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The face of disease in Sub-Saharan Africa | Richmond Sarpong | TEDxBerkeley

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Richmond Sarpong, who was born in Ghana, West Africa, is a professor of chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 2004. He moved to the United States in 1991 after a childhood and adolescent years in Ghana, Zambia, and Botswana, respectively.

What do you think of when you hear, “disease in sub-Saharan Africa?” Richmond Sarpong invites us to reject stereotypes and redefine the face of disease in Africa.

Call for Nominations for the 2017 OL, JOC and Organometallic Awards

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Call for Nominations for the 2017 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award Organometallics, the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (DOC), and the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) are pleased to solicit nominations for the 2017 Organometallics Distinguished Author Award. This annual award recognizes the author of exceptional articles published in Organometallics in 2015 and 2016. The …

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Division Election Results 2017

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We extend our congratulations to the following individuals who have been elected to the leadership of the Division for 2017: Katherine L. Lee, Pfizer – Chair-Elect Robert E. Maleczka, Jr., Michigan State University – Treasurer-Elect Lisa A. Marcaurelle, Warp Drive Bio – 2019 NOS Executive Officer Paul R. Hanson, University of Kansas – 2019 NOS Co-Executive Officer …

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Speakers for the 45th National Organic Symposium

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The Executive Committee of the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society and the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis are pleased to announce the speaker line-up for the 45th National Organic Chemistry Symposium:  2017 Roger Adams Awardee – Hisashi Yamamoto, Chubu University and University of Chicago Phil S. Baran, …

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Sauvage, Stoddart, Feringa win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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The Organic Division congratulates Jean-Pierre Sauvage (University of Strasbourg, France), J. Fraser Stoddart (Northwestern University, Evanston, IL) and Bernard L. Feringa (University of Groningen, the Netherlands) who have won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for “their design and production of molecular machines. They have developed molecules with controllable movements, which can perform a task …

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The 2017 Cope Award goes to Carolyn R. Bertozzi

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The ACS Organic Division would like to congratulate the latest National Award Winners including the 2017 Arthur C. Cope Award winner Carolyn R. Bertozzi of Stanford University Professor Bertozzi will Present her award address at the Fall 2017, 254th ACS National Meeting held August 20-24, 2017 in Washington, D.C.  More 2017 ACS National Award winners are listed on the ACS Awards …

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Congratulations to the 2016 ACS Fellows

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Please join us in congratulating the following six members of the Organic Division who were selected to the 2016 class of ACS fellows: Carolyn R. Bertozzi, Stanford University and Howard Hughes Medical Institute; Ferenc Darvas, ThalesNano; Kent S. Gates University of Missouri; James S. Nowick, University of California, Irvine; David P. Rotella, Montclair State University; …

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Travel Awards Available for San Francisco

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The Division is now accepting applications for Travel Awards to the ACS Meeting in San Francisco.  The Division is offering Travel Awards for Graduate Students, Undergraduate Students, and Faculty at Predominantly Undergraduate Institutions. The application deadline for the San Francisco meeting is November 15th.  To learn more, see the Organic Division’s Travel Award page.

The 2017 Adams Award goes to Professor Yamamoto

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Professor Hisashi Yamamoto, Chubu University, Japan and The University of Chicago has been named as the recepient of the 2017 Roger Adams Award. The award address will be given at the 45th National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) to be held on Sunday, June 25 to Thursday, June 29, 2017 on the campus of the University of California, …

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Eric Anslyn’s 2015 NOS Lecture is Available On-Line

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We thank all of those who attended and contributed to the 2015 National Organic Symposium (NOS) at the University of Maryland. We are now able to release the video of Eric Ansyln’s lecture from the University of Texas, Austin free of charge to all Organic Division members from the NOS Videos’ page. We thank Dr. Marisa Kozlowski from the …

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