The CSRA Chemist SAVANNAH RIVER SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY

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1 Volume 53 March, 2010 Number 2 The CSRA Chemist SAVANNAH RIVER SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY I NSIDE THIS ISSUE Activities & YCC Calendars... page 2 March Meeting... page 3 YCC... page 4 Earth Day... page 4 Kids and Chemistry Training Workshop... page 4 Industrial Relations Committee... page 5 High School Chemistry... page 6 New Member Bio... page 6 CSRA College Night... page 6 David H. Murdock Research Institute... page 7 Travel Grant Call for Applications... page 7 Future City Competition... page 9 Periodic Table of the Elements Revitalization... page 10

2 ACTIVITIES CALENDAR Date Event Venue Location January 27 Dr. John Fortman Lamar House Augusta Humorous Chemistry on Popular TV Shows February 6 Adopt-a-Highway Country Inn & Suites Aiken March 3 Dr. Alton Hassell Sawasdee Thai Rest. Warrenville A Chemist Wanders into Archaeology March ACS National Meeting Various San Francisco March 27 Kids & Chemistry Workshop RPSEC USCA April 17 Earth Day TBA TBA April 24 Chemistry Olympiad USCA Aiken May 1 Adopt-a-Highway Country Inn & Suites Aiken May 2-8 National Laboratory Day July? Aiken 175th B*I*T* TBA Aiken August? Creech Teaching Award TBA TBA August? Aiken 175th B*I*T* TBA Aiken August ACS National Meeting Various Boston September 14 College Night Brown Arena Augusta September? Aiken 175th B*I*T* TBA Aiken October? SEED USCA Aiken October National Chemistry Week Various CSRA Behind the Scenes with Chemistry November 6 Adopt-a-Highway Country Inn & Suites Aiken December 1-4 SERMACS/SWRM 2010 Various New Orleans December? ACS/AIChE Awards Dinner TBA TBA YCC Calendar of Events Date Event Venue Location January 30 Periodic Table Cleanup USCA Aiken March 26 Kids & Chemistry Workshop TBA TBA Spring/Summer Augusta Greenjackets / USCA Baseball TBA Spring/Fall MCG Science Event MCG Augusta Spring/Fall Lunch & Learn w/ Students from USCA/ASU/MCG TBA Summer Chemistry Education / Industrial Speaker TBA 2

3 M ARCH EVENT MARCH MEETING Date: Wednesday, March 3 Location: Sawasdee Thai Restaurant Time: 6:00 p.m. Cost: Menu Prices; Students and 50+ year members are half price. [Reimbursed by Local Section at the restaurant] Menu: See menu mailed with this newsletter [electronic version only] Reservations: Please RSVP to Tad Whiteside (tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov or ) by Thursday, February 25 with your food order. Directions: 730 Augusta Rd. Warrenville, SC Speaker: Dr. Alton Hassell Program: A Chemist Wanders into Archaeology Abstract: This talk covers the basics of field archaeology, the reasons to dig at Tel Malhata, and some of the results of the several seasons of digging at Tel Malhata. The basics of archaeology in the field include how a dig is set up on site as well as what tools are used and how. Tel Malhata is one of a series of forts across the southern edge of Judah, fortified during the sixth century B.C. Pictures of the site and maps indicating its importance will be shown. Evidence of site use over a range of 6000 years helps to show the site importance and makes the finds interesting and exciting. About the Location: Sawasdee Thai Restaurant is one of the few authentic Thai restaurants in the CSRA and is considered a hidden gem by many Thai enthusiasts. There is a wide selection of reasonably priced menu items however, it is a smaller venue, so to enable them to have the proper ingredients on hand, please let Tad know your entrée selection. 3

4 L OCAL NEWS YCC The Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) will be involved in the upcoming Kids and Chemistry Training workshops March 26th and 27th. The March 26th workshop is tentatively scheduled for either USC- Aiken or Augusta State from 5:30 to 8:30 pm. Contact Kim Crapse (education chair) (803) or Will James (YCC chair) (803) for more details and to sign up. I look forward to seeing you there. Also, spring is almost here, which means time for some baseball. The YCC is planning a baseball outing to watch one of the local teams play. Keep a look-out for the date and time. -Will James EARTH DAY Kids Earth Day exhibition will be held at Lions Memorial Field in North Augusta, SC on April 17. We are currently working on the ideas for our booth - any and all ideas are welcome. The event runs from 10am- 2pm, so volunteers will be needed to from about 9am-3pm. Lunch and a free earth day T-shirt are provided by the organizers. I will need a head count (include T-shirt size) by Tuesday, March 2 (nicholas.bridges@srnl.doe.gov). The nonprofit Leadership of Aiken County has an upcoming project to build a "Barrier-free" playground behind the Aiken Library (NE corner of Whiskey and South Boundary) as part of Earth Day. More details to come, but we will be looking for volunteers to help landscape flower beds and/or plant azaleas. If you are interested please contact me (nicholas.bridges@srnl.doe.gov) or Tad Whiteside (tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov). -Nick Bridges 4 KIDS AND CHEMISTRY TRAINING WORKSHOP Interested in learning more about educational outreach and hands-on demonstrations? Want to share your personal experience with NCW, SEED, or other educational outreach activities with others in our Local Section? Would you like to see our Local Section more involved in classroom outreach? Patti Galvan from the ACS K-8 Science Office will be conducting two workshops on the ACS Kids and Chemistry Program for Volunteers interested in elementary school and middle school outreach. Kids & Chemistry is a community-based program that brings together scientists and children to do hands-on science

5 L OCAL NEWS activities. The workshops are free and food and beverages will be furnished. We will also need some K-8 students for about an hour on Saturday afternoon to try out our demonstrations if you are a parent or know a child who would be interested. For College Students and Younger Chemist Committee Members: the workshop on Friday, March 26, 5:30-8:30PM will be will be an evening workshop at Augusta State University or USC-Aiken. Contact Kim Crapse (education chair, ) or Will James (YCC chair, ) for more details and to sign up. Open to all Local Section members: the workshop on Saturday, March 27, 9AM-2PM at the Ruth Patrick Science Education Center will be a morning workshop with lunch followed by a practice session with kids and demos with several hands-on demonstrations. Contact Kim Crapse (education chair, ) or Linda Youmans-McDonald (NCW chair, ) for more details and to sign up. - Kim Crapse INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE As a general resource for the members as well as for the public, the chapter web site has a listing of businesses and educational institutions in the CSRA that employ chemists or are somehow involved in the field of chemistry. The information can be found at and clicking on the CSRA Industry tab. Please help us make this list as complete and accurate as possible by providing us with any additions or corrections to the list. If you are aware of any companies that should be added to the list or need to correct any information on the list, please forward the information to Mark.Wagher@srs.gov or click on my name on the Officers and Committees page on the web site. The ACS-SR is planning a local Job Fair, targeted at Chemists, tentatively scheduled for April 23rd. The Industrial Relations Committee is seeking volunteers to help contact local businesses, educational institutions, and job seekers to ask for their participation. If you are in a group that is looking to fill a position, this could be a great opportunity to easily find qualified candidates. Please contact Mark Wagher at Mark.Wagher@srs.gov or (803) if you are interested in helping out. We will also need volunteers for 5

6 L OCAL NEWS the event itself. Further details will be provided as more information becomes available. - Mark P. Wagher HIGH SCHOOL CHEMISTRY I am sure many of us remember our crazy high school chemistry teachers. High school teachers can invoke tremendous amount of interest in chemistry among students. In order to build an ongoing relationship between the Savannah River Local Section of the American Chemical Society and high school teachers in the area, the position of High School Coordinator has been created. As the first appointee and working closely with Kim Crapse, I have been assigned the responsibility of networking with high school teachers. Currently there are no high school chemistry clubs in our area. We are hoping to arrange a workshop by Michael Mury in near future to share information with teachers about ACS chemistry club and other resources that are available. Efforts are also being made to involve more teachers and students in National Lab Day activities. -Neera Young NEW MEMBER BIO Ms. Heather Brant recently joined the Nonproliferation Technologies Section of Savannah River National Lab as an analytical chemist. Prior to her arrival at SRNL, she performed environmental and toxicological research at Savannah River Ecology Lab for twelve years. Her research interests include the fate, accumulation, and effect of metals and radionuclides within ecosystems, along with general areas of analytical inorganic chemistry. She holds a bachelor s degree in biology from the University of South Carolina at Aiken and a master s degree in environmental toxicology from the University of Georgia. She lives with her husband, Warren Stephens, Jr., and six rescue dogs in Beech Island. -Rob Lascola CSRA COLLEGE NIGHT We are looking for volunteers to help with the ACS-SR booth at CSRA College Night. The event will be at the James Brown Arena in Augusta on Tuesday, September 14 from 5 to 8:30 PM. Stephanie Myers will be organizing the booth so please contact her if interested (smyers@aug.edu). - Glenn Fugate 6

7 N ATIONAL NEWS DAVID H. MURDOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE The David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI) is a nonprofit research institute built from the ground up to provide superior quality laboratory services to the faculty at the North Carolina Research Campus as well as researchers from the academic, government, and business sectors. Located in Kannapolis, NC, about 30 minutes from Charlotte, the DHMRI occupies over 110,000 square feet of space and provides a complete environment containing instrumentation, resident expertise, and well-equipped laboratories that bring together a variety of disciplines under one roof. Open for research collaborations for scientists throughout the Southeast, the DHMRI provides a multidisciplinary, integrated approach that includes capabilities in genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, light microscopy, histology, tissue culture, NMR, bioinformatics and the Center for Laboratory Animal Sciences. Highlights of these capabilities include analytical laboratories with GCxGC-MS, LC/MSn, and MALDI- TOF MS capabilities, automated sample prep, and customized assay development. In addition, the NMR laboratory at DHMRI is equipped with a 950MHz NMR as well as to a 700MHz, 600MHz (with tandem LC capabilities), and 400MHz NMR. In the light microscopy, the combination of state-of-the-art Carl Zeiss microscopes, image processing, analysis and visualization tools, as well as extensive user support ensure that all users, irrespective of their levels of imaging expertise, receive the best quality images and data. For more information about the DHMRI, please visit or call Rob Lascola ACS-SR TRAVEL GRANT CALL FOR APPLICATIONS The Savannah River Section of the American Chemical Society will be giving a $500 travel grant to an undergraduate student attending a regional or national ACS meeting. Grants will be given for a spring and a fall meeting. Students must fill out the form on the next page and submit before the appropriate deadline. Winners will be chosen based on the application submitted. A student does not have to be a presenting a paper or poster in order to apply but preference will be given to presenters. -Elise Fox 7

8 L OCAL NEWS ACS-SR TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION Name: School: Degree: Year: Freshman Sophomore Junior Senior Expected Graduation Date: Meeting Attending: Dates: Advising Professor: Poster or Presentation Abstract Title (if presenting): State the reason for attending as well as what you hope to gain by attending the meeting: Have you received any other travel grant for this meeting s attendance? Have you previously attended an ACS meeting? Deadline: April 1, 2010 Please submit application by , postal mail or fax to Elise Fox, at the following addresses: elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov Postal: Elise Fox SRNL 999-2W Aiken, SC Fax: If you have any questions, please contact Elise Fox at or elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov 8

9 L OCAL NEWS FUTURE CITY COMPETITION ACS-SR presented a $500 special award for The best demonstration of the 12 principles of Green Chemistry to St Mary s on the Hill (Augusta, GA) team Eureka City during the 2010 Future City Competition at the University of South Carolina-Aiken on Saturday January 23. Over 24 teams from the states of South Carolina and Georgia were entered into the competition. David Fauth, Sydia Anderson, Claire Wills, and Sean Wills (Figure 2) volunteered to interview each team to determine the special award winner. Eureka City was chosen based on their use of innovative irrigation techniques to mitigate water and fertilizer usage. The team also used novel building materials in the construction of their community buildings and developed advanced recycling techniques for waste. The award was presented during the closing ceremony by ACS-SR member David Fauth. -Rob Lascola Figure 1. Eureka City Figure 2. ACS-SR volunteers judging a student presentation and model. 9

10 L OCAL NEWS PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS REVITALIZATION The Revitalization of the Living Periodic Table is still underway and your help is needed. We still have numerous elements available for sponsorship. The cost is $100 made payable to ACS-SR. We are a 501 so all donations are tax deductable. For more information, please contact Elise Fox (elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov, ). To date, the following elements have been sponsored: H: JL Steimke; He: AM Willbrand; Be: TA Fredericks (mem.); C: South Aiken HS; N: I&EC Division; F: Halocarbon; Ne: IBEW-1579; Mg: SRS F/H Labs; Al: ASM Intl.; P: I&EC Division; Ar: Morris Beard; K: KE Zeigler; Ti: SL Crump; Cr: C Fredericks (mem.); Mn: Elanco Tech. Center; Fe: LC Baylor; Co: AIChE- CSR; Ni: JB Pickett; Cu: RS Beck; Zn: Elanco Tech. Center; Ga: CJ Bannochie; Ge: RF Gilmore, Jr.; As: I&EC Division; Kr: JH Gray; Rb: RH Young; Sr: DT Hobbs; Pd: RT Walters; Ag: MG Bronikowski; Sb: I&EC Division; I: RG Spaunburgh; Xe: JC Hart; Cs: GJ Senn; Ba: NA Johns; Nd: CM Jantzen; Sm: SA Myers; Eu: LM Papouchado; Gd: RJ Lascola; Hf: CL Crawford; W: T Whiteside; Re: MS Wellons; Ir: C Dzaugis; Pt: EB Fox; Au: DT Hobbs; 10 Tl: DA Orth; Bi: I&EC Division; Ra: RP Crapse; U: RA Malstrom; Np: DG Karraker; Pu: GF Kessinger; Am: WG Ramsey; Cm: NE Bibler; Bk: DNCT; Cf: RW Benjamin; Fm: JR Cadieux; Md: GA Fugate; Lr: SRNS; Rf: AIChE-CSR; Sg: BK Culligan; Other: ACS-SR, DNCT, IBEW-1579, Morris Beard, SRNS - Elise Fox

11 Editor: Lewis C. Baylor The CSRA Chemist Printing By: Rob Lascola Officers and Committee Chairs ACS-SR Contact acssavannahriver@gmail.com Chair Dr. Glenn Fugate glenn.fugate@srnl.doe.gov (803) Chair-Elect Dr. Tad Whiteside tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov (803) Imm Past Chair Dr. Elise Fox elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov (803) Secretary Mrs. Claire Wills Treasurer Dr. Andrew Harter (803) Councilor Dr. Chris Bannochie (803) Alt Councilor Dr. Tom Walters (803) Archivist Dr. Chris Bannochie (803) Career Dev Dr. Tad Whiteside (803) Distribution Dr. Rob Lascola (803) Education Dr. Kimberly Crapse (803) Envrn. Impr. Dr. Nicholas Bridges (803) Govt. Affairs Dr. Chris Bannochie (803) Industrial Rel. Mr. Mark Wagher (803) Membeship Vacant New Membership Dr. Rob Lascola (803) Minority Affairs Dr. Sardar Yousufzai (706) Natl Chem Week Mrs. Linda Youmans-McDonald (803) Olympiad Dr. Monty Fetterolf (803) , x3378 Publications Dr. Lewis Baylor (803) Public Relations Dr. Charles Crawford (803) WCC Vacant Website Dr. Maria Lind (803) YCC Dr. Will James (803) The CSRA Chemist: This newsletter is published approximately six times per year by the Savannah River Section of the American Chemical Society. Circulation is 300 per issue. Opinions expressed by the editor or contributors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Section. Mailing Address: Savannah River Section - American Chemical Society, c/ o Dr. Lewis Baylor, Equitech Int l Corp., 903 Main Street South, Aiken, SC All newsletter articles should submitted by to lbaylor@equitechintl.com. Meeting Announcements: The CSRA Chemist will announce scientific meetings of interest to chemists and chemical engineers (when space is available). For information and deadlines, contact Lewis Baylor. Change of Address: On the web at by telephone at ; by service@acs.org. The Local Section receives roster updates on a monthly basis from ACS National. 11

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