Join us on Saturday, March 25th, at The Cheshire Hotel in the Boundary restaurant, as we celebrate and recognize 50- and 60-year ACS members. Vic Lewchenko will be presented with the 2016 Distinguished Service Award for the St Louis Section. Vic recently completed an impressive tenure as Section Treasurer and impromptu photographer. Many Past Chairs […]
You can be a Science Fair judge for the St. Louis Section’s Science Fair Chemistry Awards! Volunteer by replying to GSM Sundaram at guruswamis@wustl.edu or phone 314.258.5048. The dates for 2017 fairs that ACS St Louis Section is judging: Illinois Junior Academy of Sciences Regional Science Fair Saturday, March 18, 2017 in the Morris University
It’s the season when the Awards Committee starts soliciting nominations for the St Louis Section’s two biggest awards: the St Louis Award and the Midwest Award. You can learn about the history, eligibility, and past winners by following those links there. Those ones in the previous sentence. No, actually, the sentence before the previous one.
For the third year in a row, SIU–Edwardsville will host the Battle of Burets. The competition is open to high school teams (pairs of students) who will compete for accuracy. If you are interested in competing, please contact Kevin Tucker (kevtuck@siue.edu, 618-650-5868) for more information. The registration and information packet including all required form can
So. If you’re reading this, you already have some sense of what the St Louis Section—ACS offers to its members and the community at large. That makes you a member of the choir. Ah, but do you sing? or just lip-sync? With all we have going on all the time — educational outreach, member services,
The ceremonial transition got most of the media attention (you remember the Continuity Dinner, right?), but the official transition is calendrical. And the calendar is about to give us all a swift kick. So, heeeeeeeere’s Natalie LaFranzo, incoming Section Chair, with words for the upcoming year. Dear Colleagues, As we wind down from the excitement
Joe Ackerman is officially still Chair for another week or so. But as there is no business pending, it’s probably safe to reveal his outgoing message: thoughts on the year past and ruminations on the future: It has been an honor and a privilege to serve as Chair of the Saint Louis Section of the
A new venue for the Continuity Dinner, but one we’ve used before for other special events, Bristol Seafood Grill in Creve Coeur provided the room, the victuals, and the ambiance for the closing General/Board meeting of the year. After about a half hour of free-form socializing, outgoing Chair Joe Ackerman got down to business. First
The St Louis NMR Discussion Group is excited to announce a symposium and banquet, January 6, 2017, in honor of Dr Jacob (“Jake”) Schaefer. Schaefer has had a long and distinguished career at Washington University, beginning as an adjunct professor in 1978 while a fellow at Monsanto, and progressing directly to the Charles Allen Thomas
Washington University’s 2nd annual Chemistry Tournament (WUCT), to be held on April 8, 2017, is now open for registration. WUCT is an annual chemistry competition held on Washington University’s campus in St Louis, MO. The competition invites high school students from across the nation to participate in a series of individual and team-based chemistry exams,
