New!
Councilors Report Page on the WCACS website
The Executive Committee has voted affirmatively to post the Councilors' reports on the web site. A new web page has been created and added to the site and is linked on the left hand navigation bar.
The Councilor reports from each National Meeting will be posted.
The report from the Salt Lake City Meeting is now available and can be viewed at:
http://membership.acs.org/w/wca/Business/WCCouncilors%20Report.html
The Webmaster's Plea
Our Webmaster, Dwayne Grassie, would welcome your "press releases" about activities that you believe would be of interest to our section. As he says so eloquently on our web site, "without active members reporting the activities of the section to me there would be no web site because there would be nothing to report." Dwayne can be reached at: MAG-IT@charter.net
ACS Industry Member Programs has launched a new web site
http://boilthisdown.org/
To focus on the specific information needs of chemists and chemical engineers working in industry, the American Chemical Society is launching www.boilthisdown.org
The site is designed to help you do the following:
(1) Quickly grasp the Top News of the day affecting chemists and chemical engineers employed by industry (as reported by the world's top scientific and business publications).
(2) Provide ACS industry members employed by small and mid-size companies with information targeting their specific needs.
(3) Highlight Featured Articles published in scientific and business publications that help you become a better manager and scientist, and
(4) Identify and access the ACS programs, products, and services of greatest value to the Society's industry members.
The site has many rich features that allow you to comment on articles, rate them, and share or post them to other sites. The interactivity of the site was purposefully designed to allow for a continuous process of improvement through readers' comments and ratings of the various articles, features and ACS programs.
Times have changed. Once, your challenge was getting access to information. Today, you are drowning in information. We will separate the wheat from the chaff so you can quickly access the information you need to be successful. We hope you will be frank with us about where we are doing things right, and where we can improve.
Please visit the site, bookmark it and check back daily for new postings. We look forward to your participation on www.boilthisdown.org.
Sincerely,
Max Saffell
Editor, Boil This Down
m_saffell@acs.org
SOUTHEASTERN REGIONAL MEETING (SERMACS 2009)
OPENS OCTOBER 21 IN PUERTO RICO
The Southeastern Regional Meeting (SERMACS) will meet October 21 – 24, during National Chemistry Week, at the beautiful new Puerto Rico Convention Center. The abstract submittal program is open and may be accessed at www.sermacs2009.org. The SERMACS 2009 theme is Think Positive, Think Global, Think Chemistry, and it is reflected in the programming. with topics such as Supramolecular Science and Self-Assembly, Current Trends in Environmental Chemistry, Nanotechnology: from Energy to Medicine, Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry, Industrial Biotechnology, New Polymeric Materials and Applications, Bioenergy: Fuels, Chemicals, and Power, Process Technologies in Bio-Pharmaceutical Industry, and Preparing the 21st Century Chemistry Workforce: Opportunities and Challenges for the Student and Faculty. Visit the website for more details. For additional information contact the Program Chair, Dr. Néstor Carballeira, nmcarballeira@sermacs2009.org or 787-764-0000, ext. 4795.
SERMACS 2009 has arranged for special meeting rates at the Conrad San Juan Condado Plaza, in historic San Juan, where you can make a reservation online or call them at 888.722.1278 or 787-977-4773. Mention the SERMACS meeting to get the discount.
Nominations for 2011 ACS National Awards
The American Chemical Society awards program is one of the means by which the society meets its obligation "to encourage ... the advancement of chemistry in all its branches, the promotion of research in chemical science and industry, [and] the improvement of the qualifications and usefulness of chemists." The continuing excellence of the ACS awards program requires that a number of highly qualified chemistry professionals be nominated and that great care be taken in preparing the nominations.
Nominating Procedure for ACS National Awards
Nominations for the national awards administered by ACS to be presented in 2011 will be solicited on July 1, 2009.
Forms for nominations and supporting information as well as a detailed description of ACS national awards are available online at www.acs.org/awards.
Any individual may submit a nomination for an award, unless that individual is a member of the selection committee for the same award. However, selection committee members may submit nominations for other awards.
Nominations and inquiries concerning awards should be directed to the Office of the Awards Programs, e-mail: awards@acs.org.
The deadline date for all nominating material for 2011 ACS National Awards is November 1, 2009. Earlier transmittal is encouraged.
ELECTED OFFICIALS 2009
OF
WESTERN CAROLINAS SECTION ACS
Western Carolinas Meeting and Speaker Itinerary
2009
| Date |
Speaker |
Title |
Host Site |
| September 15, 2009 |
Donald M. Burland |
How the sausage is made: US Science Policy |
USC Upstate Tentative |
| October 20, 2009 |
TBA |
Green Chemistry and Coal |
TBA |
| November 2009 |
TBA |
TBA |
TBA |
THE SECTION NEEDS YOUR HELP!!!
The Western Carolinas Section of the American Chemical Society urgently needs the help of each of its members in helping us recruit new Section Affiliate members. We would like to request that each member print out or copy the following invitation and present it to as many persons as possible who have an interest in chemistry:
AN INVITATION
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