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May 2025
 

ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
May 28 - 31, 2025
Seton Hall University, New Jersey
Registration is now open!
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Registration is now open for MARM 2025, which includes fourteen local sections in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland). MARM 2025 will be hosted by the North Jersey Section of the ACS (NJACS) from May 28-31 in Seton Hall University, New Jersey. To register, you will need an ACS ID. You can easily create a free ACS ID if you don't already have one. 
 
Industry-Academia Summit – Sign Up through registration 
Join us on Saturday, May 31, from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM at Bethany Hall, Seton Hall University, for the Industry-Academia Summit at MARM 2025. This summit will feature three panels:
  • Industry representatives from various sectors discussing the skills new hires need and those anticipated for the future.
  • Academics/professors from local institutions addressing skill development and content knowledge that students gain through their degree paths.
  • Recent hires sharing their experiences, including what they valued about their education, what helped them most in their current positions, and what they wish they had done differently.
In addition to the panels, we will host focused discussions aimed at collaborating to ensure students are well-prepared for careers in the private sector including equipping students with the necessary skills and knowledge to successfully navigate careers as entrepreneurs. The day will conclude with an informal networking session at 3 PM, providing a great opportunity to connect and reflect on the day's insights. You can sign up for this summit through the MARM 2025 registration form. Breakfast, lunch, and snacks will be provided. Sign up now >>


June 2025

Chemical Consultants Network Meeting
June 11, 2025, 6:00 pm
SUMMER SOCIAL - ALL ABOUT CHEMICAL CONSULTING

To support Federal and industry chemists impacted by recent government layoffs and to present a different career path for those interested, the Chemical Consultants Network (CCN) is organizing a timely event, “All About Chemical Consulting”, sponsored by CCN, ACS Philadelphia, ACS Delaware ACS and CEPA (ACS National) on June 11th 2025. Flyer with more info and registration link. 

Green Chemistry & Engineering
GC&E 2025
Pittsburgh, June 23-26
The GC&E Conference, hosted by the ACS Green Chemistry Institute®, is the premier global event for green chemistry and engineering. As the first and longest-running conference on this topic, GC&E attracts scientists, educators, industry professionals, and advocates to explore advancements, share best practices, inspire innovation, and build community dedicated to sustainable solutions. Each year, the conference evolves, incorporating new ideas while maintaining its legacy. Its vision is for green and sustainable chemistry to be integral to all scientific endeavors, providing solutions that balance human well-being with planetary health. For this reason, the 2025 conference theme will be Good Health and Well-Being Through Sustainable Chemistry to align with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3. GC&E 2025 will showcase innovative research and cross-cutting topics in green and sustainable chemistry and engineering, with an emphasis on symposia that highlight thematic topics such as medical breakthroughs, new technologies, and efforts to eliminate or reduce hazardous chemical pollution promoting longer and healthier lives. The American Chemical Society Green Chemistry Institute (ACS GCI) invites you to register for our 29th annual scientific meeting on June 23-26, 2025, in Pittsburgh, PA. Explore how chemistry and chemical engineering support good health and well-being, the interface of toxicology and chemistry, and advances in pharmaceutical chemistries and processes ensure life-saving medicines are produced in harmony with the planet.

YEARLY MEETING AND EVENT SCHEDULE
The section holds regular meetings about 8 times per academic year, September-November and January-May. There are also special events scheduled throughout the year such as celebrations around National Chemistry Week (incorporating Mole Day, October 23) and Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (incorporating Earth Day, April 22). Recurring meeting themes include: student poster session, careers night, industry tours, high school teachers night and awards night. LVACS participates in many local Science Fairs throughout the year. Family events typically take in local sports (LV Iron Pigs AAA baseball) or tour/sample at wineries/microbreweries.

Keep watching this page for timely announcements of our next events! 
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January 25th Section Meeting at Moravian University Explored AI and Chemistry
https://youtu.be/MN5hxD3d7MM
Wolfram|Alpha's Jason Sonnenberg's talk with LVACS in January 2024 "Chemical Superpowers with ChatGPT + Wolfram" explored how ChatGPT is a much smarter “chemistry assistant” when given access to Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language. The resulting Wolfram GPT can generate chemical structures in two- and three-dimensions which the ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 can not. Additionally it can also pull from expert-curated chemical data and propagate experimental uncertainty in chemical conversions and computations. Wolfram|Alpha & ChatGPT 3.5 are both free resources, while Wolfram GPT & ChatGPT 4 require a subscription from OpenAI.
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A lecture by Lauren Zarzar of Penn State University entitled “Color from Colorless Materials.” Lauren is an assistant professor of chemistry and an affiliate of the Materials Research Institute. The Zarzar Lab studies stimuli-responsive materials, the behavior of active matter, and laser fabrication methods to synthesize and pattern both inorganic and organic materials. https://www.zarzarlab.com/. In this lecture, Lauren explained why interference (structural) color can arise from even microscale structures (~ 100 microns) by Total Internal Reflection, such as when water droplets of different sizes form by condensation on a clean, low energy surface.

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