The theme of the 2008 State Fair was Green NC. There were a number of new exhibitors several of whom had interesting stage shows. As a consequence we had less stage time than usual, but our stage shows continued to be among the most popular. The new theme, which will continue in 2009, fits better with the demonstrations that we have done than in past years.

We continued to make butterflies from coffee filters, pipe cleanser, and magic markers, as well as focus on states of matter doing demonstrations with liquid nitrogen and dry ice. For a number of years we have demonstrated a model internal combustion engine by popping a cork from a bottle with an air-alcohol explosion. We added demonstrations of working models of a steam engine and a Stirling engine. We operated the steam engine using liquified carbon dioxide and liquid nitrogen showing that it is the condensed state to gas conversion that makes the engine work. Heat is required, but the temperature doesn't need to be hot. We also operated the steam engine from compressed air showing that pressurized air can also be used to store energy. We linked videos of vehicles operating from compressed air and liquid nitrogen. The Stirling engine is a true hot air engine which works because of the thermal expansion of a gas when heated. We also showed a video of the working antique Stirling engine on display in the Antique Farm Equipment Exhibit at the State Fair. In addition to these model engines, we also had a working model hybrid solar electric/fuel cell car. One of our volunteers also brought a thermo electric power source. We are always looking for new demonstrations that are safe, interesting and do not make much of a mess. Please keep thinking about new demonstrations and contact Bill Switzer at bill_switzer@ncsu.edu at any time to convey these ideas.

We were fortunate to have a large number of volunteers from both academic and non-academic institutions, including Campbell, Duke, Elon, Meredith, NCCU, NCSU, UNC Chapel Hill, Wake County Public schools, Barber Analytical, BIOplastics/CYCLERtest Inc., Closure Medical, EPA, GSK, IBM, Lord Corp, MycoFuels, NC DENR, NIEHS, PPD, Reichold, RTI, and Telecris. Special thanks to Ken Krebs for scheduling volunteers and to Jim Ellenson, Jared Hayman, Sol Levine, Ken Lyles, and Bill Switzer who did stage shows and helped supervise volunteers on site!

We look forward to having you volunteer with us in 2009. Watch for the announcement requesting volunteers in the early fall.

CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR ELECTED LOCAL SECTION OFFICERS

Marc ter Horst, Chair-Elect

Marc ter Horst currently serves as NMR Spectroscopist and co-Director of the Chemistry Department's NMR Facility at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Marc provides training and expertise in the use of NMR applied to solid, liquid, gaseous and heterogeneous samples while doing his part to maintain seven NMR spectrometers. Marc is a member of the Biofuels Advisory Board for Central Carolina Community College, the Steering Committee for the NC ACS Triangle Magnetic Resonance (TriMR) Group and committees for the ACS booth at the NC State Fair and the Southeast Regional ACS (SERMACS) meeting. This year, he was elected to the UNC-CH Employee Forum and serves on its Executive Committee. He has also served in various capacities in support of the public school system, including school based management teams, officer positions in PTA's, parent representative in district committees and science night at the middle school.

Marc obtained a PhD from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1994 with Cynthia Jameson combining gas phase NMR spin relaxation measurements with molecular simulations to investigate potential energy surfaces. He then worked on reactive potential energy surfaces and simulations with George Schatz at Northwestern University. With a desire to get back into NMR, a post-doc position with Hilary Godwin at Northwestern brought experience in applying NMR to lead binding. Marc then worked in bioNMR at the University of Chicago with Michael Weiss and the biochemistry NMR facility. The range of experiences prepared him well for the Chemistry NMR Facility at UNC-CH where he started in October 2000.

Joan Bursey, Treasurer

Dr. Joan Bursey is currently a participant in the EPA's Senior Environmental Employee (SEE) program, working for the Decontamination and Consequences Management Division (DCMD) of the National Homeland Security Research Center (NHSRC). In this position, Dr. Bursey creates and maintains a Virtual Library for DCMD (more than 15,000 documents so far and still growing!!), performs literature searches, performs Quality Assurance reviews, technical reviews, and editorial reviews of a wide variety of EPA documents. Dr. Bursey was born in Nebraska (a looooong time ago, as her husband is fond of reminding her) and is married to Dr. Maurice Bursey (Department of Chemistry, UNC-CH, retired). Undoubtedly because Dr. Bursey and her husband are both scientists, their two children are professional violists, each playing with local symphonies in North Carolina, Tennessee and Massachusetts.

Dr. Bursey received her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, and her Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California (Berkeley), specializing in organic mass spectrometry. She came to North Carolina on a post-doctoral fellowship at UNC-CH, working for Dr. Maurice Bursey (to whom she was not married at the time). After she married Dr. Maurice Bursey and the post-doctoral fellowship at UNC was finished (and could not be renewed because of NC anti-nepotism policies), Dr. Joan Bursey worked at the Research Triangle Institute for 14 years, eventually becoming manager of the RTI mass spectrometry laboratory. Dr. Bursey's areas of interest at RTI included biomedical mass spectrometry (focusing on birth control drugs and drugs of abuse) and environmental applications of mass spectrometry. Upon leaving RTI, Dr. Bursey worked for Radian Corp. until the purchase of Radian by Dow Environmental necessitated the sale of Radian's then active EPA contracts to Eastern Research Group (ERG). Radian staff working on these contracts were offered positions by ERG, where Dr. Bursey worked for nearly 20 years in the areas of environmental mass spectrometry and contract management until she was laid off by ERG and joined EPA's SEE program.

Jim Chao, Councilor

James Lee Chao received his B.S. and M.S. in Chemistry from the University of Illinois- Urbana in 1975 and 1976. He earned his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California-Berkeley in molecular spectroscopy in 1980.

Jim currently works at IBM AlphaWorks in business development with a mission to accelerate technology commercialization as an Emerging Technologies Strategist. For many years, Jim has collaborated on time-resolved infrared spectroscopy research interests as an adjunct professor at Duke University.

Jim has served the North Carolina Local Section in a number of capacities including Chairman (1991), Alternate Councilor (1992), and Councilor since 1993. As Chair of the Section, he reinstated the Section's participation in Project SEED. In 1990, he was involved with fundraising for the National ACS Campaign for Chemistry. From 1997-2001, he served on the International Activities committee. He is currently serving as member on the Committee on Patents and Related Matters and now serves as subcommittee chair of National Awards. His subcommittee is responsible for preparing nominations by the ACS Board of Directors for the National Inventors Hall of Fame, the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology and the National Women's Hall of Fame.

He was responsible for introducing the North Carolina section to the NC State Fair in 1996 where we have had continuous participation for public outreach collaborating with the NC Dept. of Agriculture.

Jim has served the section as the Scholarship Committee Chairman from 1992-98 and has since been a member on the selection committee. In 1997, Jim was the recipient of the Marcus E. Hobbs Service Award from the Section.

Russell Gorga, Alternate Councilor

Russell E. Gorga is an assistant professor in Textile Engineering at NC State University and a member of the graduate faculty in the Fiber and Polymer Science program. He is currently involved in creating novel nanocomposite fibers that can be used for novel applications (such as tissue scaffolds and filtration media). His research interests include nanotube/polymer composites, melt spinning and extrusion, electrospinning, and interfacial properties between polymers and particles. Before coming to NC State, Russell was a post-doctoral associate at MIT where he worked on improving the strength of brittle polymers. Earlier, Russell worked as a research engineer at Union Carbide Corporation from 1997 through 2000, where he focused on structure-property relationships of semi-crystalline polymers for high strength commodity applications. Russell received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Iowa State University where his doctoral work focused on developing relationships between molecular-micro-macro properties of polymer-polymer interfaces. Specifically, interfacial strength was mechanistically related to miscibility and mobility characteristics of the polymer constituents. He received a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Science in Materials Engineering from Drexel University.

GILBERT AWARD SYMPOSIUM

WHO?	RTP area graduate students engaged in polymer research
WHAT?	Student Research Symposium and Award Competition
WHEN?	At the NC State University Club (4200 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC) on Thursday, April 9, 2009. Papers are due THURSDAY March 19, 2009.*
WHY?	Honor Professor Richard D. Gilbert, who was a leading teacher and researcher in polymer science in North Carolina Gain valuable experience in presenting your research results Improve your professional exposure and be recognized by area students, university faculty, and industrial scientists for your research efforts
PRIZES	Monetary Prizes for: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, and Top Poster

*Papers must be submitted by March 19, 2009 at 5 pm to Prof. Wendy Krause (wekrause@ncsu.edu). Papers should consist of no more than two 8-1/2" x 11" pages. The style of the papers should be similar to an ACS extended abstract. Formatting is left to the authors’ discretion, but the font size must be 11 point or larger. Papers must include the name, address, daytime phone number and e-mail address of the student and faculty advisor. Submissions should be in PDF format with a file name in the format of krause-w_09.pdf.

Papers will be judged on scientific content, merit, and presentation. Since the emphasis will be on the student's own work, the number of authors should be minimal. However, acknowledgements of colleagues and citations of other key research in the area are encouraged. The top three abstracts will be selected, and those three students will present their work as a 15-minute lecture at the Symposium. Each will be honored with a certificate and a cash award. The remaining entrants will present their research in a poster session. A certificate and cash award will be made for the most outstanding poster, based on the same criteria as above.

Note: Students wishing to present a poster and not be considered for the top three prizes may do so by submitting a brief abstract to Prof. Wendy Krause (wekrause@ncsu.edu) by 5 pm on April 2, 2009. Please send questions to wekrause@ncsu.edu.

The Polymer Discussion Group thanks Lord Corporation for providing the awards.

RICHARD D. GILBERT AWARDS CONFERRED

First place:


A commemorative certificate and $500 was awarded to Derrick Stevens from NC State University for "Polymer composites: percolation and dimensionality" (Advisor: Laura Clarke).

Second place:


A commemorative certificate and $400 was awarded to James Brock from UNC Chapel Hill for "Understanding tension in adsorbed bottle-brush polymers using molecular dynamics simulations" (Advisor: Michael Rubinstein).

Third place:


A commemorative certificate and $300 was awarded to Young Jhon from NC State University for "The effects of monomer sequence distribution and isotope substitution on solution phase behavior of random copolymers" (Advisor: Jan Genzer).

Poster prize:


A commemorative certificate and $200 was awarded to Shreya Paul from NC State University for "Breathable barrier nonwoven fabrics using surface modified polypropylene/thermoplastic polyurethane laminates" (Advisor: Behnam Pourdeyhimi).

26^th TRIANGLE CHROMATOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM AND INSTRUMENT EXHIBIT

Thursday, May 21, 2009
McKimmon Conference and Training Center
NCSU, Raleigh, NC

• Lunch: Served on-site as part of the registration fee.
• Exhibitor Seminars: Seminar Rooms where Exhibitors will give presentations on state-of-the-art topics.
• Prize Drawing: Contributions by many of the Exhibitors - Grand Prize contributed by the TCDG.
• Refreshments: Available in the Exhibit Hall (AM and PM).
• Continuing Education: GLP/GMP (Certificates of Attendance).
• Poster: Local student competition; local university and industry research; vendor developments.
• Exhibit-Only Registration: FREE!!
• TCDG Election: Opportunity to vote for TCDG Officers.

Check the TCDG website for more information as it becomes available: http://www.rtpnet.org/tcdg/symp.html.

EAST WAKE HIGH STUDENT WINS BIG

WENDELL - When 17-year-old Giovanni Leon heard about the six-week summer science program called Seed, he envisioned students touring labs and watching scientists work. "When they told me, 'you will be conducting research,' I was shocked," says Leon, a senior at East Wake High School.

By the end of the summer at N.C. State University, he had a body of work that he entered into the Siemens Science Competition. Leon's research was weighted against 1,200 other students' nationwide. And the result - he was named a semi-finalist. The competition is sponsored by the Siemens Foundation, which uses the Siemens' companies as a guide for its benevolence in science, technology, engineering and math in the United States.

The Seeds program gives minorities and disadvantaged students the opportunity to work with scientists on research projects in industrial, academic and federal laboratories.Leon was one of twelve North Carolina high school students who made it to the top of the competition. They received the distinction and prizes like video recorders and flash drives.

Ten of those honored were from Project Seed. Nine of the students attend the N.C. School of Science and Math. Leon tells his tale with a refreshing candor, humility, idealism, enthusiasm, humor and wisdom. For instance, when he explains his paper he prepared, "Differential Incorporation of Cholesterol by Sindbis Virus Grown in Delipidated Insect Cells," he tells the experiences that went into learning about it himself.

With the dense facts swirling around, he couldn't write notes, and listen to his professors at the same. He spent 10 hours at N.C. State, two in class in seven in the lab, plus another two and a half hours studying each night to master the material. He learned that previous studies showed cholesterol was required for reproduction of the Sindbis virus, a mosquito-borne virus. Yet research had only been conducted on one type of mosquito cell line and only using one chemical method to extract cholesterol from a cell. In Leon's study, he used three types of cholesterol delipidation methods, the process of using chemicals to remove a substance. He also used three types of mosquito cell lines to test the results of the previous studies. Strikingly, his work produced new results. He found the virus does not require cholesterol in order to reproduce. Learning more about the Sindbus Virus will help scientists understand more about complex viruses such as West Nile virus and Dengue Fever, Leon says.

All this attention is a lot to take in. "When I heard the news (of the award), I was surprised," he says. "I was speechless. I hadn't heard of anybody in my family or anybody at East Wake ever winning an award like this. After I got home, I was proud, extremely proud." Leon says he then thought about all the people who had helped him. He thought of his parents, Emilio and Albairis Leon, who immigrated to the United States from Mexico before he was born. His father is now a U.S. citizen and his mother is a permanent resident. "When the project Seed director started explaining what the Siemens actually is, they (his parents) were proud. They said where do you want to go out to eat." He thought of chemistry teacher Cathy McCluskey who first suggested Leon apply to project Seed. Chemistry isn't his best subject, math is. She helped him with his application and to prepare for an interview, Leon recalls. His preceptor or mentor who was paired with Leon at State is trying to get Leon's paper published in a scientific journal.

His older sister Ruby, a student at UNC and the first in his extended family to go to college, taught him to dream big. "She's the one who encouraged me in the beginning to reach far then go farther than what I had planned," he says. "When I first entered high school, I never thought I'd go to a four-year college. I thought I'd go straight into the workplace." Now, he plans on becoming a surgeon, and plans to apply to Harvard, UNC, Duke or Wake Forest.

Leon wants more for his family. Until he was injured at work, his father worked two jobs as do all the people in his extended family. He draws disability that supports a family of five. Most of Leon's cousins have dropped out of high school. "We (Ruby) noticed it was pretty much like a circle," he says. "You pretty much ended up doing what your parents do. Most Hispanics don't do research. There's got to be a change. If I can do it. Anybody can do it."

Contact Denise Sherman at 269-6101, ext. 101, or dsherman@nando.com.

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: MARCUS E. HOBBS AND DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AWARDS

Nomination packages should be forwarded to Sol Levine at the contact information listed at the end of this article. The nomination deadline for both awards is MAY 1, 2009.

Distinguished Lecturer Award:

The NC ACS Distinguished Lecturer award was established in 1982. The nomination package should include a nominating letter summarizing the nominee's research contributions, a CV, and up to two additional letters of support. Past award winners can be found at:

The Marcus E. Hobbs Service Award:

The Marcus E. Hobbs Service Award was established in 1988 to recognize members who have made significant, long-term contributions to the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society. The award was named for Marcus E. Hobbs, Department of Chemistry, Duke University, a model member who worked closely with the North Carolina Section since serving as Chair in 1945. Past award winners can be found at:

Completed applications should be sent not later than MAY 1, 2009 to:

Dr. Sol Levine
1307 Legacy Green Avenue
Wake Forest, NC 27587
naturpix@mindspring.com

Save the Date - - May 30-31, 2009

NBC 17 Health and Fitness Expo May 30-31, 2009; 10 am to 5 pm Jim Graham Building, NC State Fairgrounds Raleigh, NC

More details coming soon……

CALL FOR 2009 NC ACS UNDERGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS

Dr. Eliel was a W. R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Chemistry at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and was a central figure in the field of stereochemistry. Some of his many awards, accomplishments, and recognitions, include being a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Guggenheim Fellow, and receiving the Lavoisier Medal of the Chemical Society of France. He served as President of the American Chemical Society, and received its highest recognition, the Priestley Medal, in 1995.

Mr. Howie James was an Executive Technical Sales Representative with the Waters Corporation and a long standing member of the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group (TCDG). He was very active in planning and executing TCDG workshops, seminars, and the annual Triangle Symposium and Instrument Exhibit.

How to Apply:

• To be considered for a scholarship, the student must be an undergraduate attending and conducting research at a university within the Local Section. Applications from outside of the NC ACS geographical area will not be considered.
• Applications must be submitted online: http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/chemistry/outreach/ACSnc/application_scholarship.html.
• In addition to the application, a letter of recommendation from the student's research advisor must be sent as an e-mail attachment to the scholarship committee chair: levine@rti.org.
• To be considered, applications must be submitted by April 3, 2009.
• Applicants are not required to be ACS members.
• All applicants will be notified by e-mail about the status of their application by May 1, 2009. The NC ACS will begin distributing awards on May 8, 2009.

• Award recipients will be required to present their research findings at an NC ACS Conference, TCDG Conference, an ACS regional or national meeting, or a similar venue.
• Award funds will be distributed in two payments. The first payment ($3,500) will be sent to the academic department where the student is conducting research. These funds can only be used by the student or the student's advisor to pay for reagents, instrument components or labware, copies, books, software, student travel costs for presentation of scholarship-funded research results, and the student's research salary.
• The second payment ($500) will be presented directly to the student upon completion of a presentation of research findings at one of the above described venues.
• As part of the scholarship, all award recipients will be presented with an ACS student affiliate membership.

Novartis Early Career Award in Organic Chemistry

BILL SWITZER AWARDED SOUTHEASTERN VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD

Professor Switzer's work at the Regional Level has been crucial to the development of the Southeast Region into arguably the most active Region in the ACS. In 1984, he served as the Publicity and Printing Chair for that year's SERMACS, an extremely challenging job in the days before online abstract submission. He went on to become General Chair of the 1998 SERMACS, the largest SERMACS ever held and one of the largest Regional meetings as well. He also served as the Program Chair of the 2004 SERMACS, which was another highly successful meeting. From 1994 until last year, Bill served almost continuously on the SERMACS Board of Directors, including two terms as Chair. He was instrumental in the effort to incorporate SERMACS and played a major role in the revision of the Bylaws that has put the Region on a very solid financial footing. He has also developed powerful internet-based tools for the Region, including an online meeting bid submission form, web forms for the Regional High School Teacher and the Regional Volunteer Service awards, and managing a list serve for the Region that has been critical to publicizing SERMACS to the ACS membership in the Southeast.

After the 2007 SERMACS, Bill stepped down from the Board, though due to his vast experience and deep concern for the Region, he continues to advise the group in an informal role. The SERMACS Board is profoundly grateful to William Switzer for his dedication and long service to the North Carolina Local Section and to the Southeast Region.

122^nd NC ACS SECTIONAL CONFERENCE - October 28, 2008

Over 40 posters were presented in two categories, undergraduate/graduate students (14), and high school students (26). Past NC ACS chairs provided the judging in a competition that resulted in 1st - 3rd place winners in each category:

Amanda Reams describes her work to Laura Sremaniak.

Undergraduate/Graduate Students


First Place ($300) -"Boranophosphate modified siRNA for use in RNA Interference Against Human Disease". Laura Moussa, Marcus Cheek, Barbara Ramsay Shaw, Duke University.

Second Place ($200) - "Exploring New Treatment Options for Tuberculosis". Elke Feese, Reza A. Ghiladi, North Carolina State University.

Third Place ($100) - "Analysis of Single DNA Molecules Translocating through Nanochannels Fabricated in SiO2". Laurent D. Menard, Steven A. Soper, Louisiana State University, J. Michael Ramsey, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

High School Students (Three tied for First Place, so all received $200)

"Exploring Cell Signaling by using Microarray Patterning to Control Cell Placement on Self Assembled Monolayers". Haoming Xu, NC School of Science and Mathematics, Muhammad N. Yousaf, UNC Chapel Hill.

"â hairpin Peptides as Receptors for DNA". Racheal N. Johnson, Dr. Marcey Waters, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Project SEED.

"Finding a Structure Based Approach to Determine PAC 1 Activation Mechanism of (Pro)Caspase 3". Brandon Young, Dr. Clay Clark, North Carolina State University, Project SEED.

Eric Emilio-Gerrit Butter, UNC/Duke - Robertson Scholar (Advisor, Dr. W. Lin Coker III) on designing nanoparticle emulsions and polymers to increase drug delivery payload and efficiency by analyzing the conformation and chemistry of target areas in bacteria and viruses.

Sara Beth McSpadden, Campbell University, Chemistry Department (Research Advisor, Dr. Russ Mumper) on assessment of lead content in everyday objects. Sara also gave a poster at the conference on her work entitled "Lead: Could It Be In You? The Analysis of Children's Toys for Lead and How It Affects the Human Body".

Award recipients: Laurent Menard, Elke Feese, Laura Moussa,
Hiaoming Xu, Rachael Johnson, and Brandon Young.

The 2008 NC ACS Hobbs Service Award was presented to Dr. Joan Bursey, NCBA at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, for her constant and long-term commitment to the Local Section, which goes back to 1969 when she arrived in NC for a postdoctoral fellowship.

The 2008 NC ACS Distinguished Lecturer Award was presented to Dr. Michael T. Crimmins of the Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Crimmins gave the Distinguished Speaker Presentation on "Enantioselective Synthesis of Heterocyclic Natural Products".

PHOTOGRAPHS OF LOCAL SECTION MEETINGS

NC ACS Dinner Meeting and Poster Session featuring a lecture on Science, Society and Science Fiction by Dr. Thomas A. Holme, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Tuesday, 18-Mar-2008

Porter's City Tavern, Raleigh, NC

	Dr. Thomas A. Holme

Tinctures, Tonics, and Patent Medicines: A History of Commercialized Quackery
Ned Heindl, Lehigh University
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
MEZ Contemporary Mexican Restaurant

Ned Heindl and NC ACS Chair Jay Brown.

ACS Councilor Richard Palmer.

NC ACS Alt Councilor Al Tonelli.

National Chemistry Week Report

The NC ACS teamed with staff at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences (http://www.naturalsciences.org/) to provide a day of educational activities in celebration of National Chemistry Week (NCW). Chemistry stage shows and hands-on experiments at this outreach event were related to the 2008 theme, "Having a Ball with Chemistry". Dr. Meredith Storms (University of North Carolina at Pembroke) once again served the Local Section as the NCW event coordinator. She and her team of volunteers received many positive comments from the 2,793 people who visited the Museum during the event. The event continues to be a great success and consistently attracts a large crowd for an exciting celebration of National Chemistry Week. We appreciate the volunteerism put forth by students and faculty groups from North Carolina State University, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke, Duke University, Scotland Early College High School, Broughton High School, and Lee County Schools in addition to industry scientists from the Environmental Protection Agency, and representatives from BeActive NC and local restaurant chefs and owners.

Weightless Lumbees (UNCP) demonstrate topics related to microgravity.	Broughton High School volunteers.
The NCSU Food Science Club demonstrated a Mentos explosion for Museum visitors.	BeActive NC presented information related to sports in an effort to support the theme "having a ball with chemistry".
Environmental Protection Agency.

LOCAL SECTION DISCUSSION GROUPS!!

Discussion groups include:

        

• Chemical Education Group
• Polymer Discussion Group
• Triangle Area Mass Spectroscopy Discussion Group
• Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group
• Triangle Magnetic Resonance Discussion Group
• Women Chemists Committee
• Younger Chemists Committee.

Check them out and consider joining a discussion group.

SERMACS 2012

We will be hosting the SERMACS meeting in 2012. We are looking for hard-working, energetic individuals who would like to participate on the organizing committee. If you are interested, please contact one of the Executive Committee members who can provide you with more information. Thank you!!

Volunteer Opportunity for the NC ACS Local Section

The NC ACS Executive Committee (EC) seeks a marketing/advertising director to assist the EC in various activities. This is a volunteer position, as are all roles in the EC. Marketing efforts will be useful to the NC ACS in improving the visibility of the NC ACS in the local community and in increasing attendance at NC ACS events. Specific NC ACS activities for which the NC ACS seeks marketing expertise include, but are not limited to: boosting NC ACS membership; fostering an increase in student members; and encouraging attendance at the several events presented each year by the NC ACS. These events currently include a major meeting that features a Distinguished Lecture and Award; and one or more smaller meetings typically including dinner, cocktails and an entertaining speaker. Several times each year, the NC ACS electronically publishes a newsletter, "The TarHelium", to its membership. Advertising efforts, including sales of ad space in the TarHelium, will assist NC ACS in raising funds for its activities. The EC holds monthly meetings to address NC ACS business, which the marketing/advertising director will be encouraged to attend. Anyone having an interest in this position is invited to contact Jay Brown, 2008 NC ACS Chair, to discuss this volunteer opportunity.

DOES ACS HAVE YOUR CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION?

Postal mail:

Manager, Member & Subscriber Services, ACS
P.O. Box 337
Columbus, OH 43210

Telephone:

(800) 333-9511
(614) 447-3776

E-mail:

service@acs.org

NC ACS LOCAL SECTION EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETINGS

Address:

The Hamner Institutes for Health Sciences
6 Davis Drive
P.O. Box 12137
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2137

Directions:

Coming from I-40 WEST:

Exit 280 Davis Drive
Right onto Davis Drive
The Hamner is the second campus on the left. (There is a left turn lane here).
Coming from I-40 EAST:

Exit 280 Davis Drive
Right onto Davis Drive Continue through one stoplight
The Hamner is the second campus on the left. (There is a left turn lane here).

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE