Related activities: Journal of Chemical Education, associate editor, 2012–20, acting editor in chief, June–Aug. 2016; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Board on Science Education, member, 2019–22; IUPAC Committee on Chemical Education, 2014–21; IUPAC Interdivisional Committee on Nomenclature, Terminology, and Symbols, Mole Committee, 2018–22; Gordon Research Conference on Chemistry Education: Research and Practice, chair, 2011, vice-chair, 2009; Chemistry Education Research and Practice, Editorial Board, 2010–14; Linfield University Board of Trustees, 2020–; Children’s Museum of Indianapolis Eli Lilly and Company Girls and Young Women in STEM, Advisory Committee, 2020–21; Transforming Research in Undergraduate STEM Education Conference, principal investigator, 2010, 2012, co- principal investigator, 2017; more than 115 publications (two ACS Editor’s Choice).
by Marcy Towns, candidate for District II director | September 09, 2022
But the cancer kept coming back, popping up in new places in a malignant game of whack-a-mole. “He’d take different medications,” says his wife, Nancy Boerner, “and these would be effective for a bit. Then we’d try another. The effective period would be shorter and shorter, until they just . . . stopped working.”
by Leigh Krietsch Boerner | April 18, 2022
Meeting attendees pose with a large stuffed mole doll. A couple dozen people pose in exercise clothes. Paul W. Jagodzinski speaks from a podium. Three people pose on stage. Three students assemble a structure with magnetic tiles. A dozen people pose in a conference hall. David W. C. MacMillan addresses an audience of young people.
by Alexandra A. Taylor | April 08, 2022
For example, a photon of blue light packs a very useful amount of energy, 75 kcal per mole. “That’s on the same order of magnitude as a carbon-carbon bond—it’s larger than the strain energy of cyclopropane,” Yoon says. But the energy difference between two enantiomers might be only a single kilocalorie per mole, so delicate tuning of reaction conditions is required to get the desired enantiomer.
by Katherine Bourzac | April 08, 2022
Mole. Perhaps you would like to share your own resources and ideas. Let us know how you want to be involved. In addition, any ACS member can request to join the Committee on Community Activities if a spot is available by completing a committee preference form. Come and join us in sharing our love of chemistry.
by Lori Stepan, chair, ACS Committee on Community Activities | April 07, 2022
Graeme Kim Morehouse stands next to a person in a mole costume. Titel Jurca speaks with attendees outdoors next to a tent. Wyllie R. A. Graeme holds a smoking test tube in full PPE. Kim Morehouse Titel Jurca Wyllie R. A. Graeme ACS honors its 2022 Outreach Volunteers of the Year Chemical & Engineering News ACS honors its 2022 Outreach Volunteers of the Year ACS honors its 2022 Outreach Volunteers of the Year
by Alexandra A. Taylor | March 06, 2022
If countries don’t collaborate, Wasser says, “we’re just essentially dealing with a whack-a-mole situation.” In November, DNA sequencing by Wasser’s team helped identify a wildlife trafficking network and led authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to seize ivory and pangolin scales worth approximately $3.5 million.
by Laura Howes | February 15, 2022
In the Mid-Hudson Local Section, Vassar College hosted a virtual College Bowl, West Point celebrated Mole Day with mole cupcakes, and Marist College hosted a Mole Day Breakfast. The Nashville Local Section sponsored a booth at the Tennessee Science Teachers Conference and gave away ACS and NCW resources to more than 300 teachers.
by Alexandra A. Taylor | December 17, 2021
Hamna Tarar (second from left) and other officers of the Pakistan International Chemical Sciences Chapter—Rehana Saeed (from far left), Uzma Ashiq, and Rifat Ara Jamal—host a webinar at the University of Karachi for Mole Day on Oct. 23, 2020. Courtesy of Christine Skaggs Courtesy of LaKesha Perry Courtesy of Michel Johnson Courtesy of Gary Bonomo Courtesy of Barbara Belmont Gabriel Martínez-Bracero Muhammad bin Omer Tarar Photo of Christine Skaggs.
by Linda Wang | February 28, 2021