NESACS Public Relations 2014 Prepared by Jack Driscoll and Jennifer Maclachlan, NESACS Public Relations Committee
1. National
Historic Chemical Landmark (NHCL)- We started working in Jan. 2014 on designating 700 Mass. Ave. in Cambridge
(Edwin Land’s laboratory) as a National Historic Chemical Landmark in Jan. 2014.
Vivian Walworth filled out all the paper work and followed up with Keith
Lindblom of the ACS NHCL. In December 2014, we were informed that the ACS National Historic Chemical Landmarks
Subcommittee’s recommendation to designate Edwin H. Land and Instant
Photography as a National Historic Chemical Landmark for 2015 was approved by
the ACS Board Committee on Public Affairs and Public Relations, which is the
final reviewing body for all NHCL nominations. 700 Mass Ave. in
Cambridge is the physical site. This is
the first NHCL in MA. We were directed by Keith Lindblom to start a NHCL
committee and interface with him in early Jan. 2015. Jack Driscoll was asked by
Kathy Lee if he would chair the NCHL committee at the NESACS meeting in Dec.
See the write up in the Feb. 2015 issue of the Nucleus.
2.
Increased Attendance at NESACS Meetings-Chair Elect Kathy Lee introduced a “symposium-only” option in January
2014 for the 2014 monthly NESACS meetings which resulted in a dramatic increase
at the January and March meeting from an average of 50 attendees at each
meeting to 150 each! Other monthly meetings yielded an average of 10-20%
increase (topic dependent) and the Southeastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire
area sub-section meetings brought in members who had not previously attended
meetings. More about this in the SEMASS/NH Area Meetings below.
3.
Nobel Laureate Speaks at March 2014 Monthly
Meeting - We had a distinguished speaker for March 2014 NESACS monthly Meeting. We filled
the room to its capacity of 150 people for 2013
Nobel Laureate. Prof. Martin Karplus. The event is described in the March
2014 and May 2014 editions of the Nucleus. We presented an “ACS Salute to Excellence Award.” To Prof.
Karplus.
4. Regional
Girl Scout Outreach Event-March
9, 2014- NESACS –Chemistry table staffed by 3 NESACS volunteers: Patrick Dunne,
Dorothy Phillips (pictured below) and Ziyan Wu at a regional Girl Scout event “Changing the World through STEM: Teen
Career Expo" located at the Sheraton Framingham Hotel 1657 Worcester Rd. Framingham, MA 01701 on Sunday, March 9th from 3:00pm-5:00pm. NSYCC Younger Chemists assisted in a workshop with Beyond Benign at
this event.
5.
STEM Program at Cape Cod Community College
March 29,2014- The Cape Cod
council of the Boy Scouts of America, NESACS, PID Analyzers, LLC and Cape Cod
Community College hosted a STEM outreach program for Boy Scouts, K-12 students and families Cape-wide. Dennis-Yarmouth
High School chemistry students staffed and ran the NESACS table with hands-on
experiments. We had 750 people attend. Jack Driscoll invited his friend, Astronaut
Byron Lichtenberg, to be one of the keynote speaker. The other keynote speaker
and astronaut, is from Cape Cod, Dan Burbank and was invited by one of our Boy
Scout STEM committee members. This very
successful event was described in the Dec. 2014 Nucleus http://www.nesacs.org/pub_nucleus/2014/Dec14.pdf .
Other
publicity links:
6. ACS
Entrepreneurial Forum- at
Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham, MA (8AM-5:00PM). The reception was at Nova Biomedical at 5:30 on April 9, 2014.
On Wednesday April 9, 2014, the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses (SCHB) together with ACS National, the Northeastern Local Section (NESACS), Chemical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council (CIEC), ACS Division of Business Development and
Management (BMGT) and Nova Biomedical, presented the 2014 ACS
Entrepreneurial Resource Center Showcase East Event, a chemistry-based business
pitch competition, featuring a cash prize for the winning pitch. The
daytime event took place at the Hilton Garden Inn and concluded with an evening
program hosted by Nova Biomedical in Waltham, MA. Eighteen chemistry-based
start-ups seeking investments and/or strategic partners gave their pitch
on technologies involving materials, scientific instruments, therapeutic
candidates, diagnostic devices, and cleantech products.
The organizing
committee included the following ACS National staff members: Michael David, David Harwell, Kenneth Polk and Garretta Rollins
and the following member volunteers: Mukund Chorghade, SCHB Chair and Chair
NESACS Professional Relations Committee, Jack Driscoll, NESACS Public Relations
and SCHB Member and Jennifer Maclachlan, SCHB Public Relations Chair, Chair
CIEC Public Relations and Communications and Member NESACS Public Relations
Committee. We couldn’t have done it without the assistance of our reviewers,
mentors, volunteers and judges.Reviewers: Gianna Arnold, Esq.,
Partner, Saul Ewing LLP, Dr. Dan Daly, Director, the Alabama
Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneur Center, Dr. Judy Giordan,
Managing Director, ecosVC, Dr. Michael Lefenfeld, President and
CEO, SiGNa Chemistry, Jeffrey A. Lindeman, Esq., Founder, J.A.
Lindeman & Co. PLLC and Ralph T. Scannell, Ph.D. Mentors: Tony
Brazzale, Founder and CEO, Gordian Biotechnologies,Anthony Buzzelli,
Retired Partner, Deloitte and Dr. Dan Daly, Director, Alabama
Innovation and Mentoring of Entrepreneur Center. Volunteers: The
Manderson Graduate School of Business at the University of Alabama, Dr.
Rob Morgan, Director,Steven Beard, Melissa Huynh, Max
Mittenthal, Vincent Philippe, Michael Royko and Larry Wink. A special
thank you goes to Mark Vreeke, Sid White and Judy Giordan of the Chemical Angel
Network (CaN) for their support of this endeavor. Judges: Mukund
Chorghade, Chris Incarvito, Director of Research Operations and Technology at
Yale University, and Ken Polk, ACS Counsel.
Congratulations to Andrew Bond of DeNovX, who gave the winning
pitch and was the recipient 0f the $10,000 cash prize!
This event and what
made it a success, was featured at the SCHB Entrepreneurs’ Poster Session
Monday morning August 11, 2014 Moscone Center, South Bldg, Esplanade Ballroom
301 and on Monday night August 11, 2014 at the SCHB poster session at SCI MIX.
7.
The Cambridge Science Festival –April 2014, Motivate your students' molecules! A Chemistry-Based Workshop
Just For Teachers
Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Friday, April 18 at 5:00pm-8pm
8.
Event
Description:
As educators, it is our responsibility to do our best to provide many
opportunities that motivate and encourage student curiosity and enjoyment of
science. Join us for this educational experience exclusive to teachers for new
inspiration, tools, and strategies.
5:00pm: Networking reception with hors d'oeuvres
5:30pm-7:30pm: Show me the Chemistry! followed by Motivating Your Students'
Molecules workshop- by Dr. Hazari , Univ. of TN
7:30pm-8:00pm: Networking reception with dessert & coffee
This teacher workshop was
organized as a Cambridge Science Festival official event by the American
Chemical Society Northeastern Local Section (NESACS) Public Relations
Committee: Jennifer Maclachlan and Jack Driscoll.
Cost: Free
Sponsored by PID Analyzers, LLC
We had three ACS tables. See the blog here about the event including photos. NESACS members:
Cosmo Sabatino (NESAC PR Committee Member) and Sonja Strah-Pleynet staffed tables at this event
along with Jennifer Maclachlan and Al Hazari.
NSYCC
participated in Central Elements at Cambridge Science Festival.
NSYCC hosted
Antony Williams on 4/28 at MIT to address how to present yourself online as a
scientist.
10. SE MA meeting in Falmouth May 2014- Our
second meeting of the SE MA subgroup was held on May 15, 2014 at Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute. The Speaker was Prof. Brian Jackson of Dartmouth
College who will talked on “Detection of ppb Levels of Toxic Metals in Food and
Natural Waters by ICP/MS”. We had 85 people registered for the meeting in
Falmouth, MA.
11. Chemists
celebrate Earth Day CCED photos from the MOS event on 4/13/14 submitted to Linda Wang by Jennifer
Maclachlan. Although there is no round-up like NCW, she “considered it for ACS
news” and included it in the June 9, 2014 edition of C&EN. See link here (requires ACS login). See screenshot below.
12) NESACS wins three Chemluminary awards
out of a total of five that they were finalists for at the 2014 Fall National
Meeting in San Francisco! Awards were for Outstanding Collaboration Between a
Local Section (NESACS) and a Division (Environmental Chemistry), Best HS Chem
Club NCW event and Global Engagement. Read more about it here. Below is the section Chemluminary Finalist Poster that
was presented at the poster session prior to the awards ceremony.
13) Meeting of the New Hampshire area joint
meeting with the Green Mountain Local Section (VT) hosted by Dartmouth
College in Hanover, NH. 55 people were in attendance at this inaugural event on
October 23, 2014! See photo gallery here.
14)
SEMASS Meeting at Bridgewater State University
featuring Dan Nocera-Over 150 people attended this Class of 1942 lecture
and meeting of the Southeastern Region of NESACS on Tuesday October 28, 2014!
See the photo gallery here.
15) On Oct. 25, 2014, “NESACS
brings NCW to Cape Cod” marked our 10th Cape Cod Science CafĂ©
since the program began in 2011, (“Wicked Sweet”) which was hosted by Camp
Greenough in Yarmouth (http://capecodsciencecafe.tumblr.com/ ). Hands-on
experiments related to the 2014 American Chemical Society National Chemistry
Week theme: Candy~The Sweet Side of Chemistry, were facilitated by Cambridge Science
Festival, Green Briar Nature Center, PID Analyzers, LLC, and Cape Cod Middle
School Teachers. NESACS won a
ChemLuminary award for our collaboration between a local section (NESACS)
and a division (Environmental) for this same 2013 event which is now an annual
event!
16) NCW at Boston Children’s
Museum on Saturday October 25, 2014-Check out the photo gallery on the NESACS NCW/CCED
Facebook page here
17)
NESACS celebrates
NCW with Bassam Shakhashiri at Museum of Science Boston-Sunday November 2, 2014. Although
there was a Nor’easter, it didn’t impact the attendance-in fact it was busier
than usual! See the photo gallery here
18) The Future of Chemistry Symposium was revived in 2014 after
a brief hiatus featuring Wilhelm Boland, Max Planck Institute for Chemical
Ecology. Event was organized by Lee Johnson. Learn more about this exciting day
long event here
19) Our “STEM
Journey-Great White Sharks to Deep Ocean Exploration”: event on March
28, 2015 at Cape Cod Community College will have two famous keynote
speakers: Greg Skomal (expert on Great White Sharks) of MA Fisheries and
Wildlife and Dave Gallo of WHOI who has been involved in finding the Titanic,
the Bismark and is working on MH740. We expect > 1,000 people at this event
and will have an involvement with both the boy and girl scouts. Included in
STEM Journey 2015 there will be a Local
STEM Resources expo as part of this event which will include student work
including products created with a 3D printer (Mashpee High School), The Borne
to Engineer students (Bourne Public Schools), 7th and 8th
grade Engineering Program at the Lawrence School in Falmouth and others as well
as representatives from local STEM programs that include existing programs in
schools, from special activities to summer camps etc.. Boy Scouts will have the
opportunity to arrive in the morning before the event and complete a badge
related to oceanography before participating in STEM Journey 2015. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS: If NESACS members want to assist with
the badge, staff a resource table and/or an experiment table (NSYCC will be staffing an experiment table!)
or give a lecture related to oceanography, contact Jack Driscoll, STEM Journey
2015 Chairman at mailto:pidguy@aol.com.
20) Jennifer worked with Doris Lewis, 2014
Norris Committee Chair, to promote the “Norris
Award” on Nov.6, 2014 when Dr. Thomas Greenbowe of Iowa State received the
Award. The Nucleus article is here. Jennifer
developed contacts and initiated publicity at Iowa State University of Science
& Technology. Here is one of two links. Here is link two of two from Iowa State. She contacted Linda Wang, of C&EN who
agreed to provide some publicity in that magazine. Publicity appeared post
award in the December 8, 2014 edition. See link here. Jennifer also contacted the
Division of Chemical Education who posted the announcement on their web site
see link here: http://www.divched.org/content/greenboweJFNAward and put it on their Facebook page and
tweeted it. We posted it to NESACS Facebook and Linked In once the November
Issue of The Nucleus was available online. Event photos are available here. The most recent press is from University of Oregon, where Dr.
Greenbowe has just joined as a faculty member in the Winter of 2015.
21) Cape Cod Regional STEM REGION A few months ago, the number of STEM regions
in MA was increased from 7 to 9. A Cape Cod Region (Barnstable, Plymouth and
Dukes counties) was created and is established at Cape Cod Community College. A
full time administrator was hired in August. They have both State and Federal
funding so they can have a full time administrator. Jennifer and I attended the
first meeting for the STEM Region in October. Jack will be speaking about the
STEM Journey program on March 28, 2015 at the January 2015 Cape Cod Regional STEM
meeting. Note that the director of the Cape Cod Regional STEM Network is on our
STEM Journey Organizing Committee.
22) Cambridge
Science Festival- April
17-26.2015
This
is the fourth year that NESACS has been working with the Cambridge Science
Festival. It was the first of its kind in the United States, and is a week-long
celebration showcasing the leading edge in Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math. Planning has been initiated for a science café evening event for adult
festival attendees and outreach tables at the public event. The theme this year
is Einstein since it is the 100 year anniversary of his announcement of
“General Theory of Relativity”. The NESACS Younger Chemists Committee will be
participating in that event as well as the public outreach event. Jack has a pencil drawing of Einstein
(signed) from1930 that was drawn by the famous Austrian/America artist Joseph
Margulies. We can make T shirts for the NESACS volunteers at Cambridge Science
Festival using the sketch below! Contact Jennifer at pidgirl@gmail.com if you’d like to participate in NESACS
activities at Cambridge Science Festival.
Signed
Sketch of Einstein in 1930 by Joseph Margulies