Meetings & Events

Upcoming Events
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April 2025
 
WCC Career Panel and Painting Event
Wednesday, April 30th , 2:30-5:30 pm
Painting with a Twist
3650 Nazareth Pike, Bethlehem, PA 18020 GPS
The event will feature a career panel from 2:30-3:15 with instructed painting from 3:15-5:30
Interested? RSVP
Post FLYER everywhere!
CONTACT: Yi Du, LVACS WCC Chair, duyidoit@gmail.com
 
May 2025
 
2nd Annual Celebrate Science Day with Reading Science Center
Sunday, May 4th, 1 to 5 pm
Drexel University College of Medicine at Tower Health
50 Innovation Way, Wyomissing, PA 19610
Hands-on science for all ages outdoors!
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
CONTACT: Nigel Sanders, nigel53.sanders@gmail.com

 

Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
May 28 - 31, 2025
Seton Hall University, New Jersey
Registration is now open!
Register
Registration is now open for MARM 2025, which includes fourteen local sections in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland). MARM 2025 will be hosted by the North Jersey Section of the ACS (NJACS) from May 28-31 in Seton Hall University, New Jersey. 

To register, you will need an ACS ID. You can easily create a free ACS ID if you don't already have one. Register by Friday, May 2, to take advantage of the early registration rates!

 

YEARLY MEETING AND EVENT SCHEDULE
The section holds regular meetings about 8 times per academic year, September-November and January-May. There are also special events scheduled throughout the year such as celebrations around National Chemistry Week (incorporating Mole Day, October 23) and Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (incorporating Earth Day, April 22). Recurring meeting themes include: student poster session, careers night, industry tours, high school teachers night and awards night. LVACS participates in many local Science Fairs throughout the year. Family events typically take in local sports (LV Iron Pigs AAA baseball) or tour/sample at wineries/microbreweries.

Keep watching this page for timely announcements of our next events! 
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January 25th Section Meeting at Moravian University Explored AI and Chemistry
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.
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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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