Upcoming Events
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July 2025
50/60/70-year awards
Friday, July 11th, 10:30 am
Celebration Brunch at Chris' Restaurant
5635 Tilghman Street, Allentown
The Lehigh Valley Section of the American Chemical Society honors 50, 60 or 70 years of membership. To commemorate the 50-year milestone, ACS gives each member a 50-year certificate, a special lapel pin, and a permanent member card entitling the person to free registration at all spring, fall, and regional ACS meetings.
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: 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
SAVE THE DATE! Details forthcoming...
The ACID Series:
Starts June 17th on Zoom
Welcome to the ACID series, where Amazing Chemistry Insights and Discussions occur twice weekly during the summer of 2025!
Zoom sessions will be held on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 3 - 4 PM EST. These are FREE experiences oriented towards undergraduate students in the chemical sciences, but all are welcome. Sign up today to receive the link. Each session will include an interview with a leader in the field and some time to explore software packages. There is no commitment required: you may visit once or join us every time. While the topics cover several aspects of theoretical and computational chemistry, each talk is independent of the rest. Start with us on June 17 or jump in later!
See our webpage for more opportunities
Check out additional FREE programming to keep your chemical curiosity reacting!
May 28 - 30, in person - Lehigh Quantum Chemistry Workshop: Molecules & Materials: Registration (recurring yearly)
June 11, 8 AM - 5 PM MST - Electronic Structure Workshop 2025: Registration
Are you aware of a free educational/networking event in computational chemistry? Let us know so we can share it.
Acknowledgments
A huge thank you to the community of speakers without whom this series would not exist! We acknowledge the MoleCVUE Consortium for providing website resources and Penn State Berks for the use of Zoom. Wolfram GPT helped design the series name.
Organizers
Two mid-career, chemical educators with a passion for aiding the next cohort of chemists and applied chemical scientists.
Lorena Tribe - Penn State Berks
Jason Sonnenberg - Sunny Hill Consulting
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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