Please join us at our 2013 Continuity Dinner. If you’re not a regular ACS meeting attendee, come renew or create acquaintances, hear a brief, light-hearted recap of the year’s events, witness the passing of the gavel to the new slate of officers, and just in general have a fine old time. Please join us: Thursday, […]
Our own Natalie LaFranzo, chair of the St Louis Section YCC and Secretary-elect, told her unconventional story of job search success in Chemical & Engineering News (Nov 4, p 46, member credentials required for online access). Natalie and eight other recently (re)employed chemists related their search strategies in a feature on “determined feats, lucky breaks,
Today, 10/23 in USA date style, is Mole Day, which quite likely every chemist knows, if not actually celebrates. Phil Plait, a physicist who blogs at Bad Astronomy, has a “Happy Mole Day” post today for us chemists. Either it’s a slow news day in astronomy, or Phil Plait is just an equal-opportunity science geek.
The third module in the Leadership Development Forum series comes to town this fall. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of leadership is promoting new ways of thinking within your teams. This module addresses Leading Creativity and Innovation and comprises two sessions. Separate registration is required for each. Seminar/discussion: October 24, 6 pm, preregistration required (below)
Friends of Dard Hunter is an organization that connects, encourages, and educates people interested in hand papermaking. They are holding their annual meeting in St Louis October 18-20. Ted Gast is leading a Roundtable on the Chemistry of Paper on Saturday October 19; this is an ACS Chemical Ambassador event. Four additional members of the
Saint Louis University’s ACS Student Chapter (Chemistry Club) has been awarded a Community Interaction Grant from the national American Chemical Society. The mission of the grant program is “to provide funding for chapter projects that help to improve the science learning experience of underrepresented minority and economically disadvantaged K-12 students.” The Chem Club will bring
Late last month, we heard we were in the running for four ChemLuminary Awards: Outstanding local section career program, large to very large section: Lisa Balbes, career services coordinator Outstanding regional meeting: Leah O’Brien, meeting general chair Outstanding local section Younger Chemists Committee, Natalie LaFranzo, YCC chair Outstanding performance by a local section, medium-large section:
The YCC’s Evening at the Garden attendees enjoyed a night out of the lab at the Whitaker Music Festival at the Botanical Garden on July 17. The concert featured Montez Coleman and the Willie Akins Project. We had a great time!
Our ninth annual section picnic came off without a hitch on June 15: good weather, no rain, and the geese kept their distance. Eric Bruton, immediate past-chair and official host, reports that the event… … was a great time of socializing with members and their families. We had a wonderful spread of food and several
The program for the Saint Louis Award Symposium on Friday, October 25th, has been finalized. The symposium will take place at Washington University on the Danforth Campus in Room 300 of the Laboratory Sciences Building, which is #57, grid location H-4, on the map (pdf, 3 MB). The lecture hall is on the third level.
