Jim O’Brien, and
This year’s St. Louis Section ACS Award was given to Professor James Janetka of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at Washingon University in St. Louis. To celebrate the award, a symposium on “Mimicking Nature’s Biomolecules in Transformational Drug Discovery” was held on Friday November 2 in Erlanger Hall,
The 2018 Saint Louis Award Banquet in honor of Professor James Janetka of Washington University–St Louis, was held on Friday November 2, at the Glen Echo Country Club. There were over 50 people in attendance, including current and former postdoctoral associates of Dr Janetka and graduate and postdoctoral students from the Department of Chemistry, as
Jost Chemical Company played host to the 14th Chemistry Merit Badge Clinic on November 10th. A full house of 52 scouts registered for the event, and 40 actually attended. About 12 professional chemists plus 5 Jost employees and 2 SLU Chemistry Club students helped run the event. The day kicked off with the scouts discussing
Save the date: Feb 25, 2019! The annual Battle of the Burets titration face-off will be hosted again this year by SIU–Edwardsville. Registration and pizza begin at 6:00 pm; then pizzas-down, goggles-on buret-wielding at 6:30. Each school may send up to two teams of two students each. Each student will do three individual titrations; the
Seems like the holiday social scene is heating up a little early: the Local Section Minority Chemists Committee is hosting a happy hour on Thursday, December 6th, at Urban Chestnut Grove Brewery and Bierhall (that’s at 4465 Manchester Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63110, for your GPS pleasure). Come and network with minority chemists and chemical
Submitted by Natalie LaFranzo Have you attended one of our “Cocktails with Chemists” or “Coffee with Chemists” events in 2018? We’ve hosted one event per month – rotating the days, times, and locations to make it convenient for ALL St. Louis area chemists to attend. If you haven’t been yet – you’re missing out! These
