Upcoming Events
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March 2025
88th Intercollegiate Student Chemists Convention (ISCC)
Saturday, March 29th
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA
Information
| TIME | EVENT | LOCATION |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
Trumbower Hall Foyer |
| 8:45 |
Opening Remarks |
Trumbower Hall 130 |
| 9:00-12:00 |
Student Research Presentations |
Trumbower Hall 140, 149, 305, 311, 347,348 Shankweiler Hall 340s, 440s |
| 12:00 |
Judges Meeting |
Trumbower Hall 331 |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Lunch and Socializing |
Wood Dinning Commons, Seegers Student Union |
| 1:00-3:00 |
Business Meeting Keynote address from Dr. Karen Goldberg, the University of Pennsylvania Awards Ceremony Closing Remarks |
Trumbower Hall 130 |
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April 2025
LVACS Section Meeting
Tuesday, April 8th, 4:30-9:00 pm
University Center, DeSales University
Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium
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**DEADLINE FOR POSTER ABSTRACTS IS MARCH 28, 2025**
Speaker: Jonathan Kuo, Penn State
Jonathan L. Kuo, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at The Pennsylvania State University. Previously, he was an NIH sponsored Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania. He earned his doctorate from Columbia University and his B.S. from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Kuo is interested in developing transition metal catalyzed processes that approach perfect atom economy. Examples include oxidations which use O2, or reductions which use H2. Many of these transformations involve careful consideration of how to choreograph the movement of protons and electrons around a transition metal ion in a controlled fashion.
4:30-6:00pm Poster Symposium: Trexler Room
Social Hour Menu: Cheese and Fruit Display, Crisp Crudities Platter with soda and water
6:00-9:00 Dinner, Meeting and Talk: Commonwealth Room
Dinner Menu: Pasta Buffet Dinner with vegetarian option and dessert.
($20 for members, $10 for students/retired/unemployed)
RSVP (to submit an abstract or just attend)
CONTACT: Sara Hayik, sara.hayik@desales.edu
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Night of STEAM at Pocono Mountain West High School
Monday, April 14th, 5 to 8 pm
Pocono Mountain West High School
181 Panther Lane, Pocono Summit, PA 18346
Hands-on science for the K-12 grades of Pocono Mt Schools
CONTACT: Corinne Long, clong@pmsd.org
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WCC Career Panel and Painting Event
Wednesday, April 30th , 2:30-5:30 pm
Painting with a Twist
3650 Nazareth Pike, Bethlehem, PA 18020 GPS
The event will feature a career panel from 2:30-3:15 with instructed painting from 3:15-5:30
Interested? RSVP
Post FLYER everywhere!
CONTACT: Yi Du, LVACS WCC Chair, duyidoit@gmail.com
May 2025
2nd Annual Celebrate Science Day with Reading Science Center
Sunday, May 4th, 1 to 5 pm
Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health
50 Innovation Way, Wyomissing, PA 19610
Hands-on science for all ages outdoors!
CONTACT: Nigel Sanders, nigel53.sanders@gmail.com
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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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