Chair's Welcome
Welcome to the Younger Chemists Committee website! The Younger Chemists Committee was chartered by the American Chemical Society to address the specific needs of younger and early-career chemists. The YCC's vision is to lead younger chemists into successful careers and active roles in the ACS and the profession. To achieve this, the Committee relies on it’s strengths of diversity, influential involvement, and dedicated leadership. By leading the way in the use of technology and creating outreach opportunities for our constituency, we hope to change the face of the ACS and become the most influential Committee in the Society.
What does this mean to you? The YCC serves as a resource for younger chemists to find awards, start local section YCC's, attend national meeting programs relevant to younger chemists, and other information that is of importance to younger chemists, like articles on interviewing skills and grant proposal writing. Are we missing something? Let us know: talk to us on Facebook, by email, or in person at ACS national meetings.
So whether you're seeking the most recent application form (PDF) for our Leadership Development Workshop, information about your local YCC, or a prepared presentation that you can use at a local or regional meeting, welcome!
Mick Hurrey
Chair, YCC
New Initiative!
Are you intersted in getting involved? We are currently evaluating a new proposal to leverage younger chemist "electronic-age" know how and silver circle experience.
Proposal: Virtual Networking, where Silver Circle Member holds an interact webcast for younger local section members
Proposal: Local Sections with both Silver Circle and LSYCC chapters would get together to plan events that focus on mentors with different backgrounds (e.g. industry, acedeme, discipline, etc.). The LSYCC would be in charge of setting up the technology, scheduling and securing space for the event. The Silver Circle Mentor would help with advertisement and would prepare for the session. This would help parlee any technical apprehension of the Silver Circle member and allow them to focus on preparing for the session and it would give the LSYCC member a change to run an innovative event in their section and help roll out new technology for the Society, not to mention create collaborative interactions at their local section.
If this sounds interesting to you and you are interested in making this propsal a reality within your local section, contact Burt Hollandsworth (bhollan1@harding.edu) and your local section chair to get the ball rolling.
