On May 9-10, 2019, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a free workshop entitled, Closing the Loop on the Plastics Dilemma. The workshop will discuss new polymer options and approaches that reduce the impacts of plastics that enter the environment and that improve recycling of plastics, …
The Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC) congratulates the twelve 2019 DOC Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) awardees and gratefully acknowledges the generous sponsors (listed below). With the help of our sponsors, the DOC has granted 118 Research Fellowships since the awards inception in 2009. See all the Awardees. The winners are: 2019 Awardeees Yotam Ashkenazi …
Welcome to the virtual front porch of the Division of Organic Chemistry, which is your entryway to useful information about the division and the ACS as well as numerous resources of interest to our members. The year 2019 is shaping up to be an exciting one for the DOC, starting with the 2019 National Organic …
A workshop specifically designed for newly-hired and early career chemistry faculty will be held August 1-3, 2019 in Washington, D.C. This workshop will focus on developing and implementing evidence-based teaching practices in the classroom. Additional topics discussed include integrating teaching and research, student mentoring, effective time management, laboratory safety, and grantsmanship/funding. New assistant professors about …
The Leete Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. Nominees must be members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research. Teaching should be considered in the broadest sense, including of professional chemists, the dissemination of information about chemistry to prospective …
The Organic Division is set to provide its technical program at the ACS National Meeting in Orlando (March 31–April 4). The program includes about 700 technical presentations. The ORGN Technical program talks will be in the Orange County Convention Center (Rooms W230A, W230B & W230C; and West Hall F3 & F4). Poster Sessions will be …
After several years of trying to manage a discussion group on LinkedIn, we have determined that the group was not helping us reach our members nor the Organic Chemistry Community because marketers and others had overtaken the site and our own postings were getting lost and a great deal of irrelevant content was being posted …
The DOC Graduate Research Symposium, which provides an opportunity for graduate students in organic chemistry to interact with leaders from academia, industry, various funding agencies, and publishers at a single venue will take place at Duke University in Durham, NC (Thursday, July 11 through Sunday, July 14, 2019). For more details and link to the nomination …
Registration for the 2019 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (#NOS2019) is now open! The 2019 NOS will be held June 23–27, 2019 on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington. The NOS is the premier event sponsored by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. For more information, see: http://NationalOrganicSymposium.org.
Monday, March 25, 2019 is the deadline for submission of abstracts for the Organic Division sessions of the Fall 2019 American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition in San Diego, which will be held August 25-29, 2019. Submit your abstracts at https://callforpapers.acs.org/sandiego2019. The theme for this national meeting is “Chemistry and Water”
