Prof. Carroll elected to ACS committee

Mary K. Carroll, associate professor of chemistry, has been appointed to a two-year term as a full voting member of the American Chemical Society Committee on Education (SOCED). Appointments to SOCED are made jointly by the ACS president and the chair of the board of directors. Carroll, the only member of SOCED on faculty at a liberal arts college, served as committee associate to the organization from 2001 to 2004. SOCED's mission is to support programs that bring the excitement of chemical science to students of all ages, improve science literacy, recruit students and retain them as contributors, and strengthen the science education infrastructure.