LVACS Communities
Chemistry is done by everybody. Within LVACS, there are many communities which contribute uniquely to the human endeavor of learning and research. The Section celebrates the many viewpoints these communities bring to our membership.
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"We create environments where people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences thrive."
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"We create environments where people from diverse backgrounds, cultures, perspectives, and experiences thrive."
More information on the ACS Strategic Plan 2025-2029
LVACS Women Chemists Committee
Chair: Yi Du, duyidoit@gmail.com
Chair: Yi Du, duyidoit@gmail.com
Great Event for the LVACS Women Chemists Committee April 30th 2025 at Painting with a Twist in Bethlehem! Thanks to Yi Du, LVACS WCC Chair, career panelists Dan Wu from Dow and Sara Yacob from ExxonMobil and our painting muse, Jean, for putting us all in the picture!
The LVACS Women Chemists Committee event December 18th at Color Me Mine in Bethlehem was an artistic endeavor worthy of Michelangelo (or at least his students!). Hosted by new WCC Chair Yi Du of ExxonMobil R&D, 12 members and friends took paint brushes in hand to decorate their favorite pottery substrate while sharing some career insights and other personal interests. It was a great time and a super way to cap off the year 2024 for LVACS. We thank Yi for organizing and hosting this unique event!
LVACS WOMEN CHEMISTS COMMITTEE
EVENT FEATURED HISTORIAN MICHELLE MART
On Thursday, June 29th 2023, LVACS welcomed PSU Professor of History, Michelle Mart, PhD., author of "Pesticides, A Love Story: America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals" to the Violet Vintage Wine Company, 107 Shartlesville Rd, Bernville, PA 19506 for a special WCC event. Michelle gave a short presentation and took questions - an exposure to how chemistry is seen from a different perspective.
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Stories We Tell About Pesticides
Ever since the late 1940s, the use of synthetic pesticides in the United States has become ubiquitous. For many people, the benefit of these chemicals has been self-evident: increased agricultural productivity. At the same time, others have recoiled at the negative effects of pesticides, both acute and chronic. If the effects of pesticides have been mixed over the decades, have the opinions about them also been mixed? Michelle Mart argues that public opinion about pesticides – paradoxically – has been remarkably consistent and positive over many decades, even in the face of disasters and evidence of toxic dangers.
Michelle Mart is the author of Pesticides, A Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals (2015). She is currently finishing a project looking at the intersections of food, culture, and the environment, and is a professor of History at Penn State University, Berks campus.
Ever since the late 1940s, the use of synthetic pesticides in the United States has become ubiquitous. For many people, the benefit of these chemicals has been self-evident: increased agricultural productivity. At the same time, others have recoiled at the negative effects of pesticides, both acute and chronic. If the effects of pesticides have been mixed over the decades, have the opinions about them also been mixed? Michelle Mart argues that public opinion about pesticides – paradoxically – has been remarkably consistent and positive over many decades, even in the face of disasters and evidence of toxic dangers.
Michelle Mart is the author of Pesticides, A Love Story: America’s Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals (2015). She is currently finishing a project looking at the intersections of food, culture, and the environment, and is a professor of History at Penn State University, Berks campus.
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ACS WCC: Empowering Women Throughout The Chemical Enterprise
LVACS Younger Chemists Committee
Chair: Steven Boyer, sboyer11@esu.edu
Chair: Steven Boyer, sboyer11@esu.edu
Mini-ChemLuminary Award Spring 2025
East Stroudsburg University Student Affiliate Chemistry Club
East Stroudsburg University STEM Club
Photo: Evan Simmons, Lukas Bradley and James Heath with Dr. Steven Boyer, advisor
Five undergraduate students from Lehigh Valley ACS Colleges received the $150 George Ruger LVACS Travel Scholarship Award to attend the 2025 Spring ACS Meeting
YCC SPONSORED ZOOM BINGO ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH 2024 FUN! PRIZES!
LVACS Communities Contacts
Yi Du, Chair, Women Chemists Committee, duyidoit@gmail.com
Steve Boyer, Chair, Younger Chemists Committee, sboyer11@esu.edu
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