ACS-2008 Philadelphia

The next ACS national meeting is less than 2 months away and already the facebook groups are getting created around it. [event] As these conference registration fees can become expensive for even graduate student members ($165), I tried to see if I could get mine comped. I applied as a press/media member, I knew it was a long shot since they even say on the webpage, “restricted to reporters and editors working full-time for print or broadcast news“. After a couple emails between me and the ACS Office of Communications I received the following email.

Dear Mitch,

Your request for credentials is approved. The ACS national meeting Press Center will be located in the Pennsylvania Convention Center. A media workroom will be included in the press center and is equipped with wireless internet capabilities, telephones, computers, and copy and fax services.

Press materials, which include a CD-ROM of the meeting abstracts, will be available at registration.

I’m not sure if other chemistry blogs will qualify, but apparently the bloggers at ChemistryBlog have now been granted media credentials by the ACS. See you at the meeting.

Mitch

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