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Tuesday – Aug 4th, 2020 – 6:00 to 7:00 PM (PDT) – A co-sponsored online zoom event between ACS and AWIS – The event will include a presentation followed by a Q&Asession Zoom link to be shared with attendees the day of the event.The event is FREE and open to all. Register here. Women are…

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…

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…

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. …

Over the last week, people across the world are speaking out in outrage due to the murder of George Floyd. He is the latest death in a long string of violent acts against Black people like Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and recently, in our backyard, Steven Taylor. This violence is not new, and these outcomes…

The Senior Chemists Committee would like to offer two sessions of Basic Zoom Training for members of the ACS California Section. We have two sessions planned initially: Monday, May 11 from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Wednesday, May 13 from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m. (More sessions will be offered if there is demand.) Over a…