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Come join us to the first event of the year!
The 7th Annual Family and Friends Picnic
at
Germania Park
Sunday, September 26th, 2010, from 1-5 pm
Bring your family! Invite your friends! Come and celebrate the end of summer and the beginning of fall, reconnect with old friends and make new ones in a relaxed and casual atmosphere. Activities and entertainment will include food, drinks, and Gold-ie the clown, face painting, balloons, manual activities and/or games for children, piñata breaking, and chemistry demonstrations.
Germania Park is conveniently located just north of Cincinnati; it has a playground for children and also has a covered pavilion so there will be fun rain or shine.
Program:
1:00 – 2:00 pm: Registration.
2:00 pm: Food is served. The local section will provide grilled hot dogs, hamburgers, brats, metts, and chicken as well as condiments and drinks including beer, soft drinks and juice boxes.
Attendees are cordially requested to bring a dish to share:
- If your last name starts with A-M please bring a side dish or salad for 6.
- If you last name starts with N-Z bring a dessert for 6.
Registration:
Please register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/
This is the best and easiest way to register. When you register indicate the number of adults and children attending. The deadline for registration is Wednesday September 21, 2010. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
As a last resort you may send your reservation request by email to Victor Arredondo at arredondo.vm@pg.com. If it is impossible to make your reservation via the internet or email, call me at 513-626-0242: leave your name, affiliation, number of people attending, a contact phone number and whether you are retired, first time attendee, unemployed, a K-12 teacher or a student
Cost:
- $10 for individual members
- $15 for members with their family or friends
- $5 for individual retired members, first time chemists, K-12 teachers, students and unemployed members or $10 for the same with their family or friends
Directions to Germania Park, 3529 West Kemper Road, Cincinnati, OH 45251:
From I-275 take the Colerain Avenue exit and go north on Colerain (US 27) for about 2.5 miles. Take the Kemper Road exit and turn right unto Kemper. Germania Park is on the right hand side after about 1.3 miles.
From I-275W take exit #36 toward Mt. Healthy. Turn right onto Hamilton Avenue (US 127) and go north about 0.8 miles. Turn left onto West Kemper Road. Germania Park is on the left after 1.6 miles.
The Department of Chemistry of the University of Cincinnati
and the
Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society
present
The 2010 Ralph and Helen Oesper Banquet & Poster Session
honoring
Kurt Wüthrich
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA
on
Friday, October 8, 2010
at
The Great Hall, Tangeman University Center (TUC), UC
Registration:
Please register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/October/
As a lesser alternative, you may send your reservations by email to Kim.Carey@uc.edu. If absolutely impossible to make reservations via the internet, telephone 513-556-0293. Deadline for reservations is 12:00 noon on Wednesday, September 29, 2010. Include your name, affiliation, banquet dinner choice, and state if you’re in one of the 1/2 price categories. As a reminder, if you decide you must miss a meeting after you have made reservations, please call to cancel. If you do not cancel, the Section will have to charge you because it will have been charged by the University. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
The banquet price, which includes the following, salad, dessert and one drink, is $20 (1/2 price for emeritus, students, K-12, unemployed and new members), and is payable at the door.
The banquet dinner choices are:
1) Chicken Chasseur (chicken in a white wine sauce with mushrooms and tomatoes) and served with red skin mashed potatoes and sauteed green beans.
2) Vegetarian/Vegan option: Peppers stuffed with a lentil ragu and served with sauteed green beans.
Program:
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Local Cincinnati Poster Session/Social Hour
7:00 pm – 9:00 pm: Oesper Banquet and Award Presentation
“A Tale from Two Cities”
Charles Weissmann
The Scripps Research Institute, Florida
About the Speaker:
Charles Weissmann, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Infectology, obtained his M.D. (1956) and Ph.D. degrees (1961) at the University of Zürich. After 7 years at the NYU School of Medicine as a post-doc, Assistant and then Associate Professor, he became Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology, University of Zürich in 1967. In 1999 he moved to the MRC Prion Unit, University College, London as Senior Scientist. In 2004 he was appointed Chairman of the Department of Infectology, Scripps Research Institute, Florida. He has contributed significantly to our understanding of RNA virus replication, developed site-directed mutagenesis and reverse genetics, discovered quasispecies in viral populations, cloned the human interferon alpha genes and produced recombinant interferon in E.coli, cloned the prion gene and demonstrated that its knockout in mice abrogated prion replication and conferred protection from prion disease.
Professor Weissmann has been internationally recognized for his work, including memberships in the Royal Society (United Kingdom) and National Academy of Science (USA). He has been awarded six honorary doctoral degrees and many leading scientific prizes. He was a cofounder of Biogen, the first European biotechnology company and served on several corporate boards.
Directions:
If you approach via I-75, take the Hopple Street exit and turn left at the light. You will pass over the highway. At the next light, go straight (straight here is actually about a 45 degree turn to the left). You are now on Martin Luther King Drive. Continue up King to the 4th traffic light. You will reach the first one quickly, the second one about ½ mile after that, the third (Clifton Ave.) after going up a long hill, and the 4th as you continue eastward with the campus on your right. Turn right at this 4th traffic light onto campus, and then right into the Woodside Garage.
If you approach Cincinnati coming south on I-71, get off at the Taft Street exit (exit 3). After the light at the end of the off-ramp, continue straight (west) on Taft for about 1.3 miles. At this time, Hughes High School is directly in front of you, and you must turn. Turn right onto Clifton Avenue. The University is now on your right side. Continue on Clifton to King; turn right (eastbound) on King and follow to the first light. Turn right onto campus, and then right into the Woodside Garage.
September 26: Family and Friends Picnic at Germania Park
October 8: Oesper Award Event, Kurt Wüthrich, Scripps Research Institute at the University of Cincinnati
October 17 – 23: National Chemistry Week, “Behind the Scenes with Chemistry”
December: Joint Meeting with NOBCChE, TBD
January 13: Professor William R. Heineman, “New Strategies for Chemical Sensors”
February 9: Chemist of the Year
March 9: TBD
April 13: Education Awards Night at NKU
April 16: Earth Day Celebration at Sawyer Point
May: Party Night, TBD
