ISOTOPICS
The Cleveland Section of the American Chemical Society
Volume 89
Issue 3
Mar 2013
March Meeting Notice
On Deck:
April 17, 2013
Education Night and Awards
Ceremony
Location:
GrafTech, Parma
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Dolan Science Center, John Carroll University
2:00 pm
3-5 pm
5:15 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
Registration
Parallel Sessions
Plenary Speaker (TBD)
Social Time and Dinner
Award Ceremony (while dinner continues)
Keynote Speaker and Presentation Topic: To Be Determined
Cleveland ACS Officers
Chair:
Don Jaworske
NASA Glenn Research Center
216-433-2312
Donald.A.Jaworske@nasa.gov
Chair-Elect:
Michael J. Kenney
Case Western Reserve Univ.
216-368-3736
mjk56@case.edu
Treasurer:
John Moran
Department of Science and
Mathematics
Phone: 216-373-6380
jmoran@ndc.edu
Secretary:
Anna Cronin
cronina@glsc.org
Cleveland Section Web Site:
http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences
/dept/cleveland_acs/
DINNER RESERVATIONS REQUIRED:
Please RSVP by contacting Mark Waner, Meeting in Miniature Program
Chair, by email at mwaner@jcu.edu (preferred) or by phone at (216) 3974791 by Friday March 8 at noon with your name, total number of guests
in your party, and phone number. Checks made out to "Cleveland ACS" are
greatly appreciated; cash otherwise. $20 for members and guests, $10 for
retirees or unemployed, $5 for students. Dinner will include Chicken
Parmesan, Caesar Salad, Broccoli with Lemon Zest, Fresh Garlic Bread,
Rotini Marinara, Biscotti, and Seasonal Fruit.
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Directions to John Carroll University
From I-271: Take I-271 to Exit 32 (Cedar/
Brainard Roads). Follow Cedar Road west for 2.5
miles to South Belvoir Blvd. Turn left onto South
Belvoir and travel south 0.7 miles. The entrance
to campus will be on your right after crossing
Washington Blvd. The Dolan Science Center is
highlighted on the map above. The campus can be
accessed off 480 by the Warrensville center road
exit and that the campus is just off the Fairmount
circle on the map.
For directions from other locations, please see:
www.jcu.edu/map.htm. For the campus map, see:
http://www.jcu.edu/pubaff/ABOUTJCU/campus_
map.htm.
2013 Chemistry Olympiad
American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
It is the responsibility of the Cleveland section to
nominate students to take the USNCO National
Examination. In order to identify these students,
a preliminary, local Chemistry Olympiad will be
conducted. The local exam will be administered
at Cleveland State University on Saturday March
16. More than 100 students from local high
schools are expected to compete. Based on the
results from the local competition, the top eleven
students, with a maximum of two from the same
school, will have the privilege of taking the
National Chemistry Olympiad Examination and
Practical. The National Exam is an-all day event
that includes two exams and a lab practical. The
national exam will be administered on Friday,
April 12, 2013 at Cleveland State University.
Following the National Exam and Practical,
twenty students from the U.S. will be selected to
attend a two-week training camp at the U.S. Air
Force Academy to prepare for the international
competition. Based on performance at the camp,
four students will be selected to represent the
United States in the 45th Chemistry Olympiad in
Moscow, Russia, July 15 - 24, 2013.
Cindy Zhao from Brecksville-Broadview
High School and Stephen Tang from Solon
High School were 2 of the twenty students
selected nationally to attend the two-week
training camp at the U.S. Air Force Academy
in last year’s competition.
Anne O’Connor, Ph.D.
ACS Chemistry Olympiad Coordinator
Email: a.oconnor@csuohio.edu
Website: http://www.pathwaystochemistry
.com/chemistry-olympiad/
By Anne O’Connor
We are pleased to announce that the Cleveland
Section of The American Chemical Society will
be participating in the 2013 U.S. National
Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO).
The primary
goals of this program are to stimulate interest and
achievement in chemistry among high school
students and to provide recognition of outstanding
young chemistry students, teachers, and schools.
Selected from ACS Discoveries!
First mobile app for green chemistry fosters
sustainable manufacturing of medicines
ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
Mention mobile applications, or mobile apps, and
people think of games, email, news, weather,
productivity and other software for Apple,
Android and other smart phones and tablet
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computers. But an app with broader impact — the
first mobile application to foster wider use of the
environmentally
friendly
and
sustainable
principles of green chemistry — is the topic of a
report in the American Chemical Society’s new
journal, ACS Sustainable Chemistry &
Engineering.
Sean Ekins, Alex M. Clark and Antony Williams
point out that the companies that manufacture
medicines, electronics components and hundreds
of other consumer products have a commitment to
work in a sustainable fashion without damaging
the environment. That’s the heart of ―green
chemistry,‖ often defined as ―the utilization of a
set of principles that reduces or eliminates the use
or generation of hazardous substances in the
design, manufacture and application of chemical
products.‖
Their article describes a guide on doing so for
solvents, key ingredients in processes for making
medicines. Some traditional processes generate
25-100 times more waste than the chemical they
are making (e.g., pharmaceuticals). The solvents
guide was developed by the ACS Green
Chemistry Institute’s Pharmaceutical Roundtable,
a group of 14 pharmaceutical companies, and the
Green Solvents mobile app version of the guide
for Apple devices covers 60 different solvents.
Nominations for the 2013 Yeager
Award are now being accepted.
The Ernest B. Yeager Award was established for the
purpose of encouraging interest at the undergraduate
level in spectroscopy and analytical chemistry. It is
presented annually to an outstanding undergraduate
student attending a college or university in Northern
Ohio or Northwestern Pennsylvania who has
demonstrated an interest in some aspect of
spectroscopy.
The award consists of a certificate, $300 cash, and a
one year complementary membership in the Society
for Applied Spectroscopy. The award is sponsored
jointly by the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS)
and the Analytical Topics group of the American
Chemical Society (ACS).
American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
The presentation of the Yeager Award will be made at
the at the 57th Annual May Conference on
Spectroscopy and Analytical Chemistry, to be held at
the Dolan Science Center at John Carroll University
on Wednesday, May 15, 2013. The award recipient
will be required to present a 20 minute synopsis of
his/her work and will be recognized at the evening
banquet.
Letters of nomination, supporting materials and any
questions should be addressed to:
Douglas E. Rohde
440-350-5950
Lake County Crime Laboratory
drohde@lakecountyohio.gov
235 Fairgrounds Road
Painesville, OH 44077
and must arrive no later than March 25, 2013 at which
time the nomination documents will be forwarded to
the Yeager Award judging panel.
Electronic
submissions are encouraged.
You Know You Want to…
By Kat Wollyung
… meet with friends for dinner.
… discuss the things you like about your work.
… make a positive impact on a child.
… encourage college students to succeed.
… inspire others around you.
You can do all of these things by volunteering in
the American Chemical Society – starting at your
local section. Join a committee with interests
similar to your own, or be part of the bigger
picture by running for an office in the Executive
Committee.
What do you find interesting? Where would you
like to help? Descriptions of all Committees can
be found on our website in our By-Laws and Job
Manual.
http://www.csuohio.edu/sciences/dept/cleveland_a
cs/documents.htm
In particular at this time, the ACS Cleveland
Section is accepting nominations (or selfnominations) of potential candidates to run in
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American Chemical Society Cleveland Section
elections the following open positions in the
Executive Committee in 2014:
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Chair-Elect
Secretary
Councilor
Alternate Councilor
Director
Trustee
acs.ncw.kat@gmail.com
131 Millwood Ave., Munroe Falls, OH 44262
330-686-0056
Submitted by Kat Wollyung,
Cleveland ACS section, Past Chair 2013
Please send you nominations or self-nomination
by mail, phone, or email (preferred) to:
Kat Wollyung
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