Applications are now being accepted to participate in the 2018 Undergraduate Research Symposium, to be held Friday, November 2nd, 2:30-5:00 pm in the Science Laboratory West building at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville. Good reasons to participate: Being an ACS member is not required. There is no charge to participate. This is an opportunity to meet folks […]
The STL-ACS Minority Affairs Committee hosted its first panel discussion in an ongoing series. Serving on the panel were Tony Thompson, an award-winning author and entrepreneur, Christina Thompson, a Privacy Manager at Mercy, Eden Tesfu, Analytics Lead at Bayer Crop Sciences, and Chris Anderson, Owner and Executive Director of Maximized Career Services. The topics of
Friday, November 2, 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 7:00 pm banquet 8:00 pm program Suzy Hartman, Suzy Hartmann – Associate Director Biologics Sourcing, MilliporeSigma, Chair Elect of the St. Louis Section, American Chemical
The 2018 Saint Louis Award Symposium—Friday, Nov. 2nd—is sponsored by the St. Louis Section of the American Chemical Society and Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, with additional support from ProteXase Therapeutics, and Fimbrion Therapeutics. Honoring Dr. James Janetka Associate Professor Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics Adjunct Professor, Department of Chemistry Washington University
Natalie LaFranzo, past chair of the St Louis Section–ACS and chair of the St Louis Award jury, has announced the winner of the 2018 St Louis Award. Dr. James Janetka, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is this year’s ACS-St Louis Award winner. He
Come join the members of the Leadership Development Forum for Seminar Module 10 on September 18: Coaching and Mentoring. First, you will hear everything you need to know from a certified coach. Testimonies from our colleagues from both the mentor and mentee perspectives will follow, and we will close with time for questions. Program: 6:00
Our local section Councilors have just returned from the 256th ACS National Meeting, held August 19–23, 2018, in Boston. Bearing gifts. Well, a gift. Thanks, Ted Gast, for being the first to do this document dump. The document Councilor Talking Points is intended to serve as a springboard for Councilor reportage to members and discussion
This past July, ACS–St Louis Minority Affairs participated in the Youth Exploring Science (YES) Networking Extravaganza. The YES Program provides a great opportunity to teens who are unsure of what they want to do with their futures: to meet with local professionals in STEM. These local professionals, including volunteers from ACS, spent their morning challenging
For some, weather definitely qualifies as small talk. But around these parts, in summer, it is serious business. So it is always a dicey proposition to plan a picnic months in advance, hoping for tolerable. Were you watching the weather forecasts the week before? Highs in the mid-to-high 90s wall to wall, and then, for
Tabbetha Bohac, chair of the local section YCC, reports: On June 29th, the YCC participated in an outreach event, leading a STEM station, providing a fun and educational experience to 300 3rd-5th graders at St Louis Public School Day Camp at Beaumont Scout Reservation. YCCers had fun too, performing the disappearing cup, reactivity, and elephant
