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DAYTON SECTION OFFICERS
CHAIR
Dr. Wayne Cook
259-3162, wayne.cook@kodak.com
CHAIR-ELECT
Dr. Freddie L. Jordan fjordan3@sbcglobal.net
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR
Prof. Leanne Petry
376-6656, lpetry@centralstate.edu
SECRETARY
Prof. Yu Kay Law, (765) 973-8323, lawy@iue.edu
TREASURER
Dr. Prakriti B. Pollack prakritibasak@gmail.com
COUNCILOR
Dr. Steven Trohalaki
878-0677, steven.trohalaki@mac.com
ALTERNATE COUNCILOR
Dr. Rachel Jakubiak
255-9080, rachel.jakubiak@us.af.mil
COMMITTEE CHAIRS
MEMBERSHIP
Dr. Aaron Burke
890-2312, aburke1333@aol.com
PUBLIC RELATIONS
Dr. Ibrahim Katampe
376-6513, ikatampe@centralstate.edu
PATTERSON COLLEGE CHEMISTRY AWARDS
Prof. Leanne Petry
376-6656, lpetry@centralstate.edu
PATTERSON HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY AWARDS
Dr. Barry Farmer blfarm.farmer@gmail.com
PATTERSON-CRANE AWARD
Vacant
BULLETIN EDITOR
Dr. Steven Trohalaki
878-0677, steven.trohalaki@mac.com
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Dr. Ibrahim Katampe
376-6513, ikatampe@centralstate.edu
EDUCATION
Dr. Barry Farmer blfarm.farmer@gmail.com
INVESTMENT
Dr. Prakriti B. Pollack prakritibasak@gmail.com
SECTION CAREER PROGRAM
Vacant
WOMEN CHEMISTS
Prof. Suzanne Seleem
376-6689, sseleem@centralstate.edu
YOUNGER CHEMISTS
Ms. Kerra. R. Fletcher (570) 337-2298
kerra.fletcher@outlook.com
WEBMASTER
Prof. Yu Kay Law, (765) 973-8323, lawy@iue.edu
NATIONAL CHEMISTRY WEEK COORDINATOR
Dr. Melinda Greer
(513) 936-7165, greermd@ucmail.uc.edu
COMMITTEE ON MEMBER APATHY
C.F.I. Kaire cfikaire@gmail.com
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R E P O R T F R O M C O U N C I L
By all accounts, Councilors had a rootin’ tootin’ good time in Denver at the 249th National ACS Meeting
— and it had nothing to do with the premium marijuana-infused edibles at the most popular booth at the
Expo. Let me back up a couple of days and tell you about my pre-Council activities.
At Sunday’s Division-II Caucus, Councilors were told that ACS has been losing money on national meetings the past few years. Reasons cited included the fact that only about half the attendees pay the full registration fee. The other half the are students, K-12 teachers, retired members, 50-year members, or unemployed members. Cost-saving measures to be enacted next year include a $15 increase in registration per meeting. In addition, the hard-copy program will cost $10. At Council, an irate Ann Nalley — a
Past President of the ACS — noted that the current hard copy program doesn’t even have an author index. Addressing the Chair of the Committee on Meetings and Exhibitions, Prof. Nalley said, “It’s like you’re American Airlines. You raised the price of my ticket but when I get on the plane you tell me that I have to pay extra if I want a seat!” Council passed some sort of resolution requiring the ACS Board to reconsider raising registration fees. Like that’s going to happen. The resolution also asked the Board to present an analysis (preferably at the Boston meeting) of the projected break-even fee, including and excluding the net revenue from the National Meeting Exposition. Stay tuned!
After Caucus, I attended the Town Hall Meeting, sponsored by the Committee on Nominations and Elections (N&E), where the four candidates for ACS President were grilled with questions from the audience.
Using my patented four-point system, I once again correctly predicted the two nominees selected by
Council: Bryan Balazs and Allison A. Campbell (the vote was 330 to 194). Christopher J. Welch was a close third with 184, followed by David J. Lohse with 111. To my chagrin, the question I submitted —
How much of your own personal funds do you plan on spending on full-page, color ads in C&EN in order to sway the electorate? — was not asked at the Town Hall.
At Council, M&E reported that the total attendance was 13,940 but that this number included only
7,307 regular attendees. The Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs reported that the ACS
Career Fair had 715 job seekers, 27 employers, 85 positions, and 10 booths. The Virtual Career Fair had 918 seekers, 6 employers, and 38 positions. So, whether you want a real career or a virtual career, you’re pretty much screwed if you’re looking for a job. By the way, I extended my streak of not getting any interviews at the ACS Career Fair.
N&E announced the selection of the following candidates for Directors-at-Large for 2016-2018 terms:
Willem R. Leenstra, Ingrid Montes, Mary Jo Ondrechen, and Thomas W. Smith. The election of two Directors-at-Large from among those candidates and any selected via petition will be conducted in the fall. Ballots will be distributed to the Council on October 2, 2015. On recommendation of the Committee on International Activities and subject to the concurrence of the Board of Directors, the Council voted to approve petitions to charter the India International Chemical Sciences Chapter and the Taiwan
International Chemical Sciences Chapter.
The Society Committee on Education reported that more 1,900 individuals have joined the American
Association of Chemistry Teachers (AACT), 88 percent of whom are K-12 teachers of chemistry. The
Dow Chemical Company was announced as the Sole Founding Partner of AACT with a gift of $1 million.
The Committee on Science (said to be the committee where Past ACS Presidents go to die) has collaborated with several ACS committees to develop five public policy statements, most notably a new draft on hydraulic fracturing, which will be considered by the Board. Current collaborations include revisions of ACS policy statements on energy, climate change and forensic science.
Your faithful Councilor,
Steve Trohalaki
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U P C O M I N G M E E T I N G
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Originally established by Charles A. Thomas and Carroll A. Hochwalt, former Dayton chemists and
Monsanto researchers, the top chemistry students in the area have been recognized under the auspices of the Dayton Section since 1943. In 1990, the family of the late Austin M. Patterson, also a prominent Dayton chemist, assumed sponsorship. All area high school students are invited to take an examination and the highest scoring applicants (*) are then invited to write essays, which form the basis of the final judging. (These finalists, although only two from each school, are also invited to take the Chemistry Olympiad Exam.) In addition, teachers of the prizewinners receive $50 awards, and the top scoring student from each high school is awarded a plaque. Grading was performed separately for those students who have only taken one year of chemistry. Students from this group (1) who were the highest scorers in their High School will also receive a plaque. The top three essayists are awarded first, second, and third prizes of $1000, $750, and $500, respectively.
This year’s Patterson Scholars are:
Maxwell Venetos (*)
Michael Li (*)
Andrew Wang (*)
Brian Daniels (*)
Parker Huntington (*)
Richard Huang (*)
Adit Mahesh (*)
Paddy Fanning (*)
Abhijeet Mulgund (*)
Rosamiel Ries (*)
Sachin Shanka (*)
Nick Fadell
Sam Blizzard
Alexander Morgan
Thao Truong
Ryan Wood
Lindsay Kreill (1)
Noor Ali (1)
Noah Thompson (1)
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Beavercreek High School
Centerville High School
Beavercreek High School
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Centerville High School
Alter High School
Northmont High School
Northmont High School
Northmont High School
Oakwood High School
Beavercreek High School
Centerville High School
Oakwood High School
All Patterson Scholars, their families, Dayton Section Members, and the general public are invited.
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P A S T M E E T I N G S — T E C H F E S T 2 01 5
The Dayton Section of the ACS again presented an exhibit at TechFest 2015. This annual event is sponsored by the Affiliated Societies Council of Dayton for the promotion of science and technology to families and children in the Miami Valley.
This year’s TechFest celebrated the “International Year of Light.” There were a total of 71 exhibits; 15 of which featured the many ways light is used in our lives. The Dayton Section exhibit demonstrated the role of chemistry in light including fluorescence, UV absorption by sunscreen, “spin-art” chromatography of dyes, and quantum dots. The exhibit itself was designed by Drs. Amit Sharma and Wayne
Cook. It was staffed by volunteer members and students from the Dayton Section and area universities. The Section owes a debt of thanks to all our volunteers.
A total of 2148 students registered for TechFest this year in addition to their parents and other family members. TechFest is by far the Dayton Section’s biggest chemistry outreach event.
A rookie volunteer signals “all systems go” minutes before she is overwhelmed by a hoard of sniveling students needing something — anything — they could use for a science project.
A student innocently inquires about the type of laser he can purchase that is powerful enough to blind his teacher.
Apparently, some students prefer that the hands in the hands-on experiments belong to the volunteers.
Yu Kay wonders why the crowd always seems to thin out whenever it’s his shift.
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P A S T M E E T I N G
We had a tremendous turnout for our first ever Poster Session at Cedarville University. Competing for outstanding poster awards were 15 graduate students and 16 undergraduates. A total of 34 posters were presented.
Outstanding Undergraduate Posters:
Synthesis and structure-property relationship of novel azobenzene-containing diamines and polyimides
Matthew Baczkowski, University of Dayton
Steric Hindrance Dependence on the Photophysical Properties of a Donor-pi-Acceptor Organic Nonlinear Absorbing Chromophore
Stephanie Long, Cedarville University
Outstanding Graduate Posters:
Influence of solvents on the physical properties of materials for organic photovoltaic devices
Anna Foote, Wright State University
Combining Photocatalytic and Halamine Chemistry to Produce Antibacterial Materials
Chelsea Marcum, University of Dayton
We also presented three Patterson College Chemistry Awards to outstanding chemistry majors in their junior year. The award consists of a certificate and a check for $400. This year’s winners are:
Steven Hartman, Cedarville; Rebecca Shreffler, Wittenburg; Matthew Witzeman, University of Dayton
In a secret competition, Patterson College Award winners Hartman (l), Shreffler (c), and Witzeman (r) try to best each other at blocking the Dayton Section banner in their photographs. And the winner is … Steven Hartman of Cedarville!
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I I N V Y
E E E H N T
C E G L L O R Y
Answers for Last Edition
HELIUM KRYPTON SULFUR
At the Element Bar, the usual characters are discussing the latest scientific scuttlebutt. “Did you hear,” asks the barkeep,
“that helium finally achieved absolute zero?” “Yeah,” replied krypton, evidently unimpressed;
“How’s he doing?” “As you might expect,” pipes in sulfur,
“HE’S 0K.”
In the Past Meetings Section of
Su Doku for Chemists!
Using the following nine chemical elements: the 2015 Belated New Year’s Edition of the Dayton Section Bulletin
fill in the grid below so that each row, column, and 9-element subcell has only one occurrence of each element.
Cr
Mn
Sc Ti Cu
V Sc
Fe
(page 5), two long-time Dayton
Section Members and volunteers
— Dr. Don Sullenger and Prof.
Gerry Kyle — were misidentified as interlopers in the caption of a photograph taken at the Membership
Meeting held last November.
The Editor offers his sincere apology for this error.
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Sc
Cu Co
Fe
Ti Ni
Co
Solution for Last Edition
Co Ti Cr V Cu Ni Fe Mn Sc
Cu Mn Fe Cr Sc Co Ni V Ti
Sc Ni V Ti Fe Mn Co Cu Cr
Co Ni Cr Mn
Mn
Ti
V Cu
Fe Mn Co
Mn
Fe Cu Ni Mn V Ti Cr Sc Co
Mn Sc Co Fe Cr Cu V Ti Ni
Cr V Ti Ni Co Sc Mn Fe Cu
Ni F Mn Cu Ti Cr Sc Co V
Ti Cr Sc Co Mn V Cu Ni Fe
V Co Cu Sc Ni Fe Ti Cr Mn
*Surveys suggest that mental exercises, including word puzzles, may delay the progression of Alzheimer's Disease.
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