February Monthly Meeting
Wednesday, February 9th, 2011
at
The Wingate by Wyndham & Meridian Conference Center
7500 Tylers Place Blvd.
West Chester, OH 45069
Sponsored by Procter & Gamble
Cincinnati Chemist of the Year:
Professor Apryll M. Stalcup
Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
Program:
5:30 – 7:00 pm: Registration
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Social Hour: Beer, wine and soft drinks.
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Buffet Dinner: Chef’s greens salad, traditional lasagna, tortellini in basil cream served with foccacia & crusty Italian bread with butter & herb-infused oils, tiramisu, coffee, hot and ice tea.
Fee: $25.00 ($15.00 students, emeritus, unemployed and new members).
8:00pm: Speaker:
Prof. Apryll M. Stalcup
“Separation SCIENCE”
Registration:
Please register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org
Alternatively, you may email the webmaster at webmaster@acscincinnati.org to register.
The deadline for registration is noon on Monday, February 7.
January Monthly Meeting
Thursday, January 13, 2011
at
Givaudan Flavors
1199 Edison Dr.
Cincinnati, OH
Sponsored by
Givaudan Flavors and Iota Sigma Pi
Program:
5:30 – 7:00 pm: Registration
5:30 – 6:30 pm: Section Outreach Planning Meeting, CDR #1.
6:00 – 7:00 pm: Social Hour. Cheese with crackers, grapes, veggies and dip, punch, iced tea, soft drinks.
7:00 – 8:00 pm: Buffet Dinner: Italian Chop Salad, fresh bread, Tuscan Stuffed Chicken, Charbroiled Flat Iron Steak, Sauteed Vegetable Medley, Roasted Potatoes, Assorted Miniature Pastries, coffee, and tea. Vegetarian entree available upon request when making reservations.
Fee: $25.00 ($15.00 for students, emeritus, unemployed and new members.
8:00pm: Speaker, Prof. William R. Heineman, Distinguished Research Professor and Chair Department of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati
“New Strategies for Chemical Sensors”
Chemical sensors and biosensors are able to rapidly determine chemicals and biological agents. Examples of widely used sensors are the pH electrode, the glucose biosensor, and the Clark oxygen electrode. Although many sensors are commercially available, many more are needed. However, developing new sensors with the selectivity needed for measurements in real world samples is very difficult. Spectroelectrochemistry is a strategy for developing highly selective sensors without resorting to fragile biosensors. These novel sensors combine electrochemistry, spectroscopy, and selective partitioning into a film. The film is chosen to preconcentrate analyte from the sample solution into the measurement zone and to reject some sample components. An additional level of selectivity is provided by subjecting the preconcentrated analyte to electrolysis, which electrochemically modulates an optical signal. The modulated signal can then be distinguished from the constant signals of other components in the sample and used for quantification. Examples of sensors developed for the detection of inorganic and organic compounds in complex samples such as nuclear waste and biological fluids will be described.
Register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
December Meeting
on
December 2, 2010
at
Xavier University
Conaton Board Room, Room 201 Schmidt Hall
Joint Meeting with the National Society for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
with
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Clark Beck, Wright STEPP Founder & Wright State University Retired Assistant Dean
Program:
5:15 – 6:15pm: Room 103 Linder Hall: Dr. Tom Clark, Xavier U., Success Principles in Writing Letters of Application and Resumes.
Board Meeting: Room 101 Logan Hall
5:30 – 7:00pm: Registration, Conaton Board Room, 2nd floor Schmidt Hall
6:00 – 7:00pm: Social Hour, Conaton Board Room.
7:00 – 8:00pm: Dinner. Conaton Board Room ($25.00 or $15.00 for students, emeritus, unemployed, and new members). Menu: Pan Seared Chicken Breast with Hunter Sauce, Garden Greens Salad with Italian Vinaigrette, Wild Rice Pilaf, Fresh Seasonal Vegetable Medley, Fresh Baked Bread, Chocolate Mousse with Raspberry Sauce, Whipped Cream and Chocolate Shavings, Coffee, Tea. Vegetarian entree available upon request when making reservations.
Register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/
8:00 – 9:00pm: Speaker, Dr. Clark Beck
“STEM: Then and Now . . . . Why and how”
Directions to Meeting Venue: The Xavier University Conaton Presidential Board Room is located on the second floor of Schmidt Hall. Parking is free with the parking pass printed in December’s CINTACS newsletter at the F&W Center on Dana Avenue across the street from Schmidt Hall. A map of Xavier University with directions can be found at:
Robert H. Grubbs
Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology
and
2005 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry
will be presenting the following seminar
at the P&G Miami Valley Innovation Center
E. Miami River Rd, Ross OH
November 2, 9am
“Synthesis of Polymers with Controlled Structures using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts.”
The talk will cover controlled synthesis of block copolymers, cyclic polymers, and sustainable/renewable polymers
A buffet luncheon sponsored by the Cincinnati ACS will follow
P&G has graciously agreed to open Prof. Grubbs seminar to our ACS members, and Student Affiliates
If you are interested in attending the Seminar and Luncheon Reception for Prof. Grubbs, please respond by Oct 22.
Registration is limited to 50. Please register online at:
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
May Monthly Meeting
Friday, May 21, 2010
Party Night at Valley Vineyards
2276 U.S. 22
Morrow, OH 45152
Sponsored by Dr. Robert Laughlin P&G, Retired
Celebrate with your friends in the vineyards of the Little Miami River Valley.
Program:
6:30-7:00 PM: Self Guided Tour/Wine Tasting
7:00 PM: Grill Your Own Steak or Salmon Barbeque
Menu: Steak or Salmon and 2 Glasses of Wine or 1 Bottle of Wine (for 2 people); accompanied by 2 salads, baked potato, green beans almondine, fresh breads, home-made dessert buffet, coffee, tea
$25 members and guests, $15 retired members and guests.
Registration:
Please register online at:
http://registration.acscincinnati.org/
Alternatively, you may email the webmaster at webmaster@acscincinnati.org to register, or call Susan Hershberger at 513.727.3438.
The deadline for registration is Sunday May 16, 2010.
(Please note: The meeting date is Friday, May 21, 2010. The meeting date is incorrectly listed above the map on page 3 of CINTACS.)
