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AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY MICHIGAN
STATE UNIVERSITY LOCAL SECTION N e w s l e t t e r |
Volume
X, number 1 February
25, 2001
The American Chemical Society is the
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in advancing the scientific literacy of students and the public's appreciation
of chemistry.
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New date to be announced Saturday “GLCCC Research Day” April 1-5, 2001 221st ACS National MeetingSan Diego, CA June 11-13, 2001 Joint Great Lakes/Central RegionACS Meeting Grand Rapids, MI August 26-31, 2001 222nd ACS National Meeting Chicago, IL October 20, 2001
Saturday 11:00
am-3:00 pm "Chemistry Day
at Lansing Mall" November 4 – 10, 2001 NATIONAL CHEMISTRY WEEK Theme: Chemistry and Art November 8, 2001
Thursday 7:30 pm, Kresge Aud. Public Lecture by Karen Trentelman,
Detroit Institute of Arts |
Dr.
PETER MOORE
2001 Max T. Rogers
Lecturer
Dr. Peter Moore, Eugene Higgins Professor of
Chemistry at Yale University, received his B.S. in Chemistry at Yale
University (1961) and Ph.D. in Chemistry at Harvard University (1966). After a post-doctoral fellowship at the
Institute de Biologie Moleculaire, Geneva, Switzerland, he took a position at
the Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, U.K. He joined the faculty at Yale University
in 1969. Dr. Moore was a Guggenheim
Fellow at the University of Oxford, UK 1979-80 and was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences 1997.
His research is devoted to elucidating the role of ribonucleic acid
(RNA) in gene expression using the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) and X-ray crystallography to match RNA structure with function. LECTURE
TOPICS Monday,
March 12, 2001 "Ribonucleoprotein
Architecture: The Crystal Structure of the Large Ribosomal Subunit." 4:00
p.m., Room 138 Chemistry
Building Michigan
State University
Tuesday,
March 13, 2001 "The
Structural Basis of the Peptide Bond Forming of the Ribosome." 4:00
p.m., Room 138 Chemistry
Building Michigan
State University |
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The ACS MSU
Local Section once again ushered in National Chemistry Week (NCW) with our 14th
annual “Chemistry Day in the Mall.” It
was held from 11 am – 3 pm on Saturday, October 21, 2000 at the Lansing Mall
and the theme was Kitchen Chemistry.
For the first time, Chemistry Day was an event in the Capital Area Girl
Scout activity brochure. Leaders
pre-registered and brought troops to the mall where the girls earned a
specially designed commemorative patch by participating in the activities. Over 300 Girl Scouts in 48 troops from 15
different communities in the greater Lansing area attended in Chemistry Day and
earned patches (over 100 non-Scouts did, too!). Hands-on activities and chemical demonstrations were presented
at 40 tables by over 120 demonstrators including MSU students in Science
Theatre, Chemistry Club, National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical
Engineers (NOBCChE), Food Science Club, Lyman Briggs College, and ACS Women in
Chemistry and by students from St. Johns High School, Perry High School, and
Mount Hope Elementary School. New this
year, a free raffle was held. Cool
chemistry items including periodic table mugs, NCW tee shirts, element pins,
Milli Moles, and ACS Moles were raffled off each hour. Over 700 helium balloons and hundreds of
“Be a Michigan State Chemist” buttons, copies of “Get Cooking With Chemistry”,
NCW lapel stickers, periodic tables, and Nan O Moles were given away. To emphasize the need for safety, all
demonstrators received goggles with the MSU Spartan logo to use during the
event and to take home as a “thank you” for their participation. By all accounts a great time was had by all!
Chemistry Club,
the MSU Student Affiliate of the ACS, actively promoted NCW and its Kitchen
Chemistry theme this year. In addition
to being excellent presenters during “Chemistry Day at the Lansing Mall”, they
sponsored two other NCW events. The first
was a panel discussion “Issues in Food Chemistry” co-sponsored with the
Informed Student Alliance. Speakers
Professor Gale Strasburg and Professor Zeynep Ustunol of the MSU Department of
Food Science and Human Nutrition presented information about the chemical
changes that occur during cooking and in the preparation of dairy products such
as cheese and yogurt. Issues such as
the use of chemistry to alter foods were also discussed. Chemistry Club members also participated in
the ACS unifying event: “Chemists
Reacting to Hunger” community food drive.
Food collection bins were placed in campus building and the food
collected was donated to food pantries in Lansing.
We’re already
making plans for NCW 2001! In keeping with 2001 theme: Chemistry and Art, Dr. Karen Trentelman, Associate Research
Scientist in the Conservation Laboratory at the Detroit Institute of Arts, will
give a presentation on Thursday, November 8 at the MSU Kresge Art
Museum.
The 15th
annual Chemistry Day at the Mall will be held on Saturday, October 20. MSU faculty, staff, and students, local area
schools and businesses will have chemistry-related hands-on activities and
chemical demonstrations that are entertaining (and educational!). Please come and join us for the fun! Contact
Kathy Severin (severin@cem.msu.edu),
local section coordinator for National
Chemistry Week 2001, for more information.
Look for more information about these events in subsequent newsletters.
The Local
Section is pleased to recognize Dr. Jim Dye, Dr. Harry Eick, Mr. John Morton,
Dr. Clarence Suelter, and Mr. Floyd Young as they celebrate their 50th year of
membership with the American Chemical Society.
The Great Lakes
College Chemistry Conference Research Day is an opportunity for undergraduate
students in chemistry and chemistry-related fields to present their research to
their peers and to the chemistry community, and to learn about what other
undergraduates are doing in chemistry. Students from twenty-five to thirty
Great Lakes area colleges and universities gather for this one-day program to
present their research in poster sessions, to attend workshops on modern
research techniques, and to hear a plenary lecture. The upcoming 11th Annual Career Day will be held during
this Spring semester. On-line registration will
be available soon on the GLCCC website
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~glccc. For more information, please contact Dr.
Evelyn Jackson, GLCCC Career Day, Department of Chemistry, Michigan State
University, East Lansing, MI 48824,
517-355-9715 ext. 341,
glccc@cem.msu.edu.
As a
professional society, the ACS has much to offer its members and customers. In light of its stewardship role as the leading
provider of chemistry-related information and services, the ACS periodically
reviews its strategic plan to remain at the forefront of the latest scientific,
technological, and business developments.
A new 2001-2003 Strategic Plan for the ACS has been developed, which
challenges the Society to assess to what extent individual needs are changing, how innovative used of the internet can accelerate programs, and
how international the reach of
program services should be. The new
Strategic Plan is posted on the web at:
http://www.acs.org/acsinfo/strategicplan2001.pdf
Oral and poster
papers from all areas of chemistry are welcome; abstracts are due before March
1, 2001. Electronic submission is preferred.
Please contact the program chairs, or visit the website, for additional
information: Dr. Dawn Merritt, (616)
833-2382,
dawn.a.merritt@am.pnu.com, or Dr. Mike Silver, (616) 395-7636,
silver@hope.edu.
Special events planned for the meeting include several short courses, an Opening Evening Reception, an undergraduate poster session, a Women Chemist's luncheon, the High School Chemistry Teacher Awards presentation and banquet, a Student Affiliates and Undergraduates program, an Employment Clearinghouse, and an exhibition of scientific equipment, products and services.
The MSU Local
Section has limited funds available to provide travel support to chemical
research/educational conferences.
Travel grants up to $250.00 may be awarded to individuals who are
members of the MSU Local Section or the local K-12 science education community
and have a paper accepted at a conference sanctioned by the American Chemical
Society. An application form for travel
support is available at
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~msuacs/tgrants.html. Applications will be reviewed by MSU Local
Section board members in May and December each year. Please contact Paul Mantica, 517-333-6456 or e-mail
mantica@msu.edu
for more information.
It has been a busy semester thus far for
ACS-WiC. We held a spring kick-off
meeting in January, and collected many new ideas for future programs. On February 21, Rhonda Bokram, a
nutritionist from Olin Health Center, met with WiC and gave an informal talk
about nutrition. She talked with us
about general nutrition and the truth about fad diets. On Wednesday, March 21 Dr. Jim
Wiggins from the Department of Finance will present a seminar on the basics of
investing. Also in March, WiC will
attend the St. Thomas Aquinas Science Fair to perform chemical demonstrations
for the students and their families.
Early in the month of February, WiC members conducted hands-on
activities for community children during the Science Day at the Meridian
Mall. As for future activities, we plan
to host an event focused on alternative careers in chemistry. For more information about our organization
or about upcoming events, please check out our website at:
http://www.cem.msu.edu/~acswic.
On Tuesday,
March 13, The Younger Chemist Committee of the MSU Local Section will
present a panel discussion entitled "Preparing for a Career in
Academia." If you are interested
in a career in academia, you will want to attend! Faculty from a large research university, a small liberal arts
university, and a community college will be on hand to discuss what it's like
to work in academia, as well as how to prepare for a career in academia. This panel discussion will be held in Room
329 of the Chemistry Building, Michigan State University at 6:00 p.m. If you are interested in a career in
academia, be sure to attend! For more information contact Jim Ciszewski YCC
Chair, Chemistry Department, MSU, ciszewsk@cem.msu.edu, 355-9715 x-172.
The
Women Chemist Committee of the ACS is calling for applications for Travel
Awards for post-doctoral, graduate, and undergraduate women to make their first
research presentation at a national meeting.
Eli Lilly & Company sponsor these awards. More information and an application form can be found at
http://membership.acs.org/W/WCC/ or contact Cheryl Brown at 800-227-5558 ext.
6022. Deadlines for receipt of
applications for 2001 meetings: September
15, 2001 – Meetings between January 1, 2001 & June 30, 2002
Chairperson: Dr. Paul F. Mantica 517-355-9672 ext. 456, fax: 517-353-5967 e-mail: mantica@nscl.msu.edu |
Chair-Elect: Dr. Aaron Odom 517-355-9715 ext. 171, fax: 517-353-1793 e-mail: odoma@msu.edu |
Secretary: Dr. Holly Bevsek 517-353-4763 ext. 372, fax: e-mail: bevsek@msu.edu |
Treasurer: Dr. Robert Maleczka 517-355-9715 ext. 124, fax: 517-353-1793 e-mail: maleczka@cem.msu.edu |
Councilor: Dr. Kathryn Severin 517-355-9715 ext. 372, fax: 517-353-1793 e-mail: severin@cem.msu.edu |
Alternate Councilor: Dr. Susan J. Masten 517-353-8539,
fax: 517-432-1827 e-mail: masten@cee.msu.edu |
Past-Chairperson: Dr. John L.
McCracken 517-355-9715 ext. 229, fax: 517-353-1793 e-mail: mccracke@msu.edu |
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Inside:
Local Section National Chemistry Week Celebration
GLCCC Research Day
33Rd Central/Great Lakes
Regional Meeting
Local Section Travel Grants
WCC Travel Awards
ACS Women in Chemistry (WiC)
Younger Chemist Committee (YCC)
Dr.
Dalila Kovacs, Newsletter Editor
MSU
ACS Local Section
Department
of Chemistry
Michigan
State University
East
Lansing, MI 48824-1322