Last month, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued a health advisory while they investigated “a multi-state outbreak of measles associated with travel to Disneyland Resort Theme Parks.” Over 150 people around the country have been infected from the recent outbreak of a disease that the CDC considered “eliminated” from […]
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By Christina Briddell, ACS Green Chemistry Institute The 19th Annual Green Chemistry and Engineering Conference (GC&E), hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®, will be held July 14-16, 2015 at the North Bethesda Marriot, N. Bethesda MD. GC&E 2015 is happening in your backyard and we encourage you to take this […]
Equality is on the march. Whether it is feminism, gay rights, or awareness of racial disparities, recent movements have made progress and have created unease for some of the privileged majority. This majority still dominates mainstream institutions though, which means that continued progress for equality depends, to some extent, on […]
This month’s conclusion to this two-part article looks at some of the legal and policy factors that made the Montreal Protocol possible and successful, and how those may inform efforts to produce a climate treaty. (If you haven’t read Part 1, you can here.) In 1974, an article in Nature […]
It takes money to run a successful school. Ideology aside, it’s a business (more specifically a commercial non-profit). The ongoing goal is to maintain the highest level of academic and athletic performance while maximizing the productivity growth and profit of the school, all done at the lowest operating cost. Add […]
Greetings and welcome to the newly launched Capital Chemist! The Chemical Society of Washington has been working for a year to bring you this resource, and I’m thrilled to announce its launch. As the Editor-in-Chief, I am very excited for this new phase of CSW, and I hope you will […]
The CSW was established as an organization in 1884 and is currently the local section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) for the Washington, DC area serving approximately 4,000 members. We are the fifth largest ACS local section, and serve a diverse and vibrant community. Becoming active in CSW is […]
My first job out of grad school was teaching physical science courses to all manner of first-year students at community colleges across San Diego County. The geology community graciously refers to this as ‘rocks for jocks.’ I was thrilled, to both be DONE with grad school and because I felt […]
The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) offers a travel award to defray travel and/or registration costs to a National ACS meeting. The award is open to current graduate students in the Jurisdiction of the CSW. Awardees are asked to share with CSW members something from their experience that impacted their […]
The Chemical Society of Washington (CSW) participates in Project SEED, a summer research program for economically disadvantaged high school students to experience what it’s like to be a chemist. Participants are asked to share with CSW members something from their experience that has impacted their perspective as a chemist. By Mesgana […]