Phil S. Baran, Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, has received the 2010 ACS Award in Pure Chemistry sponsored by Alpha Chi Sigma Fraternity and Alpha Chi Sigma Educational Foundation.

High school teachers seek biotech field trips for their students. If you are amenable to giving tours to high school students, please contact Renate Valois at renate@sandiegoacs.org

ACS Announces the 2010 Schedule for Short Courses. Our 2010 schedule is out - find out which courses are being offered in what cities by visiting www.proed.acs.org/2010.

Teaching, university, and high school ACS scholarships and grants are now open for application

Clifford and Kitty Hach, founders of the The Hach Company, established the Hach Scientific Foundation in 1982 to encourage students to pursue chemistry at the undergraduate level. In 2000, the Foundation took on greater numbers of scholars, working through universities to select students based on chemistry aptitude, interest, and need.

Learn about ACS short courses offered in the fall of 2009.

Friday, July 17, 2009

UCSD Price Center Theater

Organized by: Dr. Thomas R. Beattie, San Diego Section, American Chemical Society
Dr. Emmanuel Theodorakis and Dr. Michael Burkart, UCSD Chemistry/Biochemistry

8:30 am          Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Opening Remarks by Dr. Michael Burkart
9:05 am          Dr. John R. Cashman, [...]

 
Slated for June in College Park, MD
 
The 13th Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference will be held June 23-25 in College Park, MD. 
This year’s Conference will focus on progress made toward research objectives identified in the National Academy of Sciences’ 2006 landmark report, “Sustainability in the Chemical Industry: Grand Challenges and Research Needs.”
The conference features [...]

 
 
The San Diego ACS Law committee is sponsoring an event titled “IP Issues related to Pioneering Chemistry Inventions”
Date:     March 31, 2009
              6-7 PM
Speaker: Don Lewis, Catalyst Law Group
Venue:   Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Fishman Auditorium
RSVP: dlewis@catalystlaw.com
 

Biomarker, Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine 
Date:               March 21, 2009 (Saturday); 8:30 AM - 1:00 PM
Location:        Institute of Americas, UCSD (directions available at www.sabpa.org)
Registration: $20 for online registration, $10 for students and post-docs (www.sabpa.org)  online registration ends March 19, 2009; $40 for on-site registration
The topic of SABPA Science & Technology Forum VII will focus on recent advances [...]