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February Section Meeting

America's Funniest Chemical Videos: Dazzling Demos and Videotaped Bloopers

Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009, 7:00 PM

Lawrence Technological University

Buell Management Bldg., room M-218 (For Map and Directions, see page 15)

Come join us for free pizza and amazing chemistry bloopers with Dr. John Fortman at Lawrence Tech.

Abstract: Through the years, John Fortman have collected and ed-ited many misadventures that Rubin Battino and he experienced in doing demonstration shows that were videotaped live. Difficulties encountered in the studio preparation of our three-hour set of videotaped demonstrations were also saved. These will make up one part of these showings. Gil Haight has given me permission to show portions of his Haightful Perils of Teaching which are spec-tacular in spite of technical problems. A videotape of Hubert Al-yea doing his Old Nassau demonstration will be shown along with some tapes of others such as Bassam Shakhashiri and Ron Perkins caught in live demonstrations that presented problems. Portions of demonstrations by the Weird Science group will also be shown.

The Speaker: John Fortman received the 2007 Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach. He is Professor Emeritus of Chemis-try at Wright State University where he retired in 2001 after 36

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years of teaching freshman and inorganic chemistry. In 1998 he was appointed the Robert J. Kegerreis Distinguished Professor of Teaching and won seven different teaching awards over the years at Wright State. In 1998 he received the CMA Catalyst Award for Outstanding Teaching of College Chemistry. Dr. Fortman re-ceived his B.S. from the University of Dayton in 1961 and his Ph.D. in physical inorganic chemistry from the University of Notre Dame in 1965. He has published over 50 papers in chemical edu-cation in addition to his research publications. With Rubin Bat-tino he has produced a seven DVD set which contains ten hours of chemical demonstrations for use at middle school through col-lege levels plus a live show and blooper outtakes. For over 30 years he has done chem demo outreach shows for middle and high school students in the Dayton area and continues to inspire and fascinate over 8000 students each year with at least 17 shows. He has done workshops on teaching and demonstrations around the country. He has designed alternative courses for general chemistry, elementary chemistry and chemistry for elementary education majors. His course for non-science students was cited as a model in the 1990 AAAS report on "The Liberal Art of Sci-ence: Agenda for Action". The alternative general chemistry course was developed while he was a member of the General Chemistry Task Force of the ACS Division of Chemical Educa-tion and starts with organic and biochemistry moving through ma-terials and finishing with energy while empathizing applications and bringing in only those principles that are needed as they are necessary. The course has been characterized as being taught in-side-out, upside-down, and backwards. His interests in addition to demonstrations and course content and organization include the use of analogies and videotaped material. John has been an ACS member since 1962 and was Councilor for the Dayton Local Sec-tion from 1996 to 2004. Since he became an ACS Tour Speaker in 1991 he has given over 310 section talks, visiting 163 of the 190 different local sections while doing 65 tours including all 29 different tours at least once. He has presented in all 50 states and Puerto Rico.

The Younger Chemists Committee Presents: A monthly lecture series held the 3rd Tuesday of every month

at Traffic Jam & Snug in Detroit An evening of libations, edible delights and science inquiry

February's Topic:

I ♥ Chemistry Presented by:

Ruthann Nichols, Ph.D., Department of Biological Chemistry University of Michigan Medical School

Mechanisms and physiological functions of RFamide neuropeptides in Drosophila to humans; translating basic science to medicine.Cardiac failure can result from a disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill or pump a sufficient amount of blood through the body in a timely manner. Research by the University of Michigan team headed by Ruthann Nichols, Ph.D., professor of biological chemistry, focuses on RFamide peptides, which may be involved in regulating cardiovascular functioning. She has studied a peptide that is synthesized in the brain and transferred to the heart, where it can slow cardiac relaxation. The peptide was originally isolated from fruit flies, but the University of Michigan team recently discovered a structurally similar peptide in hu-mans.

Tuesday, February 17th, 7 PM Traffic Jam & Snug

511 West Canfield Street, Detroit, MI 48201 The Traffic Jam and Snug, established 1965, is known for their in-house bak-

ery, microbrewery, dairy, and made-from-scratch dishes. www.trafficjamdetroit.com

FOR MORE INFO, CALL MEGHANN MOUYIANIS AT

313.993.1259

Get Ready for CERMACS 2012

The year 2012 may seem light years away, but it’s coming at the Detroit ACS section a lot faster than we think. Our section will be hosting the Central Regional Meeting (the CERM) in 2012, be-cause that’s the centennial of the section. Believe it or not, the Detroit Section of the ACS has been a presence for a full 100 years. And, believe it or not, we need to start planning for a great CERM right now.

Members, what sort of symposia do you want in our meeting? Of course, we can do the basics – general sessions on organic, inor-ganic, analytical, physical, and biochemistry. But what do we, the members, want to have? Are plastics still an area of interest for us, or is the field too flexible? What about an area within green chemistry, or isn’t it growing anymore? Is the chemistry of water a hot topic, or is it too dry? Okay, okay. Sorry about that. We’ll stop the bad puns if everyone will e-mail in a couple of ideas.

Seriously, we have chemists from large companies such as BASF, as well as plenty of other industrial concerns. We have govern-ment labs within our section. We have academic members from large universities such as Wayne State, all the way down to smaller colleges with only a few chemistry faculty members. With all that variety in the section, what areas of interest to the profession are of interest to you?

If you have attended recent regional meetings, you know that there are recurring symposia and interests in polymers, and that the chemistry involved in alternate energy sources has become hot of late. By all means, please tell us what you think.

A Second Call

It goes without saying that a regional ACS meeting is a rather large affair. That doesn’t mean it has to be a difficult one though, at least not if many people are all willing to take small parts. Are you interested in taking a more active role? Think about it, since we still have some breathing space before the summer of 2012. We will need symposium heads, people to get the membership

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active, chairs of several committees, and a host of other positions filled. Don’t be scared of the word, “volunteer.” If our member-ship puts as much effort into this meeting as we have for numer-ous past events – the NCW days at Cranbrook Science Center and the work at the Detroit Taste Fest spring quickly to mind as ex-amples – we’ll be in great shape. Actually, if we put in that much effort, we’ll probably make the centennial of the Detroit ACS Section a meeting to remember for years, if not decades.

So, do you have ideas, or a desire to help out with this event? If so, please let your section leadership know. It’s time to get started.

For more information, please contact Mark Benvenuto:

[email protected]

Former ACS President Bursten Praises House Speaker's Support for Science

Bruce Bursten, Ph.D., immediate past president of ACS, has praised U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her promise that science will be of major importance in the upcoming Congress.

Leaders of major institutions representing government, academia, business and science were invited to attend the Innovation Round-table hosted by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Princeton Univer-sity last December.

In his remarks to the gathering, Dr. Bursten said "Science and en-gineering must be the engines of the innovation that assure our economic prosperity, our national security, our energy independ-ence, and our responsible stewardship of our planet." Dr. Bursten is Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

The purpose of the annual roundtable was to discuss how Con-gress could move ahead to renew the national commitment to the physical sciences and energy research.

ACS 237th National Meeting – Salt Lake City, Utah

On January 12, 2009, registration opened for all attendees to register for the ACS 237th National Meeting to be held in Salt Lake City, UT, March 22-26, 2009. Early registration fees started on January 12, 2009, and will last through February 23, 2009.

ACS SPRING REGIONAL MEETINGS The 2009 Regional Meetings are online and planning their pro-grams. All three of the spring meetings will have programming pertaining to the environment, and GLRM and CERMACS have planned their meetings around an environmental theme. Plans are underway to open their abstract programs and advance registra-tion in the immediate future. The Great Lakes Regional Meeting (GLRM), http://www.glrm2009.org/ will take place in Lincolnshire, IL, just outside Chicago, May 13 – 16. Their theme is “A Better Environment through Chemistry.” Symposia planned include plant biochemis-try, material science/polymer chemistry, ethics in college educa-tion, non-crystalline x-ray structural chemistry and the environ-ment, and molecular simulation in and for the environment. The Central Regional Meeting (CERMACS), hosted by the Cleveland Section, which will be celebrating its 100th anniver-sary. Mark the dates, May 20 -23, and visit their website at http://www.case.edu/cermacs/ for details. Their theme is “Meeting En-ergy and Environmental Challenges through Functional Materi-als.” Four other societies will co-sponsor and submit program-ming to CERMACS. They are the Electrochemical Society, Soci-ety for Applied Spectroscopy, American Vacuum Society, and the Yeager Center for Electrochemical Science. Case Western Re-serve University also is a contributor. The Northwest Regional Meeting (NORM) will take place June 28 – July 1 at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA. Visit their website at http://www.chem.plu.edu/norm2009/ for informa-tion on their plans. Included in their program are sessions on bio-analytical mass spectrometry, chemistry of the bioregion; chemis-try, energy, and sustainability; clinical chemistry, and instruments for the teaching laboratory.

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Detroit ACS Section and ANACHEM on the Web

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Upcoming Event:

March 16th, 7PM - The Art of Chemistry Presented by: Glenn Gates, Ph.D., Research Chemist at the Conservation Services Laboratory of the Detroit Institute of Arts

Dr. Glenn Gates will explain the treatments, approaches, scien-tific analysis, and acquisitions of the DIA's vast collection of paintings, objects, paper, textiles, and frames. The DIA's 10,000-square-foot Conservation Services Laboratory is one of the most sophisticated facilities of its kind in the United States. Its highly trained specialists provide documentation, research, examination and treatment for artworks in the DIA and over 30 other museums in Michigan. The Conservation department also monitors tem-perature and humidity in the galleries, designs and constructs mounts for artworks, and provides technical photography.

For more information, contact [email protected] or at (313) 993-1259

“The test of all knowledge is experiment. (I, 1-1) If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be de-stroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis (or the atomic fact, if you wish to call it that) that all things are made of atoms - little par-ticles that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another. (I, 1-2) Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. (I, 1-7) Everything is made of atoms. That is the key hypothesis. (I, 1-8) ...if all of this, all the life of a stream of water, can be nothing but a pile of atoms, how much more is possible? (I, 1-9)”

Richard P. Feynman, "The Feynman Lecture on Physics", Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts, 1963.

Correction to January Chemist

Please note that the entry for contact information for the Younger Chemists Committee in the table of officers in the January, 2009 Detroit Chemist was incorrect. An updated entry is below:

Younger Chemists Committee: Meghann Mouyanis E-mail: [email protected]

We regret any inconvenience this may have caused.

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Table of Contents Page

February Section Meeting: America's Funniest Chemical Videos

1, 2 and 15

February Brewing Chemistry: I ♥ Chemistry

3

Get Ready for CERMACS 2012 4-5

Former ACS President Bursten Praises House Speaker's Support for Science

5

Engineering Society of Detroit 6

Spring ACS Meetings 6-7

Chemical Crossword 8-9 & 13

Contact Information 9

The ACS Network 10

Try out an ACS Webcast 11

Brewing Chemistry: Upcoming Events 12

January Chemist Correction 13

Business Directory 14

Calendar of Upcoming Events

Feb 17 YCC Brewing Chemistry - “I Chemistry”, see Page 3 for details

Feb 19 February Section Meeting Topic: “America’s Funniest Chemical Videos: Dazzling Demos and Video-taped Bloopers”, see pages 1, 2 & 15 for details

Mar 16 YCC Brewing Chemistry - “The Art of Chem-istry”, see March Chemist for details

Mar 22-26 ACS Spring National Meeting in Salt Lake City, UT

Apr 10 April Section Meeting Topic: “What You Al-ways Wanted to Know about Chemicals in Foods but Were Afraid to Eat”, see March Chemist for details

May, 2009 Joint ACS-CIC Awards Banquet, see April Chemist for Details

May 20-23 Central Regional Meeting (CERMACS) in Cleveland, see page 7 for details

Sep 11 September Section Meeting Topic: “GLITTER as Forensic Evidence”, see September Chemist for details

Oct 5 October Section Meeting Topic: “Beware the Pseudoscientist”, see October Chemist for details

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