March 11, 2005: Volume 63, Number 10

Students give 12 posters at national ACS meeting

Fifteen students and three faculty members will attend the 229th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS), to be held in San Diego March 13 through 17.

Fourteen of the students are seniors who will present a total of 12 posters on their senior thesis research:Mayrita Arrandale, James Bush, Nathan Davis, Eric Dimise, Jennifer Eliseo, Eric Farrell, Jessica Grondin, Elizabeth Lax, Evan Leibner, Shira Mandel, James Miller, Mark Morris, Melissa Passarelli and Sarah-Jo Stimpson. (Presentation topics will be listed in an upcoming edition.) David Olson, a junior who performed summer 2004 research in Prof. Kehlbeck's lab, will also attend.

Passarelli has been selected as one of six undergraduates in the country to receive an I. M. Kolthoff Enrichment Award from the Analytical Division of the ACS. The award supports undergraduate student travel to the ACS meeting to present a poster in the Analytical Division poster session. Award details can be found at  http://www.acs-analytical.duq.edu/kolthoffaward.html. The other students' travel is being supported through IEF grants, faculty research grants and the Chemistry Department.

Faculty attending are Mary Carroll, Michael Hagerman and Joanne Kehlbeck. Carroll will participate in SOCED committee meetings prior to the conference. Hagerman will present a poster to the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry on research he performed in collaboration with Prof. Michael Carpenter from the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering at SUNY Albany.

The College's Chemistry Club will receive the ACS "Outstanding Student Affiliate Chapter" for its 2003-2004 activities. Student Affiliate Chapters from only 26 institutions in the U.S. and Puerto Rico are receiving this award; Union is the only school in New York to receive the recognition this year. The club will also present a poster on its activities. 

The meeting, with about 15,000 attendees, will include more than 9,200 presentations in more than 900 technical sessions; an exposition of chemical products, instrumentation, and literature; an employment clearinghouse; and undergraduate student programming. For more, visit: http://www.chemistry.org/portal/a/c/s/1/acsdisplay.html?DOC=meetingssandiego2005sa05_index.html.

Participation in a national meeting on this scale is a very valuable experience for undergraduate students, according to Carroll. "Students will be able to attend plenary lectures, invited symposia and hear contributed papers in areas of chemistry familiar to them from their studies at Union (analytical chemistry, biochemistry, inorganic chemistry, etc.) and areas that are not part of our undergraduate curriculum (agricultural chemistry, chemistry and law, catalysis, etc.). The 15 Union College students will participate in all aspects of the conference."

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