ChemLine 
Todd Miller 563-659-2394 (PH) A publication of
Secretary The Illinois-Iowa Section of
Millertj@netins.net The American Chemical Society
September 2001
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For the latest information about upcoming events, visit our
website at http://membership.acs.org/I/ILIA/
September Meeting
Wednesday, September 12th , 2001
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Location: |
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Grain Processing
Corporation Training Center 1600 Oregon St. Muscatine, IA |
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Times: 6:00 – 6:45 PM |
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Social/Munchies and refreshments Tour of the Grain
Processing Technical Center |
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6:45 – 7:30 PM |
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Dinner: Steak ala Richard
or Chicken ala Richard (please specify choice at time of reservation), baked
potato, salad, vegetable, breads, dessert and beverage. Rick Rogers, Rich Helms and Rich
Craddick will be manning the grills for this event. |
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7:30 – 9:00 PM |
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Business Meeting and
Program: “The Academic
Industrial Matrix – An Example of Local Cooperation Between Industry
and Academia” Dr. Richard Honeycutt, HERAC, Inc. |
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Reservations: |
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Member/Guest: $12 Please
note the Sponsor a Student Program described below. |
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Deadline for Meal
Reservations: Friday,
September 7th at noon. |
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Contact: Rich Craddick, 563-264-4394 or rich_craddick@kentfeeds.com. |
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Our next meeting is October
16 at Augustana College.
Dr. Richard Honeycutt
– Biographical Sketch
Richard
Honeycutt attended Anderson College, (Anderson, IN) and received an A.B. degree
in chemistry in 1967. Dr. Honeycutt was an NIH predoctoral fellow from 1968 to
1971 and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from Purdue University in 1971. He
served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian Institute's Radiation
Biology laboratory from 1971 to 1973. From 1973 to 1976, Dr. Honeycutt was
employed by Rohm and Haas Company (Philadelphia, PA) as a senior chemist in
pesticide research and development. In 1976, he moved came to CIBA-GEIGY
corporation (Greensboro, NC) as a senior metabolism chemist and performed
research in pesticide metabolism until 1980. In 1980, he joined The
Environmental Investigations Group at CIBA-GEIGY and currently performs
pesticide environmental research in areas such as groundwater exposure
assessment, worker exposure assessment, environmental fate of pesticides,
pesticide ecotoxicology, and risk assessment for fish and wildlife. Dr.
Honeycutt received the ACS Agrochemical Fellow Award in 1985. He is a member of
the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, IUPAC, and the Pesticide
Committee of the International Commission of Occupational Health. He has
published widely in several areas of plant biochemistry and pesticide chemistry
and has helped to edit six books in the area of pesticide chemistry.
SPONSOR
A COLLEGE STUDENT PROJECT
We
are once again kicking off the academic year by extending a special welcome to
college chemistry/science students at the Wednesday, September 12 meeting at
GPC in Muscatine. Additionally, we
would like to match up individual students with ACS members in order to
encourage one-on-one conversations during the social hour and dinner. In order to be a success, this event
needs participation by ALL ACS members:
1. As a local section member, volunteer to sponsor a
college student for the September meeting. Your part is to pay the meal cost of one student - or ask
your employer to pay the cost - and spend the social and dinner time visiting
with the student you are matched with.
Whether your are currently employed, retired, or between jobs, you have
much to offer to a student planning a science-based career. Additionally, after this brief
mentoring experience you will likely find that you too have gained a lot. Just listening to what a student has to
say can be an enlightening experience!
Please take part by signing up when you make your dinner reservation
with Rich Craddick. Faculty
members wishing to participate as a mentor will be matched with a student from
another institution. If you need a
letter for your employer describing this event for reimbursement purposes,
contact Lisa Fields (319-264-6039, lmfields@muscanet.com).
2. As
a college faculty or staff member, encourage your students to attend the
September meeting. Consider
arranging for car-pooling or even tying an assignment to meeting
attendance. When signing up for
the September meeting, please provide Rich Craddick with the names of students
who would like to be paired up with an ACS member. We will do the best we can to make as many matches as
possible. Students will be
assigned sponsors on a first-come first-served basis. Students without sponsors are welcome but will have to pay
their own meal costs.
The NEW ChemKid Program
ChemKid is a childcare program for IL-IA section members coordinated through chem. clubs at colleges hosting the monthly section meeting. The program is designed to try to give parents a "night-out" with ACS. Volunteers from these student groups would look after school age (1st - 8th grades) children of ACS members who attend the monthly meeting. Look for it at our next meeting in October.
Guidelines
for requesting funds for National Chemistry Week activities
National Chemistry Week 2001 is November 4-10!
The mission of NCW includes to reach the public, particularly elementary and secondary school children, with positive messages about chemistry and to make a positive change in the public’s impression of chemistry. This year's theme for National Chemistry Week is "Art and Chemistry". An additional Theme is the Celebration of the ACS 125th Anniversary. You may wish to incorporate this theme into your NCW activities; additional ideas and resources are available at the ACS NCW web site: http://www.acs.org/ncw/
The local
section has set aside some funds to help you "draw up" your
ideas. In order to consider all
requests, we are asking that ANYONE who would like funding for NCW activities
to submit a brief written request by September 10, 2001 to John Bonte, NCW
chair [John Bonte, Clinton Community College, 1000 Lincoln Boulevard, Clinton
IA 52732, phone 563-244-7138; jbonte@eiccd.cc.ia.us; fax# 563-244-7107]. We will consider all requests as soon
after September 10 as possible and will try to accommodate everyone. Even if you have received funds in the
past for NCW activities you should still submit a request.
The request should include:
ü Name and contact information of primary organizer.
ü Brief description of the activity.
ü A description of the people involved: Who is the primary group organizing and/or carrying out the activity (i.e., ACS members, student affiliates, high school students, etc.); who is the primary group viewing or participating in the activity (general public, elementary school class, etc.)? Also include an estimate of how many people will be involved.
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Budget of items that funds are requested for.
Nominate a TOY or POY: Nominations
are now being accepted for the Illinois-Iowa Section "High School Teacher
of the Year" (TOY) and "Promoter of the Year" (POY) awards. The
TOY award is presented to an active high school chemistry teacher that has had
a major impact on both students and chemical education within the Illinois-Iowa
Section area. The winner of the Section award will become eligible for Regional
and National awards. The POY
award is given to a person or institution, not currently employed or directly
involved in professional education, that has made significant efforts in the
promotion of chemistry to the general public, either within the region or at
the state or national level. TOY
nominees will be sent an application form that will request the information
needed by the committee (and by Regional and National ACS) as the basis for
this award. POY nominations should include achievements and supporting letters
as well as other information on which to base the award. **All nominations are due to the
Section Education Chair, Dr. Sally Rigeman (srigeman@netexpress.net) on or
before October 1, 2001.
Get Involved! We are currently in need of a Quad Cities Engineering and Science Council representative. Your responsibilities would be to attend monthly meetings of the QCESC and be a liaison between the IL-IA ACS and the QCESC. Pad your resume by becoming a Great Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM) Steering Committee representative. Your responsibilities would involve attending the GLRM planning meeting once per year during the GLRM. Also keep in mind that each fall we are in search of a new chair-elect and take nominations for secretary and treasurer.
New Ways to Get Involved!
· Have you been mentored? Was your mentoring experience beneficial? Would you mentor a peer? If you answered YES to any of these questions, you should attend a FREE Peer Mentoring workshop. Contact Todd Miller (millertj@netins.net or (563) 659-2394) for more information.
· Do you consider yourself a Chemical Technician, or have friends who are? Then consider the Technician Affiliate Group (TAG), which serves as a valuable vehicle by which technicians can improve their image in the scientific community and gain greater respect through growing programs of continuing education and public relations as well as through sharing technical expertise. For more information, contact Wendy Mallory, TAG Liaison at wmallory@dow.com or visit the website at members.aol.com/ACSDoCT/techhome.htm
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