Northeastern Section of the ACS
Monthly Board Meeting
Holiday Inn, Brookline MA
Jan 16th, 2014
Members and guests in Attendance: Liming Shao, Doris Lewis, Ruth Tanner,
Patrick M. Gordon, Jack Driscoll, Dan Elbaum, Myke Simon, Jim Piper, Emily
Lewis, Jackie O’Neil, Mary Jane Shultz, Katherine Lee, David Harris, Michael E.
Strem, Robert Lichter, Michaeline Chen, Dorothy Phillips, Mark Tebbe, Malena
Ohl, Michael Filosa, Daniel Eustace, and Cathy Costello.
The meeting was called to order at 4:30 pm with Cathy Costello as the Chair.
The minutes from December 2013 were approved as presented.
Chair: C. Costello
 No written report. Cathy Costello reported that on Monday of the national
meeting in Dallas there will be a symposium honoring the 50th anniversary of
the James Flack Norris award in Physical Organic Chemistry. Since the
Section is the sponsor of the award, Board members are encouraged to
attend.
Chair Elect: K. Lee
 Katherine Lee expressed thanks to those who had helped her in her new role
as chair-elect and program chair. She expressed concern about the cost of
dinners. A discussion followed, and the program chair will meet with the chair
of the fund-raising committee to explore using the dinners or receptions as
fund-raising opportunities. Jack Driscoll pointed out that industry sites like
Nova Biomedical had lower costs than hotels.
Past-Chair: L. Shao
 No written report
Secretary: M. Singer
 No written report
Treasurer: J. Piper
 See Treasurer’s report appended at the end of this report; the treasurer’s
report was accepted unanimously by the board.
Archivist: T. Frigo
 No written report
Trustees: M. Strem
 See Trustee’s report appended at the end of this report; the balance was
reported as substantial.
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Councilors:
Councilor reporting
 No written report
Standing Committees
Budget Committee: J. Piper
 The proposed 2014 budget is presented for review and discussion. The
budget will be voted on at the February 2014 meeting.
Awards: D. Phillips
 No written report
Local Arrangements: M. Burgess
 No written report
Chemical Education: M. Schwartz
 Norris/Richards Summer Scholars
o The announcement soliciting applications for the 2014 Norris/Richards
Summer Scholars has gone to The Nucleus, the webmaster, and will be
emailed to as many chemistry departments within the section as we can
manage. (Anyone with even a partial list of email information for chemistry
departments, please contact Anna Singer.)
 Theodore William Richards Award for Excellence in Teaching Secondary School
Chemistry
o A call for nominations has gone out. Nominations are due April 11, 2014. The
award will be presented in May 2014 at “Education Night”.
 Philip L. Levins Prize
o A call for nominations will be published in The Nucleus. Nominations are due
March 3, 2014. The prize will be presented in May 2014 at “Education Night”.
 NSCRC
o Details TBA. YCC is organizing.
 Education Night (May)
o Will be held at Tufts University again.
o Speaker TBA.
Board of Publications: J. Phillips
 No written report
Nucleus Editor: M. Filosa
 No written report
Web Report: M. Mahaney
 No written report. Doris Lewis inquired about an updated branding template
for the web site that she found on the ACS web site; she will forward the
information to the Board of Publications.
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Constitution & By-laws: C. Costello
 No written report
Membership: M. Chen
 A total of 115 “Welcome New Member” letters (67 new members and 48
transfers from other sections to the Northeastern Section) were sent on
17th of December to invite them to our January 16th Thursday monthly dinner
meeting at Holiday Inn –Brookline, 1200 Beacon Street, Brookline MA 02446.
 Another list of 50 new members received on the 7th of January, they will be
invited for
 NESACS February 2014 monthly dinner meeting.
 A reminder: The registration fee of the National ACS Meeting is waved (free)
for members between jobs and/or lay-off from work. I would like very much to
have this information included in the Nucleus.
Nominations: L. Shao
 No written report. Liming Shao reported that the nomination process was
almost completed and a report would be forthcoming soon.
Professional Relations: M. Chorghade
 No written report
Public Relations: J. Driscoll
 Interview with Prof. Martin Karplus, 2013 Nobel Laureate- I met with Martin
Karplus last week in his office at Harvard. He was very pleasant and
unassuming. Our invitation was the first one that he accepted since he
returned from Sweden. He had declined most of the invitations because he
felt that they were not relevant. I asked why and he said that it would do some
good to talk to a group of chemists, it was local and he liked my letter. I have
written an article for the March issue of the Nucleus and am looking forward
to his talk on March 6.I have already started posting info on this. We would
like to have 150 to 200 people at the talk.
 In addition to the written report, Jack Driscoll proposed that the Section honor
Martin Karplus by extending honorary membership to the Section, and that
other Nobel Prize winners in chemistry and biochemistry be similarly honored.
A discussion followed regarding the complex nature of a situation in which
some Nobel Prize winners were already members and others were not. At the
suggestion of Dorothy Phillips, the Board voted to present an ACS Salutes to
Excellence Award to Martin Karplus.
 National Historic Chemical Landmark- Vivian Walworth provided me with
the information needed to start work on designating 2 Osborn St. in
Cambridge, Edwin Land’s laboratory as a National Historic Chemical
Landmark. Vivian provided me with a telephone # and I placed a call last
week. I have also talked to Keith Lindbloom of the ACS about this.
 ACS Entrepreneurial Forum April 9, 2014- We have selected 10 mentors
for the participants in the program. We have been contacting local groups like
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MA Medical Device Manufacturer’s Assoc., Env. Business Council of NE,
Mass Bio ….We have also contacted local business schools (Entrepreneurial
Div.) to see if any of their students might be interested in this forum. Suffolk is
having a meeting this week to determine whether they have interested
students. Mukund has been working with TIE India. Jennifer has been busy
working with C&EN and the Dec. 23 2013 issue contains a writeup on the
ACS forum. This issue has just come out and we have already received 7
people who are interested in participating. Jennifer has been working with the
ACS Office of Public Affairs to send out a press release on this
Entrepreneurial Forum. We are providing most of the support for the program.
We want this program to be a success so that it will continue to be funded by
the ACS.
 SE MA Group meeting-The first meeting at UMA Dartmouth last October
was a success with more than 80 people in attendance. We are planning a
second meeting this Spring. We would like to have the meeting at Wood’s
Hole Oceanographic (WHOI). There are more than 1,000 scientists at WHOI
and another 250 at the Marine Biological Laboratory. I have written a letter to
the President of WHOI.
 YCC- I met with George Moker head of the Entrepreneurship Program at
Suffolk. Entrepreneurship is the fastest growing program at the University with
more than 400 students. George has offered to teach a workshop on
Entrepreneurship. This might be useful for the YCC program for new
graduates.
 STEM Program at Cape Cod Community College March 29,2014- The
Cape Cod council of the Boy Scouts of America, NESACS, ACS
Environmental Div. and Cape Cod Community College will be hosting a
STEM outreach program for Boy and Girl Scouts, K-12 students & parents.
We will invite the ACS high school chemistry clubs to participate in the
outreach hands-on experiment tables. We expect 1,000- 1,500 to attend. I
have invited Astronaut Byron Lictenberg to be our keynote speaker.
Special Committees
Fundraising: M. Tebbe
 No written report
Government Relations: D. Lewis
 No written report
Esselen Award: M. Chorghade
 No written report
Medicinal Chemistry Group: R. Rajur
 No written report
National Chemistry Week: C. Jaworek-Lopes
 No written report
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Norris Award: D. Lewis
 The James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching
of Chemistry is presented annually by the Northeastern Section to an
educator
who is both an excellent classroom teacher and whose professional activities
have had a wide-ranging effect on chemical education.
 The Norris Award is one of the oldest national awards of the American
Chemical Society and is presented annually by the Northeastern Section. The
recipient is selected from nominees who have served with special distinction
as teachers of chemistry at any level and whose efforts have had a wideranging effect on chemical education. The award has been given for a wide
variety of achievements: for outstandingly effective textbooks, lecture
demonstrations, or laboratory experiments, for editing the Journal of Chemical
Education, for developing chemical educational materials, or for exploring
new ways to teach laboratory courses in chemistry. Always, and this is of the
utmost importance, the specific achievement must be coupled with dedicated
teaching of chemistry at the graduate, undergraduate, or high school level.
The award consists of a certificate and an honorarium. ($3000 in 2013)
 Nominations for the Norris Award are due April 15. Members of the Board of
Directors are requested to assist the committee in finding suitable nominees.
 The award will be presented at the November NESACS meeting scheduled
for Thursday, November 13. The Brookline Holiday Inn has been reserved for
this date.
NERM: M. Hoffman
 No written report
Project Seed: C. Schnitzer
 No written report. Patrick Gordon reported that plans are being made for
additional Project Seed Scholars in addition to the two at Stonehill College.
He pointed out that we have very few colleges and universities participating
given the size of our section. Applications are due at the end of January.
Richard’s Award: R. Georgiadis
 No written report
Summerthing: D. Lewis
 NESACS has 60 right field box tickets for the Red Sox-Cincinnati Reds game
on Tuesday, May 6 at 7:10 pm. Tickets will be available at the January
meeting and afterward prepaid by mail from the NESACS secretary. The price
of $45 per ticket includes a $5 donation to the Northeastern Section. Red Sox
ticket pricing for 2014 follows a new system in which game prices vary. This is
the least expensive option above the bleachers, and gives us somewhat
better seats than in the past, in the right field box instead of grandstand.
 The Northeastern section is now a recognized customer of group sales and
receives early notification of ticket availability.
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 Northeastern Section members are encouraged to bring their families, friends,
and colleagues to this NESACS traditional outing. We are hoping again this
year for pleasant weather, good company, and a winning team.
Women’s Chemist Committee: P. Mabrouk
 No written report
YCC: E. Lewis
 YCC has reached out to ACS Scholars in the area. They have been invited to
tonight’s dinner and invited to join the UCC web list and activities.
 2014 regular program planning is underway
o Student Research Conference scheduled for April 12th at BU
 John Warner, Warner-Babcock Institute for Green Chemistry will
Keynote
o Career symposium scheduled for April 13th at BU
o Annual networking social Jan 29th at Tavern in the Square, Central
Square
 Additional programming
o Participation in the Cambridge Science Festival’s Central Elements on
April 27th
o Hosting of the National YCC’s February webinar series on February
11th
 We have been pushing social media to build our membership base.
o 30% more Facebook members – allows us to reach more people for
programming
YCC / GDCh exchange: M. Strem / E. Lewis
 2014 exchange cohort selected
o Elise Miner/Northeastern University
o John Nicoludis/Harvard University
o Brian Sneed/Boston College
o Ekaterina Vinogradova/MIT
o Peter Frank/UNH
o Matthew Marcinkowski/Tufts University
o Gloria Hong/Harvard University
o Thomas Sisto/Boston University
o Felicia Lucci/Tufts University
o Stephanie Maiocco/Boston University
o Peter Thill/MIT
o Emel Adaligil/Tufts University
 All students have registered and submitted abstracts to JCF conference
 Emily Lewis, Lee Johnson and John Podobinski and Jackie O’Neil will be
attending as chaperones.
BAGIM: K. Mattes
 No written report
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Long Range Planning: R. Tanner
 No written report. Ruth Tanner inquired whether a Long Range Planning
meeting was being scheduled. The usual time frame is in June, but in June
2014 there will be a meeting featuring Priestley Award winner Steve Lippard.
Hence date for the Long Range Planning meeting is TBA.
Old Business
 None.
New Business
 None
The meeting was adjourned at 5:42 p.m.
Respectfully Submitted
Doris Lewis
Acting Secretary
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Morgan Stanley Trust Market Values
Total Value
11/30/2013
Consolidated
Esselen
12/31/2012
12/31/2011
12/31/2010
12/31/2009
1,937,777.34 1,842,318.70 1,798,247.86 1,888,541.24 1,752,906.47
600,500.30
586,592.78
563,499.85
560,914.14
528,382.03
Levins
13,226.99
11,611.19
10,054.33
10,444.09
9,473.44
Brauner
47,949.22
42,158.48
39,301.47
35,630.15
31,482.28
Hill Income
42,597.37
33,340.29
26,652.00
26,710.34
22,466.16
6,480.36
7,426.92
1,577.79
3,652.65
432.51
Permanent
Income
99,085.10
90,680.25
84,465.29
75,978.91
63,598.86
Publications
Income
75,668.83
83,133.27
77,387.92
65,971.68
51,745.02
Richards Income
10,190.64
6,579.76
9,034.20
34,627.03
33,165.72
Norris Income
2,833,476.15 2,703,841.64 2,610,220.71 2,702,470.23 2,493,652.49
Total Value Comparison
3.00
Millions
2.75
2.50
2.25
2.00
12/31/2009
12/31/2010
12/31/2011
Period end
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12/31/2012
11/30/2013
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