2024 International Travel Grant – due April 26, 2025
The Section is also accepting applications for the 2024 International Travel Grant, aimed at providing financial assistance to a student for travel expenses associated with delivering a presentation at an international chemistry meeting or serving an international internship. Click here for the Application.
2024 National or Regional Meeting Travel Grant – due April 26, 2025
The Section is currently accepting applications for the 2024 Travel Grant, aimed at providing financial assistance to students or interns for travel expenses associated with presenting a poster or delivering a presentation at a National or Regional ACS meeting. Click here for the Application.
2024 Janan Hayes Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher Award
The Sacramento Section seeks applicants for the Janan Hayes Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher Award. Applications are due April 19, 2024. Details can be found here.
2023 Janan Hayes High School Teacher Award
The Sacramento Section is pleased to announce the winner of the 2023 Janan Hayes High School Chemistry Teacher Award is Nicholas Bua of Monterey Trail High School in the Elk Grove Unified School District.
2022 R. Bryan Miller Symposium and Richard Larock Undergraduate Research Conference
The 2022 Richard Larock Undergraduate Research Conference, the first in-person event hosted by the chemistry department since 2020, brings together students and professors from all chemistry research areas. The conference comprised student research presentations and a keynote speaker. This year’s keynote lecture featured Department of Chemistry alumna Kimberly Prather, who is now a Distinguished Professor at UC San Diego and...
Nominations Open for 2022 Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher Award
Nominations are now open for the 2022 ACS Sacramento Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher Award. The Award is presented annually to a high school chemistry teacher who has demonstrated an excellent ability to teach and inspire students to pursue careers in science within the Sacramento Section of ACS. The Sacramento Section of the ACS will present the winner with a certificate and a check for $500. In addition, the winner’s...
Research Funding Opportunities from California Sea Grant
The California Sea Grant College Program is now soliciting proposals for projects to begin on or after February 1, 2022. The program is releasing two simultaneous funding calls: 2022 Aquaculture Awards: For faculty, research staff, and scientists at universities and institutions, for aquaculture research. 2022 Graduate Research Fellowships: For graduate student-led projects on any topic connected to our strategic plan, except...
Savannah Conlon Wins Student Travel Grant
The ACS Sacramento Section has awarded Savannah Conlon with a travel award to attend an upcoming ACS National Meeting, where she will present her work titled “Excision of oxidatively damaged bases in G-quadruplexes by the DNA glycosylases NEIL1 and NEIL3.” The $250 travel award will help with travel and lodging costs associated with the meeting. Savannah received her B.S. from University of California, Santa Cruz in 2017, and began...
Congratulations to the 2020 R. Bryan Miller Symposium winners!
The 20th Annual R. Bryan Miller Symposium took place on March 5th and 6th, 2020 on the campus of UC Davis. The speaker lineup was top-notch, including plenary lectures by Bob Bergman (UCB) and Jennifer Doudna (UCB), Keynote lectures by Cynthia Burroughs (Utah) and Eric Anslyn (UT Austin), and many additional lectures from chemists in both academia and the pharmaceutical industry. The student poster session, sponsored by SAC ACS, had a...
Three Student Travel Award Opportunities
ACS Sacramento Section is proud to offer two $250 student travel awards to the 2020 ACS meeting in San Francisco, and $1000 to support travel to an international chemistry conference/meeting/internship. The application is due May 1st to Dean Tantillo. For details on the ACS meeting awards, click here. For details on the international travel award click here. In 2019, the winners when to San Diego. In 2018, the winners went to New...
Bill Casey Named 2019 ACS Fellow
UC Davis Distinguished Professor Bill Casey has been named a 2019 ACS Fellow. The announcement can be found here. Professor Casey’s research involves the study of reactions between water, rock, and minerals—work that recently led to a new mineral, caseyite, being named in his honor! See the UC Davis press release here.
Christopher Sousa Wins Student Scholarship
ACS Sacramento Section is happy to announce that Christopher Sousa has won the 2019 John Berg High School Chemistry Student Scholarship. He wins $1,000 towards his study of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UC Davis. While at Sheldon High School, he was ranked in the top 20 of his class of 580. He was an active and valued contributor to the Sheldon Biotechnology Academy and an award-winning member of the Sheldon Science Olympiad...
70th ACS Annual Meeting and Steak Barbecue at the University of the Pacific
On Saturday, April 20th, 2019, the Chemistry Department hosted its 70th Annual Meeting and Steak Barbecue. The event was co‐sponsored by the Chemistry Department at the University of the Pacific, the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of Sigma Xi, the Research Society, and the Sacramento Section American Chemistry Society. The event began with an overview of recent activities and personnel updates of the Chemistry Department, and presenting...
Winners Announced for ACS Student Travel Grants
The Sacramento Section of the American Chemical Society is proud to announce the winners of its Student Travel Grants. In the graduate category, Anna Lo of the UC Davis Department of Chemistry has won. In the undergraduate category, Mira Milic of the UC Davis Department of Chemistry won. Each winner receives $250 towards defraying their travel costs to the 2019 ACS National Meeting in San Diego. Ms. Lo will be presenting her work...
Robert Fendall wins 2019 High School Teacher Award
The Sacramento Section of the American Chemical Society is proud to announce Robert (Bob) Fendall as the winner of its 2019 Janan Hayes High School Teacher Award. He holds a B. S. in Biochemistry from CalPoly San Luis Obispo and a Single Subject Teaching Credential from Sacramento State. Mr. Fendall has taught chemistry at Sheldon High School since August of 2000. During that time, he has served as Department Chair of the Science...
Ko Lecture on Solar Fuels by R. David Britt
Join UC Davis for the announcement of the Winston Ko Professorship in Science Leadership as well as a lecture from the inagural recipient, Distinguished Professor R. David Britt. Solar Fuels: Nature’s Approach Although enormous, mankind’s total consumption of energy is dwarfed by nature’s global utilization of solar energy by photosynthesis, a process by which visible light is used to convert carbon dioxide and water to sugar and...
James Hill Running for AACT High School Ambassador
Mira Loma High School chemistry teacher and former ACS Sacramento Section High School Teacher of the Year James Hill is running for High School Ambassador of the American Association of Chemistry Teachers. If you are a member of AACT, please consider voting for him before the April 30th deadline!
Save the Date: Flavors of Chemistry
Flavors of Chemistry 2019 will occur on September 7, 2019 at the ARC Ballroom on the UC Davis campus. The speakers will be Hoby Wedler and Stephanie Doan. Wedler is co-founder of SENSPOINT-a company focused on opening the doors to sensory awareness and will speak about the chemistry of olive oil. Doan is a Senior Food Scientist in Food Innovation with Blue Diamond Growers and will speak about the chemistry of almond oil.
Student Travel Award Opportunity: Fall ACS in San Diego
ACS Sacramento Section is proud to offer two $250 student travel awards to the ACS meeting in San Diego. The application is due May 1st to Dean Tantillo. For details, click here. In 2018, the winners went to New Orleans. In 2017, the winners went to San Francisco.
Cate Simmermaker Won Student International Travel Award
Cate Simmermaker of the University of the Pacific won the inaugural Student International Travel Award. She will travel to Paris in May to give a talk about her research. To help offset her travel costs, she will receive $1,000. Cate Simmermaker is a second year graduate student at UOP. Originally from the Midwest, she received her B.S. in biochemistry from Earlham College and M.S. in chemistry from San Francisco State University. In...