The 28th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE), will be held at the University of Kentucky from July 28 – August 1, 2024. The conference will be organized around four themes within the K-12, two-year college, and university communities: Classroom Practice and Learning Environments, Curriculum and Cognition, Assessment and Research […]
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2023 Electronic Voting Procedures The Chemical Society of Washington will conduct its election of Officers, Councilors, and Managers-at-Large with electronic ballots. If you are a full CSW member and have a valid e-mail address on file with The American Chemical Society, then on or about October 11 you will receive […]
By: Lauren Ragle, President-Elect This was my first time experiencing the ChemLuminary Awards in person. I was honored to represent our local section, as we were up for two awards. The first award nomination was for Outstanding Local Section Programming Related to the Promotion of Ethics in Chemistry. The second […]
By: Lauren Ragle, President-Elect This summer has been quite busy for 18 high schoolers in our area. That’s right, we have been running the Project SEED Program this summer. Allison Aldridge and I were the co-coordinators for this year’s Project SEED. Once we had our 18 excellent mentors and their […]
The Outreach Committee encourages the CSW Community to celebrate the National Chemistry Week. Activity ideas and educational resource can be found at this link. Please let the Committee know about your events and/or if you have any questions about activities. A great way to participate in National Chemistry week is to […]
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, […]
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 […]
We would like to highlight the work of CSW Members’ accomplishments in terms of publications, book chapters, an op-ed, reports, and presentations at local/national/international meetings. If you had such contributions during 2022 (January to present date), please complete the Google form using the link below. Note that submission does not […]
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 […]