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My year in C&EN 2013

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Below are the notable mentions that my father, our  company, our Local Section/Division and/or I received  in 2013 in Chemical and Engineering News.  The two day symposium that I co-organized with members of the American Chemical Society Ag and Food Division and AGRO Division , garnered media coverage by the ACS Pressroom as a featured Press Conference and Press Release as well as a C&EN Cover Story. See Cover Story exerpt below. Clicking on the title links below leads to the original story link from C and EN. Volume 91 Issue 18  |  pp. 36-39 Issue Date: May 6, 2013 Eating Arsenic ACS Meeting News: Efforts to find out how the element gets into food are leading to ways to reduce its presence By  Celia Henry Arnaud Here's a link to more information on the two day symposium on Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water at #ACSNOLA. This is a link to the speakers who presented in this symposium. One of my tweets was selected for publication in the C

Chemjobber: ACS/NESACS sponsoring small chemical business pitc...

Chemjobber: ACS/NESACS sponsoring small chemical business pitc... : From Jennifer Maclachlan (analytical chemist, and part of the ACS Small Business Division), a very interesting idea: ACS ENTREPRENEURIAL ...

A chemistry workshop for teachers at the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival

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  Updated on 5/1/2014 2014 Cambridge Science Festival  part of the programs for educators  I pitched this idea of a teachers-only event at the 2014 Cambridge Science Festival to the festival organizers and they loved it so much, they added several  educator-only events  to the slate! We were the first up on festival opening night! FRIDAY EVENING APRIL 18, 2014 Teacher Workshop led by  Dr. Al Hazari MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS' MOLECULES Jennifer Maclachlan, Cambridge Science Festival Teacher Workshop Organizer and Dr. Al Hazari, Cambridge Science Festival Teacher Workshop Facilitator April 18, 2014 at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Al Hazari ,  wowed participants  with his chemistry-based magic show and inspired them to bring these ideas, strategies and kitchen-chemistry experiments  to their students in their own teaching environment.  Friday evening April 18, 2014 at The Broad Institute in Cambridge was an educational ex