Category: News
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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
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Horse, by Geraldine Brooks – DEIR Book Discussion
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…
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ACS Spring Meeting, New Orleans. March 17-March 21, 2024
If you are going to the ACS New Orleans (NOLA) meeting, in addition to attending amazing technical talks and sharing your research with fellow scientists, please consider attending one or more networking events often organized by the ACS committees such as the Senior Chemists Committee (Senior Chemists Committee – American Chemical Society, the Women Chemist…
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ACS PSS Salutes African American Pioneers in Chemistry and Science on FB in February
Visit the ACS PSS Facebook page for daily salutes by the ACS PSS to African American pioneers in chemistry and science during the month of February. Thanks to ACS PSS Councilor D. Strong for posting these profiles on behalf of the ACS PSS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect (DEIR) Committee.
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Dharshi Bopegedera Receives Chemical Education Sustainability Award
Congratulations to Professor Dharshi Bopegedera (The Evergreen State College for being selected as one of the 2024-2025 recipients of the ACS-CES Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education, sponsored by the American Chemical Society’s Committee for Environment and Sustainability (CES). Dharshi is receiving this award for her work “Incorporating Green Chemistry, Sustainability, and Climate ChangeThemes…