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ACS Student Affiliates

Recent Student Activites

234rd ACS National Meeting, New Orleans, LA, April, 2008

Undergraduate Posters presented:

1.     Laurel L. Kegel, Robert Wistmer and Mark Lonergan : Electrical Characterization of Anionic Poly(terphenylenevinylene)
        

2.      Rebecca L. Butt, Lyman Rickard, and Youssef Habib: Synthesis and Characterization of Copper Nanowire Arrays
        

3.     Clare M. Flynn, Nicholas Dower, Tiffany Rhoads, M. James Cosentino, and Youssef Habib: Functionalization of Nanowire Arrays for the Development of a Biosensor
        

4.      Tamra O. Shelly and Aimee L. Miller: Analyzing Everyday Samples in Biochemistry Experiments
        

5.       Laura Ruiz and Laura Anna: Epoxidation and Epoxide Ring-opening Reactions of Carvone
       

6.     Stephen  Peurifoy and Jeremiah Mbindyo: Functionalized Polylactic Acid Micro- and Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery
        

7.      Rachel Dao, M. Joseph Tomlinson, and Hudson VanOrmer: Millersville University ACS Chapter
        

Faculty Presentations:


1.      Jeremiah K.N. Mbindyo, Civia M. Katz, and Zachary Calzola: Reinforcing Green Chemistry Concepts Using Microscale Laboratory Experiments
        

2.     Laura Anna: Introduction to 2-D NMR Spectroscopy in the Undergraduate Organic Chemistry Laboratory
        

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Student Affiliates of the American Chemistry Society

The MU student affiliate chapter is an active group of students interested in chemistry. The chapter is recognized annually by the ACS for its activities and services. The chapter activities include sponsoring seminar speakers, arranging field trips to local industries and laboratories, sponsoring trips to attend scientific meetings, acting as peer advisors to incoming freshmen, and sponsoring student-faculty social activities. The organization has 3 faculty sponsors (Drs. Rickard, Hill, Anna) but the faculty involvement in coordinating and planning the activities sponsored by the organization is minimal.

For further information please visit ACS student affiliate.

 

  1. Sponsoring seminar speakers.
  2. Sponsoring films on chemical topics.
  3. Arranging trips to Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, PA, and Baltimore, MD.
  4. Arranging trips to area industries and laboratories: Armstrong World Industries, Air Products Corporation, Lancaster Laboratories, etc.
  5. Arranging trips to local, regional, and national meetings of the American Chemical Society.
  6. Assembling molecular model kits for sale to students enrolled in chemistry courses.
  7. Guiding prospective students through the department, including groups of high school students.
  8. Acting as Peer Advisors to incoming freshmen chemistry majors.
  9. Sponsoring student-faculty parties, notably one at Halloween.

Although the University requires the chapter to have a faculty advisor, faculty involvement in the planning and coordination of these activities is minimal. Interested students are invited to attend a meeting of the chapter. They can attend, but not vote, without becoming members. Some of the benefits of becoming a member are the receipt of a sampling of professional journals from the American Chemical Society, reduced attendance fees at ACS meetings, and access to the benefits of the ACS (including job placement). Membership costs are minimal, as the Student Affiliate Chapters as a group receive financial support from the ACS.

Read the Chiral Center(pdf), MU's ACS newsletter.