Northeastern Section of the ACS
Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors
Holiday Inn, Brookline MA
Jan 16 th , 2014
Members and guests in Attendance: Liming Shao, Doris Lewis, Ruth Tanner,
Jack Driscoll, Myke Simon, Jim Piper, Emily Lewis, Katherine Lee, Daniel
Eustace, Michael Filosa, James Phillips, Michaeline Chen, Robert Lichter,
Catherine Costello, Dan Elbaum, Mary Shultz, David Harris, Malena Ohl, Mark
Tebbe, Patrick M. Gordon, Michael E. Strem
The meeting was called to order at 4:15 pm with Liming Shao as the Chair.
The minutes from January 2013 were approved as presented.
Chair: L. Shao
 It was a great honor to have served as the Chair of NESACS. I would like to thank all the Board members, the members of Executive Committee,
Secretary Michael Singer, for their supports and valuable advices. Special thanks go to immediate Past-Chair Ruth Tanner for being always available for consultation and encouragement. I enjoyed the work with all of the committee
Chairs and their members. Their dedication and contributions made our
Section so unique and outstanding.
 The Section needs to continue to our important long-term objects identified in
2013. Continue to focus on the promotion of NESACS to get more members involved with the Section’s activities, Continue to enhance the fund raising activities to support more international exchange activities and the Section’s various events.
 My best wishes to the NESACS and to incoming Chair, Cathy Costello.
Chair Elect: C. Costello
 The chair elect thanked all who attended monthly meetings in the past year and supported her in her role as program chair.
Past-Chair: R. Tanner
Ruth Tanner called the attention of the Board to the importance of the annual reports of the committee chairs for use in the annual report of the Section. She voiced her appreciation to all who have supported her in her past three years as program chair, chair, and past chair.
Written report:
 The immediate concerns for the Past Chair are to chair the Nominations
Committee, to write the Section ’s Annual Report for the ACS, and to assist the incoming Chair and the incoming Chair-Elect. Throughout the year, the
Past Chair assists the various committees where needed.
 The Nominating Committee has an immediate January deadline for its slate of nominees. The Nominating Committee began meeting in October 2013 and submitted the slate of nominees in January 2014 for the 2014 NESACS election. The Committee was active throughout the year by assisting with the
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election procedures, and by making recommendations for Board positions when necessary. (See Nominations Committee Annual Report below.)
 The annual ACS report has an early February deadline. The Annual Report for the ACS was written, in large part, based on the annual reports from the
Section’s Committees. The 2012 annual committee reports are on the
NESACS website at http://nesacs.org/about_annual_report.html
. Based on the annual report to the ACS, the Section received five ChemLuminary nominations: Outstanding High School Student Program Award, Outstanding
Continuing Public Relations Program of a Local Section, Local Section
Partnership Award, Outstanding Collaboration Between a Local Section and a
Division, and Outstanding Performance by a Local Section. The Section received a ChemLuminary Award for the collaboration between a Local
Section and a Division. (See ChemLuminary Report at http://nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Nov13.pdf
.
 During my year as Chair in 2012, the Board identified four areas as long term initiatives at the Long Range Planning meeting in June of that year. As past chair, I continued to assist with and to be involved with the planning and development of these initiatives. (See Long Range Planning Annual Report below.)
Secretary: M. Singer
 The Secretary continues to support and document activities within the
Northeastern Section. 2013 saw an increase in the use of written reports prior to the Board meeting. By having written reports from committees, long term documentation of committee activities has been enhanced.
 I was able to secure a temporary home for the NESACS Archives at Sigma-
Aldrich in Natick MA. This is a temporary storage solution. The archivist needs to continue efforts for the identification of a permanent home for the
Archives. Preliminary discussions with Salem State University began in
December 2013.
 The Administrative Secretary continues to be a valuable resource for
NESACS leadership and its membership. To highlight a few 2013 accomplishments: o Routine use of Constant Contact to stay in communication with the entire NESACS membership roster (nearly 7,000 e-mail addresses) o Routine use of PayPal for event registration and prepayment of dinner expenses.
 Advanced registration has enabled name tags with affiliations to be printed prior to an event.
 Streamlined the on-site sign-in process at section events.
 This has resulted in fewer cancellations and no shows for section events. o Support Connections to Chemistry
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Preparation of all materials for distribution to attendees.
 On-site registration and interaction with local staff to ensure smooth running of the day’s events. o Volunteered personal time at NCW at Museum of Science staffing volunteer registration desk.
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Treasurer: J. Piper
 See Treasurer’s report appended at the end of these minutes. The 2013 budget report of the Treasurer was unanimously approved by the Board.
Archivist: T. Frigo
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Committee Members: Ken Mattes, Michael Singer
 Activities Summary:
 March 2013 – Notified by Regis College that they would no longer be able to house the ACS archives because the library was being renovated. This was not entirely unexpected because the section was notified in 2011 that renovations at Regis would be occurring, although no timing of events was provided.
 May 2013 – Archives were transferred to SAFC in Natick as a temporary storage place. Michael Singer, an employee with SAFC, arranged the storage under the assumption that the storage would be temporary.
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October 2013
– Initiated contact with the Salem State University library as a possible permanent storage location. This is a new library with a large amount of space. Susan Edwards, the Salem State archivist indicated that the library is looking to take on new collections.
 December 2013 – Meeting with Susan Edwards at SAFC with Michael Singer,
Tim Frigo, and Ken Mattes to show her the archives and discuss the transfer of the archives. Minutes of the meeting are included. Discussion at the
NESACS board meeting indicated a favorable response, with further investigation of the proposed arrangement approved.
Archivist Meeting Minutes: 09Dec2013
Location: SAFC-Natck MA
Attending: Michael Singer-ACS Secretary, Kenneth Mattes-ACS Board Member, Susan
Edwards-Salem State University Archivist, Timothy B Frigo-Archivist, Northeastern
Section
On 09Dec13, Michael Singer, Tim Frigo, and Ken Mattes met with Susan M. Edwards,
University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian at Salem State University to discuss the new library facility at Salem State as a possible home for the Northeastern Section
ACS archive collection. We discussed the great value of the archives and our desire to properly store and maintain the collections.
Ms. Edwards was generally very excited about the possibility. The library is brand new, and has space for new archival collections. Besides providing appropriate archival solutions for paper, photographic and electronic formats, the library has archive tables for projects, digitizing equipment, and open access to the public under the normally restricted archive access procedures. She was also very knowledgeable about archiving materials in general. Her interest in the archive materials is that Salem State has begun a project of documenting a history of education. Archiving the ACS documents would be a natural extension of this.
As part of a Northeastern section archiving project, the following points came up:
 The current electronic format for archive materials is 600 dpi TIF format.
Access to these documents would be provided through Adobe A format.
 The physical collection would be donated to Salem State University.
 The materials would be stored in a dry, climate controlled, public facility at no overhead cost to ACS.
 Any assigned (copyrighted) material rights would be retained by the section.
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 The startup cost of $5000 would be spread over 3 years, with a $1000/year maintenance fee after the 3year period.
 Startup fee would include archival boxes/folders materials, and an external hard drive for backup storage.
 The library would then provide electronic backup of documents and appropriate organization of the materials. Any oversight by the section would be welcome during these activities.
 All materials would be stored on an external drive, with access through a
Journal module-digital commons.
 The archivist at Salem State would also be willing to provide research on topics defined by the section.
Overall, it was a very positive meeting. The questions to the board are:
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Should the Archive committee continue pursuing Salem State University
Library?
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Would the section be willing to commit to the requested amounts?
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Michael Singer said he would contact the Chemistry dept. at Salem State to make them aware of our plans, and to see how they would like to get involved
(summer work for a chemistry student?).
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Additionally, Michael said he would check on any legal issues pertaining to donating the materials to the library.
Trustees: M. Strem
 See Trustee’s report appended at the end of this report. The 2013 formal report of the Trustees will be submitted for review and approved in February as is customary.
Councilors:
M. Shultz
 Activities for 2013 fall into two categories: those associated with the National
Meetings and those ass ociated with the Women’s Chemist Committee.
 At both national meetings, I attended the Council meeting and presented oral papers at technical sessions. At the spring meeting, I delivered an invited address on hydrogen-bonding at the ice surface in conjunction with an award presented to Heather Allen from Ohio State, and presented a contributed talk at the colloid and surface symposium concerning activating molecular oxygen in photo-oxidation. At the fall meeting, I gave an invited oral presentation on hydrogen bonding. The fall meeting had two additional activities. (1) Attended the presentation by Alan Alda that challenged us all to present our science in a manner that conveys what it is that excites us about science – why the public should also be excited by it. (2) Was inducted as an ACS Fellow
– thank you to the Northeastern section for sponsoring the nomination.
 The major WCC activity that I was involved in is chairing the Rising Stars
Award Task Force. The task force is charged with developing the Rising Star selection process, award ceremony program, and with selecting the annual winners. The primary purpose of the Award is to encourage “mid-career” women in the chemical sciences. It does this by recognizing the outstanding contributions of women in the multiple sectors that employ chemists: academic, industrial, government, and non-profit. Ten Stars are selected each year. This year I also chaired the symposium in honor of the awardees held at the Spring Meeting. In January, I was reappointed as an associate member of the WCC.
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Standing Committees
Budget Committee: J. Piper
 No written report
Awards: D. Phillips
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Philip L. Levins Memorial Prize o The Philip L. Levins Memorial Prize is awarded each year to a graduate student engaged in a research project involving some aspect of organic analytical chemistry. The 2013 recipient, Shuai Nie from
Tufts University was recognized at the Education Night Awards on May
10, 2013 (September, 2013 Nucleus). Shuai’s research advisor is Dr.
David Walt. The award recipient is selected from the nominations
 submitted to NESACS.
Henry A. Hill Award o The award is presented annually to a member of NESACS for meritorious service to the Section and for contributions to the profession of chemistry. Dr. Arthur Obermayer received the 2013
NESACS Henry A. Hill Award on Thursday, October 10, 2013 at
NESACS monthly meeting. Dr. Obermayer’s biographical sketch was in the October 2013 Nucleus issue and his award address is in the
January 2014 Nucleus edition. o Henry A. Hill Award Committee: Joseph Billo, Steve Lantos, Doris
Lewis, Donald Rickter, Michael Singer, Ruth Tanner, Dorothy Phillips
(Chair)
 Arno Heyn Memorial Book Prize o The prize is awarded annually to a person or persons deemed to have made the most important contribution(s) to publications of the
Northeastern Section. Dr. Mindy Levine was the 2013 recipient of the
Arno Heyn Memorial Book Prize; the award was presented at the
November 14, 2013 NESACS monthly meeting. The selection committee is chaired by the Chair of the Board of Publications.
 ACS Fellows Class of 2013 o Three NESACS members were honored as ACS Fellows, Class of
2013; Drs Mary Jane Shultz, Tufts University, Timothy Swager, MIT and Gerald Wogan, MIT were recognized during the ceremony and reception held at the ACS national meeting in Indianapolis, IN on
September 9, 2013 (Nucleus, September 2013).
 Northeast Regional ACS Award to NESAC Member o Dr. Doris I. Lewis is the recipient of the E. Ann Nalley Regional Award for Volunteer Service to ACS. The award was presented at the
Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) banquet in New Haven, CT on
Friday, October 25, 2013.
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The American Chemical Society 2013 Elections o Dr. Dorothy J. Phillips, NESACS Councilor, was elected to the position of Director-at-Large on the American Chemical Society Board of
Directors. She joins NESACS member, Dr. Thomas Gilbert, Director
District 1, on the ACS Board.
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 2013 NESACS 50-and 60-Year Members Recognized o The 50 and 60 year members were recognized at the October 10,
2013 NESACS monthly meeting. Three members of the 60-year class,
Robert Stolow, Boris Levy and Robert Hong, were able to attend. The list of honorees is given below from the October 2013 Nucleus.
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 50-Year Members  60-Year Members
 Alan Phipps
 Pio Angelini
 Robert Mark
 Bernard Siegal
 Joseph Lima
 William Cooper
 David Evans
 Dennis Cooper
 Lawrence Guilbault
 John Hobbs
 Richard Snellgrove
 Harold Mc Kone
 Daniel Wang
 John Wishnok
 Eugene Revelas
 Renata Cathou
 Thomas Messina
 Richard Siegel
 Gregory Leonardos
 Patricia Worden
 Oliver Zafiriou
 Ronald Lawler
 Gordon Gribble
 James Boyack
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 Anthony Wilde
 Boris Levy
 Robert Hong
 Ronald Moses
 Robert Stolow
 Richard Putney
 Edgar Gutoff
 Paul De Meo
 William Youngquist
 Donald Albert
 Michael Essex
 George Fountas
 John Como
 David Curran
 John Peterson
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Local Arrangements: M. Burgess
 No written report
Chemical Education: M. Schwartz
Education Committee Members
Marietta Schwartz, Chair
Stephen Lantos
Undergraduate Programs
High School Subcommittee Chair
Morton Hoffman Professor Emeritus of Chemistry,
Boston University
Ruth Tanner University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Education Committee supports and promotes academic program activities that showcase chemical education and young chemists at both the high school and college/university levels. Through announcements at the monthly meetings of the Section, in The Nucleus , and via mailings and email, information is provided to the membership in order to foster a greater interest in chemical
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education and to develop a responsible professional outlook toward chemistry among young scientists.
The Chair of the Education Committee, Marietta Schwartz, is a chemistry faculty member at the University of Massachusetts Boston. The Chair of the High
School Subcommittee, Stephen Lantos, is a chemistry faculty member at
Brookline (MA) High School.
James Flack Norris/Theodore William Richards Undergraduate Summer
Research Scholarships. (Edwin Jahngen, University of Massachusetts
Lowell, Chair).
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) established the James Flack Norris and Theodore William Richards
Undergraduate Summer Scholarships to honor the memories of Professors
Norris and Richards by promoting research interactions between undergraduate students and faculty. Research awards of $3500 were given for the summer of
2012. The student stipend is $3000 for a minimum commitment of ten weeks of full-time research work. The remaining $500 of the award goes to the research advisor to use on supplies, travel, and other items relevant to the student project.
The 2013 scholarships were awarded to:
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Sean Dwyer (Advisor, Deno Del Sesto), Stonehill College
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Claire Harmange (Advisor, Andrew Myers), Harvard University
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Kyle Murphy (Advisor, Edward Brush), Bridgewater State University
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Amanda Stubbs (Advisor, David Manke), UMass Dartmouth
Award winners were required to submit a report of their summer projects by
November 2013 for publication in The Nucleus . They are also required to participate in the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in April 2014.
The scholarships were publicized through The Nucleus, the NESACS Web site, and mailings of applications and descriptive material to the chairs of the
Departments of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Chemical Engineering at colleges and universities in the Section. Applications included student transcripts, descriptions of the proposed research, and two letters of recommendation. The awards enabled the students to spend the summer of 2013 engaged in research at their home institutions.
Thirteenth Undergraduate Symposium on Sustainability and the
Environment.
Cosponsored by the Education Committee of the
Northeastern Section ACS et al., and Coordinated by Edward Brush et al from Bridgewater (MA) State College (BSC).
On Saturday, December 7, 2013, the 12th Annual Undergraduate Symposium on
Sustainability and the Environment was held in the Conant Science and Math
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Center at Bridgewater State University. The Symposium ran from 9:30 AM to
2:30 PM and featured a record 60 poster presentations from undergraduate students, and over 120 attendees representing public and private colleges, universities, and community colleges from across New England. The
Symposium was officially opened by Dr. Arthur Goldstein, Dean of the Bartlett
College of Science and Mathematics. Dr. Goldstein praised the students for their work confronting urgent environmental issues, and fashioning acceptable and effective solutions. He congratulated the students on their sophisticated and intelligent work, and also expressed his thanks to the many faculty mentors in attendance for providing guidance and support.
The formal program began at 9:30 AM with a presentation by Dr. Peter Saundry,
Executive Director of the National Council for Science and the Environment
(NCSE), in Washington, DC. Dr. Saundry’s talk was entitled, “Trends in
Environmental and Sustainability Education in Higher Education”. Dr. Saundry’s presentation was very well received, and elicited a lengthy and energetic discussion on numerous topics ranging from sustainability education, to the funding climate for environmental education and research.
The poster sessions began immediately following the presentation, running from
10:45 – 2:20. Attendees were treated to a continental breakfast and deli platter for lunch.
SPONSORS
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Bridgewater State University
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Office of Undergraduate Research
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Center for Sustainability
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Project GreenLab
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Center for the Advancement of STEM Education
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Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
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CONNECT Southeastern Massachusetts
The Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference. Sponsored by the
Education Committee of the Northeastern Section ACS and the Younger
Chemists Committee of the Northeastern Section
This year’s event was cancelled due to the events following the Boston Marathon tragic bombings and was not able to be rescheduled.
Grants -in -Aid to Undergraduates
The Education Committee awarded Grants-in-Aid of $350 to four undergraduates at the colleges and universities within the Northeastern Section to enable the students to attend the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana to present a paper at the Undergraduate Research Poster Session in the Division of
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Chemical Education. Matching funds have been committed by the institution to support the student’s travel. The recipients were also required to participate in the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) in May 2013.
The awardees, research supervisors, and the titles of the papers are as follows:

Lauren Gagnon, Emmanuel College (Prof. Faina Ryvkin), Size
Controlled Synthesis of Quantum Dots for Biological and Chemical
Detection .
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Stephanie Murray, Stonehill College (Prof. Leon Tilley), Improved
Preparation of 4-acetylamine-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1oxoammonium tetrafluoroborate and Exploration of Use for
Dehydrogenation of Ketones.
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Casey Brodsky, Boston College (Prof. Frank Tsung), Pd@Rh Core-
Shell Nanostructures for Electrochemical Energy Storage.
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Bria Pelletier, Gordon College (Prof. Joel Boyd), The Determination of the Optimal Crosslink Density for the Durability of Acrylic-Titania
Composite Photocatalytic Support Materials.
Applications for the travel stipend are accepted from students majoring in chemistry, biochemistry, chemical engineering, or molecular biology who are in good standing with at least junior status, and are currently engaged in undergraduate research. Abstracts for the Undergraduate Research Poster
Session were required to be submitted by electronic transmission to the ACS
National Headquarters by October 31, 2012 (11:59 pm EST).
Connections To Chemistry (Marietta Schwartz, Chair)
Program Conference Committee

Marietta Schwartz, Chair, Education Committee, NESACS; University of
Massachusetts Boston

Ruth Tanner, Chair, NESACS; University of Massachusetts Lowell

Mort Hoffman, Board of Directors, NESACS; Professor Emeritus, Boston
University

Steve Lantos, Chair, High School Education Committee, NESACS;
Chemistry Faculty, Brookline (MA) High School
Planning and Program Associates
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Christine Jaworek-Lopes, Chair, National Chemistry Week, NESACS;
Emmanuel College
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Peter Nassiff, Head, Science Division, Burlington High School
Material Assistance
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Anna Singer, Secretary, NESACS
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Terri Lewandowski, Manager, Printing & Distribution, ACS Publications, for Journal of Chemical Education

Marta Gmurczyk, ACS Office of Society Services, for ChemMatters

Robin Giroux, Managing Editor, Chemical & Engineering News
Publicity Support
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New England Association of Chemistry Teachers (NEACT)
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Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS)
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The Nucleus (NESACS)
On Wednesday, October 16th, NESACS sponsored Connections to Chemistry , a unique program to connect high school chemistry teachers to the educational resources of the ACS and to the members of the Northeastern Section. This is the fourteenth year for the program. Hosted by Burlington High School
(Burlington, MA), the program drew over 40 teachers from high schools across
New England.
The participants were welcomed by Marietta Schwartz, Connections Program
Chair and Chair of the NESACS Education Committee, and by Peter Nassiff,
Head of the Science Department at Burlington High School.
Each registrant participated in two of four different workshops which included a
National Chemistr y Week themed workshop on “Artificial Photosynthesis: A
Workshop on Solar Cell Design” (given by Dr. Jonathan Rochford, UMass
Boston), a presentation on “Hands-on Climate Change Science for Your
Classroom” (given by Dr. Jerry A. Bell from the American Chemical Society), another National Chemistry Week themed workshop on “Electric Vehicle
Powered by Renewable Energy” (offered by Dr. Deyang Qu, UMass Boston) and a workshop on “Inquiring Minds Want to Know: Recent Lab Practicals from the
US National Chemistry
Olympiad” (given by Mr. Steven Lantos, Brookline High
School).
Following the workshops and dinner (highlighted by the traditional baked apples with caramel sauce), the keynote address was given by Dr. Bell. His talk, entitled
“Energy: Now and Forever?” gave an overview of the ACS Climate Toolkit and the basics of global climate change, why we should be informed on it, and what we can do to make sure that there is, in fact, a “Forever”. His address was followed by the traditional raffle of American Chemical Society items.
To conclude the program, participants were given a certificate awarding professional development credits and a year’s subscription to ChemMatters , an award –winning magazine for high school chemistry, published by the ACS.
Participants also received copies of the Journal of Chemical Education , Chemical
& Engineering News , and The Nucleus .
ACS SCHOLARS PROGRAM
This is the thirteenth year for the involvement of the NESACS in the ACS
Scholars Program. NESACS directly sponsors one ACS Scholar: Elsy Naveo
(Suffolk University). In the 2013-2014 academic year, 27 Scholars were/are studying within NESACS:
First Name Last Name College
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Babajide
Orlando
Niya
Laura
Kristina
Kristopher
Jenifer
Kevin
Maxcelline
Kayla
Nathan
Courtney
Alejandro
Akinronbi
Arevalo
Avery
Bancroft
Bennett
Brown
Brown
Erazo
Happi
Harris
Hernandez
Johnson
Krauskopf
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Wellesley College
Northeastern University
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Massachusetts Boston
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Northeastern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aisha
Julia
Manuel
Drisana
Alyssa
Elsy
Olumakinde
Michele
Lee
Maxwell
Morone
Mosaphir
Napier
Naveo
Ogunnaike
Pacheco
Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Suffolk University
Harvard University
Northeastern University
Brianna
Jacqueline
Erick
Jacqueline
Arica
Randolph
Salas
Sanchez
Thompson
Wyche
Boston University
Regis College
Northeastern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniela Zuniga Sacks Massachusetts Institute of Technology
In continuing efforts to build connections with the ACS Scholars in the NESACS area, all of these Scholars are contacted by e-mail monthly from September to
May, and informed of NESACS activities of interest to undergraduates. In particular, they were invited to attend the monthly meetings of the Section, and to be its guests at the social hours and dinners that preceded the invited speakers.
The additional advantages are for the Scholars to meet each other and to encourage them to think about ways for the Section to help them achieve their academic and career goals. They also were put on the mailing list to receive The
Nucleus .
National Recognition for NESACS Student Chapters
The ACS Committee on Education has selected the following student chapters in the Northeastern Section to receive special recognition for the programs and activities described in their 2012-2013 reports:
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Outstanding
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Gordon College, Wenham, MA; Justin Andrews and Sarah McCarron, chapter co-presidents; Prof. Joel Boyd, faculty advisor.

Northeastern University, Boston, MA; Christine Dunne and Elise Miner, chapter co-presidents; Prof. Kathleen Cameron, faculty advisor.
Commendable Recognition

Simmons College, Boston, MA; Veronica Nowakowski and Kristin
Mcdonough, chapter co-presidents; Prof. Changqing Chen, faculty advisor.
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Suffolk University, Boston, MA; Gianna Mancuso and Elsy Naveo, chapter co-presidents; Prof. Doris Lewis and Prof. Andrew Dutton, faculty advisors.
Honorable Mention
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Stonehill College, Easton, MA; Samantha Sweeney and Stephanie
Murray, chapter co-presidents; Profs. Cheryl Schnitzer and Marilena Hall, faculty advisors.
Student involvement in applying green chemistry principles and practices is essential to the integration of environmentally benign technologies in academia and industry. The ACS Green Chemistry Institute recognizes ACS student chapters that have engaged in at least three green chemistry activities during the academic year. Listed below are the 2012-2013 Green Chemistry Award recipients located within the Northeastern Section.

Gordon College, Wenham, MA
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Northeastern University, Boston, MA
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Suffolk University, Boston, MA
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University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
All chapters receiving special recognition will be honored at the 247th ACS
National Chemistry Meeting in Dallas, TX, on Sunday, March 16, 2014.
(All information and award descriptions from “inChemistry” magazine,
November/December 2013 issue.)
YCC/NESACS –JCF/GDCh German Exchange (Michael Strem, Strem
Chemicals, and Heidi Teng, Sigma-Aldrich, Co-Chairs; Ruth Tanner,
Morton Hoffman, Leland Johnson, John Podobinski, Jackie O’Neil, Alex
Taylor, Andrew Scholte, Patrick Gordon, and Sapna Sharma).
From October 19-26, 2013, the YCC and NESACS hosted the 13th annual
German exchange in Boston. The German cohort spent their first few days in
Boston learning about the history, universities, and industry in the area. The group then continued on to NERM where they presented their own work and got to experience an American conference first-hand. The planning allowed the students to network with both younger chemists and established professionals in the area.
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This year the German exchange cohort travelled from Germany to Boston and
New Haven. The group consisted of 12 young chemists from across Germany.
The group was also accompanied by two delegates from Germany: Prof. Alfred
Flint, University of Rostock, and Elisabeth Kapatsina, GDCh.
The weeklong visit was packed with activities. Upon arrival in Boston on
Saturday, the group was treated to a welcome reception at Maggiano’s restaurant in the North End. Members of previous German exchanges living in
Boston joined the group, as well as NESACS and YCC representatives. This social event not only kicked off the start to a great week, but some new friendships as well. Over the next four days, the group experienced the many facets of Boston, going on historical, university, and company tours. On Sunday, the group took a trip on the Freedom Trail, spent some time around Faneuil Hall, and finished the afternoon with a Super Duck Tour. Monday was filled with university visits at MIT and Harvard, which were followed by dinner and a mixer with the German Scholars Group at John Harvard’s. Through Tuesday and
Wednesday, the team visited several local companies, including Genzyme,
Moderna Therapeutics, and A123 Systems. These events gave the group the chance to compare American institutions to their native German ones and allowed them to form meaningful relationships by sharing cultural differences with their new acquaintances in the US.
After their visit to A123 Systems, the cohort made their way to NERM for the rest of their stay. The group successfully gave a series of very exciting technical presentations, as well as excellent posters during the technical sessions. The group also participated in the International Chemistry Connections Symposium hosted by the NSYCC and NESACS and with remarks from ACS President Dr.
Marinda Wu. The symposium drew a large crowd of chemists of varied ages and backgrounds and inspired a good amount of questions from the attendees.
While at NERM, the group had several opportunities for networking events. They first started with a traditional New Haven Neapolitan pizza dinner at
Pepe’s
Pizzeria with the local ACS student chapter from the University of New Haven.
Several social events were also hosted at NERM and included a social mixer, dinner with Prof. Donna Nelson, the scientific advisor from “Breaking Bad”, and a farewell/awards dinner with Dr. Marinda Wu. Details on the Exchange were published in December 2013’s The Nucleus .
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High School Subcommittee
Stephen Lantos, Committee Chair
Avery A. Ashdown High School Chemistry Examination Contest
(Committee: Steve Lantos, Chair; Peter Nassiff
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The High School Committee continues to oversee the two competitive chemistry examinations offered to section secondary students: The Avery Ashdown Exam
(43rd year) and the United States National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO, 29th year). Last year for the Ashdown Exam we had a total of 142 students participate from 29 area schools at Simmons College the first Saturday in April, 2013. This was a fine showing of students to sit for a chemistry exam on a sunny springtime
Saturday morning, with a significant increase in the numbers attending from NH schools (public and private). We hope this number continues to increase!
The first place winner received the Simmons College Award of $500 from the
Chemistry Department at Simmons College (MA). This award was presented by a representative of their Chemistry Department, Dr. Michael Berger. For the additional awards, $250 is given for the second place, $100 for the third place,
$75 for the fourth place, and $50 for the fifth place. In the event of ties, these amounts are divided among the tied scorers.
United States National Chemistry Olympiad Team (Section Coordinator:
Steve Lantos)
For the USNCO, the ACS offered the Northeastern Section 25 seats for this annual nation exam. We had 23 students participate ranging from ages 14-18.
Unfortunately, we did not have a student this year selected to attend the twoweek study camp in Colorado Springs to prepare for the International Chemistry
Olympiad (IChO), but hope for representation from NESACS at this level of competition this upcoming year. We look forward to this year's strong participation and competition in the high school chemistry examinations!
Lyman C. Newell Grants (In conjunction with the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers)
The Lyman C. Newell Grants provide financial assistance to high school teachers in the geographical area of the Northeastern Section of the ACS to subsidize the cost of attending the annual summer conference sponsored by New England
Association of Chemistry Teachers (NEACT). The grants are administered by the Newell Grants Committee. The Committee administers the grant process starting with the publicity to the awarding of the grants. The Committee coordinates its activities with the Chair of the Education Committee and in consultation with the President of NEACT. One grant was awarded this year.

Rick Linden of RHAM High School (Regional Hebron, Andover, and
Marlborough) regional high school in Hebron , CT
The Lyman C. Newell Grants commemorate a former chair of the Northeastern
Section who was a distinguished chemist, teacher, and historian of chemistry.
For many years he was chair of the Chemistry Department at Boston University.
Lyman Newell served as the first president of NEACT from 1889 to 1900 and expressed a continuing interest in training chemistry students throughout his long career. His efforts are celebrated by the grants that bear his name.
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Aula Laudis Society: Harvey Gendreau, Committee Chair
The Aula Laudis Society recognizes outstanding High School Chemistry
Teachers from within the Section. The teachers who were chosen to be honored by the Society are:
Dr. Ann Wolf Plymouth HS
Richard Boucher King Philip Regional HS
Dr. Alan Crosby Newton South HS
Dr. David Welty Fairhaven HS
Theodore William Richards Award (Steve Lantos, Chair with NESACS
Awards Committee)
The Theodore William Richards Award for Excellence in Teaching Secondary
School Chemistry is intended to honor a teacher in the Northeastern Section who, through innovation and dedication, has inspired potential chemists, has communicated chemistry to non-chemists, or has influenced other teachers of chemistry. The selected teacher is officially honored at the section’s May meeting
(“Education Night”) and receives both a $1,500 prize and a Certificate of
Recognition.
Ann Lambert King Philip Regional HS
Anyone, including a prospective awardee, may make a nomination. Colleagues, department heads, principals, students, and former students are urged to consider the criteria upon which the Section will base its selection and to submit the name of a deserving individual. The criteria for excellence correspond broadly to the effectiveness with which the teacher conveys the principles of chemistry to students and to the influence that the teacher has had on students and on other teachers.
This award is typically given annually to an outstanding teacher in the section who has shown lifelong dedication to the craft of chemistry education and has been an active contributor to the Section.
Board of Publications: M. Mahaney
 No written report
Nucleus Editor: M. Filosa
 The Nucleus published 10 issues in 2013. These issues totaled 176 pages.
Although substantial efforts were made to reduce expenses, a significant loss of advertising revenue led to the Nucleus exceeding its budget by a significant percentage. More severe cost cutting will need to be implement in 2014 as advertising revenue declines.

Finances:
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 The original budget for 2013 was reduced by the budget committee by $9700.
As a consequence of the reduction, expenses for the Nucleus were budgeted to be $72610. Actual total expenses were $70883. Unfortunately, advertising revenue was 36,042 vs a budgeted amount of $40,000. This loss of revenue resulted in the Nucleus exceeding budget by $2200. This trend in advertising revenue is likely to continue and puts more pressure on the Nucleus to substantially reduce expenses in 2014.
 Cost Cutting Measures:

The Nucleus editor has been consistently reducing the total number of pages printed to reduce expenses. However, at this point further reduction in pages is not very realistic without eliminating an issue. It is very likely that the
Nucleus will not print a summer issue in 2014. That should reduce expenses by approximately $7000 and take care of much of the deficit in 2014. o The Nucleus also stopped sending complimentary copies to the
Central Mass Section early in 2013. This resulted in a reduction in mailing of approximately 650 issues. Concurrently, the Board decided that the default option for receiving the Nucleus for new members of the section would be electronic delivery. If new members of the section wish to receive a paper copy, they will have to specifically ask for it. In
2014 the Nucleus will endeavor to expand the number of members who only receive the Nucleus electronically. o In 2014 we also intend to switch printers which will offer a small but significant monthly savings in printing the Nucleus and also promises to offer more timely delivery. More timely delivery will enhance the value of the Nucleus to its readers in 2014.

Nucleus Content in 2013: o The Nucleus content was very similar in 2013 to previous years. The
Nucleus predominantly promotes and reports on the activities of the section and its members. Feature articles were contributed by Ken
Drew of Flamma USA, Janice Meisenhelder-Heyn, Justin Foy of
Dartmouth College, Michael Filosa, Jack Driscoll, Jennifer Mclachlan,
Amy Tapper, Jayshree Ranga, Morton Z. Hoffman, Marietta Schwartz,
Christine Jaworek-Lopes and Arthur S. Obermayer. Michael Gelb and
Frantisek Turecek submitted a summary of their Esselen Award
Address for publication. o The Nucleus also published five Summer Scholar Reports in 2013.
These reports were written by Clair Harmange (Harvard University),
Benjamin R. Reiner (Boston College), Casey Brodsky (Boston
College), Patrick Kelleher (Stonehill College), and Morris E. Cohen
(Boston University). The Norris-Richards summer research awards and the reports they generate are always highlights in their particular issue and much valued by the editor. o Photographs were predominantly provided by Morton Z. Hoffman and
James Phillips. However a number of others contributed photos in
2013: Doris Lewis, Janice Meisenhelder-Heyn, Amy Tapper, and professional photographer Joel Laino who provided an exceptional set of photos from the Esselen Award Meeting.
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o The editor is most appreciative of all of these contributions. I also want to thank my primary proofreaders Mindy Levine, Vivian Walworth, Don
Rickter for their efforts as well as my secondary proofreaders who predominantly proofread the content they submitted. I also want to thank Nucleus Business Manager Karen Piper and the Board of
Publications, Vivian Walworth, Mary Mahaney and James Phillips for their help and support in publishing and mailing the Nucleus. o Lastly, I want to recognize Sheila Rodman for her many years of service to the Nucleus as Calendar Editor. Sheila moved out of the section to take a new job and as a consequence gave up her job as calendar editor. I am most appreciative of her many years of friendship and timely support.
Web Report: M. Levine
 No written report
Constitution & By-laws: C. Costello
 Cathy Costello reports that our C&B revisions still are with the national ACS
C&B committee where they have been since last February.
Membership: M. Chen
 A total of 855 new members joined Northeastern Section of American
Chemical Society during
 2013 and 855 “Welcome New Member” letters were sent. There were approximate 50 new members who attended our Local Section Monthly
Dinner Meetings during 2013.

Following are the dates, the new member lists were received from Karen
Piper (Business Manager of the Nucleus). New members also include transferred members from other section but new to Northeastern Section:
Month Date New Transferred Totals
January
January
3
25
Members
53
42
Members
19
12
72
54
February
March
March
May
May
1
26
6
18
59
48
62
31
30
21
20
17
89
69
82
48
July
August
August
8
1
25
September 27
October 28
November
39
28
35
26
52
20
25
26
41
34
59
53
61
67
86
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December
Total
6 67
543
48
312
115
855
 The purpose of the membership committee is to welcome new members, assist and support our members in need and refer them to the appropriate resources; monitor membership in our section and recommend chemists and chemical scientists for membership, especially students in colleges and universities.
 More new members are interested in employment opportunities and job information. Some are interested in the National Chemistry Week, others are interested in Government Relations, Hospitality and other functions. New members are integrated by assigning them specific functions.
 The committee worked closely with Mrs. Karen Piper, Business Manager of
The Nucleus
. She supplied the new members’ roster. Our Editor of
The
Nucleus , Dr. Michael Filosa, placed a short note in the monthly issues of The
Nucleus to invite the New Members to our monthly dinner meetings. Our section secretary, Anna Singer is in charge of reservations of the monthly dinner-meeting.
 A sample of the welcome new letter is appended to these minutes.
Nominations: R. Tanner
 The Nominations Committee was chaired by Ruth Tanner, the Immediate
Past Chair of the NESACS. The other members of the Committee were Doris
Lewis, Jenny Li, Mike Filosa, and Christine Jaworek-Lopes.

To begin the nominations process, the Committee first identified those Board positions with the term of office ending on 12/31/2013 as well as the Award
Committee offices which were ending on 6/30/2013. The offices that were up for election were the Chair-Elect, Trustee (1), Councilors (10), Director-at-
Large (2), Nomination Committee (2), Esselen Award Committee (2) and
Richards Award Committee (2).

The Committee requested nominations from the NESACS membership, contacted active committee members for their interest in continuing in their current roles or opting for others, encouraged new members to consider various openings, and encouraged self-nominations. The Committee met several times between October 2012 and January 2013 to determine the nominees for each position. The list of positions to be on the ballot was published in the November and December issues of THE NUCLEUS requesting nominees.
 The Committee submitted its list of nominees for all of the open positions to
THE NUCLEUS in January for its March 2013 issue. The Nominating
Committee presented the names of its nominees for the various offices at the
February Board of Directors meeting and also at the February monthly meeting of the Northeastern Section. The Committee did not receive any nominations from any group within the Section. In April 2013, the Nomination
Committee presented a slate of four members of the Board for election to the
2014 Nomination Committee, of which two were elected at this meeting.
 The Executive Secretary of the Board had the ballots prepared and sent out to the membership. The ballots were due no later than 11:59 PM on May30,
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2013. The ballots were counted early in June by the Committee plus one
NESACS member volunteer; the total number of ballots counted was 335. All candidates received a letter indicating the results of the office they were seeking before the announcement of the results was made. The results of the election were sent to the membership and published in the 2013 Summer issue of THE NUCLEUS.

Based on the 2013 results, vacancies were created in the Alternate
Councilors for the 2014-2016 term which required filling these positions with
Runner Ups from previous elections in accordance with Board policy:

Alternate Councilors: Mukund Chorghade and Sonja Strah-Pleynet ,1/1/2013-
12/31/2014; Ken Mattes,1/1/2013 – 21/31/2015
 In addition, a Councilor’s position was left vacant because of an election of a
NESACS Councilor, Dorothy Phillips, as Director-at-Large to the ACS
Governance Board. Her position was filled by an Alternate Councilor, Ken
Mattes, in accordance with Board Policy. However, there was no one in a runner-up position in any year to fill this vacated Alternate Councilor position.
The Nominating Committee recommended and the Board approved that the
Alternate Councilor position be left vacant at this time and put on the ballot for the 2014 NESACS election for the remainder of the vacated term, 6/1/2014 –
12/31/2015. With this vacancy, the Board still had 15 Alternate Councilors available for the March 2014 ACS meeting. Generally, the Board only needs
2-3 Alternate Councilors for any one National ACS meeting.
 Final 2013 Ballot and Board Election Results: Chair elect, Katherine Lee;
Trustee, Dorothy Phillips; Councilors: Michael Singer, Mary Shultz, Robert
Lichter, Heidi Teng, and Marietta Schwartz; Alternate Councilors: Sophia Su,
Leland Johnson, Mary Mahaney, Andrew Scholte, and Raj Rajur; Director-at-
Large: David Harris, John Neumeyer; Nominating Committee: Raj Rajur,
Heidi Teng, Dorothy Phillips, Mindy Levine; Esselen Award Committee: Karl
Hansen, Jeffrey Steinfeld; Richards Award Committee: .Jerry Jasinski,
Morton Hoffman.
Professional Relations: M. Chorghade
 No written report
Public Relations: J. Driscoll
I have summarized the monthly reports and organized them into the following categories.
STEM AAAS
Cambridge Science Festival
1. The Cambridge Science Festival with be promoted the NESACS/MOS
“Earth Day” in their Cambridge Science Festival Promotions in 2013.
2. Science in the Street is a new program that we have worked with on a number of occasions.
Science Outreach
Jennifer Maclachlan has been working with the FDA and the USDA and was an organizer of a two day symposium on Arsenic in food at the ACS National
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Meeting in New Orleans in April 2013. An article entitled “Eating Arsenic” appeared in the May 6, 2013 issue (p36-39) of C&ENews.
A Quarter of Science Outreach (section 10) includes the following and is published in the June issue of the Nucleus
( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/summer13.pdf p4 ). These events were all new and we reached 2,300 people,
 AAAS Meeting in Boston- Feb. Family Science Days
 Cambridge Science Carnival -April
 Brewster Museum of Natural History-March
 Brought a guest with me- Jacob Sanders, Harvard Univ.(PhD candidate) –
Peer Mentor for USA training camp for the International Chemistry Olympiad-
Selected by the ACS
 Oct. 26 2013- NESACS brings NCW to Cape Cod - An announcement of the event is in the Oct. Nucleus, and an article was published in Cape Cod
Today.
STEM Events

May 23, 2013- Southeast MA STEM Expo - the focus was on teachers rather than students. ACS/NESACS will be participating. There were about 200 teachers present and we talked to about 50 of them.
 August 2013- Jack Driscoll was selected as a STEM advisor to the Cape
Cod Council of the Boy Scouts of America. A STEM committee was formed that included Jack Driscoll, Jennifer Maclachlan, Nancy Gifford
Harwich Schools, Eben Franks of Liquid Robotics, Michael Riley

(Executive Director of Boy Scouts) and Dennis Walczewski.
 NCW 2014 – Boy Scouts STEM Meeting- The Cape &
Islands Boy Scout Council/NESACS/ CCCC/ENVR Division present Chemists Celebrate Earth Day STEM Event will be on March 29, 2014 at Cape Cod Community College. We are looking for a well known local keynote speaker. Know anyone? The event will include a science café (Cambridge
Science Festival-Science on the Street, Greenbriar Nature
Center, Cape Light Compact + others providing hands-on activities related to the 2014 Chemists Celebrate Earth Day theme: Water, 8-10 speakers on careers in the sciences and a workshop for teachers. The projected audience will be K-
12 students, parents and educators. This event will be open to the public and promoted through the schools and SE
MASS STEM Network. We will be searching for an Astronaut for a keynote speaker.
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NCW - NESACS brings NCW to Cape Cod council of the Boy Scouts of
America

Boy Scouts- On Oct. 26, 2016 during National Chemistry Week (NCW) we brought NCW to Cape Cod for their :Wicked Cool Science Café”. The
Organizations Represented were NESACS, ACS, Cambridge Science
Festival (Science in the Streets), Green Briar Nature Center of Sandwich and
Suffolk University Physics & Engineering Dept. We had more than 400 K-6 and parents come through Camp Greenough. We also had 8 speakers to talk about careers in science. We did not have too many takers there because the group was primarily K-6 but we do have a good group of scientists who can talk about scientific careers in other venues. We are planning a STEM Café at the end of March 2014 at Cape Cod Community College. (Nucleus October
2013 p11). This event was sponsored by NESACS and th ACS Env. Div. http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Oct13.pdf
. The event was also publicized in Jennifer MacLachlan’s blogs http://capecodsciencecafe.tumblr.com/ , http://analyzersource.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-year-in-c-2013.html
and in
Cape Cod Today http://www.capecodtoday.com/event/22364-wicked-coolautumn-welcome-featuring-wicked-cool-science-cafe
Entrepreneurial Events
1. Feb. 17- at the AAAS Meeting “ How to Satisfy Your Entrepreneurial
Cravings” -(NESACS & Small Chemical Business Div. of ACS) The session was moderated by Jennifer Maclachlan with talks by Jack Driscoll
& Mukund Chorgade. We had about 20 people at the session and at least two budding entrepreneurs.
2. July 5, 2013- Jack Driscoll gave a paper at the Entrepreneurial Session of the BMM Indian Cultural conference in Providence, RI. This entrepreneurial session was summarized in the October 2013 Nucleus.
The BMM Indian Cultural Conference is held every two years. For this meeting, Mukund Chorghade of NESACS initiated and organized the
Entrepreneurial Program. He also organized an educational session at
Northeastern University with speakers from US and Indian Universities.
ACS President, Miranda Wu spoke at this session.
( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Oct13.pdf
p10)
3. ACS Entrepreneurial Forum East was scheduled at Nova Biomedical
Corp. for Nov. 2013 but was postponed until April 2014. It was described in the Nov. Nucleus ( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Nov13.pdf
p7).
4. ACS Entrepreneurial Forum- April 9,2013 at Nova
Biomedical, We will select 20 entrepreneurs to talk about their startup companies. We have selected a group of small business experts who will act as mentors for the participating entrepreneurs. The ACS has turned the organization of this
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event over to NESACS. We already have 5 potential speakers and are actively seeking potential entrepreneurs.
Do you know anyone who might be interested? Jennifer
Maclachlan will be working with her ACS contacts including the Chemical Angel Network and I will be contacting local
Business Schools & Venture Capitalists. Mukund Chorghade is working with the TiE Investment Group. We will be working with sponsors to raise some funds for travel for those entrepreneurs outside NE. A copy of the investment readiness form is http://surveys.acs.org/se.ashx?s=04BD76CC60DD1CAD .
5. Linkedin , we now have > 3,000 members an increase of
>1,700 or since Jan.1, 2013
6. National Chemical Landmarks

Aug. 3, 2013- Landmarks of MA-Local Section meeting at Cape Cod- Keith
Lindbloum (ACs Washington), Jack Driscoll, Mort Hoffman, Mukund
Chorghade, & Mary Mahaney-We discussed the possible nominations of
Edward Land’s Laboratory and the Harvard University chemistry Dept. as potential nominations for National Chemical Landmarks since we don’t have any of these in MA. Keith Lindbloum wrorte an article in the Nucleus
( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Oct13.pdf
p 8)

7. SE MA Group Meeting
 Oct. 3, 2013 Held the first SE MA Meeting at UMA Dartmouth with Madeleine
Jacobs as the Keynote Speaker. We had 80+ people in attendance. I talked about NESACS and will post my slides on the NESACS website
( http://www.nesacs.org/curr_events/meetings/presentations/2013/NESACS_I naugural%20SE-MA_SubsectionMeetingUMA-Dartmouth100313.pdf
). Mort
Hoffman wrote up the meeting in the Dec. 2013 Nucleus
( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Dec13.pdf
p4)
8 Chemiluminary Awards- NESACS wins Chemilumniary
Award in Sept. National Meeting of the ACS
The award for an Outstanding Collaboration etween a Local Section and a Division during 2012 was presented to NESACS and the Division of Small Chemical Businesses
(SCHB) at the ChemLuminary Ceremony on September 10, 2013, at the ACS National
Meeting in Indianapolis. The award, which is given by the Committee on Local Section
Activities (LSAC) and the Committee on Divisional Activities (DAC), recognizes
“outstanding collaboration between an ACS local section and a division.” The specific event that was recognized was the small chemical business symposium held on October
11, 2012, at Nova Biomedical Corp. in Waltham prior to the NESACS Monthly Meeting.
The symposium was described in detail in the December 2012 Nucleus .
Jack Driscoll (NESACS Public Relations Chair) and Mukund Chorghade (SCHB
Immediate Past Chair) joined Maclachlan in accepting the award on behalf of NESACS and SCHB in the presence of Mike Morello (DAC), Sharon Vercellotti (SCHB
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Councilor), Joseph Sabol (SCHB Program Chair), Stan Seelig (SCHB Chair), Mitchell
Bruce (LSAC Chair), and Tom Barton (2013 ACS Chair- Elect). (SCHB Public Relations
Chair) ( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Nov13.pdf
p6)
9. R&D- Jack Driscoll attended the R&D 100 awards this year for the top 100 products developed in 2012. The event was held in
Orlando, FL in Nov. 2013. Four companies who won Awards were selected to discuss the future of R&D at a roundtable discussion..
The companies were: Dow Chemical, PID Analysers, ThermoFisher
Scientific and Toyota. Jack described a number of ACS and
NESACS programs in the article in the link below from the
December issue of R&D.
( http://www.rdmag.com/articles/2013/12/strategic-balance )
10. Potential Chemiluminary Awards for 2013 a.
New Events - 1 st quarter AAAS Family Science Days outreach/PR,BMM, SE MA Meeting. These were all new events and we reached a total of 2,300 people with science outreach and
STEM events. These events which took place in Feb. to April 2013 are described in the summer Nucleus.
( http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/summer13.pdf p4 ).
A table in a presentation at the SEMA conference
( http://www.nesacs.org/curr_events/meetings/presentations/2013/N
ESACS_Inaugural%20SE-MA_SubsectionMeetingUMA-
Dartmouth100313.pdf
) described the new programs this year.
 b NCW - Boy Scouts Science Café joint event NESACS & Env. Div- Local section-new event for NCW. ). This event was sponsored by NESACS and th
ACS Env. Div. http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2013/Oct13.pdf
. The event was also publicized in Jennifer MacLachlan’s blogs http://capecodsciencecafe.tumblr.com/ , http://analyzersource.blogspot.com/2013/12/my-year-in-c-2013.html
and in
Cape Cod Today http://www.capecodtoday.com/event/22364-wicked-coolautumn-welcome-featuring-wicked-cool-science-cafe
Special Committees
Continuing Education: VACANT

No written report
Fundraising: M. Tebbe
Committee Members: Kerra Fletcher, Leland Johnson, John Podobinski
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 This year was the year for “re-starts” within the NESACS Fund-raising committee. Mark Tebbe took on the role of the Chair of this committee for
NESACS in late January of 2013. The committee had not been convened in approximately two years and no fund-raising activities existed as a coordinated and organized effort for the benefit of multiple projects and programs across the spectrum of activities in the section. Additionally, there was no documentation of activities in the past other than word of mouth and anecdotes.
 With this as the state of the fund-raising committee, the initial goal was to organize a group of people to help, collect and understand all current fundraising activities through NESACS, brainstorm with the executive committee and the fund-raising committee, put an action plan in place before the end of
2013, and hopefully actually raise some funds in 2013.
 Relatively quickly, there were several volunteers to join the committee after the announcement that the fund-raising committee had a chair. Leland
Johnson, John Podobinski, and Kerra Fletcher joined the committee and played active roles throughout the year. These individuals were key to help to brainstorm ideas, formulate approaches to fund-raising, identify companies, and provide thoughts on a fund-raising campaign including wording emails and communications, brochure design, and other aspects. Their work was very much appreciated and their help was invaluable. The committee met approximately five (5) times throughout the year all via web/teleconference.
This facilitated the use of time on all parts so that time was not dedicated to travel but to actually working on the group. That being said, it was still difficult to coordinate the presence of attendees at each virtual meeting.
 The initial goal of the fund-raising committee was to generate $25,000 in donations in 2013. This was recognized as a very aggressive goal given the complete lack of infrastructure for fund-raising (i.e., no fund-raising had taken place for several years) as well as the economic conditions of the general economy and especially the chemistry community in the last 2-3 years. It is well documented that philanthropic giving has drifted significantly down for the past several years from donor organizations across the board. However, with this goal in mind, the group set out to design a fund-raising campaign. There were several approaches considered as outlined below. Over the course of the year, the final approach changed based on economic factors (e.g., stock market up significantly and many local companies went public late in 2013).
Based on these considerations, the final approach was the targeted approach
(number 6 below).
 List of approaches considered for fund-raising campaign in 2013:
1. Mass emailing to all NESACS members (~7,000) including a link to donate via
Paypal or some other easy electronic way to give money (crowd funding type approach)
2. Mass emailing to all companies (~600 in the NESACS area) where we could generate contact information (hard to find the exact person at most companies that will actually respond)
3. Mass traditional (paper) mailing to companies (this would incur mailing costs and has the same issue of identifying the correct person to send the letter to)
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4. Targeted funding of dinners, receptions, poster sessions, venues – as alternate method of support (did not pursue this in 2013 but has come up as an approach to implement in 2014)
5. Targeted fundraising at local “retirement centers” for people who have financial resources and have an affiliation with NESACS (this was not pursued, but there are members that have these contacts and this could be a source or larger donations)
6. Targeted fund-raising at the companies where a personal contact is known at the company so that the email would be directed appropriately and follow-up could be done through additional emails.

The 2013 fund-raising campaign was launched in October of 2013 with emails to 20 companies. Responses were only received from 4 companies (Merck,
Astra Zeneca, Celgene, Cubist) all of which were positive. No negative responses were received. For the positive responses, Merck was able to get the donation in before the end of 2013 ($2,000) and represents the only actual donation received as a direct result of the fund-raising committee in
2013. However, the three other companies all had to get the budgets for the donations which would be set early in 2014. Therefore, the timing of the campaign was appropriate to allow for planning of these companies to make their donations. Further contact with these three companies has taken place in 2014 and all have confirmed they are still working on things but do intend to make the donations.
 Funds raised outside the fundraising committee’s direct efforts (Golf Outing and German Exchange Program) can be fou nd in the Treasurer’s 2013
Annual Report.
 While falling far short of the aggressive goal set by the team, the fund-raising committee has made considerable progress during 2013. The infrastructure and donations are now cataloged and coordinated and an initial campaign was launched netting $2,000 and importantly obtaining commitments from three further companies to make a donation in 2014.

For 2014, the committee membership will be reshuffled slightly to add new members as well as confirm whether the current members plan to stay on the committee. Continued efforts will be made with each of the three companies committed as well as continuing to identify new approaches and companies to query for support of NESACS.
 List of major fund-raising committee accomplishments in 2013:
1. Finalized email and PDF attachment for funding-raising campaign (PDF attached).
2. Email account set up for fund-raising ( fundraising@NESACS.org
)
3. Emails sent out to 20 companies (Agios, Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Arqule, Celgene,
Concert, Cubist, Esai, Epizyme, Merck, Millenium, Novartis, Sanofi, Synta,
Tetraphase, Vertex, Verastem, Sigma-Aldrich, Ernst and Young, Waters). Still need contacts for Biogen-Idec, Bruker, Enanta, Infinity, Momenta, Shire and any others where board members have exact contact information.
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4. Responses from four companies (Celgene – planning on $1k, and Astra Zeneca planning on some donation - amount TBD, Cubist planning on donation – amount
TBD, Merck – made donation in November ($2,000))
5. Emails sent out both from the NESACS fund-raising account and also followed
(approximately 4 weeks later) by emails from my company email account
(formatherapeutics.com – with my NESCACS Fund-raising signature added so that people might recognize the email and me more easily and not think of this as spam). No further responses were received from the second email.
 Infrastructure in place to easily send an email and attach the fund-raising letter to ask for funds
– just need the contacts
Government Relations: D. Lewis

Members: Mukund Chorghade, Jack Driscoll, Kerra Fletcher, Kiel Lazarski,
Emily Lewis, Chris Moreton, Don Rickter, Timothy Rose, Sonya Strah-
Pleynet, Liming Shao, Michael Singer, Mike Strem, Doris Lewis (chair)
 On June 26 Committee Chair Doris Lewis participated in the Conference Call with the Science, Technology, and Innovation Community on the President's
Vision for Addressing Climate Change. Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the
President for Science and Technology, conducted the conference call on the
President’s vision for addressing climate change, and the specific details that impact the science, technology, and innovation community.
 At the suggestion of Katelynn Eckert of ACS Office of Public Affairs we have been following H . 329 ( text can be found here )
– An Act relative to inquirybased science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education sponsored by Representative Ayers that will require all school districts to implement inquiry based instruction for STEM subjects . Madeleine
Jacobs and Doris have both sent letters of support for the bill to the chairs of the Joint Committee on Education, Senator Chang-Diaz and Representative
Peisch.

MA STEM Sox (Assn of MA STEM Societies) was selected as one of the organizations to table in the Resource Room of the MA STEM Summit on
Wednesday, November 13 th , providing information on STEM careers and how our MA STEM professional societies are supporting the educational and career development of the students who will become the STEM professionals of tomorrow. Our Public Relations Committee (Jack Driscoll and Jennifer
Maclachlan) sent ACS materials for the table, and Committee member Sonja-
Strah-Pleynet attended.
 Sonja has continued to be the editor of the successful STEM News section of the NESACS web site.

Our photo of NESACS members at the October NESACS meeting celebrating the passage and signing of the Helium Act was sent to ACS OPA and posted on the NESACS web site.
 Doris Lewis attended a Democratic Committee meeting in Newton on
December 8 with Rep. Joe Kennedy III and was able to meet with him briefly afterward to express on behalf of ACS our thanks for his support of STEM; he was very appreciative. She al so participated in Rep. Kennedy’s first Twitter
Town Hall on December 9.
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 Also in December she sent a letter drafted by Katelynn Eckert thanking Rep.
Kennedy for his co-sponsorship of the STEM Gateways Act which would provide funding through the U.S. Department of Education to help schools implement rigorous STEM academics, with a focus on reaching underrepresented groups.
 We welcome Kiel Lazarski, graduate student at Boston University, and Emily
Lewis, graduate student at Tufts University, as members of the committee.
Their work will focus on the Massachusetts STEM legislation project along with Kerra Fletcher.
Esselen Award: A. Sromek
 The 27th Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest was presented on April 4, 2013 jointly to Dr. Michael H. Gelb, Harry and
Catherine Jaynne Boand Professor of Chemistry, and Dr. František Tureček,
Professor of Chemistry, University of Washington. The awardees were recognized for their work in developing practical, reliable methodologies for the early detection of genetic diseases in newborns.
 The award reception and dinner were held at the Harvard Faculty Club with approximately 75 people in attendance. The award ceremony and the recipients’ address “The Chemistry of Next Generation Newborn Screening” were held in the Pfizer Lecture Hall at the Mallinckrodt Chemistry Laboratory of Harvard University. Professor Paul Hopkins, Chair of the Department of
Chemistry at the University of Washington introduced the award recipients.
Mr. Gustavus John Esselen IV, son of the award’s founder, presented the
Esselen medals and checks for $25 00 each to Drs. Gelb and Tureček.
 The members of the 2013 Award Committee were: Maurice Brookhart,
University of North Carolina; Stephen Buchwald, MIT; Mukund Chorghade,
Chorghade Enterprises; Howard Mayne, University of New Hampshire;
Maureen Rouhi, C&E News; Anna Sromek, McLean Hospital and Thomas
Verhoeven, Eli Lilly & Company.
 Mukund Chorghade will succeed Anna Sromek as Chair of the Esselen
Award Committee for 2014, with duties to commence after the Esselen Award events for 2013.
Medicinal Chemistry Group: R. Rajur
 The medicinal chemistry division is one of the active divisions of NESACS which draws about 150 people to its symposium. 2013 annual symposium was held on December 12 th , at Genzyme corporation Waltham.
 The title of the symposium was “ Innovative Treatments for Unmet Medical
Needs” . The symposium was sponsored by was Genzyme Corporation-
(Sanofi).
 There were more than 150 participants who enjoyed the cutting edge research results that were presented by four well-known speakers from biotech and pharmaceutical industry.
 Dr. Barry Toure, Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research , spoke on the “:
Identification of NVP-TNKS656: a Highly Potent, Selective, and Orally Active
Tankyrase Inhibitor."
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 Dr. John William, Microbiotix, Inc., Worcester, MA spoke on the topic
“Inhibitors of the Pseudomonas Type Three Secretion System”,
 The third speaker for the evening was Dr. Eugene Piatnitski Chekler,
Worldwide Medicinal Chemistry, Pfizer Inc , Cambridge. His presentation focused on the “Tissue Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs): A
Path to a Clinical Candidate”

The keynote presentation for the evening was presented by Dr. Zhongli Gao,
Genzyme-Sanofi, Waltham, MA . Gao’s presentation focused on the “A
Winding Journey of Medicinal Chemistry Toward the Discovery of a Potent,
Selective, and Orally Bioavailable Histamine H3 Receptor Antagonist for
Cognitive Impairment: From a Biological Concept to a Development
Candidate ”
 The social hour, networking and dinner were part of the program.
 The program chair, Dr. Raj (SB) Rajur, CreaGen Biosciences welcomed the guests and participants. Dr. Norton Peet, Director of Chemistry, Microbiotix moderated the symposium. Dr. Vinod Patel of Genzyme-Sanofi introduced the keynote speaker. The symposium was concluded with the token of respect to the speakers by the program Chair, Dr. Rajur.
National Chemistry Week: C. Jaworek-Lopes
 In preparation for National Chemistry Week 2013, a volunteer preparation day was held at Museum of Science-Boston on Saturday, September 29, 2013.
More than 30 individuals attended this event, which allowed volunteers to practice the hands-on activities and demonstrations in advance of the
October celebration. Staff members from the Museum of Science-Boston and the Boston Children’s Museum were on hand to choose which activities worked best for their respective venues as well as give volunteers an overview of each facility.
 On Sunday, October 27, 2013, the Northeastern Section of the American
Chemical Society (NESACS) sponsored a National Chemistry Week at the
Museum of Science-Boston (MoS). Approximately 700 visitors to the MoS participated in the hands-on activities. Among the highlights of the day were the two Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial lectures presented by Dr. Bassam
Shakhashiri, ACS President and Professor of Chemistry at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. These captivating lectures were enjoyed by approximately 300 individuals. On Saturday, November 9, 2013 a second
NCW event was held at the Boston Children’s Museum in which more than
1000 individuals participated in the hands-on activities and demonstrations.
 The hands-on activities and demonstrations performed throughout the week correlated well with the NCW theme of Energy: Now and Forever. These activities were developed by Fenway High School students under the guidance of MoS staff. Activities included: make a battery using citrus fruits, conductivity buzzers using sports drinks, electrolysis of water, hydrogen fuel cell car, comparison of light bulbs, rate of reaction and glow sticks, UV beads and sunscreens. An additional activity, squishy circuits, was performed at the
Boston Children’s Museum.

Four hundred and sixty nine students attended the High School Science
Series held on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. These students participated in a
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number of hands-on activities and demonstrations related to the yearly theme and heard lecture demonstrations given by David Sittenfeld. Students from
Fenway High School served as facilitators for a number of the hands-on activities.
 Special thanks to the Boston Children’s Museum, Alissa Daniels, Emily
Flaherty, Fenway High School students, Lucy Green, Sharon Horrigan,
Museum of Science-Boston, Northeastern Section of the American Chemical
Society, David Sittenfeld, Dr. Bassam Shakhashiri, Karine Thate, and the
Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial Lecture Committee.

The events would not have been possible without the help of more than 100 volunteers from: Beyond Benign, Boston Children’s Museum, Boston
University, Emmanuel College, Fenway High School, Gordon College, Merck-
Boston, Museum of Science-Boston, Malden High School, Massachusetts
Maritime, NESACS, Northeastern University, Salem State University, Sigma
Aldrich, Soane Labs, Stonehill College, Suffolk University, Tufts University,
University of Massachusetts-Boston, University of Massachusetts – Lowell,
Weymouth High School.
 The Northeastern Section received 20 poster entries. Of these entries, four were sent on to ACS National for inclusion in the national poster contest.
Ashmita Prajapati, who won the K-2 poster contest on the Section level, won first place at the national level. All local winning entries received a $25.00 gift certificate to amazon.com; mentoring teachers received $25.00 gift certificates to teachersource.com.

NCW events were posted in the Nucleus (local section newsletter), on websites (including www.nesacs.org
), via email to an NCW teacher list, on
Facebook (NCW & CCED Page – Northeastern Section of the American
Chemical Society), via various Twitter feeds, and on WBUR (Science Friday).
Norris Award: M. Shultz

The 2013 Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of
Chemistry was presented to Professor Melanie Cooper, Michigan State
University on November 14, 2013 at the Holiday Inn, Bunker Hill. Professor
Cooper gave a lively presentation titled, “
Chemistry, Life, the Universe and
Everything…” Approximately 40 people attended the dinner and lecture.
 Professor Doris Lewis will chair the committee for 2014. The following members of the committee will continue for 2014: Professors Brian Coppola
(University of Michigan) and William Polik (Hope College) from outside the
Northeastern section have graciously agreed to continue service. Professor
Polik’s term ends in the coming year, so a new outside person should be recruited. From within the Northeastern section, Professors Doris Lewis
(Suffolk University), Patrick Gordon (Simmons College), Pam Mabrook
(Northeastern University), and Mary Shultz (Tufts University) will continue.
Both Professors Lewis and Shultz will end their term in 2014, so two new members will be elected.
 As an ongoing activity, the committee encourages nominations from the world over. Like the National ACS, we keep nominations active for a total of three years (the nomination year plus two). We had 8 new nominations this year
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a bumper crop. From 2012, we have 3 that carry over and from 2011 1 carries over.
 This year we had two glitches in normal committee procedures. The previous chair missed submitting the call for nominations at the end of 2012 and did not let the continuing committee know of this lacuna. The committee rallied and tapped into past winners, Division of Chemical Education, the Chemical
Education Newsletter, and C&E News for a last minute announcement. The web master and Nucleus editors were also very helpful in posting the announcement on the Section web page and slipping it into the Nucleus. (A heartfelt thank you to all as well as the Section Administrative Secretary,
Anna Singer for excellence support.) This all worked. To avoid future scrambling, the committee operational manual has been updated to have the incoming chair submit the call for nominations in early January. It is hoped that placing responsibility squarely on the shoulders of the one who is frontline to deal with nominations will align responsibility with consequences and avoid a future crisis. The second glitch concerned the venue for the award.
Due to an administrative gap, the facility requested was not properly reserved. Scrambling lead to the Bunker Hill site. Future chairs are advised to reserve early and verify the reservation. An updated version of the operational manual has been sent to all Section committee members as well as the
Administrative Secretary.
 The committee also decided to return to the elegance of earlier awards and bring this educational award in line with the pomp afforded research awards that are presented by the Section. This means black tie, tux or equivalent for the awardee, and wine with a sit-down dinner.
 As indicated above, the call for nominations will be submitted by the new chair, Professor Lewis. It should appear in the Nucleus and the Newsletter of the Division of Chemical Education; it has also been sent to C&EN and the
Journal of Chemical Education . Members of the NESACS Board are urged to encourage nominations from the chemical education community as well as to serve as a nominator.
 Call for Nominations
The 2014 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of
Chemistry
Deadline: April 15, 2014
Nominations are invited for the 2014 James Flack Norris Award, which consists of a certificate and an honorarium of $3,000 and is given annually by the Northeastern
Section (NESACS). The presentation will take place at a ceremony and dinner in
November 2014, and will include a formal address by the awardee. The Award was established in 1950 by NESACS to honor the memory of James Flack Norris (1871-
1940), a professor of chemistry at Simmons College and M.I.T., chair of NESACS in
1904, and ACS President in 1925-26.
Nominees should have served with special distinction as teachers of chemistry at any level: secondary school, college, and/or graduate school. With the presentation of the first Award in 1951, awardees have included many eminent teachers at all levels whose efforts have had a wide-ranging effect on chemical education. The recipient will be selected from an international list of nominees who have served with special distinction as teachers of chemistry with significant achievements.
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A nomination in the form of a letter should focus on the candidate’s contributions to and effectiveness in teaching chemistry. The nominee’s curriculum vitae should be included and, where appropriate, a list of honors, awards, and publications related to chemical education listed. Seconding letters may also be included; these should show the impact of the nominee’s teaching on inspiring colleagues and students toward an active life in the chemical sciences, and attest to the influence of the nominee’s other activities in chemical education, such as textbooks, journal articles, or other professional activity at the local, national, and international level.
The nomination materials should consist of the primary nomination letter, supporting letters, and the candidate’s curriculum vitae. Reprints or other publications should NOT be included. The material should not exceed thirty (30) pages, and should be submitted electronically in Adobe PDF format by April 15, 2014 to Ms. Anna Singer, NESACS
Administrative Secretary <secretary@nesacs.org>. For more information about the
Award, see the web page <http://www.nesacs.org/awards_norris.html>.
Questions about the Award or the nomination process should be directed to the Chair of the Norris Award Committee, Professor Doris Lewis, <dorisilewis@gmail.com>.
NERM: M. Hoffman

New Orleans
– April 2013
 The meeting of the Executive Board of the Northeast Region of the ACS, Inc.
(NERACS) was held in New Orleans on April 9 on the occasion of the ACS national meeting. In attendance were the following executive officers:
Julianne Smist (Springfield College), Chair; Richard Cobb (Eastman Kodak, retired), Vice-Chair; Christopher Masi (Westfield State University), Secretary;
Wayne Jones (SUNY Binghamton), Treasurer; Willem Leenstra (University of
Vermont). Richard Hartmann (Nazareth College), Martha Hollomon (Liaison to Meetings & Expositions), and Morton Hoffman (NESACS representative) also attended.

Details were given about the Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM 2013), which will be held Wednesday-Saturday, October 23-26, at the Omni Hotel in
New Haven, CT; the host will be the New Haven local section. The abstract submission system will close on September 13; the website for the meeting is
<http://nerm2013.sites.acs.org/>. The University of New Haven Student
Chapter has received grant funding for the organization of programming for undergraduates.

No NERM will be held in 2014. The next meeting will be held in June 2015 at
Ithaca College; the host will be the Cornell local section. The Binghamton,
Central New York, Rochester, and Green Mountain local sections expressed interest in hosting subsequent meetings.
 Richard Hartmann, Chair of NERM 2012, reported that the meeting in
Rochester had a total income of $116,000, expenses of $77,000, and a net surplus of $39,000. In accordance with the bylaws of the Region, a check for
$15,657 was presented to NERACS.
 New Haven – October 2013
 The Board of Directors of NERACS met on October 26 at NERM 2013. The
NERACS Board consists of its Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, and representatives from the following local sections: Binghamton, Central
Massachusetts, Central New York, Connecticut Valley, Cornell, Corning,
Eastern New York, Green Mountain, Maine, Mid-Hudson, New Haven,
Northeastern, Northern New York, Penn-York, Rhode Island, Rochester,
Western Connecticut, and Western New York.
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 In addition to executive officers Smist, Cobb, and Masi, the following local section representatives were present at the meeting: Willem Leenstra (Green
Mountain), Mark Zell (Rhode Island), Akiko Fillinger (Cornell), Richard
Hartmann (Rochester), Mitchell Bruce (Maine), Kenneth White and Jefferson
Chin (New Haven), Morton Hoffman (NESACS). Also in attendance were
Thomas Gilbert (ACS District I Director) and Michelle Stevenson (ACS staff liaison to NERM).
 The Board elected Richard Cobb and Willem Leenstra as Chair and Vice
Chair, respectively, for two-year terms (2014-15). It voted by acclamation its appreciation for the service Julianne Smist provided as Chair for six years from the time of the incorporation of NERACS. The terms for the current
Secretary and Treasurer run through 2014.
 It was announced that the assets in the NERACS Treasury are close to
$50,000; when they reach that level, discussions will take place concerning the long-term use of those funds. At the present time, any income above expenses for a NERM is shared in a 60/40 ratio between the hosting local section and NERACS.
 Cobb expressed concern about the paucity of nominations for the region awards that are presented at NERM; in fact, some awards cannot be given because the number of nominations does not reach the stipulated minima.
He asked the representatives of the local sections to urge their officers and members to be active in the nomination process. Inasmuch as there will not be a NERM in 2014, there is now ample time for nominations to be generated for the 2015 cycle of the following Northeast Region awards: Achievements in the Chemical Sciences, Excellence in High School Teaching, Volunteer
Service to the ACS, Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences.

NERM 2015 will be held at Ithaca College, June 10-13, with Akiko Fillinger of that institution as the General Chair; the plenary speaker will be Esther
Takeuchi (SUNY Stony Brook), who received the 2013 E.V. Murphree Award in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry from the ACS for her innovative work on advanced battery power sources. The Binghamton Section is expected to submit a bid to host NERM 2016 to celebrate its 75 th anniversary. The
Central New York and Rochester Sections have made separate expressions of interest for NERM 2017. NERM 2018 is currently open; the Rhode Island
Section will explore the option for a meeting that year in Providence or
Newport, perhaps in connection with the Southeastern Massachusetts area of
NESACS.
 The next meeting of the NERACS Board will be at the national ACS meeting in San Francisco in August 2014.
 With more than 850 registrants at NERM 2013 making over 480 oral and poster presentations (including 140 undergraduate research posters and four high school student posters) as well as 27 exhibitors, the meeting was an exciting professional event with ACS President Marinda Wu and Immediate
Past President Bassam Shakhashiri in attendance. Forty-three separate sessions, spanning a broad spectrum of the chemical sciences, were packed into three days of programming. Although the room quota was not met at the
Omni Hotel, which will result in some penalty, the overall financial balance sheet for the meeting should be in positive territory.
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 One of the sessions was the NESACSsponsored symposium, “International
Chemistry Connections,” which was organized by Heidi Teng and Morton
Hoffman in celebration of the 13 th annual exchange between the NESACS
Younger Chemists Committee (NSYCC) and the Jungchemikerforum (JCF) of the German Chemical Society (GDCh). Twelve graduate students and two accompanying persons from Germany traveled to New Haven for NERM after spending the previous four days in Boston as guests of NESACS, partaking in academic and industrial site visits as well as cultural and social events. o The following were members of the German delegation: Prof. Dr.
Alfred Flint (University of Rostock), Dr. Elisabeth Kapatsina (GDCh),
Anna Hofmann (University of Würzburg), Torsten John (University of
Leipzig), Susanne Leubner (Technical University Dresden), Martin
Lichtenthaler (University of Freiburg), Mike Neumann (University of
Potsdam), Wilma Neumann (University of Leipzig), Tanja Scholz
(RWTH Aachen University), Denise Schütz (University of Frankfurt),
Andreas Seitz (University of Regensburg), Peter Sponholz (University of Rostock), Christian Weinberger (University of Paderborn), Stefan
Zajonc (Karlsruhe University of Education). o The members of the NESACS German Exchange Steering Committee who attended NERM were Morton Hoffman (Boston University), Jackie
O’Neil (Alkermes, Inc.), Michael Strem (Strem Chemicals), Ruth
Tanner (University of Massachusetts Lowell), and Heidi Teng (Sigma-
Aldrich Fine Chemicals). Jens Breffke (Pennsylvania State University), who was a member of the German Exchange to Boston for the ACS national meeting in August 2007, provided important linguistic and cultural insights. o The schedule of the symposium, which was held on October 25, was as follows:
 1:30-1:40 p.m. Opening Remarks
–
Morton Hoffman

1:40-2:00 p.m. Partners for Progress and Prosperity
–
Marinda
Wu
 2:00-2:20 p.m. Chemistry in Germany: Educational and
Research Opportunities
–
Elisabeth Kapatsina

2:20-2:40 p.m. Northeastern Section Younger Chemists
Committee: Connecting Chemists Domestically and Abroad –
Heidi Teng

2:40-3:00 p.m. JCF: The Connection between School
Education, Academia, and Industry – Anna Hofmann
 3:00-3:10 p.m. Intermission
 3:10-3:30 p.m. Problem with Teaching Chemistry at High
Schools in Germany – Alfred Flint
 3:30-3:50 p.m. Growing a Small Chemical Business
Internationally
–
Michael Strem
 3:50-4:10 p.m. Personal Impact and How to Measure It – Jens
Breffke
 4:10-4:30 p.m. International Chemistry Reflections
–
Morton
Hoffman
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 4:30-4:35 p.m. Concluding Remarks – Morton Hoffman and
Heidi Teng o The graduate student members of the German delegation also made presentations in the technical sessions: o Specific immobilization of biomolecules on surfaces for intelligent materials (physical chemistry) – Torsten John o Highly structured and high surface

-SiC from plant material (inorganic chemistry) – Mike Neumann o Ordered mesoporous carbon materials from novel molten precursors containing nitrogen (nanoscience); Formation mechanism of ordered mesoporous Al
2
O
3
: Relation between mesoscopic order and crystallinity (poster)
–
Christian Weinberger o Hydrogen production and storage for a sustainable energy economy
(organometallic chemistry and catalysis) – Peter Sponholz o Research-experiencing learning in the studentbased project “Make
Science!” (chemical education) –
Stefan Zajonc o Applied gallium(I) chemistry: Synthesis of highly reactive polyisobutylene (organometallic chemistry and catalysis) – Martin
Lichtenthaler o COX inhibitors with carboranes as pharmacophore (medicinal chemistry) – Wilma Neumann o Synthesis, structure, and magnetic properties of tin-substituted iron nitrides Sn x
Fe
4-x
N (poster)
–
Tanja Scholz o Novel phosphorous-carbon cages (poster) – Andreas Seitz o Synthesis and evaluation of mannose derivatives as Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin LacB antagonists (poster)
–
Anna Hofmann o Influence of the surface ligand density on the optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals (nanoscience) – Susanne Leubner o Conformational flexibility of Toc34 Homodimer studied by PELDOR
(poster)
– Denise Schütz o Accommodations at the Omni Hotel and registration at NERM, which included participation in the welcome reception, social mixer, keynote dinner with Donna Nelson (University of Oklahoma), and awards dinner with Marinda Wu, were provided for the German delegation by
NESACS. A global innovation grant of $4,000 from the ACS
International Activities Committee partially covered those expenses. o Attendees of the keynote dinner had the opportunity to hear Prof.
Nelson describe her activities as scientific advisor to the popular television program, Breaking Bad , and to meet her personally.
Honored at the awards dinner was Sharon Palmer, a chemistry teacher at Amherst (MA) Regional High School, who received the 2013 ACS
Division of Chemical Education Northeast Region Award for
Excellence in High School Teaching.

Closer to home, also honored at the awards dinner was Doris Lewis (Suffolk
University), who received the 2013 E. Ann Nalley Northeast Region Award for
Volunteer Service to the ACS for her activities with the multi award-winning student chapter at her institution, with NESACS as section chair, leader in the
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creation of Connections to Chemistry and the Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial
Lectures, and chair of the Government Affairs Committee, and at the national level with the ACS Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs and the
Committee on Public Relations and Communications.
Project Seed: C. Schnitzer

No written report
Richard’s Award: J. Jasinski

No written report
Speakers’ Bureau: VACANT
 No written report
Summerthing: D. Lewis
 The NESACS tradition of Red Sox events at Fenway Park continued this year with a great evening on May 10 as the Red Sox played the Toronto Blue Jays with 70 NESACS members and friends attending, perfect weather, Jon Lester pitching a one-hitter, and of course the Red Sox winning!
Women’s Chemist Committee: P. Mabrouk
 No written report
YCC: E. Lewis

 In 2013 the NSYCC continued to hold successful networking events that drew in new members and connected our constituents both old and new.
Unfortunately, our annual research conference and career fair were cancelled due to the marathon bombing tragedy. This year, the YCC also hosted the annual German exchange in Boston, and the programming was a great success.

o Elections for the 2013 term were concluded on Nov. 19, 2012. o Chair - Heidi Teng, PhD - Sigma-Aldrich o Vice Chair - Emily Lewis - Tufts University o Career Chair - June Lum, PhD o Publicity Chair - Jackie O'Neil - Alkermes o Social Chair - Michael Heard-Snow - Northeastern University o Treasurer - Nathan Stein - Sigma-Aldrich o Secretary - Vacant

 Due to positive feedback from our members, the NSYCC continued to push social and educational networking events. We held two social mixers, as well as a distillery tour, and we also promoted participation in Science in the News’ events, “Science by the Pint.” Although we had the research conference and career symposium fully planned, we had to cancel them due to the citywide shut down the day before.

Bowling at Flatbreads
– December 10, 2013
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 For our annual kickoff event, we held a bowling night at Flatbread’s Pizza in
Somerville. We had ~30 people turn up, and we all ate pizza and bowled from 8-10pm. The event was particularly well received because there were a number of participants from the 2012 German Exchange who were reunited.
We had members from a number of different organizations and colleges, including Cabot Company, QD Vision, Sigma Aldrich, Alkermes, Harvard,
Northeastern, Boston College, Boston University, and Tufts.
 Bully Boy Distillery Tour – February 19, 2013
 Last year, our Harpoon brewery tour was such a big hit that we decided to run a distillery tour at Bully Boy. We had over 50 people register for the event and over 30 people turned up. We split our group into two cohorts, with one tasting and one touring at a time. The tours of the facility were led by one of the owners and founders, Dave Willis. He had agreed in advance to get more into the chemistry of distilling for our audience and was excited to have a room full of chemists to entertain. We learned specifically about vodka and whiskey, and how the former is run through activated carbon for filtering, while the latter is aged in burned barrels for many years.
 We had a great response to this event and are considering running it again in
2014.

Science by the Pint
– Multiple events in 2013
 In order to continue offering networking events to our group without accruing expenses, we started promoting Science in the News’ series, “Science by the
Pint.” The events are hosted monthly at the Burren at which an expert speaks about a current science topic. The PI and his/her researchers then mingle with the crowd while they enjoy food and beverage. We have had good feedback from our members who attend these events, and they provide a good opportunity to advertise NSYCC events to a broader audience.
 Northeastern Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC) – April
20, 2013

The 2013 NSCRC was cancelled due to the marathon bombing incident the prior week followed by the citywide shutdown on April 19 th . Since there weren’t any staff at BU on the 19 th to prepare the space, it was not ready for us on the 20 th . Additionally, when we cancelled on the 19 th , we did not know what the state of events would be, so we were concerned for the safety of our participants. Finally, we did not feel that it was fair for students to be competing for awards if they were feeling affected by the events.

The planned schedule is attached as Appendix I. We had 82 people register for the conference, with 49 presenting posters, and 10 giving talks. John
Warner from the Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry was supposed to give the keynote address in support of our “going green” theme.
We also obtained financial support from the following organizations:
NESACS, New Have Section ACS, Boston University Younger Chemists
Committee, BU Chemistry, Strem Chemicals, The Conditas Group, PhD
Posters, and Graduate Women in Science Alpha Omega Chapter.
 Annual Career Symposium – April 21, 2013
 The career symposium was also cancelled due to the marathon bombing incident. We had 4 workshops planned, as well as 5 panel discussions. The event was planned to end with a networking social at Scoozi near the hosting
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university, Boston University. The planned schedule is attached in Appendix
II.
 Summer in the City: NSYCC @ Charlie’s Kitchen – August 29, 2013
 The NSYCC decided to have an end of the summer event this year in order to keep our member base engaged. We hosted a social evening at Charlie’s
Kitchen on August 29 th to have our member reconnect. The group enjoyed some good burgers, a few drinks, and shared stories from their summer activities.
YCC / GDCh 2013 exchange: E. Lewis
 Overall Evaluation
 In 2013, the YCC and NESACS hosted the 13 th annual German exchange in
Boston. The German cohort spent their first few days in Boston learning about the history, universities, and industry in the area. The group then continued on to NERM where they presented their own work and got to experience an American conference first-hand. The planning allowed the students to network with both younger chemists and established professionals in the area.
 German Exchange Committee

Co-Chair
– Michael Strem, Strem Chemicals
 Co-Chair - Heidi Teng, Sigma-Aldrich
 NESACS members: Ruth Tanner, Morton Hoffman, Leland Johnson, John
Podobinski, Jackie O’Neil, Alex Taylor, Andrew Scholte, Patrick Gordon, and Sapna Sharma
 YCC-NESACS/JCF-GDCh Exchange to Boston – October 19-26, 2013
 This year the German exchange cohort travelled from Germany to Boston and New Haven. The group consisted of 12 young chemists from across
Germany:
 Anna Hofmann – University of Würzburg
Torsten John - University of Leipzig
 Christian Weinberger – University of Paderborn
Susanne Leubner - Technische Universität Dresden
 Tanja Scholz - RWTH Aachen University
Martin Lichtenthaler - University of Freiburg
 Peter Sponholz – University of Rostock
Wilma Neumann - University of Leipzig
 Denise Schütz – University of Frankfurt
Andreas Erich Seitz – University of Regensburg
 Stefan Zajonc - Karlsruhe University of Education
 Mike Neumann - University of Potsdam
The group was also accompanied by two delegates from
Germany: Prof. Alfred Flint, University of Rostock, and Elisabeth
Kapatsina, GDCh.
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The weeklong visit was packed with activities, as outlined by the itinerary in
Appendix I. Upon arrival in Boston on Saturday, the group was treated to a welcome reception at Maggiano’s restaurant. Members of previous German exchanges living in Boston joined the group, as well as NESACS and YCC representatives. This social event not only kicked off the start to a great
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week, but some new friendships as well. Over the next four days, the group experienced the many facets of Boston, going on historical, university, and company tours. On Sunday, the group took a trip on the Freedom Trail, spent some time around Faneuil Hall, and finished the afternoon with a Super Duck
Tour. Monday was filled with university visits at MIT and Harvard, which were followed by dinner and a mixer with the German Scholars Group at John
Harvard’s. Through Tuesday and Wednesday, the team visited several local companies, including Genzyme, Moderna Therapeutics, and A123 Systems.
These events gave the group the chance to compare American institutions to their native German ones and allowed them to form meaningful relationships by sharing cultural differences with their new acquaintances in the US.
 After their visit to A123 Systems, the cohort made their way to NERM for the rest of their stay. The group successfully gave a series of very exciting technical presentations, as well as excellent posters during the technical sessions. The group also participated in the International Chemistry
Connections Symposium hosted by the NSYCC and NESACS and with remarks from ACS President Dr. Marinda Wu. The symposium drew a large crowd of chemists of varied ages and backgrounds and inspired a good amount of questions from the attendees.

While at NERM, the group had several opportunities for networking events.
They first started with a traditional New Haven Neapolitan pizza dinner at
Pepe’s Pizzeria with the local ACS student chapter from the University of New
Haven. Several social events were also hosted at NERM and included a social mixer, dinner with Prof. Donna Nelson, the scientific advisor from
“Breaking Bad”, and a farewell/awards dinner with Dr. Marinda Wu. Attached in Appendix II is the article in December 2013’s the Nucleus by Morton
Hoffman about the event.
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Appendix I
Saturday October 19, 2013 – Welcome to Boston !!!
13:55 Arrival to Boston Logan Airport
18:00
Transport to College Club
Welcome Reception
– Maggiano’s Restaurant
22:00 Boston Nightlife ( optional )
Sunday October 20, 2013
– Boston Sightseeing
10:00 Meet in Lobby of College Club
10:30
12:00
Freedom Trail Tour
Faneuil Hall
– Lunch & Free time
Super Duck Tour 15:00
19:00 Dinner
Monday October 21, 2013 – University Tours
8:30
8:45
Meet in Lobby of College Club
Transit to MIT by Train
9:30
12:00
13:30
14:30
Tour of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lunch in Kendall Square
Meeting with Cathy Drennan (MIT) & Lab tour
Transit to Harvard Square by Train
15:00 Tour of Harvard University Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
16:30 FREE TIME
18:00
19:30
Dinner – Harvard Square
Mixer with German Scholars Group
Tuesday October 22, 2013 – Corporate Tours
– John Harvard’s Tavern, Harvard Square
8:45
9:00
Meet in Lobby of College Club
Transit to Genzyme by Train
10:00
12:00
14:00
Tour of Genzyme Manufacturing facility
Lunch and tour of Moderna Therapeutics
Museum of Science – IMAX
FREE TIME 17:00
19:00 Dinner
Wednesday October 23, 2013
– Corporate Tours & Northeast Regional American Chemical Society
Meeting
8:45
9:00
10:00
Meet in Lobby of College Club
Departure to A123 Systems
Tour of A123 Systems
12:00
13:00
Lunch
Transit to NERM
17:00 NERM Welcome Reception
19:00 Dinner
– Frank Pepe’s pizzeria
Thursday October 24, 2013 – Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting
8:00
– 16:00
Conference Programming
17:30 Social Mixer
19:00 Dinner with Professor Donna Nelson
Friday October 25, 2013
– Northeast Regional American Chemical Society Meeting
8:00 – 13:30
13:30 – 17:00
Conference Programming
International Chemistry Connections
17:00
19:00
FREE TIME
Awards & Farewell Dinner
20:00 BAR Nightclub (optional)
Saturday October 26, 2013
11:00
14:30
17:45
Departure for Boston Logan Airport
Arrive Boston Logan Airport
Depart Boston, MA Flight LH 423
Safe travels! We’ll miss you!
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BAGIM: K. Mattes
 No meetings in 2013, plans are to hold at least one meeting to determine the future of BAGIM.
 Issues, 1. Website renewal, 2. Fund raising, 3. New Officers for 2014, the
10 th anniversary of BAGIM.
Long Range Planning: R. Tanner
 The Section continues to develop the projects identified in 2012 as important long range efforts:

The Archives project to ensure the preservation and access of our historical records;

The funding initiatives for endowment funds for selected programs;

The integration of various communication alternatives in Public Relations to inform and engage our members; and
 The development of the Subsections’ initiative for our members who tend not to be active because of geographical restraints.

For details concerning the progress being made in each of these initiatives, consult the specific topic reports in the 2013 Annual Reports.
Subsection Task Force: M. Hoffman
 The Subsection Task Force (STF) was created in January 2013 by the
NESACS Board of Directors as part of the Long Range Planning Committee to explore the feasibility of establishing subsections within NESACS to help connect and engage members in areas that are remote from our
Boston/Cambridge/environs core in which almost all the Section’s activities take place, specifically, Southeastern Massachusetts (SE-MA: Barnstable,
Bristol, Dukes, Nantucket, and Plymouth Counties) and New Hampshire (NH).
As of the end of 2013, STF had the following membership: Morton Hoffman
(Boston University), Ruth Tanner (University of Massachusetts Lowell),
Robert Lichter (Merrimack Consultants), Jack Driscoll and Jennifer
Maclachlan (PID Analyzers), Robert Howard (Weeset Advisors), Jerry
Jasinski (Keene State College), Gary Weisman (University of New
Hampshire).
 Planning for the first event in SE-MA, which took place at the University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth (UMD) on Thursday evening, October 3, 2013, occurred at meetings of STF at PID Analyzers in Sandwich, MA, on March 27,
May 14, and September 18. Madeleine Jacobs, ACS Executive Director and
CEO, was the featured guest at UMD; she spoke on, “Everything You Always
Wanted to Know about ACS, But Were Afraid to Ask.” The Department of
Chemistry and Biochemistry, chaired by Emmanuel Ojadi, provided light refreshments before the meeting; the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Jeannette Riley, hosted heavy refreshments afterwards. NESACS
Chair Liming Shao offered welcoming remarks on behalf of NESACS; Prof.
Ojadi did the same for his department, and Provost Mohammad Karim brought greetings from the administration of the University. Jack Driscoll described the purpose of the meeting, and Bob Lichter introduced Ms.
Jacobs. Earlier in the day, she participated in the inauguration of the
Department’s new 400 MHz NMR facility.
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 In preparation for the event, a preliminary announcement appeared in the
September Nucleus , a full announcement was in the October issue, information and a registration form was posted on the NESACS website, email blasts were sent to NESACS members in SE-MA and members of
NEACT, information was sent directly to colleges, universities, chemical businesses, and research institutions throughout SE-MA, and contact was made with the Rhode Island local section. Approximately 80 individuals, including students, faculty, and alumni from UMass Dartmouth, attended.
Anna Singer handled the on-line and on-site registrations, preparation of nametags, and the printing of the programs.
 Another STF meeting was held on October 30 at PID Analyzers for the purpose of evaluating the SE-MA inaugural event, and to plan for the future.
 By all measure, the UMD meeting was a great success. The arrangements made by UMD with regard to space, catering, and IT, and the support provided by Anna Singer were deemed to be first-rate. The publicity for the event was generally effective; the contact lists generated for the occasion will be combined into a single database for future use. The Chemistry and
Biochemistry Department of UMD and the Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences underwrote all the local expenses with the result that no charges were made against the $1,500 innovative project grant that NESACS received from the ACS Local Section Activities Committee (LSAC). Eighty-four people registered for the event; 47 were from UMD and 37 from the outside, including three from industry; a few registrants were from the Rhode Island
Local Section. Approximately 10 of those who registered did not attend. The survey of the attendees showed that a large number were interested in further participation in the activities of the SE-MA area.

Future plans in the SE-MA area include an event at Cape Cod Community
College in Hyannis in Spring 2014 and a meeting at Bridgewater State
University, possibly in the Fall. Contacts are still being pursued in New
Hampshire for the organization of an inaugural event in that area. By the end of 2014, STF will bring a recommendation to the NESACS Board as to whether to proceed toward the establishment of subsections in SE-MA and/or
NH. The factors that will be important in that decision will be the number of participants from NESACS and the general public attending the events, the range of activities provided, and the degree to which the members in the two areas express interest to become engaged with the Section as local volunteers.
 A report on the October 3 event appeared in the December issue of The
NUCLEUS , and was posted on the NESACS website at
<http://www.nesacs.org/curr_events_meetings.html#se-ma> with a link to photos.
Brauner Committee: D. Lewis

Members of the Phyllis A. Brauner Memorial Lecture Committee in 2013 were: Chris Jaworek-Lopez, David Sittenfeld, Bassam Shakhashiri, Susan
Brauner, Catherine Brauner, and Doris I. Lewis, chair.

As agreed by the Northeastern Section and the ACS, the Phyllis A. Brauner
Lecture is held in the Northeastern Section’s territory in conjunction with
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National Chemistry Week and named in memory of Dr. Brauner. As envisioned and established by Phyllis, and presented by the Northeastern
Section since 1986, the Lecture will be for the general public of all ages. The endowment goal is a $140,000 endowment fund with income supporting the lectures.
 The Museum of Science hosted The Brauner Lecture and associated activities, an especially appropriate site since Phyllis Brauner was active in promoting joint activities with NESACS and the Museum of Science. The
Northeastern Section web site www.nesacs.org
features the National
Chemistry Week activities, summarized here:
 Thanks to the Boston Children's Museum, students at Fenway High School, and the MoS-Boston we had some great activities to complement the NCW
2013 theme - Energy: Now and Forever. Activities featuring electrolysis, batteries, and ultraviolet light were designed by summer interns and staff at the Museum of Science over summer 2013.
 NCW began with a prep day on Sunday, September 29, 2013 from 10 am -
12 pm Volunteers attended this event to practice the activities and recommend improvements. Refreshments were served and volunteers attending this event were invited to visit the exhibit halls.

On Sunday, October 27 Dr. Shakhashiri presented lectures at the Museum of
Science at 1:00 and at 4:00 while volunteers presented hands-on activities from 1- 5 pm. All volunteers received National chemistry Week t-shirts designed for the occasion that identified them to the hundreds of children and parents that attended the event.
 Activities for the day were led by over forty undergraduate volunteers from local colleges along with other Northeastern Section , and are described in the National Chemistry Week report by Chair Chris Jaworek-Lopez.. Dave
Sittenfeld of the Museum prepared the reagents and technical arrangements for the Lecture. Volunteers at the event included Brauner Committee members Doris Lewis and Susan Brauner.
 This year once more a long-time objective of the Brauner Lecture Committee and the National Chemistry Week Committee was realized, as the National
Chemistry Week activities included a High School Science Series at the
Museum of Science.
 `Susan Brauner arranged radio advertising on WBUR in conjunction with the
NPR Science Friday show.

The proposed bylaw amendments to the NESACS constitution incorporating the Brauner Committee into the constitution and submitted in November 2006 have yet to be reviewed by the ACS C & B Committee.
 Report of the NESACS treasurer regarding Brauner Memorial Lecture: On
12/31/13 the Brauner Memorial Lecture account contained cash and investments totaling $48,955.60. The Brauner share of the Consolidated
Account was $40,459.07, so the total value is $89,414.67. During the year,
$3000 was transferred to the Section operating account to reimburse 2013 expenses ($2000 honorarium plus $1000 toward travel). On 12/31 there was only $1,072.37 in cash in the account because most of the available cash has been invested. As a result, $11,207.27 of the investment value is actually
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income that could be used. The dividend income and distribution from
Consolidated in 2014 will generate enough cash to cover 2014 expenses.
 No written report
Old Business
 None.
New Business
 None
The meeting was recessed at 4:40 p.m. pending receipt of the Trustees report.
Respectfully Submitted
Doris Lewis
Acting Secretary
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Northeastern Section of the ACS
Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors
Courtyard Marriott, Cambridge MA
March 6 th , 2014
Members and guests in Attendance: Members and guests in Attendance: P.
Bont, M. Chen, M. Chorghade, C. Costello, J. Driscoll, P. Gordon, M. Hoffman, K.
Lee, R. Lichter,
P. Meltzer, J. O’Neil, D. Phillips, J. Phillips, Jim Piper, J.
Podobinski, R. Scannell, L. Shao, M. Shultz, M. Simon, M. Singer, S. Strah-
Pleynet, M. Strem, R. Tanner, M. Tebbe, and W. Virgo.
The meeting was called to order at 4:35 pm with C. Costello as the Chair.
Note – There was no Board meeting in February 2014 due to weather.
Chair:
 The Annual Meeting of the Board of Director’s is reconvened for the purposes of accepting the Trustees Report.
Trustees: P. Meltzer
 See Trustees’ report appended at the end of this report.
 The NESACS Trusts are in good shape. Started the year with ~$2.7 million and ended the year with just over $2.8million.
 The Trustee’s report was accepted by voice vote.
Auditor: A. Rosner (written report)
 The Auditor’s written report is appended at the end of this report
 The Auditor’s report was accepted by voice vote.
There being no other business to discuss the Annual meeting was adjourned at
4:40 PM
Respectfully Submitted
Michael Singer
Secretary - NESACS
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A sample copy of “welcome letter” to new members.
March 4, 2013
Dear Colleague,
Congratulations on joining the American Chemical Society and its Northeastern Section.
Welcome aboard! We intend to make sure your decision to join was a wise one. ACS is pleased to provide you with a broad range of services and opportunities to help you personally and professionally.
As a new member. I would like to provide you the opportunity to attend one of our monthly dinnerlecture meetings of your choice, complimentary. Our dinner-lecture meetings are usually held on the second Thursday of each month (September through May). Social hour is at 5:30 pm, dinner is at 6:30 pm., with a guest speaker to follow . The lectures are on a drop-in basis; reservations are necessary for dinner
Our next monthly dinner meeting is for the Gustavus J. Esselen Award dinner meeting on April 4,
2013 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 5:30 pm-Social hour; 6:30pm-Dinner at Harvard
Faculty Club, 21 Quincy St., Free Parking in Broadway Street Garage (3 rd level or higher), enter from Cambridge Street via Felton St.
At 8:15 pm, Esselen Award is at Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford St., Pfizer Hall MB23
The Esselen Award recipient is honoring the team of Drs. Michael Gelb and Frantisek
Turecek, Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, won for their work in developing methods for detecting genetic diseases in newborns
Topic: “ The Chemistry of Next Generation Newborn Screening "
For dinner reservations, please contact our section secretary, Anna Singer at 781-272-1966
(voice or Fax) or E-mail: secretary@nesacs.org
no later than noon, Friday, March
29 th , a week before the Dinner Meeting and let her know that you are a new member. We welcome your participation and look forward to meeting you. If you would like to volunteer for any
NESACS Committee (listed in The Nucleus or online), please let Anna know.
Information about our monthly meetings will be provided through the Nucleus, our monthly publication. Each month you will receive an email notifying you that it is available on our website, www.nesacs.org
. If you do not receive the notification or if we do not have your correct email address. Please contact our Business Manager of the Nucleus, Karen Piper at 978-456-8622 or
E-mail: piper28@attglobal.net
Once again, welcome to ACS and the Northeastern Section!
Sincerely yours,
Michaeline F. Chen - Chair, Membership Committee Northeastern Section, ACS
E-mail: mfuchen@verizon.net
Tel: 781-235-5201
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES - 2013
Esther A. H. Hopkins, Peter C. Meltzer, Michael E. Strem
The Trustees of the Section for the year 2013 were Esther A. H. Hopkins, Michael Strem and Peter
Meltzer. We met with our financial consultant, Robert M. Sarly, Senior Vice President at Morgan Stanley, held informal meetings, received reports from Smith Barney and from Piper Enterprises and discussed recommendations for the Board as to uses for the Funds in our care in keeping with the wishes of the donors of the funds.
The Trust Funds of the Northeastern Section are in three Trust Accounts and six income accounts. The
Trust Accounts are (one)—the Consolidated, comprising the principal amounts of the Richards, the Norris, the Publication, the Permanent, the Hill and a portion of the Brauner trusts, (two)—the Esselen Trust, and
(three)—the Levins Trust. To keep the capital ratios constant in the Consolidated Trust, capital amounts withdrawn from it are distributed to the Income accounts in the ratio of their ownership.
The Consolidated Account for 2013 had an opening portfolio value of $1,842,318.70. Withdrawals from the Consolidated Account consisted of $70,000 in distributions to the income accounts, $601.03 to
NESACS for reimbursement of expenses, and $30,999.59 of management fees and expenses. The adjusted opening balance was, therefore, $1,740,718.08. The closing balance was $1,947,868.39 for an increase of
$207,145.31. The Consolidated Trust contains money funds, stocks and mutual funds. The current yield at year-end was 4.73% and the annualized anticipated income was $92,201.38.
The Esselen Fund, comprising money funds, mutual funds and government bonds, had an opening balance of $586,592.78. $22,848.24 was withdrawn for the expense of the award this year. The adjusted opening value was $563,744.54 and the closing value was $599,401.96. The Levins Fund, comprising money funds and mutual funds had an opening portfolio balance of $11,611.19. $601.10 for the expense of the award was withdrawn during the year. The adjusted opening value was $11,010.09 and the closing portfolio value was $13,459.69. The Brauner Trust “income account” comprised of money funds, common stock and mutual funds had an opening balance of $42,158.48. Distributions of $1,453.97 were deposited to the Fund with expenses of $3,928.70 for the 2012 and 2013 Brauner lectures, giving an adjusted opening balance of
$39,683.75. The closing value was $48,955.60 of which $11,350.94 was income and the remainder was
Trust principal.
The Hill income account comprising money funds and mutual funds had an opening portfolio value of
$33,340.29, received $3,495.87 from the prorated distribution from the Consolidated Account and has yet to make a distribution to the Section for 2013 expenses. The adjusted opening value was $36,836.16, and the closing value was $42,966.81. The Norris Award income account, comprising only money funds had an opening portfolio value of $7,426.92 and an adjusted value of $6,480.21 after receiving $40,837.58 from the prorated distribution and withdrawing $41,784.29 for expenses. The closing portfolio value was
$6,480.36. The Permanent income account, comprising money funds, common stocks and mutual funds had an opening portfolio value of $90,680.25, received $10,110.31 from the prorated distribution and withdrew $10,993.71 in expenses for an adjusted value of $89,796.85. The closing value of the portfolio was $99,926.15. The Publication income account, comprising money funds, common stocks and mutual funds had an opening portfolio value of $83,133.27, received $5,714.94 from the prorated distribution and withdrew expenses for 2012 and 2013 of $15,000 for an adjusted value of $73,848.21. The closing value was $75,493.92. The Richards income account, comprising money funds and mutual funds had an opening value of $6,579.76, received $8,387.33 from the capital distribution, and withdrew expenses of $6,233.08 for an adjusted value of $8,734.01. The closing value was $10,223.52.
The total value of all accounts at the beginning of the year was $2,703,841.64 and at year end was
$2,844,771.40. Expenses and withdrawals totaled $132,989.74.
Respectfully submitted,
The Trustees
Esther A.H. Hopkins, Michael Strem, Peter Meltzer
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ACCOUNT
Consolidated
Esselen Fund
Levins Fund
Brauner
Hill
Norris Award
Permanent Income
Publication Account
Richards Account
TOTALS
Opening Value Withdrawals
$1,842,318.70
$586,592.78
$11,611.19
$42,158.48
$33,340.29
$7,426.92
$90,680.25
$83,133.27
$6,579.76
$2,703,841.64
$101,600.62
$22,848.24
$601.10
$2,474.73
-$3,495.87
$946.71
$883.40
$9,285.06
-$2,154.25
$132,989.74
Adjusted Opening
Balance
$1,740,718.08
$563,744.54
$11,010.09
$39,683.75
$36,836.16
$6,480.21
$89,796.85
$73,848.21
$8,734.01
$2,570,851.90
Closing
Balance
Increase
$1,947,868.39 $207,150.31
$599,401.96
$13,459.69
$35,657.42
$2,449.60
$48,955.60
$42,966.81
$6,480.36
$99,926.15
$75,493.92
$10,223.52
$9,271.85
$6,130.65
$0.15
$10,129.30
$1,645.71
$1,489.51
$2,844,776.40 $273,924.50
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