Upcoming Events
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HAPPY ACS 150TH ANNIVERSARY FROM THE LEHIGH VALLEY SECTION OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY!
April 2026
Pocono Mountain West HS: Night of STEM!
Monday, April 13th, 5-8 pm
This year Pocono Mtn. West will be hosting their fourth annual Night of STEM for all of the schools in the district and their families. Their Science Honor Society and Math Honor Society students will again be having tables to teach science and math, do science and math demonstrations, and provide make-and-take science and math projects to all interested students. They would love to have LVACS be a part of the event. We would have tables to promote ACS, promote STEM, and demonstrate what we do. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
CONTACT: PHILIP ELIAS, philipjelias@gmail.com
April Section Meeting
Tuesday, April 14th
DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA 18034
Speaker: Mary Danielson, University of Tennessee–Oak Ridge Innovation Institute
“Upcycling Post-Consumer PET Waste into Closed-Loop Recyclable Multifunctional Materials”
Trained as a synthetic polymer chemist, Danielson brings a broad and interdisciplinary understanding of materials science and engineering to her work. Her research centers on designing next-generation polymers and polymeric materials with sustainability and circularity as guiding principles. Her lab’s approach is comprehensive—spanning wet-lab chemistry, small-molecule synthesis, materials characterization, and application development.
ANNUAL UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH POSTER SESSION 4:30-6:00 PM
**POSTER ABSTRACT DEADLINE EXTENDED TO APRIL 5TH AT MIDNIGHT**
DINNER AND MEETING FOLLOW
SEE EVENT FLYER FOR MORE DETAILS AND REGISTRATION LINK!
NOTE: You may pay in advance for dinner using these PayPal links:
full price ($20) link:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/5WA6KBY6VAB84
student/retired/unemployed price ($10) link:
https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/4DDEFGNX3SWEQ
MEETING CONTACT: Sara Hayik, sara.hayik@desales.edu
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) 2026
April 19-25 [Event at Da Vinci Science Center April 19th]
“Into the Woods with Chemistry”
LVACS will celebrate CCEW, April 19-25, 2026 with the theme, “Into the Woods with Chemistry.” A hands-on demonstration event at Da Vinci Science Center in Allentown has been scheduled on Sunday, April 19th from 10 am until 2 pm. VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
Also, our Annual CCEW Illustrated Poetry contest will be featured! Send in your contribution now!
Contact Philip Elias, CCEW coordinator, for details, philipjelias@gmail.com
May 2026
Reading Science Center's 3rd Celebrate Science Day
Sunday, May 3rd, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Reading Regional Airport
CONTACT: Nigel Sanders, nigel53.sanders@gmail.com
Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM)
May 17th - 19th
Hershey Lodge Convention Center
Hershey, Pennsylvania
MARM 2026 is co-hosted by Lehigh Valley,
Southeastern Pennsylvania, and Susquehanna Local Sections!
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR TASTY SOCIAL CALENDAR
AND REGISTER TODAY!
Keep watching this page for timely announcements of our next events!
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.
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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