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. 106752506 1 of 13 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. 106752506 2 of 13 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 106752506 3 of 13 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 106752506 4 of 13 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. 106752506 5 of 13 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 106752506 6 of 13 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 106752506 7 of 13 106752506 8 of 13 106752506 9 of 13 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 106752506 10 of 13 12/31/2012 11/30/2013 106752506 11 of 13 106752506 12 of 13 106752506 13 of 13