Upcoming Events
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November 2025
Career Exploration Event
Wednesday, November 5th, 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Free event! No Registration Required!
Lehigh University, Wood Dining Room in Iacocca Hall
111 Research Dr, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Ever wonder what you could do with your chemistry
degree or how to make yourself marketable to
employers?
Come network with employees from various companies
and ACS Career Consultants about career paths,
employment opportunities and the application process.
POST flyer everywhere!
Parking is available in the visitor lots; pay using the Passport Mobile App or at one of the kiosks located throughout the lots; $1 per hour.
CONTACT: Steve Boyer, Younger Chemists Committee Chair, sboyer11@esu.edu
November Section Meeting
Thursday, November 20th, 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Lehigh University, Wood Dining Room in Iacocca Hall
111 Research Drive, Bethlehem, PA 18015
Annual Ned D. Heindel Lecture
Speaker: Sam Niedbala, CEO, CryoConcepts LP
Social Hour: 5 - 6 pm
Dinner: 6 - 7 pm (MENU)
LVACS business meeting and awards presentations: 7:00 - 7:30 pm
Ned D. Heindel Lecture: 7:30 - 8:30 pm
$30 members / $15 students/retirees/unemployed.
REGISTER FOR NOVEMBER MEETING
POST flyer everywhere!
Parking is available in the visitor lots; pay using the Passport Mobile App or at one of the kiosks located throughout the lots; $1 per hour.
CONTACT: Carl Salter, salterc@moravian.edu
December 2025
Women Chemists Committee
Social Event: Mosaic Making Party
Wednesday, December 17th, 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Smartivities Showcase
3060 Center Valley Pkwy #802, Center Valley, PA 18034
Options to choose shape (wooden frame, ornaments, etc.) and material (tiles, glass, stones, etc.) to create your unique decorative keepsake! All included!
RSVP to Yi at duyidoit@gmail.com by December 1st.
Free event and you don’t need to be an ACS member to attend.
Due to venue capacity, priorities will be for women chemists or students in Lehigh Valley.
Keep watching this page for timely announcements of our next events!
https://youtu.be/MN5hxD3d7MM
Wolfram|Alpha's Jason Sonnenberg's talk with LVACS in January 2024 "Chemical Superpowers with ChatGPT + Wolfram" explored how ChatGPT is a much smarter “chemistry assistant” when given access to Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Language. The resulting Wolfram GPT can generate chemical structures in two- and three-dimensions which the ChatGPT 3.5 and ChatGPT 4 can not. Additionally it can also pull from expert-curated chemical data and propagate experimental uncertainty in chemical conversions and computations. Wolfram|Alpha & ChatGPT 3.5 are both free resources, while Wolfram GPT & ChatGPT 4 require a subscription from OpenAI.
A lecture by Lauren Zarzar of Penn State University entitled “Color from Colorless Materials.” Lauren is an assistant professor of chemistry and an affiliate of the Materials Research Institute. The Zarzar Lab studies stimuli-responsive materials, the behavior of active matter, and laser fabrication methods to synthesize and pattern both inorganic and organic materials. https://www.zarzarlab.com/. In this lecture, Lauren explained why interference (structural) color can arise from even microscale structures (~ 100 microns) by Total Internal Reflection, such as when water droplets of different sizes form by condensation on a clean, low energy surface.
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