Meetings & Events
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, high school teachers night and awards night. Family events typically take in local sports (LV Iron Pigs AAA baseball; LV Phantoms hockey) or sample local food/beverage emporia. Our summer picnic at Nockamixon State Park is another highlight of the year! 

Meetings Calendar


PLAN TO ATTEND IN 2023!

January 2023
January Section Meeting
Moravian University
1200 Main Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018
Thursday, January 19th, 5:30-8:30pm
Molecular Modeling Workshop
5:30 Social; 6:00 Dinner/Meeting; 7:00 Workshop
CONTACT: Carl Salter, csalter@moravian.edu
 
February 2023
February Section Meeting
Lafayette College
730 High St, Easton, PA 18042
Date/Times TBA
Protein folding and protein interactions
Speaker: James Petersson, U. Penn
CONTACT: Mike Bertucci, bertuccm@lafayette.edu
 
March 2023
March Section Meeting
Muhlenberg College
2400 Chew Street, Allentown, PA 18104
Date/Times TBA
 

ACS SPRING 2023
Crossroads of Chemistry
Indianapolis, IN & Hybrid
March 26-30

Where thousands of chemistry professionals meet to share ideas and advance scientific and technical knowledge. The list of symposia and program chairs for each programming group is available.

List of Symposia Topics  

 
April 2023
April Section Meeting and Undergraduate Poster Session
DeSales University
2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley, PA 18034
Thursday, April 12th
CONTACT: Sara Hayik, sara.hayik@desales.edu

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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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