The Chair s Corner

Welcome to April 2021! We were finally able to get the pandemic and the Winter storm behind the local section programming in March! We were able to hold our first virtual dinner meeting with Dr. Angela Wilson, National President-Elect of the ACS, and her wonderful discussion on the Past, Present and Future of ACS. Thank you to all that were able to join. April is Earth Week; therefore, we are having multiple events in conjunction with Chemists Celebrating Earth Week (CCEW). We will hold a virtual dinner discussion with Dr. Carie King about “Disseminating Scientific Findings to a Non-Scientific Audience.” This dinner meeting will occur on April 23rd at 6:30 PM via Zoom (https://us02web.zoom.us/ j/7176687551) and is free to join. I hope to see many of you there (virtually). Dr. King is a medical writer, editor and graphic artist. She has been an instructor at UTD for 10 years but has also maintained her industry consulting with investigators at UTMB Galveston, PepsiCo, SMU, Miami Valley Hospital, and other medical institutions and scientific laboratories. She specializes in rhetoric, particularly scientific and medical writing, and considers science writing and editing to be the “dessert” of life. We also have an active contest for ScienceArt to further honor CCEW. If interested, please send one original picture to Dr. Mihaela Stefan (mihaela@utdallas.edu) before April 23, 2021 for consideration in this science-art contest. The winning pictures will be posted on our ACS DFW webpage and on the Facebook page of the local section. Submitted pictures can be of colorful reactions in the lab, images (AFM, TEM, SEM), cell images, fluorescent compounds. Three pictures will be selected as winners. First prize will be $200, second prize $150, and 3rdprize $100. Additional information including abstract submission can be found on the webpage (www.acsdfw.org). As noted last month, the nomination process for the Wilfred T. Doherty Award, Werner Schulz Award, and the Chemistry Ambassador Awards for 2021 is currently open. Anyone can nominate a local section member for these awards. Each nomination should contain a completed nomination form, a cover letter highlighting the nominee’s accomplishments, and a copy of the nominee’s CV. One second letter may accompany nominations. The nomination package should be sent by email as a single pdf file Dr. Trish Smith at trishsmithtx@gmail.com. Nomination forms are available on the webpage. The deadline is May 01, 2021 Our Local Section is also soliciting nominations for outstanding seniors in Chemistry or related principles at each college/university in the area each year. We are also doing the same with community colleges and their second-year students. Each university will nominate one senior to be recognized and the chair of each department should have received information to nominate their out-

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