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From Plant Scents to Perfumes with Margareta Séquin
Friday, March 19th, 11 AM PT Register HERE Sponsor: UC Botanical Garden Plant scents from flowers, fruits, leaves, or tree barks are composed of complex mixtures of volatile organic compounds. People have used these fragrant mixtures since ancient times to produce lotions, oils and perfumes. While contemporary perfumes and other scented products consist, to a large…
Read MoreMicrobe-Pollutant Interactions Between Fluorinated Fire-Fighting Foams And Bioremediation Of Hydrocarbons And Chlorinated Solvents
TODAY – Tuesday March 9th – 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm – Online Zoom Event Christopher Olivares, PhD, Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Berkeley Register HERE Microbes are fantastic chemists that can alter the fate of contaminants, but co-occurring contaminants can inhibit or stimulate microbial processes. In this talk we will look at case studies with per-…
Read MoreInternational Women’s Day Celebration: Choose To Challenge
Monday, March 8th, 2021 – 5 PM (ACS California & AWIS East Bay Joint Virtual Event) This Year’s Theme: #ChooseToChallege A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions – all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.…
Read MoreChemistry Trivia Night
Thursday, March 4th, 2021 – 7 PM FREE event – register HERE.
Read MoreLubricants And Glitter: Revolutionizing Sexual Assault Investigation
Tuesday, March 2nd, 5 PM PST Dr. Candice Bridge, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida and the National Center for Forensic Science There’s still time to register for this Zoom event. Sexual assaults are an unfortunate reality in modern society, which includes situations in which the assailant is known or unknown.…
Read MoreCovid–19 And The Ethics Of Scarcity
Margaret R. McLean – Wednesday February 17th 12pm – 1pm PT RSVP here! Our Distinguished Panelist: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics Associate Director McLean lectures on ethics relating to health care, health care justice and equity, and biotechnology. She will discuss the ethics surrounding Covid-19 and resource scarcity, including ventilators and vaccines. The presentation will…
Read MoreMerck Research Laboratories In South San Francisco – Discovery Chemistry At Merck In The Bay Area
Saturday Feb 13th from 10:30am – 12pm PT Register here. Presented by the Women Chemists Committee — All Are Welcome Time 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. Chatting11:00 a.m. Talk and Discussion Reservation RSVP by February 2, 2021.For more information visit our website at www.calacs.org or email office@calacs.org.Here is the link for reservations starting December 28, 2020.https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4854220…
Read MoreVirtual Networking Event
Tuesday February 9th 5pm – 6pm PT Register here – Online Zoom link will be sent to registered participants on the day of the event Join CalACS and our global partners for a speed networking event with students and professionals within the chemical sciences. Our partners include professional societies like NOBCChE, CACS, ebAWIS and many…
Read MoreVortex February 2021
Metal-Organic Frameworks: From Energy Storage to Drug Delivery
Prof Matzger Wed Feb 3rd 2021 12pm – 1pm PT RSVP here! – Zoom link to be shared with attendees the day of the event. Are you fascinated by crystals and porous materials? If this spark your curiosity, please come and join our lunch presentation by Prof. Adam Matzger from University of Michigan, an expert…
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