Ten students and six Chemistry Department faculty members attended the 239th national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco recently, joining more than 17,000 other participants. Each student presented a poster on his or her research, and five of the professors gave papers at the conference. Many of these presentations represent collaborative and interdisciplinary work.
Participating students were biochemistry majors Jaclyn Krolick ’10 and Clancy Slack ’11; chemistry majors Valerie Angell ’10, Rachel Gray ’10, Paul Hebert ’10, Adam Kowalski ‘10, Ken Skorenko ‘10, Zachary Smith ‘10 and Megan Weill ’10; and neuroscience major Sangin (Jen) Lee ‘10.
Gray was selected for a Division of Organic Chemistry Travel Award. Additional travel funding for the students comes from Union’s Internal Education Fund, the Future Professors Program, and the Chemistry Department.
Participating chemistry faculty were Kristin Fox, Michael Hagerman, Joanne Kehlbeck, Susan Kohler, Amanda Misner and Laura MacManus-Spencer.
Faculty who didn’t attend but co-authored student presentations include James Adrian (Chemistry), Kathleen LoGiudice (Biology) and Palma Catravas (Electrical and Computer Engineering). Rachel Eastman ’10 was also a co-author.
At an awards ceremony on Sunday, March 21, the Union College Chemistry Club received a Commendable Student Affiliates Chapter Award, based on its 2008-2009 activities. This is the 16th consecutive year Union’s club has received an ACS award. The group also gave a presentation in the Successful ACS Student Chapters Poster Session.
To learn more about the ACS National Meeting, visit www.acs.org.