Please join us for a virtual lecture this Sunday afternoon 3/14/21, pi day, at 3:14 PM for a lecture about navigating Federal Drug Administration regulations during the pandemic.
Continue reading “Medical Device Development and US FDA Regulation”Candidate Statements for 2020 Election
Below are the statements from the candidates running for positions on the Executive Committee of the Los Padres Section of the American Chemical Society, or CaLPACS.
Chair Elect
Wilson Hago, Ph. D. is a 25+ year member of the ACS, and current Chair of the Los Padres Section. He has worked in the local start-up industry as a physical chemist for the past 20 years. This experience includes research and development on alkaline batteries, cellulose chemistry, biochar, activated carbon, and renewable fuels. Wilson has a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in physics, and a Ph.D in physical chemistry from Brown University. He has written over 100 patents and is named as inventor on 17 patents. He is Founder of Hago Energetics, Inc., a startup focused on CO2 capture and utilization. Wilson would be be honored to continue serving the Section as Chair-Elect to further the Section’s mission of promoting chemistry and chemical education in the Central Coast.
Continue reading “Candidate Statements for 2020 Election”How Liquid Ammonia Transitions to Metal
In June of this year, Professor Stephen Bradforth of USC and his collaborators made the cover of Science magazine with their stunning results on how liquid ammonia transforms into a liquid metal as more alkali metals are dissolved into it. We are thrilled to have Professor Bradforth speak to our section about these exciting results this coming Sunday, November 8, 2020. Due to the pandemic, this lecture will be conducted over Zoom, and the details are below. Please join us for an exceptional talk on truly outstanding results. The abstract of the talk appears below.
Speaker: Professor Stephen Bradforth
Title: Probing the transition from solution electrolyte to liquid metal
Date: Sunday November 6, 2020
Time: 3:00 PM
Zoom Location: Please us the “Contact” link above to request the Zoom link for this lecture.
Cost: Free
Travel Grants for 2020 ACS Fall National Meeting
Please fill out the following form to request reimbursement for student registration fees for the 2020 ACS Fall National Meeting. Grants will be given out on a first come, first served basis. To be eligible, you must be a registered undergraduate student in the CALPACS territory, Camarillo to San Luis Obispo. Active student members of the American Chemical Society will be given priority.
In order to receive the grant, you must
- Fill out and submit the form below by the end of day Wednesday, August 12, 2020.
- Wait to receive confirmation that you have been awarded a grant.
- Sign up to attend the Fall National Meeting. This meeting will be held virtually. No travel is involved.
- Submit proof of payment to contact@lospadresacs.org
- You will be reimbursed via PayPal.
Earth Day Poetry Contest
Earth Week is next week, and the American Chemical Society has streamlined the illustrated poetry contest submission process and extended the contest entry deadline. All submissions will now be submitted through this portal https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/outreach/ccew/plan-an-event/illustrated-poem-contest.html by Sunday, May 3rd at 9 p.m. PST. Our local section name is California Los Padres and is needed during the submission process.
The illustrated poetry contest is open to all students in Grades K-12. The poems must be original works composed of 40 words or less, following one of the given styles and accompanied by an original illustration. This year’s theme Protecting our Planet through Chemistry should be the focus for the poem and illustration. Contest guidelines can be found in the attached contest flyer.
Additional Earth Week resources for teachers and students:
a. www.acs.org/kids – Adventures in Chemistry site which has six experiments for home
b. www.acs.org/content/acs/en/education/resources/k-8/thebestof.html – The Best of WonderScience has nine 3-6 grade activities available for free
c. www.acs.org/inquiryinaction – Activities made for the classroom, all free
d. www.nisenet.org/athome – From our partner the NISE Network
e. AACT open resources through April 17 https://teachchemistry.org/news/unlocked-resources-through-march-3
f. Celebrating Chemistry Coloring Book (grades K-2)
g. Endangered Elements Color by Numbers (PDF) (grades 3-6)
h. ChemCatcher (PDF) (grades 9-12, undergraduate)
i. Earth Day 50th Anniversary Timeline (PDF) (grades 9-12, undergraduate)
j. and more educational resources organized by age group.
Please contact Heather Shafer via our contacts page if you have any questions about the poetry contest or Chemists Celebrate Earth Week.
2020 Pi Day Seminar: Dr. Sarah Brady
Due to the prevailing health concerns, this seminar has been canceled. We hope to resume our events in the near future.
Good health to all.
CALPACS
CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHAT CAN BE DONE
The California Los Padres Section of the American Chemical Society invites the general public to join us in a discussion of the effects of climate change and what can be done to address it.
Continue reading “CLIMATE CHANGE: WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHAT CAN BE DONE”Wine Tasting at Demetria Estate
The frenetic activity of late fall portends many holiday activities, and the annual CALPACS wine tasting event is one of them. This year’s tasting is scheduled on Saturday December 7, 2019, at Demetria Estate, one of the most spectacular properties in the Santa Ynez Valley. (The wine is pretty good, too.) As usual, we will have an assortment of cheeses with crackers, fresh bread, and soups made by your executive committee members to accompany the fine wines submitted for evaluation to the discerning palates of CALPACS members. Please use the form below to make your reservation. We look forward to closing another year of chemistry advocacy in the tricounty area with your company.
Date: Saturday, December 07, 2019
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
Winery: Demetria Estate, 6701 Foxen Canyon Road, Los Olivos, CA 93441 805.686.2345 (Bing Map) Please bear in mind that entrance to Demetria is controlled. You must dial the winery at the gate, and announce that you are with CALPACS. You will then have to drive about an additional mile to reach the winery.
Cost: $15 per tasting
Lecture on Chemistry of Aging
Please join us the afternoon of Saturday, November 7, 2019, for a special lecture on the chemistry of aging with Professor Steven Clarke of UCLA. This lecture is co-sponsored by the Chemistry Department at California State University, Channel Islands.
Title: Fighting off chemical aging with biochemistry: protein and small molecule damage and repair
Date: Saturday, November 9, 2019
Time: 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Location: Cal State Channel Islands Boating Center
3880 Bluefin Circle
Oxnard, CA 93035 (Click for map)
Cost: Free
Snacks and coffee will be served!
Steven Clarke, Ph. D., is Faculty Distinguished Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. He received his B.A. degree from Pomona College in 1970 and his Ph.D. degree from Harvard University in 1976. After a two-year postdoctoral appointment as a Miller Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, he joined the UCLA faculty in 1978. His research at UCLA has focused on roles of novel protein methyltransferases in aging and biological regulation.
Candidate Statements for 2019 Elections
Chair
Dr. Ivan Lorkovic (Grinnell BS ’89, MIT PhD Inorganic Chemistry ’95) has been working as a scientist and engineer in the Santa Barbara area for 25 years. He served as treasurer and was on the executive committee for CALPACS between 2004 and 2010. His research interests were studying redox transformations of small molecules: with Peter Ford studying nitrogen oxide interactions with heme models, with Gas Reaction Technologies developing novel gas to liquids partial oxidation technology, and with Cool Planet Biofuels developing catalysts for biomass derived syngas to higher hydrocarbons. More recently he has been working with developing and characterizing remote sensing technology at Raytheon Vision Systems in Goleta as systems engineer.
Treasurer
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