Posted on Feb 11, 2005

Mary K. Carroll, associate professor of chemistry, has been
appointed to a two-year term as a full voting member of the American Chemical
Society Committee on Education (SOCED). Appointments
to SOCED are made jointly by the ACS
president and the chair of the board of directors. Carroll, the only
member of SOCED on faculty at a liberal arts college,
served as committee associate to the organization from 2001 to 2004. SOCED's mission is to support programs that bring the
excitement of chemical science to students of all ages, improve science
literacy, recruit students and retain them as contributors, and strengthen the
science education infrastructure.