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MARM 2017 LINDA WANG, C&EN WASHINGTON
he American Chemical Society’s Lehigh Valley and Susquehanna Valley local sections will host the 2017 Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pa., on Sunday, June 4, to Tuesday, June 6. The meeting theme is “Elements of Transition,” with presenters sharing advances spanning medicinal chemistry to electronic properties of materials. Academic-industry partnerships and the impacts of changing regulations will also be featured. Esther S. Takeuchi of Stony Brook University, who is working on more efficient energy storage systems, will deliver the plenary lecture on Monday. MARM’s general chairs are Lorena Tribe of Pennsylvania State University and Dee Casteel of Bucknell University. The program chair is David Rovnyak of Bucknell University.
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Technical program. More than 50 techni-
Workshops. Workshops will be offered on leadership development, chemical health and safety, career pathways, and law and intellecHershey Lodge tual property. Additionally, a molecular computation and visualization for undergraduate education (MoleCVUE) workshop will help faculty learn how to adopt computation in their classrooms, while the CrIME (Criminal Investigation through Molecular Examination) workshop will help faculty learn activities and strategies for teaching a cross-disciplinary course in chemistry based on environmental forensics.
Undergraduate program. The undergraduate program takes place on Sunday and will feature brainstorming and networking sessions for student chapters, as well as professional development, career preparation, and career transition workshops for rising undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and professors.
cal sessions will highlight advances in the traditional areas of chemistry, as well as in cosmetics, materials, nanotechnology, drug discovery, metabolomics, biosensors, ionic liquids, imaging, and green chemistry. High school program. From workshops on Chemistry’s many benProcess Oriented Guided efits will be highlighted Inquiry Learning to upin sessions such as “Food dating the classroom for Safety,” which will examine today’s youth, the Teacher’s product authentication, Program on Sunday features ▸ Dates: June 4–6 detecting toxins and adulways to incorporate social, ▸ Location: Hershey, Pa. terants, antimicrobial computational, and sensor ▸ Information contacts: treatments, and evaluating technology into the middle nanomaterials in foods. A Lorena Tribe, lut1@psu. and high school chemistry session on the “Evolving edu, and Dee Casteel, curricula in a way that will Landscape of Drug
[email protected], engage, motivate, and inery & Development” tackles general chairs; David spire students. chemical biology platforms, Rovnyak, drovnyak@ Also on Sunday, teams navigating start-ups, and bucknell.edu, program chair of high school students will ▸ Website: marm2017. bridging discovery and participate in the Chemagidevelopment. sites.acs.org nation Competition, where A full-day session on teams will design magazine “Women in Organic Chemistry” will incovers highlighting a recent breakthrough or clude a keynote presentation by Madeleine innovation in chemistry that has improved M. Joullié, the first female chemistry faculthe quality of people’s lives. ty at the University of Pennsylvania, whose research on the synthesis of heterocyclic Exhibition and special events. The excompounds and bioactive natural products hibition will be open all three days of the has resulted in more than 300 peer-remeeting and will include companies such viewed publications. as Advion, Agilent Technologies, JEOL, A Cope Award session on Sunday will Perkin-Elmer, Magritek, Nanalysis, Pearrecognize Chris Vanderwal of the Universison, Rigaku, TCI America, Top Hat, Vernier ty of California Irvine. Software & Technology, and Waters.
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MARM 2017 at a glance
The opening luncheon on Sunday will feature Howard and Sally Peters, also known as Mr. and Mrs. Chocolate. In the evening, there will be an opening reception in the Great Hall where light hors d’oeuvres will be served. Undergraduates can participate in an ice cream social hosted by the Berks Chemical Society. On Monday morning, the Younger Chemists Committee will host a 5K run, and at the Senior Chemists Breakfast, a guest speaker will address science and human rights. At noon, meet with ACS Governance members for an ACS Strategy Café (spaces are limited so be sure to sign up as you register for the meeting.) And in the evening, celebrate chemical achievements at the Awards Banquet. On Tuesday morning, there will be a Diversity & Inclusion Breakfast with guest speaker Ingrid Montes of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. A MoleCVUE Round Table will address computational chemistry in the four-year undergraduate chemistry curriculum, followed by a luncheon with guest speaker Rigoberto Hernandez from John Hopkins University. Students can attend a career panel featuring several ACS board members. Relax at the end of the day with a chocolate and wine tasting on-site.
Lodging. Rooms are available at the Hershey Lodge on a first-come, first-served basis at the special rate of $189 per night when booked through the meeting website. The room rates are a substantial discount over peak rates and include complementary access to the indoor water attraction and exercise facility.
Registration. Early bird registration will close on May 8, and online registration will be open through the end of the conference. On-site registration will also be held through the end of the meeting. For more information, visit the meeting website at marm2017.sites.acs.org. ◾ MAY 1, 2017 | CEN.ACS.ORG | C&EN
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