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International Year of Chemistry
In honor of 2011 being the International Year of Chemistry, the ACS is hosting many special events and promoting chemistry in unique ways. On a recent episode of Jeopardy!, chemistry was featured as a category as a way of connecting to the Year of Chemistry.
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ACS activities
The DSU student chapter of the American Chemical Society is open to all science majors. The chemistry club visits local elementary schools bringing hands-on science activities, celebrates National Chemistry Week, sponsors guest speakers from scientists, and supports various charities. This year's charity is the Ronald McDonald House and students will be collecting items in boxes around Walters throughout the fall semester.
In previous years, members filled two grocery carts full of food for the campus food drive, held a bake sale for the Red Cross Haiti relief efforts, and saved Box Tops for local schools. The group also gets together for fun science demonstrations, such as the thermite reaction and blowing up pumpkins. Students in the chemistry club are assisted with applying for summer research internship programs and form relationships with other science majors and faculty members that can last a lifetime.
Officers for 2010-2011
| President | Kristie Price walkinghorselover2003@yahoo.com |
Vice-President | Tebreena Washington tbreen07@yahoo.com |
| Secretary | Joey Dycus joeydycus@yahoo.com |
Treasurer | Hend Alboshaba laylaa166@aol.com |
| Public Relations | Christine Rustom crustom@okramail.deltastate.edu Molly Hatch match07@comcast.net |
Faculty Advisors | Dr. Rie Somlai asomlai@deltastate.edu Ms. Lacey Fitts lfitts@deltastate.edu |
News from 2010-2011 academic year
Twelve Principles of Green Chemistry
- Prevention. It is better to prevent waste than to treat or clean up waste after it has been created.
- Atom Economy. Synthetic methods should be designed to maximize the incorporation of all materials used in the process into the final product.
- Less Hazardous Chemical Syntheses. Synthetic methods should be designed to use and generate substances that possess little toxicity to human health and the environment.
- Designing Safer Chemicals. Chemical products should be designed to effect their desired function while minimizing their toxicity.
- Safer Solvents and Auxiliaries. The use of auxiliary should be made unnecessary wherever possible and innocuous when used.
- Design for Energy Efficiency. Energy requirements of chemical processes should be recognized for their environmental and economic impacts.
- Use of Renewable Feedstocks. A raw material or feedstock should be renewable rather than depleting whenever technically and economically practicable.
- Reduce Derivatives. Unnecessary derivatization should be minimized or avoided if possible, because such steps require additional reagents and can generate waste.
- Catalysis. Catalytic reagents are superior to stoichiometric reagents.
- Design for Degradation. Chemical products should be designed so that at the end of their function they break down into innocuous degradation products and do not persist in the environment.
- Real-time analysis for Pollution Prevention. Analytical methodologies need to be further developed.
- Inherently Safer Chemistry for Accident Prevention. Substances and the form of a substance used in a chemical process should be chosen to minimize the potential for chemical accidents, including releases, explosions, and fires.
2010-2011 Accomplishments
This year ACS has made many strides on going green! ACS has put up a bulletin board in the Science building that shows the 12 Principles of Green Chemistry and other ways of going "green." We have been proactive with helping change or laboratories over to more environmentally friendly labs and have brought in speakers that have talked to us about alternate fuels and other "green" topics.
This year ACS has brought in several speakers to teach us about alternate fuels, health problems in our area, and different health professions to talk to us about their field of work. ACS has also, formed a partnership with Bayou Academy and has had fun going to Bayou Academy and teaching the students about Chemistry and showing them fun and cool experiments with their students. This has been a great partnership we have made with this school that we hope to continue and we even judged their science fair this semester!
Can't wait for next year! Have a wonderful summer!
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| ACS member Hend Alboshaba helps some junior chemists perform an experiment. |
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| ACS members Christine Rustom, Tripp Smith, Tebreena Washington, and Kristie Price were part of the Homecoming Campus Clean-up team. |
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