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December 15, 2008
Having A Ball With Chemistry
During National Chemistry Week 2008, ACS local sections promoted the role of chemistry in sports. Here is a sampling of the activities that occurred around the country.
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Having A Ball With National Chemistry Week
Through hands-on activities, demonstrations, and competitions, kids connect chemistry to sports

December 15, 2008
Winning Posters
This year's National Chemistry Week K–12 grade poster contest winners illustrated the "Having a Ball with Chemistry."
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Winners Of NCW Poster Contest Named
The ACS Committee on Community Activities and the Office of Community Activities have announced the winners of the 2008 National Chemistry Week Poster Contest.
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Genes To Gasoline
Genomics strategies provide clues for unraveling cellulosic biomass

December 1, 2008
Concocting Chemical Pie
Just as pioneering as the women who headed west in the 1800s, C&EN's Faith Hayden used crackers, sugar, salt, and cream of tartar to bake a fake apple pie that she fed to unsuspecting friends for this Newscripts experiment.
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As American As Chemical Pie
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Happy Birthday, Love Canal
It's been 30 years since the neighborhood surrounding America's most famous toxic waste dump was evacuated, yet its legacy is still unfolding

November 10, 2008
An Ecuadorian Adventure
In March 2008, Scott Strobel, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor at Yale University, took 16 students from the Rainforest Expedition & Laboratory course to the forests of Ecuador to find plants that harbor endophytes—bacteria and fungi that live inside the plants. The students ultimately plan to isolate natural products made by fungal endophytes in the hope that the compounds will be useful for medical and other applications. During the expedition, the group visited a variety of ecosystems throughout Ecuador, including a cloud forest, a rain forest, and a dry forest. Here are some scenes from the adventure.
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Into the Woods
Yale rain forest expedition and lab course gives undergraduates a career-defining appetite for research
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What's That Stuff? Plasma Globes
Inert gases and electricity combine to generate colored streamers of light

August 18, 2008
Information, Please
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition works with manufacturers to develop placards that plainly describe the attributes of sustainable packaging products. This slide show presents placards for products ranging from traditional glass bottles to molded palm fiber.
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Converging Pathways
Chemical companies and environmentalists edge closer together in the pursuit of sustainability
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Flooded Out Of Their Labs
Displaced University of Iowa faculty strive to advance research while waiting to learn extent of lab damage

June 30, 2008
Treasure Hunt
The Material ConneXion libraries display a wide range of materials for use in consumer products, architecture, and interiors.
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Surface Science's Sage
Priestley Medalist Gabor A. Somorjai has been advancing surface chemistry for nearly five decades
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Molecular Chemistry And Catalysis By Surfaces
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Harvesting Project SEED
C&EN catches up with past participants in ACS's 40-year-old mentoring program.
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