Upcoming meetings
 

Board of Directors

Board of Directors meetings are held the 2nd Thursday night of each month (September through May) in the clubhouse at Glen Echo Country Club, map unless you see a special date or location announced on the home page events calendar. Social hour starts at 5:30, dinner and officers’ reports at 6:30, and the business meeting at 7:15. Meetings are open to all section members, but attendees must pay for their own dinners. There is no charge to attend only the business meeting. Elected officers and committee chairs have the right to vote; others in attendance have voice but no vote.

Dinner reservations are required by noon on the Monday before the meeting. Contact the section Chair to make a reservation.

The Continuity Dinner

Chromatography Discussion Group

For more information, contact Rob Morrison at rmorrison@genetics.com .

Computational Chemistry Discussion Group

CCDG meetings are held at Tripos, Inc., 1699 South Hanley Road, St Louis, MO 63144.

For more information about the meetings or if you would like to speak at a future meeting contact Philippa Wolohan (314-647-8837 x 3201 or pwolohan@tripos.com) or Mitchell Polley (314) 647-8837 x 3358 or mpolley@tripos.com

Educational Topics Discussion Group

Discussion group leader: Sandy Mueller of John Burroughs School (smueller@jburroughs.org).

If you would like your name, or colleagues’ names, added to the Education Topics Discussion Group e-mail list, email Hal Harris, hharris@umsl.edu.

Check back here for scheduled meetings/topics for academic year 2005-06.

General Topics Discussion Group

Contact Greg Wall, (800) 325-5832 ext. 3139 for more information.

Mass Spec Discussion Group

The Midwest Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group is made possible by contributions from the following organizations:
PE Biosystems
ThermoQuest
Waters
P. J. Cobert Associates, Inc.
Bruker Daltonics, Inc.
ISOTEC Inc
JEOL USA
Washington University Department of Chemistry
St Louis Section of the American Chemical Society

For more information, contact Mike Grayson at Washington University, (314) 935-7486 or grayson@wuchem.wustl.edu.

NMR Discussion Group

Contacts at Washington University for more information:

• Mark Conradi (Physics) at (314) 935-6418, msc@wuphys.wustl.edu
• Joel Garbow (Radiology & Chemistry) at (314) 362-9949, garbow@wustl.edu
• Sophia Hayes (Chemistry) at (314) 935-4624, hayes@wustl.edu

The NMR group also has an email listserv. To join, send email to sarahj@wustl.edu with “subscribe NMR Discussion Group” in the subject line.

St Louis Section–American Institute of Chemical Engineers

Our brothers and sisters on the engineering side of the divide host an active monthly program featuring a guest speaker or special event. For up-to-date information, visit the AIChE website, and check out the current newsletter and schedule of future events.

St. Louis Rubber Group

Contact Paul Pfaff at Weskem-Hall for further information (314) 725-2600.

Women Chemists Committee

For more information contact Leah O'Brien, (618) 650-3562 or e-mail lobrien@siue.edu.

Younger Chemists Committee

Next YCC meeting on Tuesday, April 29th, at 6:30 pm at Washington University, Lab Sciences Building, Room 400. Refreshments will be served, thanks to Kenya! Here (large pdf, 1.62 MB) is a campus map. Lab Sciences Building is #53, parking @ #81 in Millbrook parking structure off Forest Park Pkwy.

On the agenda is discussion of the planned visit to a local winery on May 3rd (transportation available for a nominal charge). Please let us know if you plan to join us for the winery trip.

Current YCC officers are listed here.

YCC also maintains a presence on the National ACS website, with national officers, a discussion board, and program suggestions.

College and university seminar series

Area colleges and universities host seminar series throughout their academic year calendars. Details of each seminar are often unavailable until shortly before the event, so it is best to consult the website or email the faculty seminar coordinator for the most up-to-date information.

Saint Louis University

Seminars start at 3:30 pm in Room 204 Macelwane Hall, unless noted otherwise. Refreshments follow. For more information, contact Charles Kirkpatrick, kirkpacc@slu.edu. The Chemistry Department’s seminar page has a schedule of the semester’s topics/speakers.

University of Missouri–St Louis

Seminars are held on Mondays at 4:00 pm in Room 451 Benton Hall unless otherwise specified. Refreshments 15 minutes prior to seminar time. Check the Chemistry Department’s seminar page for current information.

Washington University

Seminars are in McMillen 311 at 4 pm unless otherwise noted. Coffee is available 20 minutes prior to the talk, and refreshments follow. For information, contact: Amy Walker, walker@wuchem.wustl.edu. An up-to-date list of seminars is available on the Chemistry Department’s seminar page.