Fifteen students and three faculty members will attend the
229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), to be
held in San Diego
March 13 through 17.
Fourteen of the students are seniors
who will present a total of 12 posters on their senior thesis research:Mayrita Arrandale, James Bush, Nathan Davis, Eric Dimise,
Jennifer Eliseo, Eric Farrell, Jessica Grondin, Elizabeth Lax, Evan Leibner,
Shira Mandel, James Miller, Mark Morris, Melissa Passarelli and Sarah-Jo
Stimpson. (Presentation topics will be listed in an upcoming edition.)
David Olson, a junior who performed summer 2004 research in Prof. Kehlbeck's
lab, will also attend.
Passarelli
has been selected as one of six undergraduates in the country to receive an I.
M. Kolthoff Enrichment Award from the Analytical Division of the ACS. The award
supports undergraduate student travel to the ACS meeting to present a poster in
the Analytical Division poster session. Award details can be found at http://www.acs-analytical.duq.edu/kolthoffaward.html.
The other students' travel is being supported
through IEF grants, faculty research grants and the Chemistry Department.
Faculty attending are Mary
Carroll, Michael Hagerman and Joanne Kehlbeck. Carroll will participate in
SOCED committee meetings prior to the conference. Hagerman will present a
poster to the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry on research he
performed in collaboration with Prof. Michael Carpenter from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at
SUNY Albany.
The
College's Chemistry Club will receive the ACS “Outstanding Student Affiliate
Chapter” for its 2003-2004 activities. Student Affiliate Chapters from only 26
institutions in the U.S. and
Puerto Rico are receiving this award; Union is the only school in New York to receive the
recognition this year. The club will also present a poster on its
activities.
The
meeting, with about 15,000 attendees, will include more than 9,200
presentations in more than 900 technical sessions; an exposition of chemical
products, instrumentation, and literature; an employment clearinghouse; and
undergraduate student programming. For more, visit: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetingssandiego2005sa05_index.html.
Participation
in a national meeting on this scale is a very valuable experience for
undergraduate students, according to Carroll. “Students will be able to attend
plenary lectures, invited symposia and hear contributed papers in areas of
chemistry familiar to them from their studies at Union (analytical chemistry,
biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, etc.) and areas that are not part of our
undergraduate curriculum (agricultural chemistry, chemistry and law, catalysis,
etc.). The 15 Union
College students will
participate in all aspects of the conference.”