Fall 2003 Schedule

Look for updates as we plan the Fall events for the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society. All meetings will be in LSE206 unless noted otherwise.
 
September 8 Organizational Meeting
noon
September 15  Fall Picnic - Communications Building picnic tables
11:30
   
pictures
September 18  Dr. Debra Ingram, Arkansas State University, 
2 pm
  Department of Mathematics, "Statistical Tidbits: 
LSE507
  Confidence Intervals"
pictures
September 29 Lunch to Support the Ronald McDonald House
noon
   
pictures
Sept. 29-Oct. 15 T-shirt sale - "The Erlenmeyers" Tour Shirt
$10
October 6 Work on NCW project
noon
October 13 Dr. Tillman Kennon, Arkansas State University
noon
  "Teacher of Secondary Science as a Career:  An Honest Look at the Positives and the Negatives"
 pictures
October 17 Visit Arkansas Biosciences Institute
2:30 pm
October 18 Trip to Memphis - Deliver Ronald McDonald House items,   
  Dinner and the Riverkings - meet at 2:00 to load supplies  
  leave lobby Lab Sciences at 2:30 pm  
October 19-25
National Chemistry Week - The Earth's Atmosphere
pictures
and Beyond
October 20 Dr. Don Perry, University of Central Arkansas
noon
  "Vibrational and Electronic Investigations of Surfaces"
pictures
October 23 National Mole Day (pictures)
11 am-1 pm
  * Help pass out Mole Cookies or just have one *
lobby
October 23  Star Gazing with Dr. Kennon
6:30 pm
October 24 Yearbook Photo 
2:30 pm
October 24 Practice for HalloweenChemMagicShow
2:30 pm
October 27 Dr. G. Paul Miller, UAMS Department of Biochemistry
noon
  and Molecular Biology, "Drug Metabolism: The body's
pictures
  response to a 'foreign' molecule"  
October 27 Practice for HalloweenChemMagicShow - LSE504
5:30 pm
October 30 HalloweenChemMagicShow - LSE219
6:30 pm
Program
and 
Pictures
October 31 Provide Refreshments for Department Seminar
3 pm
November 17 Mr. Blaine Buckman, Kemlite, "Industrial Research"
noon
November 20 Volunteer for the Star Gazing Event-Valley View 6th Grade
6 pm
December 1 Mr. Jacob Small, Arkansas State University
noon
  "Assembling Our Future: a Student's View on Molecular Nanotechnology"  
December 8 End of the Semester Pot Luck Lunch
noon
December 1-15 Toy Drive for Ronald McDonald House
 
 

Officers meeting - every Friday at 11 am
 
Some of our 2003-04 members

Spring 2004 Schedule


 
January 12 First day of classes  
January 19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Day - no classes
January 26 Dr. Richard Lee, University of Tennessee, Memphis
noon
  Department of Pharmacology, "Designing and developing new antimicrobial agents"
 
January 30 (F) Provide Refreshments for Department Seminar
3 pm
February 9 Ms. Cindy Moran, Arkansas State Crime Lab
noon
  "The Forensic Chemist - From Laboratory Analysis to the Courtroom."   
February 16 Video "Tracing the Path: African-American 
noon
  Contributions to Chemistry in the Life Sciences"  
February 21 Memphis Undergraduate Research Conference
February 23 Organizational Meeting - T-Shirt Sale, Relay for Life  
March 1 Dr. Sergey I. Kudryashov, Arkansas State University, 
noon
  "Some critical phenomena in chemistry and physics"  
March 1-April 2
Golden Shaft Award voting - main chemistry office
 
 
Vote for the professor you most want to give the shaft to
 
March 5 Demo Show - Northeast Arkansas Science Fair
9 am
  Convocation Center  
  Judging of Outstanding Chemistry Project Award
1-3 pm
March 8 Dr. Robyn Hannigan, Arkansas State University, 
noon
  "I know what you did last summer:  Otolith chemistry and the environmental life histories of fish"
POSTPONED
til Fall
March 12 Mr. Tung To, University of Memphis
3 pm
  "Synthesis and Photochemistry of Organomanganese 
LSW344
  Complexes - Preparation of New Photochromic   
  Materials for Optical Devices"  
March 15 Spring Break
March 22
March 25 Organizational Meeting for Relay for Life - Pizza!
6 pm
March 28 -
National Meeting of the American Chemical Society
 
April 1
Anaheim, California
April 1 Organizational Meeting for Relay for Life
6 pm
April 2 Relay for Life  "ACS for ACS" - 6 pm - 6 am  
 
April is Green Chemistry Month at ASU
 
April 2 - 3 Arkansas Academy of Science Meeting - Jonesboro  
April 2 - 3 Judging of Green Chemistry Poster Award - time TBA  
April 9 Provide Refreshments for Department Seminar
3 pm
April 12 Dr. Mohammed Ali, Southeast Missouri State 
noon
  University,"Green Chemistry: Offspring of a Marriage Between Organic and Inorganic  Chemistry on a Solid Ground"  
April 16 Tour of Kemlite - meet in lobby of lab science at 12:30
April 19 Video: "Green Chemistry - Innovations for a Cleaner 
noon
  World"  
April 26 Discussion of Anaheim trip, election of new officers
noon
April 27 Spring Picnic, lobby Lab Sciences Building
11 am

 

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