The Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society has funds available for the purpose of improving K-12 chemical education in the geographic area served by the local section (OH: Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Hamilton, Highland and Warren counties; KY: Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties; IN: Dearborn and Ohio counties). The Educational Grants Committee was established to make recommendations to the Cincinnati Section Trustees for the disbursement of these funds. The committee hereby invites applications for these grants from all members (teachers, students, industrial chemists, etc.) of the chemical community supporting K-12 chemical education in the service area of the section.

Grants will be awarded for such activities as attending educational workshops, participation in summer research programs, innovative education programs, instructional equipment, etc. Proposals, which incorporate the use of funds from other agencies or corporations, including the agency, or corporation, with which the applicant is affiliated, may be given preference in the selection process. Funds will generally not be awarded for the purchase of common supplies or chemicals. However, any application, which meets the basic criteria for which the fund was created, will be given serious consideration. A total of $1,500 will be awarded during each grant period; exceptional proposals may win the entire amount, or the amount could be shared between several winning applications. Grants for K-12 educators to attend scientific or scientific educational conferences may usually limited to $400 and usually are only available to an educator every three years, with preference going to educators presenting papers. No school or organization will be allowed to receive more than one (1) award per calendar year. Within one year from the time the grant is awarded, a report describing the use of the funds and the impact that the project had on improving chemical education is expected to be forwarded to the committee chairperson, Ms. Gloria Story.

Colleges and Universities may apply in late December for one of four individual $400 grants to be used to defray the cost of UNDERGRADUATE students to attend the Spring ACS National Meeting. The student for which the grant applies must be the first author and presenter. A copy of the accepted ACS abstract should be sent to Ms. Gloria Story via email. Normal submission of the abstract to the National ACS is sometime in November of the year preceding the spring meeting. If less than four institutions submit requests, an attempt to evenly distribute the grants between the remaining institutions is implemented.

For further information or an application, please visit the Cincinnati Section’s website, http://www.acscincinnati.org/ or contact:

Gloria Story

The Procter and Gamble Co.

8700 Mason-Montgomery Rd.

Mason, OH 45040

Phone: 513-698-4912

E-mail: story.gm@pg.com

Educational Grant Information (.pdf)

Educational Grant Application (.pdf)

Please see the flyer below if you are interested in participating.

Flyer (.pdf)

The Cincinnati Section will be hosting FREE Chemistry Demonstrations at the following locations:

October 13
3:00 pm Avondale Library
4:00 pm Cold Spring (KY) Library

October 15
10:00 am West Chester Library

October 16
2:00 pm Children’s Learning Center

October 17
3:45 pm Oakley Library
4:00 pm Green Township Library
4:00 pm Mt Healthy Library
6:30 pm Monfort Heights Library
6:30 pm Pleasant Ridge Library

October 18
2:30 pm College Hill Library
3:30 pm Delhi Township
4:00 pm Newport (KY) Library
6:00 pm Norwood Library
6:30 pm Forest Park Library
6:30 pm Mariemont Library
6:30 pm Convington (KY) Library

October 19
4:00 pm Wyoming Library
4:15 pm Independence (KY) Library

October 20
6:30 pm Mason Library
7:00 pm Erlanger (KY) Library

October 21
10 am – 5pm Museum Center

October 22
10 am – 5pm Museum Center
1:30 pm Madeira Library
2:00 pm Anderson Library
2:00 pm Greenhills Library
2:00 pm Walnut Hills Library
2:00 pm Springboro Library

October 24
6:30 pm West End Library

October 25
6:00 pm Brookville (IN) Library

October 27
6:00 pm Laurel (IN) Library

NCW Flier:  NCW 2011 (Updated October 11, 2011)

It is that time of year again when the local American Chemical Society sponsors our National Chemistry Week Poster – I mean Poem – Contest.  Yes, this year the ACS headquarters has changed the format for the entries in which we will be including a poem with our illustration to demonstrate “Chemistry – Our Health, Our Future!”

Please read the announcement attached carefully for the changes to the structure.  If you have any questions, you can refer to the national website at www.acs.org or you can contact me.

I look forward to seeing the theme come to life in illustration AND word!

Jamie Heimkreiter

ACS Cincinnati Section

To build on the momentum of Earth Day, the Cincinnati section of the American Chemistry Society is hosting an event called, “Energy – it’s everywhere!” at the Cincinnati Museum Center on May 6, 2011 from 9-5. The goal is to teach members of the community about alternative sources of energy, such as bio-diesel, thermal energy, windpower, and more with hands-on activities and fun demos.  These activities are designed for all ages!!!

Look for us in the lobby of the Museum Center and please drop on by to learn, look, and talk.

Please contact Gloria Story (story.gm@pg.com) or Donna Wiedemann (wiedemann.dj@pg.com) for more information.

Program Flyer:  EnergyDay.pdf

To kick off IYC 2011, the Cincinnati section of the American Chemistry Society is hosting a Water Chemistry day at the Cincinnati Museum Center on March 25, 2011 from 9-5.  The goal is to teach members of the community about the properties of water and its role in the environment with hands-on activities and fun demos.  These activities are designed for all ages!!!

Look for us in the lobby of the Museum Center and please drop on by to learn, look, and talk.

Please contact Gloria Story (story.gm@pg.com) for more information.

For more information:

Water Chemistry Day poster:  poster.pdf

ACS IYC site:  http://www.chemistry2011.org/

Stephen Morgan, Stanley Deming, Instructors

Monday through Wednesday, May 23-25, 2011

Mason Business Center – The Procter & Gamble Company

8700 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason Ohio

Overview

Master the fundamentals of laboratory data treatment to solve data analysis problems. Through a combination of lectures and problem-solving sessions, this course will teach statistical techniques that can be put to immediate use in the workplace. Participants will learn how to understand the strengths and weaknesses of data, recognize and reduce different types of errors, carry out significance tests, correctly use outlier tests, and more.

Who Should Attend?

Technicians, scientists, engineers, laboratory managers, R&D managers, manufacturing and production managers, and others who need to understand traditional and modern methods of data analysis.  This course assumes no previous knowledge of statistics and is aimed at both beginning and experienced workers. Each participant should bring a hand-held calculator to the course.

For more information, view the short course flyer:

http://cintacs.org/archive/2010/shortcourse/CINTACS%202011%20Shortcourse.doc

http://www.cintacs.org/archive/2010/ncw/NCWphotos2010/

NCW Flyer

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.

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