A D V A N C E N O T I C E

FEBRUARY MEETING

Monday, February 22, 2016 (snow date Wednesday, February 24, 2016)

Younger Chemists Committee Annual Poster Session

University of the Sciences

See the FEBRUARY issue of the Catalyst for details, call the Section Office at (215) 382-1589 or email PhilaACS@aol.com.

the Catalyst

Official publication of the Philadelphia Section, ACS http://philadelphia.sites.acs.org

January 2016 Volume 101, No. 1

HIGHLIGHTS Re-Introducing Our New Chair 3

January Meeting 5

2015 ACS Fellow Rodney Bennett 11

YCC Poster Session Call for Abstracts 16

Introducing Our New Section Chair

Dr. Rick Ewing

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Published monthly except July, August and December by the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society. All views expressed are those of the editors and contributors and do not necessari-ly represent the official position of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society. Edi-torial matters should be sent to the attention of the Editor-in-Chief c/o the Philadelphia Section ACS, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323 or philcatalyst@aol.com.

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CONTENTS February Advance Notice ............................................ 1 Re-Introducing Our New Chair ..................................... 3 Comments From The Chair ......................................... 4 January Meeting .......................................................... 5 Speaker’s Biography ................................................... 6 News Atoms ................................................................ 6 2015 Election Results .................................................. 8 Call for Pre-College Teacher Nominations ................... 9 ACS Webinar: Global Security ....................................10 2015 ACS Fellow Rodney Bennett .............................11 Call for Undergraduate Teacher Nominations .............12 2016 Officers and Board of Directors ..........................13 ACS Program in a Box................................................14 Student Affiliate Chapters Fund Guidelines ................15 ACS/YCC Student Poster Session .............................16 September 2015 Board Meeting Minutes ....................17 Directory of Services ..................................................20 2016 Calendar ............................................................21

STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Robin S. Davis

EDITORS News Atoms: Alan Warren Proof Editors: Georgia Arbuckle-Keil Kendra Luther Corrie Kuniyoshi Marge Matthews Liliana Suarez Alan Warren

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COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE Chair: Marge Mathews Anthony W. Addison Georgia Arbuckle-Keil Matthew Bodek Robin S. Davis Vince Gale Corrie Kuniyoshi Kendra Luther Liliana Suarez Victor Tortorelli Alan Warren

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RE-INTRODUCING OUR NEW CHAIR —Dr. Rick Ewing Rick Ewing, the new Chair of the Philadelphia Section, is a Group Director in Cardiovascular Discovery Chemistry at Bristol Myers Squibb in Hopewell, NJ.

Rick grew up in the West Chester, PA area. He received his BS in chemistry from West Chester University in 1983. During his Undergraduate studies, Rick held internships at the Chester County Health Department and at Wyeth Laboratories in Great Valley. Rick then went on to the University of Pennsylvania where he received his PhD in organic chemistry in 1988 working with Professor Madeleine Joullié. While pursuing his PhD, Rick also performed collaborative research with Professor Paul Weisz (Chemical Engineering Department, University of Pennsyl-vania) and Dr. Judah Folkman (Harvard Medical School) in the area of oncology targeting the inhibition of angiogenesis.

Rick began his pharmaceutical career in 1988 with Rhone-Poulenc Rorer then moved to Bristol Myers Squibb in 2000. At BMS, Rick leads a program to treat thrombosis and heart failure. Al-so, Rick is a co-chair of the BMS University Awards and Grants Committee. Rick has been on the organizing committees for several external chemistry symposia in the New Jersey and Phil-adelphia Sections. In addition to his involvement in the local section, Rick is the chair of the Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs (2015 and 2016) and serves on Corporate As-sociates (since 2006). He has served on two ACS presidential task forces: the task force on sup-ply and demand of STEM jobs, and the task force on Chemical Employment. Rick has served on the local section Board of Directors since 2009. He held the chair position in 2012 and as the chair-elect in 2015, and is the first person to hold the chair position twice. Rick has been a member of the local section since 1985.

Rick and his wife Sara live in Lower Bucks County with their two red chow-chows. They have two young adults who both graduated from colleges in Pennsylvania. Rick enjoys bicycling and playing chess.

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the Catalyst 2015 proved to be an exciting year for the Section under Chair Bill Smith’s leadership. Particularly noteworthy were the two local Sec-tion meetings held at Solvay and Dow Chemical. These two venues drew over 60 members for each! The Section remains highly grate-ful to these organizations for opening their facilities to us.

The year-end event for the Section was the 26th annual Ullyot Pub-lic Affairs Lectureship held on November 17th at the Chemical Her-itage Foundation. Thanks to the generosity and foresight of Dr.

Glenn and Barbara Ullyot, the endowed lecture continues as a premier event for the Section. There were over 150 people in attendance for the lecture delivered by Professor Bruce M. Alberts, the Chancellor’s Leadership Chair in Biochemistry and Biophysics for Science and Education at the University of California, San Francisco. His talk was entitled Redefining Sci-ence Education. A lively question and answer session followed. More information about the event and a listing of previous lecturers can be found at:

www.chemheritage.org/visit/events/awards/ullyot-public-affairs-lecture.aspx.

The 2016 Ullyot lecturer will be Professor Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University. Plan to attend, if you can, in November 2016, to enjoy a great lecture, great venue, networking and food. I highly recommend visiting the Chemical Heritage Foundation if your schedule allows.

I am grateful to begin my term as Chair of the Philadelphia Section and I want to welcome our new members to the board, Elizabeth Wagoner and Jason Cross, and congratulate Deb Cook on her election to the position of Chair-Elect. I am very excited to work with them and the rest of the board and councilor members. Our next meeting of the board is January 21st, at the Univer-sity of Pennsylvania, followed by the 2015 Philadelphia Section Award lecture by Dr. Donna Huryn. Donna is a truly excellent choice for the award and is rather unique in her accomplish-ments, having outstanding contributions to chemistry in both industrial and academic settings.

It should prove to be an exciting year for chemistry in Philadelphia with this year’s National fall ACS meeting to be held here, from August 21st to 25th. We have assembled a very active plan-ning committee, and, as always, are looking for volunteers. If you have interest in helping with local section activities or sharing your ideas for the National meeting, please contact Anne DeMasi (Anne.DeMasi@chemtura.com) or Daria Walsh (Philaacs@aol.com). I want to thank Bill Smith again for his leadership of the section. I look forward to 2016, and hopefully hearing from members on their thoughts about the Section.

Comments From The Chair

Dr. Rick Ewing

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JANUARY MEETING

THE PHILADELPHIA SECTION, ACS presents

THE 2015 PHILADELPHIA SECTION AWARD to

Donna M. Huryn Adjunct Professor of Chemistry

Organic Chemistry University of Pennsylvania

Adventures in Academic and Industrial Medicinal Chemistry: Looking at Drug Discovery from Both Sides Now

Thursday, January 21, 2016 6:00 PM

Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall

Chemistry Building, University of Pennsylvania 231 South 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104

Reception: 5:00-6:00 PM in the Nobel Hall of Fame, Chemistry Building, University of Penn-sylvania.

The reception and lecture are free

Dinner: following the lecture at Penne Restaurant.

Reservations should be made by calling Ms. Daria Walsh at the Section Office, (215) 382-1589, by 5:00 PM on Friday, January 15, 2016. Cancellations, if necessary, cannot be accepted after NOON on Monday, January 18, 2016. UNCANCELLED RESERVATIONS WILL BE BILLED.

Parking is available in the Drexel University garage on Ludlow Street (from Market Street go south on 34th; it’s the first left) and the University of Pennsylvania garage on 34th Street just past Ludlow. Metered street parking may also be available.

The Board of Directors will meet at 4:00 PM on the first floor of the Chemistry Building, in the new Faculty Conference Room outside the Main Office, Room 117, University of Pennsylva-nia.

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SPEAKER’S BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Donna M. Huryn University of Pittsburgh

School of Pharmacy

Donna M. Huryn received her BA (Chemistry) from Cornell University, and PhD in Organic Chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania. Af-ter graduate school, she joined the Chemistry Research Department at Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc., and contributed to drug discovery efforts in inflammation, HIV and cancer with increasing levels of responsibility. In 1997 she moved to Wyeth Research’s Chemical Sciences department. She held a number of positions there, including Director of CNS Medicinal Chemistry and Director of the Chemical Sciences Interface Department. Under her leadership, compounds entered clinical trials for asthma, Alz-heimer’s disease, schizophrenia and depression. In 2004, she left the

pharmaceutical industry to join academia. She is on the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Pharmacy, and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society, has held a number of elected positions within the American Chemical Society at both the local and nation-al levels, and was 2015 Chair of the Division of Organic Chemistry. She is Associate Editor of ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. Professor Huryn’s research focuses on the design and syn-thesis of small molecules probes and drugs to treat cancer, neurodegenerative and infectious diseases.

NEWS ATOMS—Alan Warren Dennis E. Discher, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering in Penn’s school of engineering and applied science, was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine.

Madeleine M. Joullié, Penn professor of chemistry, received the John Scott award, adminis-tered by the board of directors of city trusts of Philadelphia. The award was endowed and named after the pharmacist and chemist, and has been presented by the city since 1822.

The Chemical Heritage Foundation and the Life Sciences Foundation jointly announced that the two organizations will merge. CHF focuses on matter and materials with respect to physical and chemical sciences and engineering, and LSF on the preservation of the history of biotech-nology. The new organization will be headquartered at CHF’s premises in Philadelphia, and will also maintain offices and staff in the San Francisco area where LSF has been based.

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the Catalyst DEATHS

Mona Reidenberg Sutnick, nutrition educator and author, October 25, 2015 at 79. She worked as a protein chemist for the Pasteur Institute in Paris. After obtaining her master’s degree in nu-trition from Drexel she taught at Drexel, Penn, Jefferson, and Temple universities. She served as a nutrition expert in various media including radio, TV and the Philadelphia Jewish Expo-nent. Sutnick was the first woman to be elected president of the Society Hill Synagogue.

Richard Sasin, chemistry professor, November 6th at 92. He served in the European Theater during World War II and was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with cluster. Following many years as a chemistry professor at Drexel University he moved in 1968 to Lancaster to become dean of the school of science and mathematics at Millersville University.

Winifred Fittin Wismer, chemist and science teacher, November 9th at 81. After working as an analytical chemist for Atlas Chemical she taught science at the Moorestown Friends School in New Jersey. She was very active in her community church.

Robert A.G. Montgomery, Jr., former science teacher, November 11th at 78. For 20 years he taught chemistry and physics at Northeast High School. In 1960 he proposed building a space capsule at the school. The popular program attracted youngsters to space age technology and also drew national attention. It was later named the Space Research Capsule or Project SPARC, and he served as director until 1982.

Montgomery’s passion for aeronautics led to his position as vice president of the aerospace training equipment firm, Environmental Tectonics Corp., and as a consultant for NASA.

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PHILADELPHIA SECTION ACS 2015 ELECTION RESULTS

2016 Chair: W. Rick Ewing

2016 Chair-elect: Deborah Cook

2016-2018 Treasurer: David J. Cichowicz

2016-2018 Directors Christie McInnis James Tarver Deborah Cook Jason Cross Ella Davis

2016-2018 Councilors

Rick Ewing Anne DeMasi Tony Addison

2016-2018 Alternate Councilors

Marge Matthews Judith Currano

Kathy Shaginaw

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The 25th Annual Philadelphia Section, American Chemical Society

AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRE-COLLEGE TEACHING The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society will honor two outstanding science teachers from the Delaware Valley with its Awards for Excellence in Pre-College Science Teaching. One award will be given to a full-time educator involved in teaching science in grades K-8. The second award will be given to a full-time educator at the secondary level (grades 9-12) who teaches chemistry. Nominees must teach in the Philadelphia Section’s geo-graphic area (Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Bucks, Burlington and Camden counties). Nominations for 2016 will be accepted until Thursday, February 25, 2016. The nomination package should consist of a letter of nomination, the nominee’s resume and at least two letters of recommendation. Other supporting information, such as students’ comments, is welcome. However, the total nomination package should not exceed 30 pages. The nomination package may be emailed to PhilaACS@aol.com or a copy of the nomination materials may be mailed to:

Deborah Cook Chair, Awards Committee

Philadelphia Section, ACS Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323

For more information, please contact the Philadelphia Section, ACS office: phone: (215) 382-1589 or email: PhilaACS@aol.com

Award recipients will be honored at our May 2016 Section meeting with a certificate and

an honorarium.

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2015 ACS FELLOW RODNEY BENNETT

This article was adapted from PICOGRAM, American Chemical Society, AGRO Division 2015; 88:17

Rod was born in High Point, North Carolina, in 1956. The family was in furniture manufacturing and textile production, and was a part of the heritage from the Bennett Place in Durham, NC, the site of the largest surrender of troops in the US Civil War.

After graduation from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, Rod began his career with Ciba-Geigy Corporation in Greensboro, NC. Later he moved to En-Cas Analytical Laboratories in Winston-Salem, NC, where he was Technical Director for 12 years. His professional specialties included residue chemistry, metabolism, environmental fate and worker exposure. Later, after moving to Easton, MD with Wildlife International Ltd., Rod picked up some additional interests in aquatic and avian toxicology. Limited sailing skills were a fun diversion on the Chesapeake Bay even though not perfected.

His professional activities have led him to the Philadelphia, PA, area with Elf Atochem, which became Cerexagri, then part of United Phosphorus, and then JRF America. These last endeavors have entertained him for the past 16 years. Most recently, Rod has joined Critical Path Services, LLC, a Knoell Company (with multiple locations including PA and NC). Each day holds the opportunity to learn something new and to make a positive difference.

Rod’s involvement within the American Chemical Society began in earnest within the Central North Carolina Section (CNC). Excellent program initiatives, such as the Academic-Industrial-Matrix (AIM), sparked a lifelong devotion to the service that ACS provides to individuals and the overall community. On the local front, Rod has had the privilege to serve as secretary, treasurer, vice-chair, and chair of the CNC Section, as well as on the board of managers and as secretary for the Chemical Society of Washington, the Washinton, DC, section of ACS. At various times, he has served as membership chair, regional meeting committee chair, editor, and in other various local ACS activities. On the national front, Rod has been active in the Division of Agricultural Chemicals (AGRO) for the past 36 years. He has served as membership chair, vice chair, program chair, and chair. Currently, Rod is an AGRO Councilor, on the Divisional Activities Committee (DAC), chair of the Technical Programming and Collaboration Subcommittee, chair of the Divisional Officers Caucus (DOC), co-chair of the DAC-IAC working group, and on the editorial board of the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

Rod is very humbled and greatly honored to have been selected as an ACS Fellow in the class of 2015. Although nomination for the ACS Fellow award came from the Divisional Activities Committee, AGRO is proud to claim him as our own. To be able to work and serve with such a wonderful group as the ACS family is a very special privilege. He hopes that he can live up to the superb examples shown by the current ACS Fellows whom he now proudly joins.

Thank you, Rod, for your outstanding service to ACS!

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

The 14th Annual

Philadelphia Section, American Chemical Society AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING IN

CHEMICAL SCIENCES

The Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society will honor an outstanding under-graduate teacher from the Delaware Valley with its Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching in Chemical Sciences. The award will be given to a full-time educator involved in teaching an undergraduate course in the chemical sciences (chemistry, biochemistry). Nominees must teach in an institution that is within the Philadelphia Section’s geographic area (Philadel-phia, Montgomery, Delaware, Chester, Bucks, Burlington and Camden counties).

Nominations for 2016 will be accepted until Thursday, February 25, 2016. The nomination should consist of a letter of nomination, the nominee’s resume and at least two letters of rec-ommendation. Other supporting information, such as students’ comments, is welcome. Howev-er, the total nomination package should not exceed 30 pages. The nomination package may be emailed to PhilaACS@aol.com or the nomination materials may be mailed to:

Deborah Cook Chair, Awards Committee

Philadelphia Section, ACS Department of Chemistry University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323

For more information, please contact the Philadelphia Section, ACS office: phone: (215) 382-1589 or email: PhilaACS@aol.com

The award recipient will be honored at our May 2016 Section meeting with an honorarium and a plaque.

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2016 OFFICERS AND BOARD OF DIRECTORS OFFICERS

CHAIR Rick Ewing CHAIR-ELECT Deborah Cook SECRETARY Alan Heldon TREASURER David Cichowicz IMMEDIATE PAST CHAIR William R. Smith

DIRECTORS

2014-2016 2015-2017 2016-2018 Thomas Straub Melissa Cichowicz Christie McInnis Kathy Shaginaw Victor Tortorelli James Tarver Anne DeMasi Judith Summers-Gates Jason Cross Douglas Hausner John (J.P.) Northrop Ella Davis Cynthia Palmer Judith Cohen Elizabeth Wagoner

COUNCILORS

2014-2016 2015-2017 2016-2018 Deborah Cook Ella Davis Rick Ewing Kathryn Lysko Melissa Cichowicz Anne DeMasi Mark Forman Georgia Arbuckle-Keil Tony Addison James K. Murray, Jr. John Tierney

ALTERNATE COUNCILORS

2014-2016 2015-2017 2016-2018 Douglas Hausner Judith Cohen Marge Matthews Judith Summers-Gates James Tarver Judith Currano John (J.P.) Northrop Russ Phifer Kathy Shaginaw Alan Heldon Carol Jean Bruner

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Guidelines for Student Affiliate Chapters to Request Funds to attend National ACS Meetings

Undergraduate students from ACS Student Affiliate Chapters in the Philadelphia Section are encouraged to consider attending National Meetings of the American Chemical Society. In this regard, a limited amount of funding will be provided to chapters requesting sponsorship based on the following general guidelines.

General Guidelines

1) First consideration will be given to student(s) who wish to attend a National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) to give a presentation (oral or poster). Students attending for other purposes, i.e., to receive an award or attend a specific workshop, etc., are also eli-gible to apply for support.

2) The student(s) must have requested support from their College or University (including de-partment and/or advisor) to assist in defraying the travel costs. Please attach a copy of the correspondence.

3) The student(s) should have a clear idea of the benefits of attending the meeting. Please attach

a short paragraph from each student indicating which sessions, including workshops, etc., the student plans to attend and why these sessions will help them obtain their professional goals.

All applications must include an itemized list of the projected costs of the trip, i.e., registration, airfare, train or car expenses, hotel, etc., and indicate which of these costs (if any) are being provided by other sources.

An application for travel support can be made at any time to the Philadelphia Section, but for full consideration, the application must be received by the section office by January 31st for the Spring meeting and May 31st for the Fall meeting.

The Philadelphia Section will evaluate all applications received by the deadline and vote at the February meeting for the Spring ACS meeting applications and at the June meeting for the Fall ACS meeting applications. The amount of funding available may be influenced by the number of applications for a particular meeting and the costs of attending that meeting, i.e., where it is being held.

The successful applicant must submit a brief report highlighting the conference experience to the Philadelphia Section at the completion of the trip. The original receipts should also be sub-mitted to the Section Office for reimbursement.

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the Catalyst THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY & THE YOUNGER CHEMISTS COMMITTEE

PHILADELPHIA SECTION

are hosting a poster session

Younger Chemists Committee Annual Poster Session

Monday, February 22, 2016 (snow date Wed 2/24)

6:00-9:00 PM

Athletic Recreation Center, University of the Sciences

Bobby Morgan Arena

897 S. 43rd Street

Philadelphia, PA

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

The ACS and YCC are calling all scientists to submit abstracts for the annual YCC poster session. The registration date is February 1, 2016. Please submit abstracts at www.PhillyYcc.org. Cash prizes will be given to scientists who clearly present and show an in-depth knowledge of their research. The judging rubric can also be found on the website. If there are any questions please email Joey Harmon at jharmon1000@mail.usciences.edu. If you plan on attending the poster session, and are not presenting a poster, the deadline for registration will be February 10, 2016.

Interested in becoming a judge for the ACS poster session? Do you have a background or in-terest in science? If so, the YCC wants you! Please visit our website: www.PhillyYcc.org/judge.php to register as a judge or email Joey Harmon at: jharmon1000@mail.usciences.edu.

New this year: Companies and graduate schools are encouraged to participate in our career and grad school fair to help students learn about opportunities and careers in the chemical sciences. Interested in participating? Visit www.PhillyYCC.org to learn more and sign up. You can participate as an alumnus of a graduate school if your school isn’t able to do an official ta-ble.

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the Catalyst 672nd BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETING

Thursday, September 17, 2015 Scoogi’s, 738 Bethlehem Pike, Flourtown, PA 19031

Present: David J. Cichowicz, Melissa Betz Cichowicz, Deborah H. Cook, Ella Davis, Anne DeMasi, Rick Ewing, Steven Fleming, Alan R. Heldon, Cynthia Palmer, Kathleen Shaginaw, William Smith, Thomas S. Straub Judy Summers-Gates, Denise Thomas and Victor Tortorelli. Excused: Christine McInnis and James Tarver. Absent: Judith Cohen, Douglas Hausner and John (J.P.) Northrop. Also present: Tony Addison, Elisabeth Harper, Carol Jean Bruner, Marge Matthews and Daria Walsh. The 672nd Board Meeting of the Philadelphia Section, ACS, was called to order at 4:00 PM. A quorum was present. 1. Minutes The May Board Meeting Minutes were approved as submitted with no abstentions and no nays. The June Board Meeting Minutes were approved as submitted with no abstentions and no nays. 2. Committees A. Career Services, Joe Martino, acsphillycareerservices@gmail.com Joe Martino submitted the following report electronically: 1) Temple University and ACS National will be hosting the “Preparing for Life after Graduate School” (PfLAGS) workshop from October 21st to October 23rd on Temple’s campus. Steve Fleming has coordinated this event. Lori Spangler, an ACS Career Consultant and ACS-certified presenter for the PfLAGS program, will be presenting the workshop. Joe Martino will participate in the workshop in his role as an ACS Career Consultant. Joe would like to thank Steve and Lori for their initiative in putting together this workshop and coordinating with ACS National to make this happen – great job Steve and Lori! 2) Our next session of the Career Club will be a virtual event focusing on how to market one’s self, whether it be for a new job or to sell one’s skills during a performance review. Joe Martino will be moderating with help from Lori Spangler as her schedule permits. Career Services will be utilizing the Section’s access to Citrix’s GoToMeeting service to hold the Career Club. Joe will also create an Eventbrite website for the event to be circulated by our new member outreach committees, and will provide access instructions to the Career Club through Eventbrite to registered participants. 3) Career Services fully intends to support the Section’s new outreach committees – Member Services, Industrial Relations and Education and Community Outreach. In a long-term project, Joe Martino will be seeking new members of Career Services to serve as liaisons to these new committees. For the short-term, Joe will connect with the chairs of the new outreach committees to see how the committees can better assist each other. The expectation of Career Services is that the new committees will provide publicity for all Career Services events. Career Services also expects that the new outreach committees will refer interested parties seeking career workshops, Career Club meetings, interaction with ACS Career Consultants within the Section or any other career-related activities or events to Career Services so that we may better assist them. B. Communications Committee, Marge Matthews, marge.matthews@outlook.com i. Once candidate biographical materials are posted to the Section website, they will not be changed. Any content in the Catalyst needs to be provided by the candidates. ii. A special August 2016 edition of the Catalyst will be created for the National Meeting and will be available on line. The Section Hospitality Committee for the August 2016 National Meeting in Philadelphia is Melissa, D. Cook and Anne DeMasi. A subcommittee of National’s Meeting Committee. Anne expects a meeting soon.

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the Catalyst C. Teller’s Committee Tom Straub reporting, straub@lasalle.edu Reported and discussed receipt of elector list and notification of election. Roster of Section Electors reflects paying but not non-paying Section members. Candidate Biographies are due September 18th. Election projected for October 1st through 15th. 3. Officers A. Chair, Bill Smith, willsmith2@aol.com i. Reported on status of Committee restructuring. Non-binding approval at June Board Meeting. New Groups established: Industrial Relations Topical Group Senior Chemists, Hank Walens, hankwalens@aol.com Note: New groups need to apply for inclusion in the Section’s budget. ii. Education and Community Outreach Committee, Bill Smith to Chair. An Omnibus Committee to serve, in part, as a conduit lead-ing volunteers to activities of interest. iii. Member Affairs (Alan Heldon Chair) is recruiting coordinators from stakeholder committees. Some committees have begun using Twitter, Linked-In and Facebook. iv. Planning for startup of Industrial Relations Topical Group and Senior Chemists Group. v. October Board Meeting will be on the Third Thursday (15th) at Dow in Collegeville, PA. A tour and presentation are planned. B. Chair-Elect, Rick Ewing, ewingwre@comcast.net i. U. Penn. has a conflict hosting the Section Award presentation to Dr. Donna Huryn in October. The award presentation and lec-ture are moved to January 21, 2016, at the University of Pennsylvania. ii. Ullyot Lecture: Three possible lecturers have been identified. An invitation was sent to the first choice. The Ullyot commit-tee is reviewing the list of possible Ullyot Lecture candidates and is working to enrich the number of chemists on the list. iii. Franklin Institute Event – part of Philadelphia Science Festival. Discussion. In the past the Section has participated in chemical presentations at this event. Need to check dates of events. iv. Solicitation for submission of candidates for the Teachers Awards will appear in the October Catalyst. Discussion comment: The Chemical Heritage Foundation will video and livestream/archive Ullyot if Ullyot Committee requests it. C. Secretary, Alan Heldon, alan.heldon@live.com No report. D. Treasurer, D. Cichowicz, cichowic@lasalle.edu i. The problem with the accounting software persists. No printout of accounts is available. ii. Received from ACS National, Local Section Dues of about $8000.00. iii. Sent ACES (at U. Penn.) a grant check of $3000.00. ACES will need to generate a program report as to how the money was used to receive further grants. iv. The Budget will be restructured for the January Meeting with renumbered lines to better conform to National Budget practices. v. The need to change the access authorizations for the Section’s bank accounts was raised by the Treasurer and the following reso-lution was adopted in remedy thereof with no abstentions and no nays. Be it resolved that Richard Ewing, William R. Smith and David J. Cichowicz are hereby authorized to deposit funds to and withdraw funds from the Philadelphia Section’s Account Number ············, ························ and Account Number ············, ·····················, on deposit with the ············ and to perform such other lawful acts regarding said accounts as the business of the Philadelphia Section of the American Chemical Society may require. Said authorizations shall be in effect until explicitly revoked. All prior authorizations of access to said-accounts are hereby revoked. Pursuant to Philadelphia Section policy, information relating to financial security and privacy are deleted from this version of the September 2015 Board Minutes. An un-expunged copy of these minutes is available, by appointment, for Section member inspection at the Section Office.

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the Catalyst 4. Other Business A. Middle Atlantic Region bylaws changes Tony Addison Reporting. Sections comprising the Middle Atlantic Region need to approve bylaw changes, as the Mid-Atlantic Region has accrued sufficient funds to backstop a MARM, and can afford to return more of any MARM surplus to the local Section. Tax regulations require the MAR to hold some type of educational event annually, in accord with its by-laws and non-profit status. The bylaw changes will alter the proportionating of profit and loss between a MARM host Section and the M.A. Region. Proposed: 25% to Region and 75% to host Section. On motion, the changes were approved with no abstentions and one nay. B. A funding request has been received from ACES (U.Penn.) in support of an October 3rd (?) event. ACES is looking for funding for the event from any source. The Section has supported ACES in the past. Request tabled, to be rescheduled to October Board Meeting. And, suggested that ACES submit a Budget request. C. Strategic Planning Committee (Pro temp) The purpose of the current Strategic Planning project is to find ways to save money, improve and broaden our funding sources and to improve Section outreach both to members and the public. A questionnaire will be sent to Committee Chairs. D. WCC annual meeting Saturday, September 19th. Registration is probably closed. E. PAGESTM November 7th event. PA law now requires that volunteers have “background” checks performed. There being no additional business before the Board, the meeting was adjourned at 5:23 PM. Respectfully submitted, Alan R. Heldon, Secretary, alan.heldon@live.com

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DIRECTORY OF SERVICES

ADVERTISING INDEX ACS 20

Drew University 8

Micron Inc. 20

NuMega Resonance Labs, Inc, 20

Robertson Microlit Labs 20

Tyger Scientific, Inc. 20

Advertising: Vince Gale, MBO Ser-vices, P.O. Box 1150, Marshfield, MA 02050; phone: (781) 837-0424

email: vincegale@mboservices.net

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PHILADELPHIA SECTION, ACS CURRENT CALENDAR OF ACTIVITIES

Date Event Locations

Thursday, Jan. 7 Special Biological Chemistry Seminar, Gregory Alushin, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, NIH

Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA https://www.chem.upenn.edu/event/2016/01/special-biological-chemistry-seminar-gregory-alushin-national-heart-lung-and-blood-ins

Monday, Jan, 11 Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group: Minli Zhang, DuPont: Application of Ion Trap Gas-Phase Ion-Molecule Reaction for the Metabolite Identi-fication

Department of Chemistry Mendel Hall 154 Villanova University Villanova, PA http://science.widener.edu/svb/msdg/

Monday, Jan. 11 Science on Tap: Gas on Tap: Loony Gas and the History and Science of Gasoline – Free and Open to Public

National Mechanics 22 South Third Street Philadelphia, PA http://www.chemheritage.org/visit/events/public-events/2016-01-11-sot.aspx

Thursday, Jan. 21 Joseph Priestley Society: Drug Development from Chemicals to Biologics

Chemical Heritage Foundation 315 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA http://www.chemheritage.org/visit/events/public-events/2016-01-21-jps.aspx

Thursday, Jan. 21 ACS Philadelphia Section Award Winner, Donna Huryn: Lecture and Award

Carolyn Hoff Lynch Lecture Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA

Monday, Feb. 22 Younger Chemists Committee Annual Poster Session Athletic Recreation Center, University of the Sciences Bobby Morgan Arena 897 S. 43rd Street Philadelphia, PA http://www.PhillyYcc.org

Thursday, Mar. 3 Edgar Fahs Smith Lecturer: Professor George Schatz, Northwestern University

University of Pennsylvania Reception Nobel Hall Lecture Lynch Room Philadelphia, PA https://www.chem.upenn.edu/event/2016/03/edgar-fahs-smith-lecture-george-schatz-northwestern

251st ACS Spring National Meeting

March 13-17, 2016 San Diego, CA

252nd ACS Fall National Meeting

August 21-25, 2016 Philadelphia, PA