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SUMMARY:2025 Annual BBQ Picnic and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly event\, please join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony!  Download flyer \n\nDate and Time: July 12\, 2025\, 4-7pm\n\n4:00-5:00 pm: Wine-tasting with hors d’oevres\n5:00 pm: Awards and Recognitions – SVACS Ottenberg Award and celebrating 50-\, 60- and 70-year ACS members\nCatered by Armadillo Willy’s\, dinner will immediately follow Awards & Recognitions\n\n\nLocation: Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, Mountain View\, California (view map\, get directions)\nRegistration required by July 8th\nCost: $10.00/person.  Children: free. Payment by cash or check at the door. If paying by check\, please make it out to “Silicon Valley ACS.”\n\nView the list of Silicon Valley ACS Members with 50+ Years of ACS Membership. \n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/2025-annual-bbq-picnic-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:In-person
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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SUMMARY:2024 Annual BBQ Picnic and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly event\, please join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony!  Download flyer (PDF) \n\nDate and Time: July 13\, 2024\, 4-7pm\n\n4:00-5:00 pm: Wine and Beer Tasting with hors d’oevres\n5:00 pm: Awards and Recognitions – SVACS Ottenberg Award and celebrating 50-\, 60- and 70-year ACS members\nCatered by Armadillo Willy’s\, dinner will immediately follow Awards & Recognitions\n\n\nLocation: Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, Mountain View\, California (view map\, get directions)\nAdvanced registration required by July 10\, 2024\nCost: $10.00 Children: free. Payment by cash or check at the door. If paying by check\, please make it out to “Silicon Valley ACS.”
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/2024-annual-bbq-picnic-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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SUMMARY:Mosher Award Reception and Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The 2023 Mosher Award recipients are Drs. Cynthia Maryanoff and Bruce Maryanoff.   \n\nDate: Thursday\, January 25\, 2024\nTime: Networking Reception 5:30-7pm\, Presentations 7-8pm\nLocation: SAPP Center\, Stanford University. The SAPP Center for Science Teaching and Learning is located in the remodeled “Old Chemistry” building on Stanford Campus. 376 Lomita Dr\, Stanford.  Free parking at Roth Way Garage after 4pm (see map at bottom of this entry).\nCost: $20 per person. To be collected at the door\, cash or checks only.  Registration required\nView flyer\n\nInitiated in 1980\, the Silicon Valley ACS Harry and Carol Mosher Award recognizes individuals who advance the chemistry profession\, make impactful scientific contributions\, and support ACS in their outreach efforts to share chemistry with the general public.  The award includes an ACS engraved plaque\, a $2\,000 honorarium\, and a Mosher Lecture event.  \nAbstracts\nAdventures in Drug Discovery: TOPAMAX® (Topiramate) for Treating Epilepsy and Migraine. Bruce E. Maryanoff\, formerly at Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development\, Spring House\, PA 19477-0776 \nDuring my 35-year career in the pharmaceutical industry (Johnson & Johnson) as a drug hunter\, I have encountered many therapeutic targets and many clinical candidates. Under the old drug discovery paradigm of phenotypic assessment\, I discovered TOPAMAX (topiramate)\, a billion-dollar drug for treating epilepsy and migraine headache. Its mechanisms of actions are diverse\, but still not fully understood. Phenotypic assessment mainly involves pharmacological and cellular methodology\, an approach which has become disfavored in the 21st century\, given the wealth of receptor and enzyme molecular targets that have emerged\, especially since the sequencing of the human genome. Nevertheless\, phenotypic assessment still can have a valuable role to play for certain unmet medical needs. \nWhy Hawaii? Kona Coffee!  Cyndie Maryanoff.  Co-CEO and CTO at Absolute Palate®\, Holicong\, PA 18928 \nIn 2015\, Bruce and Cyndie Maryanoff established Absolute Palate® LLC (www.absolute- palate.com) as a coffee business on the Big Island of Hawaii. Thus\, their long-standing passion for exceptional coffees and love of Hawaii were merged. A special interest in premium\, single-estate 100% Kona coffee\, led them to purchase two coffee farms in the iconic Kona Coffee Belt\, which provide coffee fruit that is hand-picked\, processed into green beans\, and custom-roasted in small batches with a fluidized-bed air roaster. They assembled a laboratory for on-site decaffeination\, thereby extracting green beans with supercritical carbon dioxide to furnish a flavorful 100% Kona decaf coffee (Absolute Decaf). Cyndie will discuss this coffee project and the organic chemistry that contributes to coffee’s special aroma and flavor. \nBrief Biographical Information\nBruce Maryanoff received a BS and PhD at the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia and was a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton.  He then embarked on a decades-long career in research and management with Johnson & Johnson.  He is currently a Visiting Investigator at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla\, CA.  View biography  \nCynthia Maryanoff received a BS at Drexel University and a PhD at Princeton University.  She performed postdoctoral research at Princeton.  She joined Johnson & Johnson for a long career in research and management.  She is currently a Foundation Distinguished Professor at the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute in Doylestown PA.  View biography  \nBoth Maryanoffs have extensive experience in drug discovery and management in the pharmaceutical industry.  They are long-term active participants and supporters of ACS activities.  They are founders of the Maryanoff Scholars – an annual program to assist undergraduate chemistry students in research in chemistry at Drexel University.  The Maryanoffs also founded Absolute Palate LLC\, a coffee company specializing in single-estate 100% Kona coffee\, with two coffee farms in Hawaii.
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/mosher-award-reception-and-lecture/
LOCATION:In-person
CATEGORIES:Awards,Lecture
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SUMMARY:The 33rd First Annual Ig Nobel Prizes: Act I (Webcast)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Improbable Research\n3-4:30pm\, Online via Zoom\, Free\, Learn more\n\nThe 2023 ceremony will happen entirely as a webcast\, not in a theatre.   \nLivestream options will be made available here. \nThe ceremony itself will include these and other traditional elements: \n\nWinners — Ten new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each winner (or winning team) has done something that makes people LAUGH\, then THINK\nPresenters — A gaggle of genuine\, genuinely bemused Nobel laureates will hand the Ig Nobel Prizes to the new Ig Nobel winners. Here are some of this year’s prize presenters:\n\nFrances Arnold (chemistry\, 2018)\nMarty Chalfie (chemistry 2008)\nPeter Doherty (physiology or medicine 1996)\nEsther Duflo (economics 2019)\nJerry Friedman (physics 1990)\nWolfgang Ketterle (physics\, 2001)\nEric Maskin (economics 2007)\nArdem Patapoutian (physiology or medicine\, 2021)\nAl Roth (economics 2012)\nRich Roberts (physiology or medicine 1993)\nBarry Sharpless (chemistry 2001 and chemistry 2022)\n\n\nTheme — the theme of the 2023 ceremony\, evinced in the non-opera and other bits\, is: Water.\nMini-Non-Opera — A new mini-non-opera — about water — will premier as part of the ceremony\, starring:\n\nAlexey Eliseev\, book\nIvan Gusev\, piano\nBarbara Allen Hill\, soprano\nThomas Michel\, accordion\nJulie Reimann\, cello\n\n\nScott Taylor\, baritone\n\n\n24/7 Lectures — Several of the world’s great thinkers will tell us\, briefly\, what they are thinking about (first in 24 seconds\, then in 7 words) in the 24/7 Lectures. Here are this year’s 24/7 lecturers:\n\nNadia Dominici & Alberto Minetti & Yury Ivanenko — TOPIC: Running on water on the moon\nDavid Hu — TOPIC: Water in the human body\nErika Johnson — TOPIC: Hydrodynamics\nJasmine Nirody — TOPIC: Gekkos running on water\nAndrea Sella — TOPIC: Medium density amorphous ice\n\n\nPaper Airplanes — Paper airplanes will be thrown\, by people in many countries and many walks of life.\nWelcome\, Goodbye — The traditional Welcome\, Welcome Speech and the traditional Goodbye\, Goodbye Speech will maintain the standard for what welcome speeches and goodbye speeches should be.\nAnd other things
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/the-33rd-first-annual-ig-nobel-prizes-act-i-webcast/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:Annual BBQ Picnic and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:A family-friendly event\, please join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony!  Download flyer \n\nDate and Time: July 8\, 2023\,  4-7pm\n\n4:00-5:00 pm: Wine and Beer Tasting with hors d’oevres\n5:00-6:00 pm: Dinner catered by Armadillo Willy’s\n6:00-7:00 pm: Awards and Recognitions – SVACS Ottenberg Award\, SVACS Community College Teacher-Scholar Awards\, and celebrating 50-\, 60- and 70-year ACS members\n\n\nLocation: Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, Mountain View\, California (view map\, get directions)\nRegistration: Advanced registration required. Registration deadline is July 5\, 2023 (to make sure there is plenty of food).\nCost: Adult: $20.00 Student: $10.00 Children under age 12: $5.00.  Payment by cash or check at the door.  If paying by check\, please make it out to “Silicon Valley ACS.”\n\nWe look forward to seeing you\, your friends and your families!
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/annual-picnic-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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SUMMARY:Mosher Award Reception and Lecture for Professor Richard Zare
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this event to help celebrate Dick Zare! \n\nDate: February 24 \nTime: 5:30-7:00pm Wine tasting\, heavy hors d’oeuvres\, wine\, and networking reception; 7:00-8:00pm Mosher lecture and award presentation\nLocation: Stanford University\, Sapp Center for Science Teaching and Learning\, 376 Lomita Dr\, Stanford\, CA 94305 (free parking after 4pm).  View on Stanford map (shows visitor parking). View on Google Maps\nCost: $20 regular/$10 students (cash-only\, pay at the door).  Show photo ID if you want to drink wine.\nRegistration required. (Registration deadline: February 18 at Midnight)\nPlease see accompanying article\nDownload flyer\n\nTitle: Recalling Adventures in the Stanford Chemistry Department\nAbstract:\nI have been a member of the Stanford Chemistry Department for over 40 years\, serving six years as its chair (2006 -2011). During this time\, I have witnessed some amazing changes\, and I want to take this opportunity to tell you some stories about what it has been like\, stories about teaching\, stories about research\, and stories of what it was like to be chair. I am reminded of the opening sentence of Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities: “It was the best of times\, it was the worst of times\, it was the age of wisdom\, it was the age of foolishness\, it was the epoch of belief\, it was the epoch of incredulity\, it was the season of Light\, it was the season of Darkness\, it was the spring of hope\, it was the winter of despair\, we had everything before us\, we had nothing before us\, we were all going direct to Heaven\, we were all going direct the other way—in short\, the period was so far like the present period\, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received\, for good or for evil\, in the superlative degree of comparison only.” Hopefully\, my presentation will not emulate this sentence in length or in extremes\, but I do hope to provide some insight to what it was like to be here at Stanford during this period that saw the Stanford Chemistry Department grow so much in strength. \nBio:\n“A pioneer in the use of lasers to study chemical reactions at the molecular level\, Marguerite Blake Wilbur Professor Richard N. Zare pursues diverse theoretical and experimental interests in physical chemistry and nanoscale chemical analysis. The Zarelab has made a broad impact in analytic chemistry with development of laser-induced fluorescence to study reaction dynamics\, and seminal contributions to understanding of molecular collision processes. The group continues to invent tools and measurement techniques to study phenomena from reaction in microdroplets to drug delivery. \nBorn in 1939 in Cleveland\, Ohio\, Professor Zare trained in physical and analytical chemistry at Harvard University (B.A. 1961\, Ph.D. 1964). His doctoral study under Professor Dudley Herschbach explored photodissociation dynamics. After faculty positions spanning chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, chemistry\, physics and astrophysics at the University of Colorado\, and chemistry at Columbia University\, he joined the Stanford chemistry faculty in 1977. He has taught an introductory chemistry class every year since. As a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor since 2006\, Professor Zare has also developed a course introducing undergraduates to hands-on interdisciplinary research\, combining physics\, and biology to explore how living systems use molecular interactions with light for vision\, photosynthesis and more. Professor Zare served as chair of the Department of Chemistry from 2005 to 2011\, and has helped to guide scientific policy as chairman of several national and international science boards. His dedication to research and teaching has been recognized in many awards\, including the National Medal of Science\, the Wolf Prize in Chemistry\, and the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science\, Mathematics\, and Engineering Mentoring. Among other honors\, Professor Zare is a member of the National Academy of Sciences\, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and the American Philosophical Society. He has also received 11 honorary doctorates. \nCurrent research in the Zarelab explores wide-ranging questions in physical and analytical chemistry\, from the study of elementary chemical reactions to chemical analysis of extraterrestrial materials. The major focus of these efforts is chemical analysis on the nanoscale. The team has devised tools and techniques to examine molecules in extremely tiny volumes – the volumes characteristic of what is found in heterogeneous structures in mineral samples or in the contents of cells and subcellular compartments. Group members have also made contributions to the chemical analysis of liquid samples separated using a capillary format by electrophoresis or electrochromatography. Some “firsts” include the use of cavity ring-down spectroscopy to analyze trace species in solution\, development of detectors for capillary electrophoresis based on the techniques of laser-induced fluorescence\, and CCD imaging\, and the use of mass spectrometric imaging of tissue samples by means of desorption electrospray ionization.” \nPlease visit the Zarelab website to learn more: https://web.stanford.edu/group/Zarelab/ \nSource for biographical information: The text above was copied from Professor Zare’s entry in Stanford Profiles.
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/mosher-award-reception-and-lecture-for-richard-zare/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Networking
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SUMMARY:Meet Chemistry Superstars: Creating Tomorrow’s Technologies - Rescheduled
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Chinese American Chemical Society\, Northern California Chapter\n4:15pm Check-in\, 4:30-5:30 Program\, 5:30pm Reception. All are welcome\, seating is limited. Free. Registration required\nLocation and parking: Stanford University\, Paul G. Allen Building (Allen 101X Auditorium\, 330 Jane Stanford Way)\, Parking: Via Ortega Garage\, 498 Via Ortega or Parking Structure 5\, 295 Campus Drive (free campus parking after 4pm)\nView/Download flyer\n\nProf. Zhenan Bao\, Stanford University: Skin-inspired Organic Electronics \nProf. Peidong Yang\, UC Berkeley: Artificial Photosynthesis \nPlease register and join us for the inaugural program of the new Northern California Chapter of the Chinese American Chemical Society (CACS) \n\nCACS overview and awards\nTalks from awardees Profs. Zhenan Bao and Peidong Yang\nGreat networking & light refreshments
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/meet-chemistry-superstars-creating-tomorrows-technologies/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Networking,Public Lecture
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SUMMARY:The 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony 2022
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Improbable Research\nSeptember 15\, 3-4:30pm PT\, Online via Zoom\, Free\, Learn more\n\nThe 32nd First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen (as in 2020 and 2021\, in deference to the lurking ambitions of Covid-19) entirely online on Thursday\, September 15\, 2022\, at 6:00 pm (US eastern time). Ten new Ig Nobel prizes will be awarded for things that make people LAUGH\, then THINK. \nWhile you are waiting… watch a recording of last year’s (2021) Ig Nobel Prize ceremony. And dip into some of the press reports\, which even include an editorial or two.
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/the-32nd-first-annual-ig-nobel-ceremony-2022/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Awards
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220716T190000
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SUMMARY:ACS Silicon Valley Annual Picnic and Awards Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our annual picnic and awards ceremony! \nRegistration:  Advanced registration required. Registration deadline is July 13\, 2022. \nCost: $5 for adults\, free for children. \nDate: Saturday\, July 16\, 2022 (download flyer) \nTime: 4:00-7:00 pm\n4:00-5:00 pm: Beer and Wine Tasting (Altamont Beer Works and Picchetti Wines)\n5:00-6:00 pm: Dinner Catered by Armadillo Willy’s\n6:00-7:00 pm: Awards for Long-time Members and the Radding Award Winner \nLocation: Cuesta Park\, Group BBQ Area #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Dr\, Mountain View\, CA 94040 (view map) (get directions) \nYour safety is our priority. After careful consideration\, CDC guidelines\, scientific advice\, and the ongoing issue of variants\, we request\nall attendees self-certify their vaccine status and encourage all attendees to wear face coverings during the event while not eating or drinking. \nWe look forward to seeing you! \n  \n 
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/acs-silicon-valley-annual-picnic-and-awards-ceremony/
LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220510T013000
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SUMMARY:The 46th Annual David M. Mason Lectures in Chemical Engineering - With Nobel Laureate Dr. Frances H. Arnold
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Title: Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life\nDr. Frances H. Arnold\, California Institute of Technology\n Sponsored by Stanford’s Department of Chemical Engineering\n4:30-5:30pm\, Jen-Hsun Huang Building\, NVIDIA Auditorium\, Free\, Learn more\n\nThe Department of Chemical Engineering is pleased to invite you attend our 46th Annual David M. Mason Lecture on Tuesday\, May 10\, from 4:30 – 5:30 pm. The lecture will be held in Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center – Nvidia Auditorium. Our distinguished speaker will be Dr. Frances H. Arnold\, California Institute of Technology’s Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering\, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and director of the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center. \nSpeaker Profile:\nDr. Frances Arnold\, the Linus Pauling Professor of Chemical Engineering\, Bioengineering and Biochemistry and Director of the Rosen Bioengineering Center at the California Institute of Technology\, became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2018) for pioneering directed evolution methods used to make enzymes for applications across medicine\, consumer products\, agriculture\, fuels and chemicals.  She was appointed Co-Chair of the Presidential Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) by President Biden in 2021. Arnold received the Bower Award in Science in 2019\, the Millennium Technology Prize in 2016\, the Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2011\, and a 2011 National Medal of Technology and Innovation. \nShe is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, the American Philosophical Society\, and the US National Academies of Science\, Medicine\, and Engineering; she was appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences by Pope Francis in 2019.  Arnold received her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nLecture Title & Abstract:\nInnovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life\nNot satisfied with biology’s vast catalyst repertoire\, I want to create new enzyme catalysts and expand the chemistry of life. We use the most powerful biological design process\, evolution\, to optimize existing enzymes and invent new ones\, thereby circumventing our profound ignorance of how sequence encodes function. Chemistry encoded in DNA and optimized by evolution enables efficient\, sustainable routes to important fuels and chemicals. Evolution not only optimizes\, it can also innovate and create entirely new enzyme catalysts. I will illustrate how whole families of new-to-nature enzymes increase the scope of molecules and materials that can be built using synthetic biology.
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/the-46th-annual-david-m-mason-lectures-in-chemical-engineering-with-nobel-laureate-dr-frances-h-arnold/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Symposium
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SUMMARY:2021 Mosher Award Presentation: Exploring the Use of Models and Animations to Teach Chemical Principles
DESCRIPTION:Download and share the colorful poster\nView animations on Resa Kelly’s YouTube Channel \nSJSU Professor Resa Kelly\, 2021 Harry and Carol Mosher Award Winner\nEach year the Silicon Valley ACS local section presents the Harry and Carol Mosher Award to an ACS member in recognition of outstanding work in chemistry\, advancement of chemistry as a profession\, and service to the ACS.  The 2021 award winner is Dr. Resa Kelly of San Jose State University.  Professor Kelly will present a summary of her research at the SVACS Mosher Award presentation ceremony on March 3\, 2022. \nAbstract\nOne challenge in chemistry learning is developing an understanding of chemical processes at an atomic level. The use of animations and visualizations has repeatedly been reported to be an effective method for helping students make sense of atomic level reaction processes; however\, students often fail to deeply engage with these models. It is necessary to help students learn how to compare animations rather than accept them as “truth.” In her talk\, Dr. Kelly will characterize the nature of the thought processes that students engage as they construct atomic level models in the example of a neutralization reaction.  She will then describe how the modeling exercise affects students’ emotional responses to ideas presented in conflicting animation models of the same reaction\, and how students ultimately decide which animation is most scientifically accurate. \nBiography\nProfessor Kelly is on the faculty of San José State University where she has achieved the rank of full professor and is in her 16th year at the university. She is the Chair and Director of Science Education and teaches General Chemistry as well as graduate courses in Science Education. Professor Kelly’s research interests involve studying how students learn and modify their understanding of chemistry concepts and mechanisms through molecular visualizations. She uses animations and activities to enhance students’ understanding of chemical reactions.   \nDr. Kelly’s work in chemical education research has garnered her an international reputation for excellence.   Her service at the national level of the American Chemical Society has involved serving as Secretary and Councilor for the Division of Chemical Education. She has also served as a member of the Membership Affairs Committee and currently is a member of the International Activities Committee. \n\nOnline via Zoom\, Free\, Registration Required
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/mosher-award-presentationfor-2021-exploring-the-use-of-models-and-animations-to-teach-chemical-principles/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Presenters include Frances Arnold and Barry Sharpless\nSponsored by Improbable Research\n3pm-4pm\, Online on YouTube\, Free\, Learn more (no registration required)\n\nThe 2021 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony & Webcast \n“The 31st First Annual Ig Nobel Prize ceremony will happen on Thursday\, September 9\, 2021\, beginning at 3 pm (Pacific Time). Because of the Covid-19 pandemic\, the ceremony will again be entirely online. There will be a special livestream in Japanese (on the Nico Nico network). There might also be a special livestream in Spanish (that’s not definite yet\, but we are hopeful.) \nTen new Ig Nobel Prize winners will be introduced. Each has done something that makes people LAUGH\, then THINK. \nThe prizes will be handed out by this gaggle of Nobel laureates: \n\nRich Roberts (physiology or medicine\, 1993)\nFrances Arnold (chemistry\, 2018)\nMarty Chalfie (chemistry\, 2008)\nEric Maskin (economics\, 2007)\nBarry Sharpless (chemistry\, 2001)\nRobert Lefkowitz (chemistry\, 2012)\nCarl Weiman (physics\, 2001)\nEric Cornell (physics\, 2001)\nJerome Friedman (physics\, 1990)\n\nThe theme of this year’s ceremony is ENGINEERING. A new mini-opera\, called “A Bridge Between People”\, amplifies that theme. \nThe ceremony will also include the 24/7 Lectures\, in which the lecturers explain their topic first in 24 SECONDS\, then in seven WORDS. \nThis year’s lecturers and their topics: \n\n Gwinyai Masukume: Drinking Coffee\n Françoise Brochard: Soft Matter\n Chaouki Abdallah: Feedback Control\n Patricia Yang: Excretion Dynamics\nIman Farahbakhsh: Baby-Washing Technology”\n\nFor details\, see the ceremony web page: https://www.improbable.com/ig/2021-ceremony/
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/the-31st-first-annual-ig-nobel-ceremony/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Awards
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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley ACS Annual Picnic and Awards
DESCRIPTION:The deadline for registration is Wednesday\, July 14\, 2021.\nRegistration is required  in order to be sure there’s plenty to eat.  Meals will be packaged individually. \nWe are delighted to announce that our first 2021 in-person event is the annual SVACS July picnic and awards.  We will celebrate together with wine- and beer-tasting\, good food and awards. \nYour safety is our priority. After careful consideration of CDC guidelines\, scientific advice\, and the ongoing issue of variants\, we request all attendees self-certify their vaccine status and encourage all attendees to wear face coverings during the event while not eating or drinking. \nIn this year of transition back to in-person events\, some picnic traditions will be modified.  The picnic will be completely outdoors and will last two hours.  The awards recognition for fifty- and sixty-year ACS members will be brief and won’t include honorees’ sharing their  experiences and stories\, so chat them up over wine and dinner!  The Radding Award presentation will also be abbreviated. \nWe are looking forward to meeting in person again. \nDownload and share the colorful poster
URL:https://www.siliconvalleyacs.org/event/silicon-valley-acs-annual-picnic-and-awards/
LOCATION:In-Person in Mountain View at Cuesta Park Group BBQ Areas #1-2\, 615 Cuesta Drive\, Mountain View\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:Awards,Annual Picnic
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