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Ted Gast contributes to “Conversation Starter” project

Ted Gast, president of Arch Paper LLC, is featured in a video “conversation starter” that describes his chemistry job to a layman. The ACS project, part of the Chemistry Ambassadors program, is intended to show members how to engage non-chemists without the intimidating jargon and technical details that can make

Dr. Christopher D Spilling: 2009 St. Louis Award Winner

Dr. Christopher D Spilling: 2009 St. Louis Award Winner

Dr Christopher D Spilling came to St Louis in August 1989 to join the faculty of the Chemistry Department at the University of Missouri–St Louis as Assistant Professor. Prior to that he spent three years as a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University with Professor Tony Barrett. At UM–St

St Louis, the Award-Winning Section

St Louis, the Award-Winning Section

In current events, the St Louis Section has added to its trove in 2009. Arindam Roy’s energy, organizing skills, and recruitment of other officers created a continual series of meetings and special events that benefited younger—and not-so-younger—chemists throughout the year. The YCC brought home the 2009 ChemLuminary

Dr. Richard C. Larock: 2009 Midwest Award Winner

Dr. Richard C. Larock: 2009 Midwest Award Winner

Richard C Larock is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Iowa State University. He received his BS degree summa cum laude in 1967 from the University of California at Davis and his PhD from Purdue University in 1972, under the direction of Professor Herbert C Brown, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in

Walter Stern, chemical engineer at the founding of Sigma Chemical Company, dies

On November 21, 2009, Walter Stern died. Walter was a chemical engineer who, in 1946, helped design the production process for saccharin, the first product of Sigma Chemical Company. When Monsanto entered the saccharin market, Sigma almost foundered. In searching for new opportunities, Sigma soon turned to ATP (adenosine triphosphate,

Marcel Madaras featured in C & E News employment outlook

The cover story in the November 2, 2009, issue of Chemical & Engineering News focused on the job outlook for chemists, amid a bleak employment scene in almost all segments of the workforce. To put a human face on the statistics, the experiences of Marcel Madaras were featured: first as

William J Sun takes a 2nd in prestigious competition

William J Sun, a senior at Parkway Central High School, took second place in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search. His project, undertaken with David Haslam of Washington University School of Medicine, studied the effect of golgicide A on the Golgi secretory apparatus. Each year, 40 finalists are chosen from