• HS ChemBowl

    Sponsored by the STL ACS Education Topics Group, a chemistry-and-quickness competition for area high school students (first-year, non-AP), promising to become an annual event. Teachers will have received separate registration materials, but this is for you, the audience. Come on out. Cheer on your favorite school, favorite student, favorite coach/teacher. Or just dispassionately take in […]

  • Chemistry Career Day

    Date tentative. Secondary school chemistry teachers are invited to bring their students to this event. The aim is to introduce students to careers involving chemistry and biochemistry and have them witness processes in those areas. Activities include tours of research laboratories and instrument facilities (with demonstrations of x-ray diffraction, NMR, mass spectrometry, and electron microscopy), […]

  • AWIS Elevator Pitch Event

    Elevator Pitch Event: AWIS St. Louis presents a workshop on how to craft and deliver an effective elevator pitch. Come practice your pitch and network with other women (and men!) in science. All are welcome! We will be serving cupcakes from "The Cup," pizza & hors d'oeuvres from "Central Table Kitchen," as well as non-alcoholic […]

  • LDF Workshop – Leading Without Authority

    Please join us for the seminar on the topic of "Leading Without Authority" with leader Steven Finkelstein, Senoir Partner with Experience on Demand Register by May 26th. All disciplines and professionals are welcome; you need not be a chemist or scientist to attend! All ages welcome, too! Date: Thursday May 28 Time: 6:00pm-8:30pm Location: The […]

  • Eleventh Annual STLACS Picnic

    Bring the family! Bring the kids. (There is an excellent playground and spray pool across the park road for diversion.) Just $5 per person, kids under 12 free. Please register by June 10th. To register, or if you have questions, please email Jim O'Brien. Highlights: — lunch at 12:30 PM — games — networking — […]

  • Society for Applied Spectroscopy tour speaker

    Professor Jon Camden, University of Notre Dame What Can We Do with Localized Surface Plasmons: From Simple Molecule Sensing to Energy Harvesting Campus map. Parking available in any lot. For more information contact Eileen.McClendon@Mallinckrodt.com.

  • Saint Louis Award Symposium

    Materials Science comes to St. Louis honoring Sophia Hayes Department of Chemistry, Washington University 2015 Saint Louis Award winner 1:15pm — Dr. Pegah Jalili, Sigma-Aldrich Corporation (Chair, Saint Louis Section–ACS) Welcome and general introductions 1:20pm — Dr. William E. Buhro, Chair, Department of Chemistry, Washington University (Symposium Chair) Introduction and Salute to Dr. Hayes 1:25pm […]

  • Saint Louis Award Banquet

    See below for entrances to Glen Echo Country Club. Google's locator is not accurate. 6:30 pm cocktails (open bar), hors d’oeuvres (candied bacon, veggie stuffed mushroom caps) 7:00 pm banquet —mixed green salad with choice of house or Italian dressing —tenderloin Oscar (tenderloin topped with crabmeat) ——(fish or vegetarian entrée available) —asparagus with béarnaise sauce, […]

  • Midwest ACS Meeting

    Special symposia will include: —Computational Chemistry —Drug Discovery —Biomolecular Structure: Function —Agriculture and Food Safety —Chemical Education: Lab Safety General sessions: —Analytical —Biochemistry —Organic —Chemical Education —Inorganic —Materials —Physical Abstracts and registration will open April 27. For additional conference information and updates, please visit the MWRM 2015 website.

  • Science Spooktacular

    Kids and Chemistry will have two tables at the St. Louis Science Center on the main floor (1st) in the left hallway (toward the Life Science Lab). The “Science Spooktacular” is an early Halloween event and alliteration affair of creepy chemistry and slimy scientifica. To volunteer, email Sheryl Loux. Volunteers park free.