Chemist and Research Associate of the Year
February 11, 2009
Miami Univeristy Marcum Conference Center (MCC)
Oxford, OH
Sponsored by Procter and Gamble
Program:
6:00 – 7:00pm: Registration and Social Hour (Room MCC-112). Open beer, wine, and soft drink bar
7:00 – 8:00pm: Buffet Dinner (Room MCC-180-6). Chicken & Andouille sausage gumbo, mixed greens with creole mustard red pepper vinagrette, fresh baked rolls, blackened chicken with remoulade sauce, carved beef tenderloin with sauce robert, red beans and rice, oven roasted potatoes, maque choux, seasonal vegetables, pecan pie and bananas foster cheesecake, coffee, tea, and decaf. Cost $25.00 ($15.00 for students, emeritus, unemployed, and new members).
8:00 – 9:00pm: Meeting and Lecture
Registration: Please register online HERE. Alternatively, you may email the webmaster at webmaster@acscincinnati.org to register, or call Roger Parker at 513-771-3613. Registration is now closed.
Directions to Marcum Conference Center at Miami University in Oxford, OH:
Take I-275 to US 27 exit (Colerain Ave.). Follow US 27 North to Oxford (approximately 20 miles). US 27 turns in to Patterson Ave. when you enter Oxford. Continue to stop sign at corner of Patterson Ave. & High Street. Go straight through intersection approximately one block. A white sign will point you to the Marcum Conference Center (to the right). Plenty of parking is available behind the conference center.
January Monthly Meeting
January 14th, 2009
Givaudan Flavors
Sponsored by Givaudan Flavors and Iota Sigma Pi
Featured Speaker:
Dr. Sara Risch
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
Program:
5:30 – 7:30pm Registration.
6:00 – 6:30pm Board Meeting (Room CDR #1).
6:00 – 7:00pm Social Hour. Cheese with crackers and grapes, veggies with dip, punch, iced tea, soft drinks
7:00 – 8:00pm Buffet Dinner. House salad, sliced roast beef au jus and horseradish cream sauce, stuffed chicken breast, steamed vegetables, roasted red potatoes, assorted gourmet cheesecakes and coffee.
8:00pm Speaker.
“Flavor Chemistry”
Dr. Sarah Risch
Registration: Please register online HERE. Registration is now closed. Alternatively, you may email the webmaster at webmaster@acscincinnati.org to register, or call Roger Parker at 513.771.3613. Deadline for reservations is noon on Friday, January 9. Cost is $25 ($15 for students, emeritus, unemployed, and new members).
Directions:
From I-75 North:
Take the Towne Street Exit. Go right at the end of the exit. Turn left at the light onto Paddock Rd. At the first light, turn left onto Edison Dr. and enter the TechSolve Research Park. Givaudan Flavors is on the left, however, continue on Edison past the visitors entrance and park in the employee parking lot which is behind the building. Use the entrance near the south end of the parking lot. The entrance will be marked.
From I-75 South:
Take the Paddock Rd. exit and turn left at the end of the exit onto Paddock rd. Turn right at the third stoplight onto Edison Dr., and continue as above.
About the Speaker:
Sara Risch is a professor at Michigan State University . She was Director of the School of Packaging from 2004 to 2006. Prior to joining Michigan State , Sara had her own consulting business where she worked with food, flavor and packaging companies on product-package compatibility as well as new product development. She also spent five years as Director of R&D for Golden Valley Microwave Foods (now part of ConAgra Snack Foods). She is active in the American Chemical Society and is currently a Councilor for the Agricultural and Food Chemistry Division and vice-chair of the Committee on Nominations and Elections. She is a professional member of the Institute of Food Technologists , serving on the Committee on Divisions and on the executive committees for both the Food Packaging and Food Chemistry Divisions. Sara received her B.S and Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of Minnesota . She received a MS in Food Science from the University of Georgia .
December Monthly Meeting
December 4th, 2008
Conaton Board Room, Room 201 Schmidt Hall
Xavier University
Joint Meeting with the National
Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
Featured Speaker:
Professor Joseph S. Francisco, Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
Register Online: Please register online HERE. REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. Alternatively, you may email the webmaster at webmaster@acscincinnati.org to register, or call Roger Parker at 513.771.3613.
Program:
5:15 – 6:15pm: Discussion Group (Logan Hall Room 100)
“Understanding Chemistry in the Atmosphere: New Problems and Challenges”
Joseph Francisco
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 & 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.
8:00 – 9:00pm: Speaker, Prof. Joseph Francisco
“Achieving Diversity in the Sciences for the University of the 21st Century”
Directions to Meeting Venue:
The Xavier University Conaton Presidential Board Room is located on the second floor of Schmidt Hall. Parking is provided free with this parking pass (.pdf) at the F&W Center on Dana Avenue across the street from Schmidt Hall. A map of Xavier University with directions can be found HERE, or HERE (pdf).
From I-71:
Exit at Dana Avenue exit. Proceed west on Dana Avenue past Ledgewood Drive. As the road begins a slight turn, the F&W parking area will be on the left before you reach Victory Parkway.
From I-75:
Exit at Mitchell Avenue. Proceed east on Mitchell Avenue, crossing over Reading Road. Continue to Dana Avenue and turn left. Just after crossing Victory Parkway, the entrance to F&W parking area will be on the right.
From Rt. 562:
Exit the Norwood Lateral at Reading Road. Continue in the left lane of Reading Road to Victory Park¬way. Merge left onto Victory Parkway at the light. Continue to Dana Avenue. Turn left onto Dana Avenue. The entrance to F&W parking area will be on the right in about half a block.
Understanding Chemistry in the Atmosphere: New Problems and Challenges
Joseph S. Francisco
Department of Chemistry and Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
Purdue University
Abstract:
Chemistry occurring in the atmosphere is responsible for local and regional air pollution and plays a significant role in global climate change. Understanding chemistry in the atmosphere at a molecular level is central to developing effective strategies that can remediate the environmental consequences. Atmospheric reactions that occur in the gas phase, and the various classes of these reactions that describe chemical processing in the atmosphere will be examined. A new class of reactions that involve radical-molecule association complexes will be discussed in particular their unique stability and photochemistry and new fundamental chemistry that are changing traditional perspectives of atmospheric reactions. This talk will also discuss current challenges in understanding reactions of gases at the interface between air and aerosols. Probing the kinetics and mechanisms at the molecular level of these processes will be discussed.
Four awards of $400 each will be funded to allow Cincinnati Section undergraduate students to travel, attend, and present their research at a National ACS meeting.
Application Instructions and Requirements:
1.The monies awarded are only to be used to attend the spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society.
2. Only undergraduate students may be funded. In order to receive funding the undergraduate student must be the presenting author of a poster or oral presentation.
3. The dead-line for applications for the award is December 31, 2008.
4. The application must contain a copy of the abstract of the presentation; the signature of the student; the signature of the research mentor; and the signature of the chemistry department chair. A letter of recommendation from the research mentor must also accompany the application.
5. No department may submit more than four individual applications.
6. The Educational Grants committee will evaluate the applications and select the award recipients.
7. The students receiving awards will acknowledge the assistance of the Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society in their presentation.
Applications for the Award should be sent to:
Cincinnati Section American Chemical Society
Education Grants Committee
Xavier University
Department of Chemistry
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, Ohio 45207-4221
Download application instructions and requirements as PDF document.
The Department of Chemistry of the University of Cincinnati and the
Cincinnati Section of the American Chemical Society
present
The 2008 Ralph and Helen Oesper Banquet & Poster Session
honoring
Alan G. Marshall
Florida State University
Friday, October 24, 2008
The Great Hall, Tangeman University Center (TUC), UC
Program:
5:30 – 7:00pm: Local Cincinnati Poster Session/Social Hour
7:15 – 9:30pm: Oesper Banquet and Award Presentation
Featured after dinner speaker
Sir Harold Kroto
Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1996
Professor of Chemistry
Florida State University
“Kentucky Fried Creationism and Other Food for Thought”
Registration: Please register online HERE. The cost is $20 for attendees, or $10 for student, retired, and unemployed attendees. Registration is now CLOSED.
About the Speaker:
Sir Harold Kroto – Nobel Prize for Chemistry 1996, Francis Eppes Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University.
Sir Harold (known as Harry) obtained a BSc in Chemistry (1961) and a PhD in Molecular Spectroscopy (1964) at the University of Sheffield. After a post-doctoral position at the National Research Council in Ottawa from 1964 to 1966 he spent a year at the Murray Hill Bell Laboratories in New Jersey and in 1967 he started his academic career at the University of Sussex in Brighton, U.K.
By 1970 he had carried out research in the electronic spectroscopy of gas phase free radicals and was moving on to liquid phase Raman studies. By 1974 he had finally obtained a much awaited microwave spectrometer and the first molecule he used it for was the carbon chain species HC5N. Laboratory and radioastronomy studies on long linear carbon chain molecules led to the surprising discovery that existed in interstellar space and also in stars. Laboratory experiments with co-workers at Rice University which simulated the chemical reactions in the atmosphere of red giant stars uncovered the existence of C60 in 1985. C60 is an elegant molecule shaped as a soccer ball and named Buckminsterfullerene to honour the American architect who had conceived the geodesic dome that the molecule, on a microsocopic scale, seems to replicate.
The discovery of C60 caused Kroto to shelve his dream of setting up a studio specialising in scientific graphic design (which he had been doing semi-professionally for years). He therefore decided to probe the consequences of the C60 concept and to exploit the synthetic chemistry and material sciences application. In 1990 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society and in 1991 he has awarded a Royal Society Research Professorship which enabled him to concentrate on research. From 1990 – 1998 he was chairman of the editorial board of the Chemical Society Reviews. In 1995, he inaugurated the Vega Science Trust (www.vega.org.uk) to create science films of sufficient high quality for network television broadcast. The following year he was knighted for his contributions to chemistry and awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley.
From 2002-4 he was President of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
In 2007 he he started a new educational initiative at Florida State University known as GEOSET – Global Eduaction Outreach in Science, Engineering and Technology – www.geoset.info
He has received honorary degrees from a number of universities in the UK and abroad, as well as many scientific awards including the International Prize for New Materials by the American Physical Society (1992), the Italgas Prize for Innovation in Chemistry (1992), the Royal Society of Chemistry Longstaff Medal (1993), the Faraday Award (2001) and the Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2002). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2007.
Join fellow chemical educators for a night of sharing – demonstrations, laboratory activities, teaching strategies, and motivational strategies on Tuesday evening, September 30th, at Summit Country Day School. We gather at 6:30 PM for light refreshments and social time. The program will begin at 7 PM and conclude by 9 PM. Come to share and to receive. Most importantly, bring along new colleagues! We will meet in the classroom of Ed Escudero. Directions to the school campus, parking, and Ed’s classroom can be found below.
If you plan to share, please make enough handouts or burn enough CDs for 30 teachers. Linda Ford is leading this discussion group again this year. If you have questions or comments concerning the group, please contact Linda at linda.ford@7hills.org. Linda is always on the lookout for new program ideas and new meeting places. Until we convene, let us all enjoy a great start to the new school year!
Mickey Sarquis (MU-Middletown) received the Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach from CPRC. “Her passion for outreach provides an outstanding example for members of our profession while providing for education and inspiration of both teachers and students”.
Also at the Philadelphia meeting the 39th Central Regional Meeting (CERMACS 2007) won the Outstanding Regional Meeting Award from the M&E Committee. Congratulations to Joe Caruso and the Committee. Joe provided a poster on CERMACS 2007.
The Cincinnati Section was nominated for 2 other ChemLuminary Awards in Outstanding Industrial Involvement (CCA) and Outstanding Teacher Program (CCA). The Outstanding Teacher Program won. Congratulations to Susan Hershberger and committee. Susan also provided a poster on the Science Café event.
Thanks to Kathy Gibboney and Jim Knittel for putting up the posters at the meeting.