Project SEED is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and we hope to make it our best year yet! The summer will kick off with an orientation in early June (date TBA), which will include recognition of this milestone. Eleven projects at local universities and national labs have been approved, […]
Daily Archives: April 25, 2018
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YCC and CSW hosted a career day workshop April 15th at ACS Headquarters. The day started with three career overview presentations to give participants perspective on careers in academia, industry/consulting, and government. Next, a career panel with 7 CSW members gave thoughtful and interesting answers to audience questions, drawing from […]
Join us at the Awards Banquet of the Washington Academy of Sciences. This is our annual ceremony when we will give awards for achievement to outstanding scientists, engineers and educators from the Washington DC area. Please see details on the attached invitation. The event will take place at 6:30pm on […]
The Leo Schubert Memorial Award — established in 1979 to honor Dr. Leo Schubert, a chemistry professor at American University who devoted much of his career to developing programs for high school teachers and students — recognizes outstanding teachers of high school chemistry in the Washington, D.C. area. Mr. Mallory, […]
The Hillebrand Prize — named for William F. Hillebrand (1853-1925), one of Washington’s most distinguished chemists — is awarded for original contributions to the science of chemistry by member(s) of CSW. Dr. Kafafi received this award in recognition of her pioneering contributions to organic optics and electronics technologies through innovative […]
The University of Washington offers a Green Chemistry and Chemical Stewardship Online Certificate Program. The program is in it’s third year, and enrollment just opened for the 2018-2019 program, which will kick off in September 2018 and run through June 2019. This program is entirely online, and consists of three […]
The Charles L. Gordon Memorial Award – named after Charles Gordon for his years of service as managing editor of the Capital Chemist — recognizes exemplary service by a CSW member to the profession of chemistry, to the science of chemistry, and/or to the Chemical Society of Washington. Dr. Wittenberg […]
The Outstanding Volunteer of the Year was established by the Committee of Community Activities (CCA) to recognize the immeasurable outreach efforts made by local section volunteers. Each local section has an opportunity to recognize one individual annually for demonstrating extraordinary outreach volunteer service within the section. Since she was an […]