Archive for the ‘ACS’ Category
Monday, May 5th, 2008
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When approached by undergraduates whether they should join ACS, I usually advise them to save their money. In the current setup, student members are 2nd class members of the ACS hierarchy. The benefits for being an undergraduate member are none, I really can't think of any and I've been a ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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Several people have requested the powerpoint presentations of Maz&Noel's talk and my talk as well. So, for their convenience and yours if you weren't able to attend, here are the talks we delivered in the chemical education symposium titled Using Social Networking Tools to Teach Chemistry:
Development of chemical forums, blogs, ...
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Sunday, April 6th, 2008
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Hey there, from New Orleans! ACS 2008 kicked off today with the early morning registration rush that is required for every ACS meeting. This one, however, was awesomely bad, as the organizers, displaying true ig-nobel prize worthy genius, nearly caused an uprising from the mob of chemists waiting ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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C&EN have started their own science blog. In recent years it has been common place for C&EN to blog while at the ACS conference or on a special assignment. A link to the blog is here: http://cenblog.org/
Mitch
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
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It's that time again to start planning for Spring ACS. I will be attending and looking forward to meeting whoever else would like to do the usual "meet-up". The meet-ups are generally very successful and always entertaining.
I will be presenting on Monday in the chemical education section in the oral ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
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I'm not sure how Bethany Halford keeps pulling pretty picture duty. But she has some awesome ones in her latest article about the recent Materials Research Society "Science as Art" competition. A low-res teaser is shown below.
Courtesy of the Materials Research Society
Follow this link to see all the cool ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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ACS released the salaries of their top executives last week, and if you didn't think non-profit work was profitable think again.
Officers
Total Compensation + Contributions +
+ Expense Accounts
Madeline Jacobs
(CEO)
$933,533
Flint Lewis
(General Counsel)
$321,031
Brian Bernstein
(Treasurer)
$403,560
Top Execs.
Total Compensation + Contributions +
+ Expense Accounts
Robert Massie
(President-CAS)
$1,051,079
Robert Bovenschulte
(President-Publications Division)
$782,333
Brian Crawford
(Vice President-Publications Division)
$481,040
James Bryne
(Retired President-Centcom)
$461,213
Peter Roche
(Vice President-Finance CAS)
$461,213
A show ...
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Tuesday, January 1st, 2008
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Like any good chemist, I enjoy my C&EN news. The Newscripts section is a particular favorite of mine. I will faithfully turnto that section first to learn some cool new aspect of general interest chemistry. But Bob Wolke keeps ruining it every week. I haven't read anything remotely interesting from ...
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Thursday, October 11th, 2007
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This memo has been traveling like fire from an 'ACS Insider'. The contents are below
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I've been an ACS employee for many, many years, but I've grown concerned with the direction of the organization. I'm sending this email to alert you that ACS has grown increasingly corporate in its ...
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Monday, August 20th, 2007
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Free Alcohol
Saturday there was free food and alcohol at the Marriott for the Younger Chemist Committee (YCC). It was sponsored by the ACS web team. Fortunately, there weren't many people there so I got more than my share of egg rolls and free booze. That night at the poster session, ...
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Undergrads finally have a reason to join ACS
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