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The Southern
Arizona Section of the American Chemical Society Hosts “Chemistry
at the Borders” an exciting scientific celebration
of the central nature of Chemistry.
General Meeting Information
Technical Program
PROGRAM INFORMATION
“Chemistry at the
Borders”, the 19th Rocky Mountain Regional Meeting of the American
Chemical Society, hosted by the Southern Arizona Section of the ACS will
be held Saturday, October 14, through Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at the
Doubletree Hotel in Tucson,
Arizona.
REGISTRATION
On site registration
will begin at 12:30 pm Saturday, October 14, in the foyer by the Living
Room. Payment can be made by
credit card or check. The schedule
is:
Saturday October 14 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Sunday October 15 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Monday October 16 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
Tuesday October 17 8:00 am – 6:00 pm
EXPOSITION
The exposition will
be open Monday and Tuesday from 9:30 am – 4:00 pm. Morning and afternoon refreshments will
be in the Exhibit area of the Ballroom Foyer.
WORKSHOPS
The
ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety Workshops
Principals of
Laboratory Safety
Sunday 8:00 am – Noon Ironwood
An intensive
half-day seminar covering the fundamentals of lab safety and effective
lab safety programs. Covers
scope of the problem, accidents, legal aspects, emergency planning,
chemical handling, chemical storage, biological and animal hazards, eye
and face protection, chemical disposal, electrical safety, and safety
program planning. This seminar
is intended for industrial, government, medical, and post secondary
academic institutions.
Developing an
Effective Laboratory Safety Program
Sunday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Ironwood
This interesting
and entertaining presentation confronts one of the more common excuses
for not having or improving the lab safety program ... "it costs too
much." This is simply not
true. Excellent lab safety
programs do not need to cost large amounts of money. Ten simple concepts will be presented
to demonstrate this important theme.
These are the critical components for an effective lab safety
program.
How To Be a More
Effective Chemical Hygiene Officer
Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Redwood
Take a close look at the
Chemical Hygiene Officer position, and prepare at the same time for the
NRCC -CHO Certification exam to be held the next day. This program gives
a different slant to safety issues in the laboratory, focusing on what
you do and how you can do it better. The presenters bring a wide variety
of experience to the table, but the real stars of the workshop are you – past
attendees note the interactive approach focusing on their problems, from
getting administrators involve in safety to dealing with regulatory
concerns. The course covers all of the content areas of the certification
exam, including a sample test in the same format as the real one. Whether
you are a new Chemical Hygiene Officer or an “old” one, you will find
something to put to real use in this fast-paced presentation.
Laboratory Waste
Management
Tuesday 8:00 – Noon Basswood
This comprehensive half-day
course will identify the various regulatory requirements that apply to
laboratories that generate hazardous waste and provide insight into the
options for on-site management and off-site disposal. Focus will include
discussion on waste management systems, recycling & reclamation
techniques, economical handling of wastes, and liability issues. Learn
all the tricks that disposers use to increase their profit and use them
to increase your savings. Mr. Phifer has over 25 years experience in
managing laboratory wastes for academic and industrial laboratories and
is a member and past chair of the ACS Task Force on Environmental Health
& Safety.
Chemical Hygiene
Officer Certification Exam
Tuesday 8:00 am – Noon Redwood
Educational
Workshops
POGIL
Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm The
University
of Arizona, Student
Union
Process Oriented
Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) is a student-centered active learning
instructional approach based on the current understanding of how students
learn best. The POGIL approach involves creating a learning
environment where students are actively engaged in mastering a discipline
and in developing essential skills by working in self-managed teams on
guided inquiry activities. These materials guide the students through the
development of concepts and principles, and also problem solving
approaches. In addition to promoting more effective understanding
and mastery of course content, another focus of POGIL is on the
development of important student process skills in areas such as
information processing, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and
communication.
The workshop will
include a general introduction to this approach. There will also be
discussion of the pedagogic basis of this method and also of typical
student responses and performance. The emphasis, however, will be
on the engagement of the participants in demonstrations of the POGIL
group learning experience. Although the specific examples will likely be
drawn from chemistry, the workshop will be relevant and accessible
to faculty in any area of math or science.
POGIL is partially
funded through a grant from the NSF's Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement Program under grant DUE-0231120.
Science Education
Strategies for K-8
Saturday 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm The University of Arizona,
Koffler 510
When we think of
chemistry labs, we often think of dangerous chemicals and the kinds of
activities we can do in a "wet laboratory." But there are many
activities that focus on age-appropriate concepts for younger students
and use common, everyday components. We will focus on several activities,
from published sources including Lawrence Hall of Science's GEMS and
others that use easily obtained materials to focus on chemical reactions,
polymers, and pH, doing the activities as if we were the students for
some hands-on exploration of these concepts. The featured activity will
be the GEMS "Chemical Reactions" unit; as time permits, we will
do some other activities to focus on polymers and pH.
Biological Mass
Spectrometry
Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Ironwood
The Biological Mass
Spectrometry Tutorial will be divided into two parts. The morning session
will focus on mass spectrometry of small biomolecules. The participants will be introduced to ionization
methods, analyzers, tandem mass spectrometry and activation methods, with
particular emphasis on biological applications. Various scan modes will be described
that increase sensitivity of complex and dilute samples, and strategies
to identify small biological molecules will be presented. These will include specific examples
from diagnostic medicine, pharmacokinetics, environmental applications
and forensics.
Instructor: Arpad
Somogyi, Director, Mass Spectrometry Facility
The Afternoon
session will be devoted to proteomics.
Topics will include sample preparation, chromatographic methods,
and mass spectrometry of whole proteins and protein complexes. Strong emphasis will be given to
identification of proteins by the peptide analysis methods of peptide
mass mapping and tandem MS/MS fragmentation analysis, and users will be
guided to many bioinformatics tools and methods available for researchers
to successfully apply these methods in their laboratories.
Instructor: Linda
Breci, Associate Director, UA Proteomics
Public
Relations Workshop
Increase the
Visibility of Your National Chemistry Weeks Events
Saturday 1:30 pm – 2:30 pm Redwood
The ACS Committee on Public
Relations and Communications will conduct a workshop on how to promote
your National Chemistry Week (NCW) events. Learn how to identify your audience,
write media alerts that get attention, and explore options to publicize
the events including on-line calendars, school newsletters, and community
service announcements. These tools
and techniques can be used throughout the year to promote other Local
Section activities as well.
ACS-sponsored
Career Workshop
Monday 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Basswood
This Chemjobs Career Center
will provide a broad array of career services, including online job
searches, career workshops and one-on-one résumé reviews.
Career workshops - will be presented specifically to help
experienced chemical professionals or younger members and students on
career development, valuable lessons on the work place, as well as unique
insight on the job market. The
following workshops will be presented on Monday, October 16, 2006:
Résumé Preparation - 9:00 AM
Interviewing Skill - 10:00 AM
Targeting the Job Market - 11:00 AM
Résumé Reviews - Members, national and
student affiliates wishing to have their résumé reviewed by a career
consultant should pre-register for the day that they would prefer to have
their session. Résumé Reviews will be conducted on Monday, October
16, from 1:00 – 4:30 PM.
Job Seeker Sign-up
-
The Chemjobs
Career Center
database allows job seekers to sign up, post their résumé, search for
jobs and communicate with employers, completely online. There will be no interviews held
onsite.
The Chemjobs Career
Center is open to
ACS members and national and student affiliates. All job seekers and employers must sign
up online at www.chemistry.org/careers (click on Chemjobs Regional
Employment Center) beginning September 18, 2006 to participate.
UNDERGRADUATE
ACTIVITIES
Undergraduate
Symposium and Keynote Speaker
Saturday 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm Ironwood
Listen to
undergraduate students presenting their research in a variety of
different fields at this symposium, followed by a speech from the keynote
speaker, Charles M. Falco, Chair of Condensed Matter Physics and
Professor of Optical Sciences University of Arizona. His talk will describe the path he took
from Freshman chemistry major, to a scientific career centered on
research using three multi-million dollar Molecular Beam Epitaxy
machines. This path also resulted
in his co-curating “The Art of Motorcycle” exhibition for the Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum, and collaborating with one of the world’s most famous
living artists, David Hockney, in making discoveries that show how
artists starting early in the Renaissance used optics to project images
for their paintings.
BBQ with Industrial
Guests
Saturday 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm The University of Arizona
Student Union
An informal BBQ
dinner for all undergraduate students and guests from the industrial
workforce attending the meeting. Meet with professional scientists to get insights into the
professional side of Chemistry and the pathways they took out of college.
BBQ will be hosted by the SAACS chapter at the University of Arizona.
Undergraduate Mixer and
Movie Night
Saturday 7:30 pm – 11:00 pm The University of Arizona
Student Union
Meet the other
undergraduate students in the Rocky
Mountain region in
a relaxing night of movies and games. Have fun with your colleagues
watching a movie, playing pool, cards, games or dancing in the
‘Underground’ of the Student Union. Hosted by the SAACS chapter at the University of Arizona.
Undergraduate Breakfast
with Recruiters
Sunday 8:30 am – 10:30 am Cottonwood
Meet with
recruiters from graduate schools located within the region to get more
information about furthering your education in graduate studies.
Recruiters will be distributing literature and information regarding
their schools.
Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream
Social
Sunday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Reid Park
Ramada #5
Take a break with
an ice cream snack, but in true SAACS tradition liquid nitrogen will be
used to make the ice cream. Get outside to Reid Park
(across from the Doubletree) to enjoy ice cream and socialize with other
student affiliates.
Undergraduate
Research Symposium Poster Session
Sunday 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Salon E - H
Listen to the
undergraduate students present their posters on research they have done
in the Rocky
Mountain region.
Graduate Student Keynote
Speaker
Sunday 11:00 am – 1:00 pm Salon B
Dr. Charles
Bamforth is the department chair for the Department of Food Science and
Technology at The University of California, Davis. He joined UC Davis in 1999 after more
than twenty years as a research scientist in the brewing industry. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Hull in East Yorkshire, Great
Britain in 1977, and his D.Sc. in 1993.
His current research focuses on the control of Dimethyl sulfide in lager beers, the
degradation of β-glucans during malting and brewing, and
flavor stability. He has over 150
publications, including four books on the fermentation process and
micro-organisms.
Graduate Student
Microbrewery Tour
Sunday 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm Nimbus Brewing Company
ACS-sponsored Career
Workshop
Monday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm Basswood
The ACS Career Resource
Center, featuring
the Chemjobs Career Center (CCC), career workshops and mini-sessions,
resume review appointments, and a resource library,
Graduate Student
Poster Sessions
Monday 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Salon D & E
Tuesday 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Salon D & E
Listen to the
graduate students present their posters on research they have done in the
Rocky Mountain region.
SPECIAL
EVENTS
Women’s Chemistry
Committee
Sunday 9:00 am – Noon Bonsai
Advancing in Your
Career with Mentoring – Mentoring is a key contributor to success. Mentors can be particularly helpful
during career transitions when there are new challenges to overcome. Mentors with their external and long
term perspective may be able to help you evaluate the consequences of
your decisions before you take action.
Networking: How
Chemists Form New Bonds – Networking can help you build valuable career
contacts and lead to new opportunities.
It allows you to exchange information with others. Networking is about making mutually
beneficial connections. This can
increase your visibility.
Careers for
Chemists Outside the Laboratory – Bonnie Charpentier, PhD,
ACS Board of Directors, District VI.
Dr. Charpentier has a PhD in biochemistry (plant physiology) from
the University
of Houston. She worked as an analytical chemist for
9 years before pursuing a career in regulatory affairs. She has worked in regulatory affairs in
larger pharmaceutical companies (Syntex and Roche) and currently is Vice
President of Regulatory at Genitope, a small biotech company located in Palo Alto, CA.
Panel Discussion – Explore career
alternatives with women who have traded their lab coats for new roles in
other areas. Learn about what career
options are available, why they choose to change the focus of their
careers and how they made the transition.
Women’s Chemistry
Luncheon
Sunday Noon – 1:30 pm Boojum
The Southern
Arizona Women’s Chemistry Group will host a luncheon featuring Professor
F. Ann Walker as the speaker.
Professor Walker is a Regents Professor of chemistry and the 2006
recipient of the Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic Chemistry. The luncheon is at noon and the cost is
$20. Please see the meeting
registration form. The luncheon
will be preceded by programming including a panel discussion on Career
Options for Chemists.
Victor J. Hruby
Luncheon
Monday Noon – 1:30 pm Boojum
Victor J. Hruby
will be the keynote speaker
Environmental Chemistry
of Metal Pollution in the U.S.
Mexico
Border Region - Luncheon
Monday Noon – 1:30 pm Salon E
Joaquin Ruiz, Dean
College of Science will be the keynote speaker
Awards Reception
Monday 5:30 pm Bonsai/Boojum Foyer
ACS Directors
Breakfast
Tuesday 7:30 am Salon D
David F. O’Brien
Luncheon
Tuesday Noon – 1:30 pm Ironwood
Neal R. Armstrong
will be the keynote speaker.
Golf Tournament
Wednesday 1:00 pm
A fundraising golf
tournament will be held to cap off the [RM]2ACS meeting at the
prestigious El Rio Golf Course.
The course layout features tight fairways, small greens,
relatively flat terrain, two lakes, and numerous trees. Golfers of all skill levels are encouraged
to play! The $50 registration
includes greens & cart fees as well as your donation to help develop
laboratories in local high schools.
We look forward to
seeing you in the Old Pueblo
in October 2006!
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