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The ballots for this year’s Distinguished Service Award election have been counted and an audit of the ballots completed by the Section’s secretary (in accordance with the DSA guidelines). I am pleased to announce that Margaret Levenberg is the 2008 Distinguished Service Awardee. She will receive the award at the June meeting. ~ Cherlyn Bradley
An organization called Recording For the Blind and Dyslexic is in need of people with backgrounds in chemistry or biochemistry who would be willing to spend two or three hours a weeks recording texts for use by, as the name implies, blind or dyslexic students. If you are interested, call Nat Meyer at the
The Mayor's Office is pleased to announce Chicago's first ever Chicago Science Expedition: Two Weeks Worth of Wow! - a program intended to emphasize the importance of science not only in the classroom, but also in everyday life - from September 22nd through October 8th. To this purpose a number of organizations including Chicago Public Schools, City Colleges of Chicago, and area museums worked together to create a number of free citywide science-related activities.
The kick-off event took place at Daley Plaza on September 22nd, at which time the world's largest Periodic Table of the Elements was unveiled! Using the Daley Center as a backdrop, each window contained one elemental symbol, creating a table 8 stories tall and 18 windows wide. The individual elemental symbols were 8 feet tall and 8 feet wide each, nearly filling the windows of the Daley Center.
Each window displayed the atomic number and symbol of a single element. In total, 111 elements (through Roentgenium) were displayed. Colors were used to accentuate various chemical groups, such as the alkaline, alkaline earth elements, transition metals, and noble gasses.
To stress the importance of chemistry for area businesses, corporations were invited to sponsor specific elements that are a key component of their products or services. These sponsorships were publicized in a pamphlet, along with their reason for sponsoring that particular element. In this way, the general public will be able to understand how specific elements are used in their day-to-day lives. Through recognition in the pamphlet and periodicals, companies simultaneously supported science literacy and increased awareness for their products or services and their relationship to science.
The table was displayed from the windows of the Daley Plaza until September 29th. Photos of our Chair participating in the event are posted here.
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Milt Levenberg
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milt@chicagoacs.org