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The Puget Sound Chemist
Please read below for the most recent news and events of the ACS Puget Sound Section.
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The 2024 ACS PSS Undergraduate Research Symposium will be hosted by Western Washington University on April 20th.
The ACS PSS sponsors an Undergraduate Research Symposium for students in the Puget Sound region. The ACS PSS is pleased to announce that the symposium will resume in-person in 2024, after a hiatus that began in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Undergraduate students are invited to present poster or oral presentations about their research. Please download this flyer that includes a campus map. Date: April 20th, 2024Location: Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA)Registration Deadline: April 8th (Register online)Registration Fee (includes lunch): Pay via the ACS PSS Webstore$20, Students; $30, All others Abstract Deadline: April 8th. If you wish to give…
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Submit a poem for the Illustrated Poem Contest- Chemists Celebrate Earth Week 2024
The Puget Sound Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in kindergarten through 12th grade in celebration of Earth Week through April. This year’s theme is: The Get a Charge out of Chemistry. To enter the illustrated poem contest, students must submit their illustrated poem directly to the ACS Puget Sound Section using this form by Sunday, April 28, 2024 by 11:59 PM PT. Please look at the flyer for submission information. Please contact your earth week coordinator Dr Sailaja Arungundram (asailaja@stmartin.edu) if you have any questions!
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Plan to Attend NORM 2024!
The Washington-Idaho Border Section is excited to welcome you to the Palouse, an area where Eastern Washington meets Northern Idaho, for the 78th Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM) on June 23-26, 2024. Information about program, registration, and travel can be found at the NORM 2024 website. The meeting theme, “Breaking Borders, Building Bonds,” is intended to highlight the multidisciplinary nature of chemistry by intentionally blurring the lines between traditional subfields. Oral and poster sessions will promote crosstalk between scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and government on interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary topics and studies. The organizers hope you agree and that you will be…
Read the full post with active links here.Despina Strong Recognized as Outreach Volunteer of the Year in the Puget Sound Section
Congratulations to Dr. Despina Strong, ACS PSS Councilor, for her recognition as Outreach Volunteer of the Year in the Puget Sound Section! Her citation can be found here along with the listing of other national outreach award winners. Dr. Strong is an active member of the Puget Sound of the ACS. She has held several leadership positions, including serving twice as Chair of the ACS Puget Sound, and as Education Committee Chair for three years. Dr. Strong has also initiated the SCC and the WCC. She has organized numerous symposia and events, including virtual events, and actively reports important matters…
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The next Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect (DEIR) Committee meeting will be held virtually on April 23, 2024, at 7 pm. We will be discussing Horse by Geraldine Brooks. Everyone is welcome to join in the discussion. Connection details to be provided in April. The DEIR group will be meeting in September to discuss Chasing Space by Leland Melvin, chemist, NFL player and NASA Astronaut.
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Women Chemists Committee Luncheon at NORM 2024
Joan Broderick (Montana State University), 2019 Alfred Bader Award in Bioionorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry will give a keynote address titled “Radical SAM and the Catalysis of Difficult Reactions in Biology” at the Women Chemists Committee Luncheon on Monday June 24th, 12:00-1:30 p.m., at NORM 2024, Washington State University, Compton Union Junior Ballroom. Register for the lunch when you register for NORM 2024.
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The Senior Chemist Committee is organizing a two-day visit to eastern Washington on May 21-22. On May 21, we will stop by the REACH Museum in Richland, and do some wine tasting at Bookwalter winery and on May 22nd take a tour of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) facility in Richland on a private tour. So far, we have 34 individuals signed up. There is still room for more. This event is open to ALL members and everyone is welcome to join with their partner or a friend. Please email strongdespina@gmail.com to reserve your spot.
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ACS Denver Meeting – August 2024
Plan now for the August 18-22 ACS Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Abstracts are due by April 1. Registration and housing will be open in May. Visit the ACS Denver website for details.
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Save the Date for The Annual Awards Banquet
The Annual Awards Banquet will be held on Saturday, September 28, 2024. The banquet will honor 50, 60, and 70-Year members of ACS PSS and give members a chance to meet the 2024 Puget Sound Section undergraduate scholarship winners. Further information will be posted in the Puget Sound Chemist News Blog.
Read the full post with active links here.Women Chemists Committee Celebrates Women’s History Month
March is Women’s History Month. The section will be sharing a daily post on the section’s Facebook page to salute women pioneers in science. If you missed our Black History Month celebration, check out the February Salute to African American pioneers posts on Facebook
Read the full post with active links here.Scholarship, Grant, and Award Opportunities for Students
The Education Committee of the ACS Puget Sound Section is pleased to manage a number of scholarship, grant, and award opportunities for students in our section, including a NEW DEIR Scholarship available for historically underrepresented students. Detailed information is below. Please feel free to distribute this information far and wide. Students must be enrolled in an institution within the ACS Puget Sound Section (please see this link for a list). Please share this information with students. Scholarships $2000 Scholarships from the American Chemical Society: DEADLINE MARCH 1. Two-year college students: Four-year college students: The DEIR Scholarship application is slightly different than the Wasserman and Rutherford scholarship…
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Please see our Employment page for chemistry-related employment or internships. Please use this form to submit information that you would like us to consider for posting. The ACS PSS will post the title of the position and the organization’s URL at which an applicant can find further information. We will endeavor to update this page near the beginning of each month, using information that we have received during that month or the month prior. Information will remain posted for about two months from the date of submission. This is a volunteer service and we will do our best to maintain it.
Read the full post with active links here.You Can Help Create Additional Scholarship Opportunities
Over the past 11 years, the Puget Sound Section has awarded fifty scholarships to students interested in chemistry. The funds come from the annual section budget, and we now hope to expand our scholarships to award additional scholarships to diverse students. We have received a $850 challenge grant from the ACS, and Executive Committee members have pledged $850 in matching funds. If we can raise $2150, we can award two additional scholarships to help historically underrepresented minority chemistry students*pursue undergraduate degrees. For each $1500 received, we will award an additional scholarship! Students may use the funds for tuition, lab fees,…
Read the full post with active links here.Our PS Chemist Blog page carries an ongoing record of Puget Sound Chemist postings, including those that are currently featured on our homepage.
Archived issues of the Puget Sound Chemist from January 2014 through May 2022 can be found here.
An historical archive of The Puget Sound Chemist dating back to the 1940s can be accessed through the University of Washington Library at this link. Many thanks to our UW library colleagues for preparing the historical archive.
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ACS Spring 2024 – New Orleans: March 17-21
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ACS Fall 2024 – Denver: August 18-22
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Professor Princess Imoukhuede, Hunter and Dorothy Simpson Endowed Professor and Chair of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, presented Shaping the Future Through Science: A Personal Story of Innovation, Education, and Community Building
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