Nineteen teams (38 students) from nine area high schools competed in the “Battle of Burets”. The event was hosted for the third year in a row at SIU–Edwardsville. A new order of battle pertained to this year’s “hostilities,” allowing students to compete with their partner. Each team completed six titrations which were scored on relative […]
The new ACS President, Allison Campbell, wrote an editorial in C&E News (2/27/17) called “Speaking up for Science”. She is promoting greater advocacy on the part of chemists and will organize a presidential symposium titled “Communicating with Elected Officials” at the August 2017 ACS meeting in Washington, DC. More information can be found on the
Attendees at the December, 2016, Continuity Dinner witnessed the conferring of two S2Es. A great year for Excellence, was 2016. Here we cite Henry Rohrs for his leadership of the Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group, one of the most successful of our section’s discussion groups by any measure: activity, attendance, longevity, sponsorship. Henry keeps the ball
One of two S2E awards conferred at the 2016 Continuity Dinner, Jim O’Brien and Keith Stine were recognized for their unbroken 15-year record of Career Day programs. Held each spring at the UMSL Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, these programs draw visitors from area high school chemistry classes. Participants get a short talk (God, we
With the arrival of March, people look forward to getting together outside, and the Saint Louis ACS chapter is no different. The annual picnic will be hosted this July by Joseph Ackerman, our Immediate Past Chair. Details: 1 – 5 PM July 8, 2017 Tilles Park (map) Windegger Pavilion Please RSVP to Joe at ackerman@wustl.edu
Save the date! Tuesday, April 18, 2017 Awards Night will be held this year at Maggiano’s on the Boulevard (across Brentwood Blvd from the Galleria – map). Winners of the high school chemistry contest, the high school chemistry teacher-of-the-year, and the outstanding junior chemistry students at area colleges and universities are all recognized. Agenda: 6:00
David Wonjun Rhee has announced the winner of the 2017 Saint Louis Science & Technology Award: Alison MacInnes of Monsanto. Alison graduated from the University of Manchester, UK, with a Masters in Chemistry with German. She began her research career at Pfizer in the UK working as a synthetic organic chemist in the Discovery Chemistry
Letting high school chemistry teachers know about the upcoming Chemistry/Biochemistry Career Day, an annual event at University of Missouri–St Louis on Friday, May 5th: Sponsored by the St Louis Section–American Chemical Society, the objective is to introduce high school science students to careers in chemistry and biochemistry and have them observe activities in those areas.
Where it goes when pay your Section dues This is the complete line-item budget for 2017. If you’ve never looked at one of these reports before, you might be surprised that we are budgeting for a very significant deficit. Don’t be fooled, though. The individual items are set to allow for development of new programs
Apologies for the timeliness violation: this happened over a week before Election Day. If only it were so easy to go back in time! Ashley Neybert was the guest speaker at the annual Women Chemists Committee (WCC) luncheon. Ms Neybert was the 2015 winner of the WCC “Overcoming Challenges Award”. She received her BS in
