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SPECIAL ATTENTION The Women Chemists Committee honored Grace Kennedy (holding plaque) at a luncheon. Top row (from left): ACS Executive Director & CEO Madeleine Jacobs; President-Elect Catherine T. Hunt; Kennedy's mother, Pam; ACS Immediate Past-President Bill Carroll; two of Kennedy's professors at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Todd Pagano and Larry Quinsland. Bottom row (from left): Board Chair James D. Burke, President E. Ann Nalley, Kennedy, and WCC Chair Amber S. Hinkle; a meeting attendee (in blue) rides a cable car (photo at right).
SCI-MIX (photo above) Thousands of people flocked to Sci-Mix on Monday night. The 2007 ACS president-elect candidates (photo at right): Yorke E. Rhodes (from left), James A. Walsh, Bruce E. Bursten, and Bassam Z. Shakhashiri.
HIRE ME Andrea Kurtz (photo at left), a graduate student in chemistry at Stanford University, looks for a postdoctoral position; a bus prominently displays ACS's vision statement; Guoqiang Wang and Deqiang Niu (photo at right, from left), both of Enanta Pharmaceuticals in Watertown, Mass., engage in conversation during the Chinese American Chemical Society banquet on Monday evening. 118
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LEGACY (photo above) The family of Percy L. Julian gathers with producers of the Nova film about him after the Percy Julian symposium on Monday: granddaughter Katherine Julian (from left), son Percy L Julian Jr., producer Melanie Wallace, producer/writer Stephen Lyons, symposium chair James P. Shoffner, daughter Faith Julian, and producer Llewellyn Smith. Not pictured is nephew Rodney Ellis, (photo at right) ACS Immediate Past-President Bill Carroll concentrates on planting seedlings at the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy during the service event on Saturday.
FOCUSED (photo at left) Jan Lindberg, a chemist at AstraZeneca R&D in Molndal, Sweden, looks through the program book, (center) Meeting attendees gather outside the Moscone Convention Center on Monday evening, (above right) Danielle Dube, a postdoc in chemistry at Stanford University, accepts a brochure from recruiter Stephen A. Angel, associate professor and chair of the department of chemistry at Washburn University, Topeka, Kan., during the Academic Employment Initiative poster session at Sci-Mix on Monday night.
REUNION (photo above) ACS Scholars catch up during the Committee on Minority Affairs' reception on Sunday, (top right) President-Elect Hunt adds a bag of pinto beans to a box of food at the San Francisco Food Bank during the service event on Saturday, (bottom right) Undergrad and grad students from California State University, Los Angeles, on the streets of San Francisco. WWW.CEN-0NLINE.ORG
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