C&E News Futures Festival – 25 and 26 August 2020

https://futuresfestival.org/ Announcing the Talented 12 class of 2020, speaking at C&EN’s Futures Festival on August 25, 2020 This year, the revered Talented 12 program, with funding support from Thermo Fisher Scientific, will be presented virtually during our first-ever C&EN’s Futures Festival. This inaugural C&EN’s Futures Festival, presented by the American Chemical Society, is a forward-looking…

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Virtual #ACSKidsZone – An Online Chemistry Event

Saturday, August 15, 2020 – 12 PM in English – 1 PM PDT en Español – REGISTRATION Explore the wonders of chemistry with the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) online Kids Zone science event Saturday, Aug. 15, noon to 2 p.m. PDT featuring Miss Camille Schrier — Miss America 2020 — and more distinguished guests. Host…

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Reimagining the Nitrogen Cycle: Wastewater Valorization

Online Zoom Event – July 22, 2020 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm RSVP here: https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4625474 Zoom link provided to attendees the day of the event.The event is a seminar-style presentation followed by a Q&A. Reimagining liquid waste streams as resources can lead to recovery of valuable products and more efficient, less costly approaches to…

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The Dark Side Of Science: Misconduct In Biomedical Research

Thursday, July 9, 2020 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Online Zoom Event – register here Dr. Elisabeth Bik is an image forensics detective who left her paid job in industry to search for and report duplicated and manipulated images in biomedical articles. She has done a systematic scan of 20,000 papers in 40 journals…

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ACS Statement on the Killing of George Floyd

https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/about/acs-statement-on-the-killing-of-george-floyd.html Hello, my name is Luis Echegoyen and I am the president of the American Chemical Society. I am speaking with you today during very sad days for the US and the world.  The horrific killing of George Floyd has shed additional light on hundreds of years of racism and injustice occurring in our country. …

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ACS Fall Meeting Goes Virtual

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE American Chemical Society will meet completely virtually WASHINGTON, June 9, 2020 — The American Chemical Society (ACS) announced today that it will hold the ACS Fall 2020 National Meeting & Expo completely virtually. The meeting will now be held Aug. 17-20, 2020, on the World Wide Web. Originally scheduled to be held…

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