The Younger Chemists Committee

Our Newsletter

The YCC newsletter is one avenue that the Younger Chemists Committee communicates with younger chemists across the country. Current and past newsletter articles have covered topics ranging from Job and Career Benefits to the Chemistry of Wine.

We welcome your comments regarding the articles in our current and past newsletter as well as your suggestions and ideas for future articles.

Announcements

• 2/09 - Five $1,150 ACS/CCG Excellence Student Travel Award Stipends Available for the Fall 2009 Washington DC ACS National Meeting. Deadline for application is March 9th, 2009!
• 12/08 - Join our American Chemical Society Younger Chemists Committee Linkedin Group.
• 12/08 - PHYS will be hosting a postdoc symposium at the Washington DC meeting.
• 11/08 - Apply for a 2009-2010 ACS Public Policy Fellowship. Applications due December 31, 2008.
• 11/08 - Get ready for the next Academic Employment Initiative (AEI)! Candidates wishing to participate should plan to submit an abstract for the fall national meeting.
• 11/08 - The Women Chemists Committee is sponsoring a poster symposium on Monday, March 23, 2009 called Utilizing the X-Factor: Empowering the Next Generation of Women Chemist and extending an invitation to those who are interested in being a part of this poster symposium to submit their abstract via OASYS.
• 11/08 - Apply now for the 2009 Telluride School on Theoretical Chemistry (TSTC) The application deadline is November 15.
• 9/08 - Apply now for one of five YCC CCG Excellence Student Travel Awards.
• 9/08 - Apply now for a HP Outstanding Junior Faculty Award.
• 9/08 - Apply now for the 2009 YCC Leadership Development Award (DOC).
• 9/08 - Please help inform young chemists about the 2009 Leadership Development Award by posting our 2009 LDW workshop Flyer!
• 8/08 - Young Investigator Award in Separations Science, Call for nominations!
• 9/08 - Results from the 6th annual YCC Fun Run
• 7/08 - Download (PDF) a map to YCC programing at the Philadelphia National Meeting.
• 7/08 - Join us for the 6th annual YCC Fun Run!
• 3/08 - Postdocs and Graduate Students, the ACS Office of Graduate Education is pleased to offer you: The Academic Employment Initiative (AEI) in 2008.(DOC)
• 3/08 - Download (PDF) a map to YCC programing at the New Orleans National Meeting.
• 3/08 - If you are a first year women graduate students in organic chemistry, Apply (PDF) now for the Merck Index Women in Chemistry Scholarship.
• 2/08 - The spring 2008 Graduate Student Symposium Planning Committee's (GSSPC) web site is online.
• 1/08 - The Women Chemists Committee is accepting applications (PDF) for the 2008 Eli Lilly & Company women chemist travel award.
• 1/08 - The ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry is accepting applications (DOC) for their student travel award.
• 12/07 - Join our American Chemical Society Younger Chemists Committee Facebook group.
• 10/07 - The Committee on Technician Affairs has a new CTA (PDF) brochure.
• 9/07 - Applications (PDF) for the 2008 LDW workshop are now being accepted.
• 8/07 - Our new YCC brochure (PDF) is now available. Check it out and pass it around!
• 8/07 - Golf Tournament Scramble Golf Tournament (PDF) in conjunction with the 234th National ACS meeting in Boston Brookline Golf Club at Putterham Meadows.
• 8/07 - Diversity Roadmap. The Department of Diversity Programs' Roadmap (PDF) to programming and events for the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston is now available.
• 7/07 - YCC web page update. We are excited about our newly redesigned Web page! Over the next few months several new and updated features will be added, so come back and see what's new!
• 7/07 - Web-casts ACS now web-casts some national meeting symposia.