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DAYTON SECTION OFFICERS CHAIR
Ms. Lori Balster 656-9695 , [email protected]
CHAIR-ELECT Dr. Leanne Petry [email protected]
IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR Prof. Suzanne Seleem 376-6689, [email protected]
SECRETARY Dr. Wayne Cook 259-3162, [email protected]
TREASURER Prof. Rachel Aga, 775-4653 [email protected]
COUNCILOR Dr. Steven Trohalaki 878-0677, [email protected]
ALTERNATE COUNCILOR Dr. Rachel Jakubiak 255-9672, [email protected]
COMMITTEE CHAIRS MEMBERSHIP
Dr. Narayanan Venkat 255-9913, [email protected]
PUBLIC RELATIONS Vacant
PATTERSON COLLEGE CHEMISTRY AWARDS Dr. Leanne Petry [email protected]
PATTERSON HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY AWARDS Ms. Bonnie Buddendeck, [email protected] Ms. Cindy Hasler: [email protected]
PATTERSON-CRANE AWARD Mr. James P. Carey 513-241-2324, [email protected]
BULLETIN EDITOR Dr. Steven Trohalaki 878-0677, [email protected]
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS Dr. Wayne Cook 259-3162, [email protected]
EDUCATION Dr. Paul A. Fleitz 255-9656, [email protected]
INVESTMENT Prof. Rachel Aga, 775-4653 [email protected]
SECTION CAREER PROGRAM Vacant
WOMEN CHEMISTS Dr. Sarah Lane 255-9113, [email protected]
YOUNGER CHEMISTS Mr. Kirby Underwood, [email protected] Dr. Raymond Dudek 327-6476, [email protected]
WEBMASTER Dr. Hilmar Koerner 904-5091, [email protected]
NATIONAL CHEMISTRY WEEK COORDINATOR Dr. Joy Haley 656-9223, [email protected]
Meetings and Events Feb. 16-17: The 11th Annual TechFest March 12: Annual Poster Session and Patterson College
Chemistry Awards
Section News and Other Stuff Call for Poster Abstracts — page 2
Call for TechFest Volunteers — page 2
Election Results — page 3
Past Meetings — pages 4-5
Alzheimer’s Avoidance Therapy — page 6
AAT-2: Su Doku for Chemists — page 6
Wanted: Food Chemists — page 6
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B U L L E T I N Belated New Year’s Edit ion 2013
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U P C O M I N G M E E T I N G
M A R C H 1 2 A N N U A L P O S T E R S E S S I O N A N D
P A T T E R S O N C O L L E G E C H E M I S T R Y A W A R D S Venue: Wright State University, Dunbar Library, First Floor (see Campus Map at:
http://www.wright.edu/university-maps/) Parking: Visitor Parking is near the University Blvd. entrance off Colonel Glen Highway
but the closest regular parking is Lot 11 (tickets are rare after 5:30 PM) Agenda: Poster Set-Up: 5:30 – 6:00 PM
Poster Judging: 6:00 – 7:00 PM Poster Viewing: 6:00 – 7:30 PM Awards: 7:30 – 8:15 PM
The Annual Poster Session is a tradition of long standing in the Dayton Section. This year, however, we continue a new system where venues rotate among area Universities. A total of six outstanding undergraduate and graduate poster presentations will be awarded with prizes of $100. The Dayton Section Officers invite you, your colleagues, and students to present a poster relating to any area of chemical research. Complimentary food and soft drinks will be provided by the Section. In addition to poster awards, we will also recognize the outstanding junior chemistry major at each college and university within the Section’s boundaries with the Patterson College Chemistry Award.
Call for Poster Abstracts
Send abstracts of 250 words or fewer by close of business Monday, March 11, 2013 to Lori Balster at [email protected]. For students, please indicate on the abstract if you would like to be considered for an award and whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student. Please use standard ACS abstract format (see the example on Day-tonACS.org/abstract/Abstract Template.doc). Poster boards measure 4’ high by 6’ wide.
Volunteers Needed for TechFest 2012 When: Saturday, Feb. 16, 10 AM–6 PM, and Sunday Feb. 17, 11 AM–5 PM Where: Sinclair Community College Ponitz Center (Building 12) Parking: Free in the underground garage beneath Building 12 off Fourth St.
This is a free event about sharing and learning about math, science, engineering, and tech-nology – past present and future – for the entire family. TechFest features over sixty inter-active science and technology demonstrations, exhibits, and games hosted by dedicated volunteers and practicing professionals in the Miami Valley representing professional so-cieties, universities, industry, the Air Force, and NASA. The Dayton Section will be there again this year with hands-on demonstrations that explore chemistry. We need volunteers to help makes this event a success. Trust us — it‘ll be fun!
To volunteer, even for just a couple of hours, contact Wayne Cook at: [email protected] or 937.259.3162.
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R E S U LT S O F T H E 2 01 2 E L E C T R O N I C S E C T I O N E L E C T I O N S In our first electronic (although still uncontested) election, Dr. Leanne Petry was elected Chair-Elect with 45 votes, and Prof. Rachel Aga was elected Treasurer with 42 votes. About twice as many votes were cast as last year. Congratulations to our newly elected officers! Ms. Lori Balster succeeds to Chair and Prof. Suzanne Seleem to Immediate Past Chair. Dr. Wayne Cook starts his second and final year in his term as Secretary, while Dr. Steve Trohalaki and Dr. Rachel Jakubiak start their third and final years in their terms as Councilor and Alternate Councilor, respectively. The Section owes a debt of thanks to our outgoing officers — Prof. Vladimir Benin and Dr. Chris Tabor — for their selfless service. The alter egos of the 2013 Dayton Section Board of Directors and our outgoing officers are pictured below.
Newly E lected Off icers
Return ing Of f icers
Rachel Aga Treasurer
Leanne Petry Chair–Elect
Wayne Cook Secretary
Steve Trohalaki Councilor
Rachel Jakubiak Alternate Councilor
Suzanne Seleem Immediate Past Chair
Lori Balster Chair
Vladimir Benin Immediate Past Chair
Chris Tabor Treasurer
Outgoing Off icers
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P A S T M E E T I N G S — 2 01 2 N AT I O N A L C H E M I S T R Y E V E N T S National Chemistry Week was celebrated at three separate events in 2012. The first event took place at the Centerville Library on October 27th and the second event was held on November 3rd and 4th at the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery. The third event held November 17th was new this year as part of the Dayton Regional Science Festival held at Chaminade-Julienne High School. All events highlighted this year’s theme of “Nanotechnology – The Smallest BIG Idea in Science”. Experiments included color change of gold nanoparticles, iron oxide supermagnetic nanoparticles, hydrophobic sand, super absorbing polymers, pigment separation in ink, a giant nanotube balloon, graphene, butterfly struc-tures, and How Small is Nano? In all, around 500 local children participated in our NCW events.
We give special thanks to all our volunteers. At the Centerville Library they include Josh Smith, Katie Sullivan, David Stewart, Jack Evenson, and Joy Haley. Dayton Section Members volunteering at the Boonshoft Museum include Ed Geller, Wayne Cook, Rhonda Cook, Oksana Pavlyuk, Yu Kay Law, Bill Crawford, Vladimir Benin, Radka Benin (a future ACS member), Sarah Lane, Denise Simpson, and Joy Haley. We are grateful for all the volunteers from the University of Dayton Chemistry Club and the Wright State University Chemistry Club. We also give special thanks to Wright State for performing demonstrations throughout the weekend! At the Dayton Regional Science Festival the Dayton Section volunteers were Wayne Cook, Benjamin Leever, Michael Hanhart, Grace Klinger, and Joy Haley.
We are pleased to acknowledge the winner of the Dayton Section Poster Contest highlighting this year’s NCW theme: David Gunsaulies, in the class of Kathryn Zaborowski from Urbana High School. His winning submission was sent to ACS’s National Headquarters to contend in the National contest. For his efforts he was awarded a $25 gift card. Congratulations!
At the Dayton Regional Science Festival, volunteers are envious of the magnetic personality of Wayne Cook, who hogs all the participants as he shows off the properties of inks.
WSU volunteer Grace Klinger shows a student how to separate scarlet & grey pigments in ink at the DRSF.
Wayne evidently lost his touch as the day wore on at the Dayton Regional Science Festival (either that or his deodorant wore off).
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P A S T M E E T I N G — M E M B E R S H I P On Thursday, November 15, 2012, a couple dozen section members gathered at the Wellington Grille to honor our new 50-year members: Mr. Joseph R. Coursey, Dr. Robert C. Evers, Mr. Thurman J. Mattingly, Mr. Daniel L. Pollard, and Mr. George Frederick Schmitt, Jr.; and our new 60-year members: Mr. Paul N. Graham and Mr. Rus-sell F. Mitchell. Unfortunately, only Joseph Coursey, Bob Evers, and George Schmitt were able to attend.
Narayanan Venkat, longtime Chair of the Professional Practices Committee, took the name change of his com-mittee in stride as he presented each honoree with an ACS certificate and a plaque of recognition. After the awards, the honorees informally addressed the audience. We also bade fond farewells to departing officers Dr. Chris Tabor (Treasurer) and Prof. Vladimir Benin (Immediate Past Chair). The Dayton Section offers its con-gratulations to all our 50-year and 60-year members, and its gratitude to our departing officers!
Outgoing Treasurer, Chris Tabor, can’t contain his elation at the prospect of never again having to attend a Board Meeting.
Newly-elected Chair-Elect, Leanne Petry, demonstrates the karate chop she gave a section member … yada, yada, yada … Leanne ultimately ran unopposed.
Steve’s stories about the drunken antics of Board Members at Professional Practices Meetings past are
Venkat starts off with an amusing story that Bob Evers has heard many times before.
Fifty-year member Joseph R. Coursey , flanked by his better half, can really suck down those Long Island iced teas!
Past Chair Joy Haley is perfectly social with 50-year member George Schmitt and his wife as she wonders how many glasses of wine she can slug down before dinner.
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Wanted: Food Chemists! Chaminade Julienne (CJ) High School,
which recently began construction of a $4M STEMM Center to open in August, is seeking interested professionals in the food science and food technology industries to give of their time to a sum-mer STEMM Food Science camp to be offered at CJ for area middle school students.
Involvement may vary from a single one-hour time commitment during the camp to a longer commitment to aid in planning and execution of the camp. Contact Meg Draeger, CJ STEMM Coor-dinator, to offer assistance or ideas. Her contact info is [email protected] or (937) 461-3740-x487.
Answers for Last Edition THYMOL INDOLE RICIN
The aging quantum chemist, hav-ing lost his job due to budget cuts, grudgingly accepted the only posi-tion offered him after an extensive job search; he was now a rookie patent examiner. His first applica-tion was a new nanosensor that exploits the optoelectronic proper-ties of graphene for fabrication of a field-effect transistor. After review-ing the tables and figures of experi-mental data and assessing the invention’s merits, he rejects the application, writing, simply: "This may be all very well in practice but it will never work IN THEORY.
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*Surveys suggest that mental exercises, including word puzzles, may delay the progression of Alzheimer's Disease.
Alzheimer's Avoidance Therapy* Unscramble the letters to reveal chemical names or concepts. Then, use the circled letters to solve the riddle. Answers next edition!
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A A J L M S
A E E H K L N T
AAT-2 — Su Doku for Chemists! Using the following nine chemical elements:
fill in the grid below so that each row, column, and 9-element subcell has only one occurrence of each element.
Ni Co
Fe Cr
Fe Sc V
Ti Cu Co
V Ni Cr Co Mn
Mn Cr
Cr Ti Cu Ni
Mn Cu
Ni Sc
Solution for Last Edition
The adjunct lecturer was surprised to see an English major — an upperclassman who was on the Dean’s List, no less — in his Intro-ductory Chemistry class, looking very smug. He figured he’d lob an easy question at him, just to break the ice: “What is H2O?” “That’s easy,” the English major sneered. “It’s
Sc Cu Cr Ti Co Fe V Ni Mn
Co Ti V Sc Ni Mn Fe Cr Cu
Ni Fe Mn Cr V Cu Co Ti Sc
Ti Co Fe V Cu Sc Cr Mn Ni
Mn Sc Cu Co Cr Ni Ti Fe V
Cr V Ni Mn Fe Ti Cu Sc Co
V Cr Ti Ni Sc Co Mn Cu Fe
Cu Mn Sc Fe Ti V Ni Co Cr
Fe Ni Co Cu Mn Cr Sc V Ti
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