ACS Sacramento Honors Its Members
The ACS Sacramento Section celebrated its Annual Honors and Awards Ceremony at 4:30 on Saturday, September 20, 2014 at the Bicycle Hall of Fame in Davis. Debbie Decker, a newly awarded ACS Fellow, spoke about her career in chemistry including starting out at The Explosives Technology Company in Fairfield, CA. After that, Decker did significant work at both Sacramento State and UC Davis in Environmental Health and Safety. Marilyn...
What is that molecule on the ACS pin?
Congratulations to our pin contest winner, Petra Vasko! Petra is a Fulbright Scholar, visiting UC Davis all the way from University Jyväskylä in Finland. The molecule she used in her pin design is ArLiTHF2, where Ar = m-terphenyl with flanking mesityl rings, and THF = tetrahydrofuran. This molecule is a useful synthon, commonly used by the Power research group. The Power group is focused on expanding knowledge concerning the more...
SCC Chemistry Club News Fall 2014
The SCC Chemistry Club is a student run chapter of the ACS and serves all Sacramento City College students who are interested in chemistry. The club does community outreach at nearby schools, field trips to chemistry-related attractions, and projects of all kinds. So far, the club has taken a field trip to the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, done glass etching, and executed a liquid nitrogen demo for Earth Day at SCC. The club...
UC Davis Chemistry Club News Fall 2014
Welcome to this year’s new officers: Kate Gibson, David Barga, Benjamin Wigman, Bradley Petkus, Dalena Tran, Hope Nikolaychuk, and Michelle Tin! Faculty advisors are Profs. Kovnir, Franz and Crabtree. The Chemistry Club at UC Davis provides outreach shows and demonstrations to schools and community groups throughout the year. In August, volunteers performed demonstrations for >50 children from Birch Lane Elementary Summer...
ACS Fellows Installed
Two members of the Sacramento Section were honored as 2014 ACS Fellows during the recent ACS National meeting in San Francisco. Both are members of the UCDavis Chemistry Department. Debbie Decker, Chemical Officer of the UCD Chemistry department, was honored for her years of service to the safety community including her current position as chair elect of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Marilyn Olmsted, Chemistry...
Jan Hayes Celebrates 40 Years of service on the ACS Council
During the ACS Council meeting at the San Francisco National meeting, Jan Hayes, Sacramento Section Councilor, was one of three members honored for 40 consecutive years of active service on the Council. Thirty-seven of those years have been as the Councilor from the Sacramento Section and 3 years as a member of the ACS Board of Directors. The ACS Council is the legislative body for the Society. Dr. Hayes has been an active Council...
ACS Travel Grant Award Winners
The Sacramento local section initially decided to offer two $250 travel grant awards for the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco in August. However, we had such a great response to our call for applications that we decided to offer four awards. Thank you to everyone who applied, and congratulations to our winners! Graduate Students: Tobias Sherbow, UC Davis Nicholas Ball-Jones, UC Davis Irina Dotsenko, University of the...
K-12: National Chemistry Week Poetry Contest
The Sacramento Section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in Kindergarten – 12th grade.The grade-based categories are: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, and 9-12. Each grade category has its own prizes! This Year’s theme is “The Sweet Side of Chemistry: Candy” For full details including judging criteria and an entry form, download the...
2015 Executive Committee Election
Have you thought about getting more involved in the Sacramento section, but not sure where to start? We are looking for nominees for 2015 Executive Committee openings to place on the fall 2014 ballot. Vacancies include Chair Elect, Treasure, and Alternate Councilor. Why not attend one of the upcoming Executive Committee meetings to check it out? We’d love to have you! Please contact any of the Executive Committee members listed in...
Councilor’s Report: ACS Fall Meeting
The national Fall ACS meeting this year was close to home – San Francisco. Because I am a member of the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (CEPA), as well as the liaison from CEPA to the Graduate Education Advisory Board, I was busy from Friday until the Council meeting on Wednesday. The CEPA meeting started Friday evening and continued until Sunday noon. CEPA’s mission statement includes: Vision: The...
Executive Committee Members and Members-at-Large
Our current members of the Executive Committee and Members-at-Large who regularly attend our monthly board meetings. Our next Executive Committee meeting will be February 28th at 6pm- location to be determined. We will have a teleconferencing option if you cannot make it in person. Please email any Executive Committee member or Member-At-Large for more information. Chair Bill Miller millerw@scc.losrios.edu Chair Elect Currently vacant...
Greetings from the chair
Greetings from the Chair A wee bit of rain and weekends full of football. Fall is in the air and every year I get a little bit nostalgic and think back about starting school. Well, to help fill that little void that used to be nurtured by the lofty pillars of education I hope that you can join me for a new program we are starting in the Sacramento Section called ‘Connect with a Chemist’. Our Chair-Elect, Bill Miller, will...