246th ACS National Meeting
Published in Chemical & Engineering News Archive 2013
Abstract
This September, chemists will gather in the town typically known for race car driving--Indianapolis. Appropriately, the fall ACS national meeting theme is “Chemistry in Motion.� Symposia supporting the theme are organized by thematic program chair Robert A. Weiss, the Hezzleton E. Simmons Professor of Polymer Engineering at the University of Akron. ACS President Marinda Li Wu will host 29 technical divisions and six committees in original programming over 696 half-day oral sessions and 112 poster sessions that include Sci-Mix. More than 7,000 papers will be presented, and nearly 2,200 poster presentations will take place at the meeting. In addition to supporting the meeting theme, Wu will continue to support her presidential agenda, “Partners for Progress & Prosperity.� On Monday and Tuesday she will sponsor symposia that include chemists who have followed nontraditional career paths and who are entrepreneurs. Actor and science advocate Alan Alda will speak at the ACS Board ...