This year chemists across the world will celebrate National Chemistry week from October 19-25. The theme this year is “The Hidden Life of Spices”. CSW has three ways you can help us celebrate. Volunteers with us on October 18th, 2025 The Spooky Mad Science Expo is celebrating its 10th year! […]
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CSW is kicking off our illustrated poem contest and would love for you to participate. In celebration of National Chemistry Week, students are invited to submit an illustrated poem around the theme of “The Hidden Life of Spices”. Local submissions are judged based by grade and local winners advance to […]
The Chemical Society of Washington will conduct its election with electronic ballots. CSW members with a valid e-mail address on file will receive an e-mail on or about October 11th with a unique voting link. If your e-mail account has strong spam filters, please “white list” elections@vote-now.com and election.ballot@vote-now.com in […]
The ACS Spring 2026 Meeting will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, on March 22-26, 2026. This will be a hybrid event.————————————————————The Chemical Society of Washington is pleased to announce a student travel award to defray travel and/or registration costs to the ACS Spring 2026 meeting. Eligible expenses include meeting registration, […]
Chemistry Olympiad High Honors and Honors Although none of our students were selected for the international team, we did have an exciting update on test scoring over the summer! We are proud to announce that six of our seventeen students made the honor roll list for the US National Chemistry […]
As ACS members, you have the right to vote in the upcoming national ACS election. Please be sure to read up on the candidates and vote! Ballots open September 15 and close October 10, 2025. Speaking of voting, our local section election is around the corner. Please keep an eye […]
The next national meeting will be held in Atlanta, GA in Spring 2026. We know the Atlanta team is hard at work to make sure we have a wonderful time in their city. The CSW Executive Board would like to remind members of two things: If you are planning to […]
On Monday night, August 18, CSW’s eight 8 Project SEED students presented their posters at the ACS 2025 Fall Conference. Over 70 posters were shared in the Project SEED session, representing the largest number in ACS history at a national meeting! Before the ceremony, students had spent the day connecting […]
This year, CSW was nominated for three ChemLuminary awards. Winners were announced during ACS Fall 2025 Meeting, on August 17, 2025. We are very happy to announce that CSW was selected as the winner for Outstanding Local Section Career Program Award! This award is selected by the Committee on Economic […]
The goal of this grant is to support M.S. and Ph.D. students within one year of degree completion who have been impacted by the termination or cancellation of their advisor’s research grant(s). For more information, visit www.acs.org/gradsuccessgrant View pdf with additional details.