On the Morning of Saturday August 20th, the CSW Project SEED Committee hosted the Culminating Poster Session at ACS Headquarters Washington, DC to recognize our four talented Project SEED students. The SEED students presented their research posters to the 20 attendees from across the DMV. Central pictures within the collage […]
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The Environmental/Sustainability Report addresses the Climate solutions for the challenging problem of Climate Change. There are 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The focus is on United Nations Sustainable Goal No 13, Climate Action, “Take urgent Action to combat climate change and its impacts. “There is strong need for public […]
Maya Mourshed, previous local winner of the ACS Illustrated Poem Contest, has become a published author with her first book, Chemistories. This book is a collection of her short stories and poems about chemical elements that come to life, accompanied by her own illustrations. As the back cover explains “Each element […]
Picture Perfect Chemistry at the Spooky Mad Science Expo CSW celebrated National Chemistry week this year by running chemistry-based activities for kids at the Spooky Mad Science Expo in Alexandria, VA. CSW was joined by dozens of other local groups to spread science and fun on a sunny October Saturday. […]
The WCC Merck Research Award recognizes eight individuals* who will present their research at a Women Chemists Committee (WCC)/Merck half-day symposium during the ACS Fall 2025 Meeting and be recognized at the Awards Symposium Luncheon and the WCC Luncheon. Individuals* in their third and fourth year of graduate school with […]
Thank you to everyone who turned out for the luncheon on December 14, 2024! Below are pictures from the event. WHEN: Saturday, December 14, 2024……………11:30 a.m. Check-in……………12:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch WHERE: Maggiano’s Little Italy Tysons Corner – 2001 International Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102 RSVP [email protected] by: Wednesday, December 11, 2024…………………………………..please provide the […]
The ACS National Meeting for Spring 2025 will be held in San Diego, California, on March 23-27, 2025. 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 Spring 2025 National ACS meeting. […]
The American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) has the world’s largest collection of cell lines, microorganisms, and biomaterials, and on Tuesday October 15th, from 9:30-11:30 AM, you can joinAIChE NCS on an exclusive tour of their facilities. The tour is free but space is limited to the first 20 people to sign up, age 16+. Please reach out to [email protected] by […]
The US Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) provides a coaching program to help prepare students for the USNCO local and national exams. Coaching sessions will be hosted on Zoom and coordinated by ACS on Fridays every other week in January and February 2025. The coaching sessions start with a 30 minute tutorial […]
CSW Project SEED completed another success program for Summer 2024. We sponsored nine students with the ACS Project SEED program. The program has grown and diversified its services of providing hands-on summer research experiences (8 – 10 weeks) and virtual summer camps to more than 11,000 students in 40 U.S. […]
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” [email protected] and [email protected] in […]