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Nominations Are Being Accepted for the 2024 Pauling Medal Award
Nominations are being accepted for the 2024 Linus Pauling Medal Award. Submit nomination packages using the 2024 Linus Pauling Medal Award Nomination Form Deadline: June 3, 2024 at 5:00 p.m. (PDT) The American Chemical Society Portland, Puget Sound, and Oregon Local Sections jointly sponsor this annual award, which recognizes outstanding contributions to chemistry that merit…
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Photos from the 2024 ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium!
Congratulations to all of the students who presented research at the 2024 ACS Puget Sound Section Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 20th, and thanks to our colleagues at Western Washington University for hosting! Here are some photos from 2024 at Western Washington University. Looking forward to seeing you next spring for the symposium at Central…
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Register by April 8th for the ACS PSS Undergraduate Research Symposium
Register and plan to attend the ACS PSS Undergraduate Research Symposium! The symposium will be held on April 20 at Western Washington University (Bellingham, WA), The registration deadline is April 8th. Please see the symposium web page for all details about registration, abstract submission, travel, etc. We look forward to seeing you there!
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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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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.
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Despina Strong Recognized as 2024 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! 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…
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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