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ACS NEWS
Washington, D.C., hosts ACS national meeting Members take in the eclipse; society narrowly rejects financial support for international chapters attendance was nevertheless strong, with Coinciding with the historic solar eclipse, the 254th ACS National Meeting & Exposi- nearly 13,000 attendees. Programming by 29 technical divisions tion is one that attendees will likely never and five committees highlighted the meetforget. On Monday afternoon, around the ing’s theme, “Chemistry’s peak of the eclipse, atImpact on the Global Econtendees poured out of the omy.” Roughly 9,370 papers Washington, D.C., conand 2,720 posters were prevention center. Standing sented at the meeting. The shoulder-to-shoulder and ▸ Attendance: 12,944 plenary session featured a smiling ear-to-ear, they ▸ Papers presented: ~9,370 talk by Joseph DeSimone donned eclipse glasses ▸ Exhibiting companies: of Carbon Inc. and the Uniand gazed at the sky with versity of North Carolina, 282 anticipation and awe. ▸ Job seekers at the ACS Chapel Hill, on lowering Although attendance at the cost of three-dimenCareer Fair: 364 the D.C. meeting, which ▸ Employers at the ACS sional printing. took place Aug. 20–24, Prashant Jain of the Career Fair: 36 did not eclipse the re▸ Positions at the ACS University of Illinois, Urbacord-breaking attendance Career Fair: 90 na-Champaign, presented in San Francisco in April,
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Meeting attendees watched in awe as the solar eclipse began to peak.
Jain (left) and Aizenberg. The Kavli Foundation Emerging Leader in Chemistry Lecture on the topic of turning photons into chemical bonds. And Joanna Aizenberg of Harvard University gave The Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry Lecture on using liquid-filled nanostructured materials to make antifouling surfaces. In society news, the ACS Board of Directors, among other actions at its executive session, approved the advance member registration fee for national meetings held in 2018. The board also approved program funding requests for the ACS Online Course in Laboratory Safety and New Faculty Workshop Series. At the ACS Council meeting, the Committee on Budget & Finance reported that ACS’s projected 2017 revenues will reach $553 million, which is $26.2 million higher than they were in 2016. Net contributions from operations will reach $25.3 million, and total expenses will reach $527.6 million. The council voted by a sliver of a margin to reject a petition to permit ACS’s International Chemical Sciences Chapters to receive financial support from the society and to be entitled to representation on the council. The council also rejected a petition to establish a probationary Division of Space Chemistry.—LINDA WANG AUGUST 28, 2017 | CEN.ACS.ORG | C&EN
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