Theme: “Reducing Our Footprint with Chemistry” For years, chemists have been promoting a better world through recyclable plastics, cleaner-burning fuels, phosphate-free detergents, environmental monitoring, and green chemistry initiatives. To promote the positive role that chemistry plays in the world, ACS established the Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) public awareness campaign. […]
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On February 23rd, many students registered and attended the panel discussion focused on the graduate student experience. The student panel provided a lot of key points and takeaways from the discussion, including, but not limited to; how great graduate school is, but also hard; therapy is common and recommended; imposter […]
You are invited and encouraged to participate in the Fairfax County Regional Science & Engineering Fair. It is a great opportunity to support the science fair and the students who have worked long and hard on their projects. Below are some key dates/deadlines: · March 8-12 – project list and abstracts […]
THE GRADUATE SCHOOL EXPERIENCE The CSW Committee on Minority Affairs presents a graduate student panel seminar being held February 23rd at 6:00 pm A panel of 4 graduate students from different local universities will share advice and answer questions related to their graduate school experiences. Please contact LaKesha Perry at […]
Please join us for the monthly meeting on January 13, 2021, from 5:30-6:30 p.m. This meeting will be held via Zoom. Please register here. There is no charge to participate, but you must register to receive the link. This month’s featured seminar will be “The Circular Economy of Plastics” presented […]
Chemistry Shorts is a new series of brief films that spotlight innovative ways that chemists and chemical engineers are working to solve important problems and create new opportunities. Each film is accompanied by a lesson plan that offers suggestions on how to integrate it into the classroom. The first three […]
CSW would like to recognize all its members who have celebrated a special anniversary with ACS in 2020. Unfortunately, we were unable to do this in person in 2020 at an annual luncheon. Certificates were mailed to all Honorees and all 2020 Honorees will be included in the recognition luncheon […]
Carissa Hunter volunteered at the Mad Spooky Science Expo in Alexandria, VA (hosted by thecommunity Science Club) held on October 17th. The event was held outside and had COVID-19protocols in place. The CSW table was a favorite and had a lot of participants. Thank you to all who participated!
Professor Wilker gave a wonderful seminar on biological cements and adhesives and developing polymer mimics to create advanced adhesives. A recording of this seminar and the slides from his seminar are available below! https://american-chemical-society.zoom.com/rec/share/tjepCl-0KptNLxgGuqYv7YdzIM585SxyxjxxOfxMK3Jca8e21oM4kC2yBcM-f3iI.ciAFByVfzdJgwegB (click on the zoom link, register with your name and email, then you’ll be able to […]
As mentioned in the last edition of Capital Chemist, in-person research was cancelled for Summer 2020, but that did not mean that students were left without a SEED program. A total of 291 students from across the country completed the program between July 1 to July 31, 2020. SEED Fellows […]