The Committee on Minority Affairs (CMA) held its Career Day May 7, 2023 from 2-4pm at ACS HQ in Marvel Hall, including career consultants including CSW’s Allison Aldridge, along with consultants from industry and academia. Events include, but are not limited to resume reviews, mock interviews, and career consultant speakers. Career […]
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CSW Councilors attended the Indianapolis ACS Council Meeting Wednesday, March 29th. The summary of governance issues and actions discussed can be read below:
New for 2023- Come see what members of CSW have published in the recent literature! April 2023 V. Simonenko*, X. Lu*, etc., A novel siRNA-Gemcitabine construct as a potential therapeutic for treatment of pancreatic cancer, NAR Cancer, 2020, 2, zcaa016 X. Lu, Proprietary Peptide Docking Vehicle (PDoV) -GalNAc RNAi delivery platform, […]
This event is over. View the recording Have a chemistry degree (or working on it still) and realizing that the lab is not for you? Want a career change that doesn’t require a complete restart? This panel gathers chemists who have pivoted away from the bench and into a variety of other career options you […]
Every year, the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) hosts a CSW Cohort with ACS Project Seed (Summer Experiences for the Economically Disadvantaged) where High School students join laboratories across the DMV for a paid summer research internship in chemistry or a chemistry-related field! Through participating in Project SEED CSW and our amazing research mentors support the growth of underrepresented […]
CSW’s Board of Managers (BOM) meets quarterly to discuss CSW business and have open floor discussion of new business. This includes all officers and reports of committee chairs. It is open to CSW membership. Dates of the board meetings for 2023 are as follows: Our meetings are always at 7-9 […]
Congratulations to the newly elected members of CSW’s Board of Managers! Here are the results of the annual CSW election, which closed on November 15: President-Elect, 2023 Lauren Ragle Treasurer, 2023-2024 Reyniak Richards Councilor, 2023-2025 LaKesha Perry Nevart Tahmazian Xiaoyong Lu Alternate Councilor, 2023-2025 Joseph Duran Ravinder Paul Lall Managers-at-Large, […]
2023 President, Chemical Society of Washington Alessandra Zimmermann Greetings and Happy New Year! On behalf of the Board of Managers, it is my pleasure to welcome the Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) to 2023. I am honored to have the opportunity to represent over 4,000 members within the Washington, DC […]
Dr. Richard Weiss Department of Chemistry Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology Georgetown University In recognition of his contributions to an understanding of the relationship between structure, function and the chemical and photophysical properties of polymers and gels, as well as their applications, and of the impact he had […]
Chidi Duru, PhD., NBCT National Board Certified Chemistry/Science Teacher, Science Department Chair Crossland High School (Prince George’s County Public Schools) “Leveraging the Chemistry Classroom for Impact” Virtual CSW Meeting December 14, 2022 – 6:00-7:00 ET The Chemical Society of Washington would like to congratulate Dr. Chidi Duru on earning the […]