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Yearly Archives: 2021
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Elise Ann Brown, NIH, USDA scientist Elise Ann Brown, 92, a research pharmacologist at the National Institutes of Health from 1962 to 1979 who then was a toxicologist with the Agriculture Department until her retirement in 2003, died Jan. 4 at her home in McLean, Va. The cause was metastatic pancreatic […]
The recording of the May CSW meeting is available here. Patrick Megonigal, Ph.D.Associate Director of ResearchSmithsonian Environmental Research Center “Methane Production and Emissions in Trees and Forests” Abstract: Forest ecosystems are important to managing global climate change because they take carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in wood. […]
Thank you for spending Chemists Celebrate Earth Week 2021 outside to give back by taking away trash or reducing your footprint! Here are the pictures shared by CSW members who spent a morning (or a whole day!) helping to clean a local outdoor space while maintaining a safe social distance. View […]
A recording is now available for the April 23, 2021 joint virtual event of CSW and the STEM ED Community Club at Montgomery College, Rockville, featuring several students presenting on footprint reduction tools and examples as well as an award winning solar powered energy project. https://montgomerycollege.zoom.us/rec/share/wAMl-IbEyf01b3Qk5kp53gMuZO5pFJndXXenDJ2zS8JRLAxP4wPGPYouc0Ci6eGH.j4VTGv_48SXqu7ye Access Passcode: B5S@UvgD The […]
A recording is now available for the April 21, 2021, meeting featuring Martin Mulvihill presenting, “Leveraging Green Chemistry to Produce Sustainable Materials & Safer Products.” https://american-chemical-society.zoom.us/rec/play/GrTDQGQnT3DwHLdD9gMpFgQXKsdogwXtk1XcpgvxqItt9d7iyU8DDOS5ZhTdcHrYrUiOZMipX2g3Yvb0.zZF1rS0IPz39ZunQ?autoplay=true&startTime=1619020916000 Marty Mulvihill, Ph.D.Co-Founder and Managing PartnerSafer Made “Leveraging Green Chemistry to Produce Sustainable Materials & Safer Products” Speaker Bio Marty Mulvihill is the co-founder […]
If you missed the CSW March 11th meeting, you missed the presentation of CSW’s Outreach Volunteer of the Year award, but you can still hear the great presentation by Matt Hartings! We apologize that we failed to record the introduction of the speaker and the very beginning of his talk. […]
5:30 – 5:45 PM Presentation of the CSW Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award to LaKesha N. Perry5:45 – 6:45 PM Presentation by Dr. Matthew Hartings followed by Q & A View the recording of this event. This will be a Zoom meeting. There is no charge to attend, but […]
As part of the Chemists Celebrate Earth Day activities, the American Chemical Society is sponsoring an illustrated poem contest for students in Kindergarten through 12 grades. Students are asked to write and illustrate a poem using the Chemists Celebrate Earth Week 2021 theme, “Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry.” This year’s […]
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