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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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ACS Denver Meeting – August 2024
Plan now for the August 18-22 ACS Meeting in Denver, Colorado. Visit the ACS Denver website for details.
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LIGO Hanford and Richland Area Field Trip
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…
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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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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…
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LIGO Hanford Tour
The ACS Puget Sound Section is organizing a field trip to Eastern Washington with a private 2-hour tour of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on May 22nd. We also hope to visit a couple of wineries and have a group dinner the day before the official tour. Please review the attached flyer and respond to…
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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double Helix
An ACS Puget Sound Section Book Discussion, led by John ShaferSponsored by the Diversity Equity Inclusion and Respect (DEIR) Committee The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA’s Double HelixBy Howard Markel Tuesday, January 23, 2024 @ 7 PMDownload a flyer here. All are welcome. Link to Zoom…
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ACS PSS Election Results
The results of our fall election are in! Thank you to all ACS members who voted, and congratulations to the newly-elected officers and re-elected ongoing officers whose terms will begin on the ACS PSS Executive Committee in January 2024. Chair-elect (proceeds to Chair in 2025 and then Past-Chair for an overall three-year term): Katalina, Biondi,…