Kids and Chemistry celebrated a Spooktacular event on Thursday, October 26 at the Saint Louis Science Center. The theme was Spooky Chemistry- fizzing, bubbling and spectacular chemistry. Activities included using Jelly Marbles as vanishing ghost eggs. Jelly Marbles are superabsorbent polymers that refract light the same way as water, so they appear to vanish when […]
Nominations are open for the 2018 Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher award. Besides their own colleagues and administrators, students and parents (present or past) are also eligible to submit a nomination. That could be you … and who’d be more qualified to recognize good chemistry teaching when they see it? Nominating is pretty easy (full
The 13th Chemistry Merit Badge Clinic was hosted by Jost Chemical Company, with 29 scouts attending. Approximately 8 professional chemists, 5 Jost employees, and 6 SLU Chemistry Club students helped run the event. The day kicked off with the scouts discussing the 4 classical fields of chemistry (Natalie LaFranzo) and a safety demonstration (Justin Kuehnel,
On 2017 October 15th, almost 700 cub scouts and their siblings took a haunted tour of Beaumont Scout Reservation. As the grand finale, each youth listened to a discussion of the basics of polymer chemistry and non-newtonian fluids, then made their own batch of slime and took it home. 18 volunteers ran the sessions –
Today, 23 October 2017, is Carl and Gerty Cori Day in little Glendale, an inner suburb of Saint Louis, MO. The date marks the 70th anniversary of the day the Coris were informed that they had won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The “Glendale connection”: the Coris then lived in a modern house
The December Board of Directors meeting, also know as the Continuity Dinner, is a fancier than usual affair to celebrate the year’s achievements, recognize certain members, announce the Distinguished Service Award (conferred in March), and pass the gavel to the incoming section officers. Plus, there is the Henry Godt Memorial Lecture, given by a surprise
Keith Stine, the 2017 Saint Louis Awardee, was feted and saluted with an award symposium and a banquet on September 29th. Natalie LaFranzo, Chair of the Section, led off the symposium with an introduction to the local ACS and its activities, and then handed over the program to Professor Cynthia Dupureur who introduced Professor Stine.
The 2018 STL ACS Election has begun. All members should have received an email link directing them to their electronic ballot. Bios of the candidates for open positions can be found here. If you are a voting member who did not receive a ballot via email or would like to request a paper ballot, send
Chair – Elect: Jim Blackledge, President, Capella Imaging; Associate Director of Analytical Chemistry, Galera Therapeutics Service to the Section: n/a Suzy Hartmann, Associate Director, Biologics Sourcing, MilliporeSigma Service to the Section: Leadership Development Forum (2014-present) Secretary: Henry Rohrs, Assistant Director, Washington University NIGMS Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Research Resource Service to the Section: Organizer and Chair
Report by Reni Joseph, Kids and Chemistry coordinator ACS kids’ division celebrated SciFest: Rock, Fossil, Quake at the St Louis Science Center on Saturday, September 23. The hands-on activity included playing with magic sand and regular sand to understand the concept of hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity. We also studied the negative effects of acid rain on
