March 5-6, 2015: R. Bryan Miller Symposium at UC Davis
ACS Sacramento is proud to be a sponsor of the 2015 R. Bryan Miller Symposium, which will be two full days this year. Speakers include (pictured above from left to right) Chi-Huey Wong of Academia Sinica Taipei, Kendall Houk of UCLA, Sheila David of UC Davis, and Laura Kiessling as the Plenary Speaker from UC Berkeley. The following is from the UC Davis Department of Chemistry web site: March 5 – 1st Annual Rare Disease...
Webinar: Chemistry of the Silver Screen
Join us Tuesday February 24th at 4pm Pacific time to learn how chemists and chemistry have influenced movies and TV shows like Breaking Bad, Gravity, Battlestar Galactica, and Eureka. Science is finding a bigger place on the silver screen and in our living rooms. But what’s behind this new attraction and how is Hollywood influencing the public’s view? Tune in for a discussion on how Hollywood is working to incorporate science and...
Mastering the Art of Scientific Publication: The Webinar Series
Preparing Your Manuscript: Part 1 February 11, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. PST / 9:00 a.m. MST / 11:00 a.m. EST / 16:00 GMT Preparing Your Manuscript: Part 2 March 4, 2015 at 8:00 a.m. PST / 9:00 a.m. MST / 11:00 a.m. EST / 16:00 GMT “As new researchers generate their first results, they face the challenge of mastering the art of scientific publication in order to present their results and to draw attention to their new scientific findings....
Synthetic Chemist to Semiconductor Engineer
I never thought I’d finish grad school. At least that’s what I thought as my last year at UC Davis dragged on. My peers around me were acquiring impressive post-docs around the world and I tried to be interested in what everyone else was interested in. However, I had decided long before my last year in grad school that my time in academia would be limited to my Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry. Instead, I wanted to work for...
SCC Chem Club Spring 2015 News
The SCC Chem Club welcomed in the spring semester with newly-elected President Jasmine Hakim-Elahi and a fun, messy, explosive experiment with Mentos and different kinds of soda. During the meeting, an outreach to Davinci Junior High on February 26th was organized, as well as a potential field trip to the Miller Symposium with the Honors Chemistry class and CRC Chem Club on March 5th and 6th. Buttons and new t-shirt designs are being...