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Sioux Valley Section |
Welcome to the Sioux Valley Local Section Home Page.
We are one of the 189 Local Sections of the American Chemical Society and our
members come from all over the state of South Dakota. ACS Local Sections promote
public awareness of chemistry by being involved in community outreach programs
and by working with students of chemistry and science. We hope to encourage
an interest in the chemical sciences. If you are interested in becoming a member
of ACS, please go to http://www.acs.org
for more information. If you are already an ACS member and would like to join
our Local Section, please call or e-mail me or another officer (see Local Section
Officers information below).
Sincerely,
Stanley May, Ph.D., Chair
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Chair - Dr. Stanley May, University of South Dakota, Vermillion SD, (605)677-3141. smay@usd.edu Chair Elect - Dr. Haoran Sun, University of South Dakota, Vermillion SD, (605)677-5487. Haoran.Sun@usd.edu Past Chair- Dr. Matt Miller, South Dakota State University, Brookings SD, (605) 688-6274. Matt.Miller@sdstate.edu Secretary - Dr. Ranjit T. Koodali, University of South Dakota, Vermillon SD, (605) 677-6189. Ranjit.Koodali@usd.edu Treasurer - Jeff Jung, T&R Services, 705 6th Ave. North, Brookings, SD 57006 (605) 534-3571. jung@mchsi.com Councilor - Dr. Jetty Duffy-Matzner, Augustana College, Sioux Falls, SD 57197 (605) 274-4822. jetty.duffy@augie.edu YCC Chair - Ms. Melissa Reis, POET Energy, Sioux Falls SD, reis.melissa@gmail.com |
News
BIG NEWS FOR LOCAL SECTION
- The Sioux Valley Section was honored with an ACS Speaker Service Hospitality
Award - 2nd place during the National ACS meeting in San Diego. YAHOO!
This was one of the better visits I have had with respect to enthusiastic
effort before the meeting. ... This meeting was good to show locals that chemistry
could be interesting to them. (Host Brian Moore, Augustana College) ---Carleton
Moore
Councilor's report from
San Fran. National Meeting - please look in link for sectional news for the
latest information. The link is located in the button marked sectional news
at the bottom of the web page. There is some news about materials avialable
for international year of chemistry, unemployed chemists and the upcoming ACS
elections. If you have any questions please contact our councilor and webmaster,
Jetty Duffy-Matzner.
Dates of interest 2009/2010
August 6 - Dr. Luis Echegoyen,
the current Director of the Chemistry Division at NSF and a candidate for ACS
President Elect, will be joining us at the NPURC (Northern Plains Undergraduate
Research Center) Symposium on Friday, August 6th at Ponca State Park in Nebraska.
The symposium is being jointly sponsored by the Sioux Valley Local Section.
Members interested in attending should contact Stanley May.
April 30 - Sioux Valley
Local Section Awards Dinner at the Whisk and Chop Cafe in Sioux Falls. 108 S.
Minnesota Ave from 6:30-8:30pm. It was a pleasure to pay tribute to our long
time ACS members: 60 year service award, Dr. Leo Spinar and 50 year service
award, Dr. Aurthur Schultze. We honored our High School Teahers and High School
Students that participated in our CCED events (please see below). We also honored
a number of graduating undergraduates: Distinguished Senior in Chemistry Awards:
Mackenzie Barth (SDSM&T), Ty Clikeman (USD), Adam Dittmer (Augie), Emily
Jepsen-Koehler (SDSU), and Michael Todt (Augie). Honorable Mention Distinguished
Senior: Blake Alberts (USD), Nick Bleeker (Augie), Jeb List (USD), Neil Patel
(Augie), Mark Turner (USD) and John Lee (SDSU). Distinguished Undergraduate
in Chemistry Nga Nguyen (WITCC). Please see photos under photo album tab.
April
22 - Chemists Celebrate Earth Day. We had a number of activities which included
our GreenFest on April 10th. Many Elementary classes received the flyer on Plants
the Green Machines. We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2010 Illustrated
Poem Contest for 9-12th grades. Winners received $50 and a Merck Index to teacher.
Please see flyer for more information. Click
on students' name to see their poems. The winners are: 1st place Sharon
Michael (Ms. Laura Mehlbrech, Washington High School), 2nd place Shelby
Colburn (Ms. Jennifer Barrett, WHS), and third place Allison
Daly (Ms. Laura Mehlbrech, WHS).
March 21 - March 25 - Spring
National Meeting in San Francisco
March16 at 6:00 p.m.- Prof.
Tracy Hamilton from the University of Alabama, Birmingham, gave a talk entitled
"The Chemistry of Coffee". The seminar presented a brief history of
coffee, the physical processes from cherry to brewed coffees and expressos.
The meeting was hosted at the University of South Dakota, Churchill-Haines Laboratories
Room 118.
November 10 - Dr. Ramon
M. Barnes, Professor Emeritus from the University of Massachusetts and currently
the director of University Research Institute for Analytical Chemistry gave
a seminar at Augustana College at 6:30 pm in room 241. His seminar was titled
"Environmental Forensics and Analytical Atomic Spectrochemistry".
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October
19-23 was National Chemistry Week our section celebrated late due to the Midwest
Regional meeting in Iowa City. Some of the events included demos and lectures
at Agustana College on Science Day, October 30. We also ran a High School Poster
Contest. First place winner was Claire DeMilia (12th grade, Washington High
School, Ms. Laura Mehlbrech teacher). Her poster was sent on to ACS national
to participate in the national contest. Second place winner was Hooria Aman
and third place winner was Daphnide Bartscher. All three winners will receive
a Merck Index and a certificate from the local section. Ms. Laura Mehlbrech
(High School teacher at Washington High School) is also worthy of special recognition
as she was the mentor for all three winning posters! Ms. Mehlbrech will also
recieve a Merck Index.
October 16 - Dr. Michael
Tunick (USDA) "The Chemistry of Cheese" Abstract: Coagulation of milk,
removal of whey, and ripening are all required when making cheese, and chemistry
is involved every step of the way. This non-technical talk describes the procedure
from raw milk to final product, and illustrates the differences between cheese
types, including the development of the many flavors in cheese.
Where: South Dakota State University, Room 104 of the SD Art Museum
When: Friday, October 16 at noon
September 19 - Sioux Valley
Local Section Undergraduate Poster Contest. A day event (10 am - 4 pm) was hosted
by Past Chair Matt Miller at Augustana College with three speakers: Dr. Adam
Hope (SDSU), Dr. Stanley May (USD) and Dr. Judith Giordan (Visions in Education
Inc.). 22 undergraduates from 4 schools (Augie, SDSU, USD, USF) participated
in the contest. The winners of the contest recieve funds to travel to the Midwest
Regional Meeting (2 & 3rd) and the National Meeting (1 place). 1st place
Connor Lamberson (Augie), 2nd place Nick Bleeker (Augie) and 3rd place - Shannon
Cumiskey (Augie).
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