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Year 2007 – Fall Luncheon Meeting

The Fall Luncheon and Recognition of 50-Year Members

 

The Featured Speaker was

 

Professor Herbert Waite

Dept. of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology

 

Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry and The Marine Science Institute
University of California, Santa Barbara

 

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Insights from Marine Organisms for Emerging Technologies

12 Noon Saturday, November 3, 2007
Firestone-Walker’s Taproom Restaurant
620 McMurray Road, Buellton, CA

Flyer pdf file

The Sandra Lamb award for service to the section was given to Peter and Raylene Coad the first Chairs of our section

Peter and Raylene with Sandra Lamb Sanford

The Coads

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Year 2005 – Fall Luncheon

The Fall Luncheon and Recognition of

50-Year Members

The Featured Speaker will be

Dr. Kevin W. Plaxco

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

and the Program in Bio-Molecular Science and Engineering,

UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Barbara

Speaking on

Better Living Through Biosensors

 

12 Noon

Saturday, October 1, 2005

Firestone-Walker’s Taproom Restaurant

620 McMurray Road, Buellton, CA

 

The cost for the event will be $20 per person, $10 for students.

Members of more than 50 years in ACS are invited to attend at a discounted rate of $10 per person

See Flier in pdf format here

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Year 2007 – Children’s Day in the Plaza

SLO Childrens Day 2007

Children's Day in the Plaza

A group of eight Cuesta College students, all enrolled in General Chemistry courses and members of a new Science and Math Club, helped over 150 children make polymers with household ingredients at Children’s Day in the Plaza in San Luis Obispo on April 14. This community event was sponsored by the San Luis Obispo Child Abuse Prevention Council and aims to provide a host of interactive exhibits and activities for children.

Before the event, the Cuesta students met for a barbeque dinner and tried several variations of glue-based polymers, finally deciding on a cornstarch slime, gluep with glue and borax, and a third mixture that could be formed into a bouncy ball. The children that came to our booth had a great time getting sticky and feeling the various textures, and even the adults were intrigued by the dilatant properties of the cornstarch and water mixture. The visitors were allowed to take samples of all three polymers home.

This event was also a great experience for the students, as designing, preparing and explaining a science activity for non-scientists was challenging and rewarding. The students were having as much fun playing with the polymers as the kids they were helping! The Science and Math Clubat Cuesta College and Greg Baxley thank CALPSACS for their sponsorship of this activity.

Questa College StudentsPolymers

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Year 2005 – Fall Luncheon Meeting

The Fall Luncheon and Recognition of 50-Year Members

 

12 Noon Saturday, October 1, 2005
Firestone-Walker’s Taproom Restaurant
620 McMurray Road, Buellton, CA

 

The Featured Speaker will be

 

Dr. Kevin W. Plaxco
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and the Program in Bio-Molecular Science and Engineering,
UniversityofCalifornia,Santa Barbara

 

Speaking on

 

Better Living Through Biosensors

 

The cost for the event will be $20 per person, $10 for students.

Members of more than 50 years in ACS are invited to attend at a discounted rate of $10 per person

See Flier in pdf format here

 

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Year 2009 – Fall Luncheon

The Fall Luncheon and Recognition of 50-Year Members

12 Noon, Saturday, October 3, 2009 
Stella Mare’s Event Center
3302 McCaw Avenue, Santa Barbara

The Featured Speaker will be

 

Mark H. Norman, Ph.D.
Department of Chemistry Research & Discovery Amgen, Thousand Oaks

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Red Hot Chili Peppers – Recipes for the Treatment of Pain

 

Vanilloid receptor-1 (VR1 or TRPV1) is an ion channel expressed predominantly on pain-sensing neurons and is a therapeutic target for the management of pain. The goal of our research program has been to identify and develop potent and selective small molecule TRPV1 antagonists. This presentation will describe the results of these investigations, which started from an initial high throughput screening hit and culminated in the identification of our first TRPV1 clinical candidate,AMG517.

 Dr. Norman received his B.S. in chemistry from theUniversityofNew Hampshirein 1982 and his PhD in synthetic organic chemistry from theUniversityofCalifornia,Berkeleyin 1987, under the direction of Clayton Heathcock where he studied synthetic methodology and natural product synthesis. He has over 22 years of drug discovery and development experience in the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology sector with Amgen, Glaxo Wellcome, and Burroughs Wellcome. In 1996 he was recruited to Amgen to participate in the building of their small molecule drug discovery department and is currently a Director of Medicinal Chemistry there.

The cost for the event will be $25 per person, $15 for students.

Members of more than 50 years inACSare invited to attend at a discounted rate of $15 per person.

The menu will include appetizers, a choice of entrée ~ herb crusted chicken breast, bay shrimp salad, or a vegetarian option and chocolate torte for dessert.

Directions:

Directions to Stella Mare’s Event Center 3302 McCaw Ave. Santa Barbara

From the South:Take Highway 101 North to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road. Turn Right on to Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles. Turn Left on to McCaw Avenue just past the golf course. Stella Mare’s is immediately on the Right.

From the North:Take Highway 101 South to Santa Barbara. Exit at Las Positas Road. Turn Left on to Las Positas Road and go ~0.5 miles. Turn Left on to McCaw Avenue just past the golf course. Stella Mare’s is immediately on the Right.

Fill out and return this form by Monday, September 28, 2009

The Flyer can be found here in a pdf
For more information, email us at calpacs@chem.ucsb.edu, or call John Hagen at 805-756-1651

Sandra Lamb Award winner for 2009 is Dr. Richard Hurst, Past President of CALPACS


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Year 2011 – Richard W. Hurst Talk

Richard W. Hurst Ph.D.

Professor Emeritus,

California State University – Los Angeles

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The Duality of Lead in the Environment: Environmental Bane and Boon [Good Cop – Bad Cop]

2 pm. Sunday, April 17, 2011
SLO County Library Community Room
995 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo

Light refreshments will be served.

Abstract

The element lead (chemical symbol, Pb, from plumbum) has historical uses that date back 6000 years. Lead’s toxic nature has also been known for centuries, however, its desirable properties have often “tipped the scales” when decisions arose as to whether or not lead should be used in a particular product. For example, the Romans used it due to its malleability, forming lead pipes for water transport and its sweet taste when formed into goblets from which wine was consumed. More recently, addition of lead additives to gasoline were determined to stop engine “knocking”; hence, the leaded gasoline era emerged along with the result—long-term environmental lead pollution. Now that we are dealing with lead pollution, given it does not degrade (i.e., break down) in the environment, how do we assess the source or sources of the lead? We do this with the positive aspects of lead, its isotopes. Isotope ratios of lead allow us to: estimate ages of leaded gasoline releases; assess why the common garden snail “outsmarts” us with regard to potential lead poisoning; and determine why lead based paint is not always, as some suspect, the “bad guy on the block.” The element lead definitely has a dual nature—being both toxic to life, but also, via its isotopes, providing a means to resolve the problems created by its use.

Dr. Hurst is a Professor Emeritus of Geology and Geochemistry at California State University, Los Angeles where he has instructed and performed research since 1978. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geology, Mineralogy, and Petrology at California Lutheran University. His primary research interests have centered on forensic environmental isotope geochemistry and mineralogy. Since 1980, he has studied the use of naturally-occurring, stable isotopes, especially those of lead, as a means of tracing the sources of hydrocarbon and other types of contamination in the environment. He is recognized for his development of the ALAS Model which employs lead isotopes to estimate the age of leaded gasoline releases; the model is used throughout the United States, Canada, and South America.

Directions:

From the North Take Hwy 101 South to the Olive St/Santa Rosa Exit (203a). Merge Right onto Olive Street, then Turn Right onto Santa Rosa. In 0.3 miles Turn Right onto Palm Street. Drive 1 block to the SLO library on you left.

From the South Take Hwy 101 North to the Osos Street Exit (203a). Merge Right onto Osos Street. In 0.3 miles Turn Right onto Palm Street. The SLO Library will be on your left.

A parking garage is located adjacent to the library. Alternately, street parking is free on Sundays.

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Year 2006 – 10th Anniversary Celebrations

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The CALPSACS 10th Anniversary Gala Celebration

 

Featuring Keynote Speaker

Professor Sir Harry Kroto

Nobel Laureate and Francis Eppes Professor of Chemistry
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida

6 p.m. Saturday, April 8, 2006
La Cantina Room Hotel Mar Monte
1111 East Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara

Speaking on

Architecture in NanoSpace


Biography of Sir Kroto

More from his Website

 

The cost for the event will be $25 per person/$15 for students.

Please refer to the Flyer for detailed information

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