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August 2025

ACS Fall Meeting
August 17-21, 2025
Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
Register now and join us from Aug. 17 to 21 for ACS Fall 2025! Experience the excitement in person at the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., or join us virtually for the ACS Fall 2025 Digital Meeting.


September 2025

Iron Pigs Baseball Game
Thursday, September 4th, 6:45 pm
Coca-Cola Park
1050 Ironpigs Way, Allentown, PA 18109, USA (map)  
It's summer and that means baseball and that means it’s time to cheer on our very own Fe Pigs! So… let LVACS take you out to see that old ball game for just $15 a pop-goes-the-weasel! Our Pigs of Iron face archrivals, the Toledo Mud Hens, on Thursday, September 4th with the first pitch at 6:45 pm. It’ll be the usual spread in the Picnic Patio with all-you-can-eat trough.
Gates open at 5:30 pm. O-I-N-K !!
RSVP SOON - STILL A FEW TIX LEFT: Lindsey Welch, lawelch@cedarcrest.edu 

September Section Meeting
Thursday, September 18th, 5:00-9:00 pm
Fegley's Allentown Brew Works
812 Hamilton St, Allentown, PA 18101
Guest Speaker: Rigoberto Hernandez, President-elect, ACS
“Reach for the Stars, Settle for the Moon!”
Social Hour: 5:00pm-6:00pm
Dinner: 6:00pm-7:00pm
Meeting & Awards: 7:00pm-8:00pm
Presentation by Professor Hernandez: 8:00pm-9:00pm
STUDENTS: GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BROADEN CAREER PERSPECTIVES!
POST FLYER EVERYWHERE!
Members: $30; Students/Retired & Unemployed Members: $15

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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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