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Welcome to the California Section of the American Chemical Society website


Congratulations to Michael Cheng 

Our 2008 Petersen Award Winner


Congratulations to Tracy Ostrom

Our 2008 Lloyd Ryland Outstanding High School Chemistry Teacher


For fun: Tom Lehrer's "Elements" - A Flash animation

Announcements and News
July 13, 2008 - July 17, 2008 : Chemistry in the Community Workshops -

July 13-17: Chemistry in the Community five-day residential workshop and a Teaching Inquiry-based Advanced High School Chemistry three-day workshop will be offered at Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, CA during the week of July 13, 2008.

More information, requirements, application forms and/or online registration may be found at www.acs.org/education (follow the link for Courses and Workshops).

September 17, 2008 : Section Meeting- "Toxicity of Nanomaterials" , speaker Fiona Mowat of Exponent -

Mark your calenders for Wed. September 17, 2008 for dinner and a talk on "Toxicity of Nanomaterials" speaker Fiona Mowat of Exponent

More details to be announced. 

September 23, 2008 - September 27, 2008 : 42nd WESTERN REGIONAL MEETING IN LAS VEGAS, NEVADA -

 

The 42nd ACS Western Regional Meeting “The Changing Face of Chemistry in the 21st Century” will take place September 23-27, 2008, at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. 

October 11, 2008 : MSU Wagner Group Alumni - Professor Wagner's retirement symposium -

Boli Zhou (bolizhou@yahoo.com) is looking for Wagner Group alumni and post-docs to join them at the Wagner Symposium on October 11, 2008 at Michigan State University.

October 15, 2008 - October 15, 2008 : Section Meeting- "Chemistry of Comics" presented by Al Hazari -

"Chemistry of Comics" presented by Al Hazari

To be held at San Rafael Joe's in San Rafael.

Details will be announced soon.

October 19, 2008 - October 25, 2008 : National Chemistry Week - This year's theme is, "Having a Ball with Chemistry."  The focus
will be on the chemistry of sports.
October 22, 2008 : FAMILY SCIENCE NIGHT -

Family Science Night will be held this year at Oak Grove Middle School in Concord CA Address:  2050 Minert Road, Concord, CA 94518

 Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm

Volunteers needed! 

To join the fun, please contact Alex Madonik, NCW Coordinator, at <madonika@comcast.net
 > or at 510-872-0528"

November 19, 2008 : Section Meeting- "Nuclear Energy" speaker Jasmina Vujic -

Nov. 30, 2008 "Nuclear Energy"  by Jasmina Vujic; Jasmina Vujic is a Professor and Chair at University of California, Dept. of Nuclear Engineering.

This will be held at the Chevron Richmond Technology Center, 100 Chevron Way, Richmond.

 

More details to be announced.

December 14, 2008 - June 12, 2008 : December Holiday Social -

Will be at the Solano Bar & Grill in Albany, CA

 
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