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Science is Fun and the Joy of Learning Bassam Z. Shakhashiri 2011 ACS President-Elect ACS Columbus Section October 11, 2011 American Chemical Society
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CHEMISTRY IS THE: Central Science Familiar Science Science of the Familiar American Chemical Society
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Bassam Z. Shakhashiri 2011 ACS President-Elect ACS MISSION: ACS VISION:
To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people. Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.
Initiative 1:
ACS and the Sesquicentennial of the Morrill Land Grant Act
Initiative 2:
Blue-ribbon panel to examine purposes of graduate education in the chemical sciences
Initiative 3:
Helping the public understand the science of climate change
Initiative 4:
ACS High School Teacher Fellowships Program
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Advancing Chemistry Research Education Innovation American Chemical Society
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Science-rich Sector Science-poor Sector American Chemical Society
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Scientific Competence Scientific Expertise Science Literacy American Chemical Society
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Communication Inform Engage Educate Advocate Persuade American Chemical Society
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CONNECTIVITY American Chemical Society
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Science and Engineering Indicators 2010 National Science Board http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind10/ American Chemical Society
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Science is Vital to Democracy American Chemical Society
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“Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it nothing can succeed.”
>> Abraham Lincoln American Chemical Society
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“Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.” >> Albert Einstein American Chemical Society
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WISL Graduate Student Awards to Promote Communicating Chemistry •
All Ph.D. chemistry candidates are encouraged to include a chapter in their Ph.D. thesis communicating their research to non-specialists.
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Cash awards of $500 will be given to the first 10 individuals whose Ph.D. thesis includes such a chapter.
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The goal is to explain the candidate's scholarly research and its significance to a wider audience that includes family members, friends, civic groups, newspaper reporters, state legislators, and members of the U.S. Congress.
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WISL will assist in the public dissemination of these contributions and will seek to increase the number of these awards.
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Bassam Z. Shakhashiri 2011 ACS President-Elect ACS MISSION: ACS VISION:
To advance the broader chemistry enterprise and its practitioners for the benefit of Earth and its people. Improving people’s lives through the transforming power of chemistry.
Initiative 1:
ACS and the Sesquicentennial of the Morrill Land Grant Act
Initiative 2:
Blue-ribbon panel to examine purposes of graduate education in the chemical sciences
Initiative 3:
Helping the public understand the science of climate change
Initiative 4:
ACS High School Teacher Fellowships Program
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ACS Presidential Commission on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences The main charge to the Commission will be to address the questions: • What are the purposes of graduate education in the chemical sciences? • What steps should be taken to ensure that they address important societal issues as well as the needs and aspirations of graduate students?
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ACS Presidential Commission on Graduate Education in the Chemical Sciences Dr. William F. Banholzer, CTO, Dow Chemical Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, Professor of Chemistry, Cal Tech Dr. Stacey F. Bent, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Stanford University Dr. Ronald Breslow, Professor of Chemistry, Columbia University Dr. Gary Calabrese, Vice President, Science & Technology, Corning Inc. Dr. Pat N. Confalone, Vice President, Global R&D, DuPont, ACS Board of Directors Dr. Michael P. Doyle, Professor of Chemistry, University of Maryland Dr. Larry R. Faulkner, President, Houston Endowment (Chair) Dr. Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, UC San Diego Dr. Joseph S. “Joe” Francisco, Professor of Chemistry, Purdue University, ACS Board of Directors Dr. Paul Houston, Dean, College of Sciences, Georgia Inst. Of Tech. (Executive Director) Dr. Chad A. Mirkin, Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University Dr. Larry E. Overman, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, UC Irvine Dr. Hunter Ripley Rawlings III, President, Association of American Universities Dr. Geraldine Richmond, Professor of Chemistry, University of Oregon Dr. Richard H. Scheller, Executive Vice President, Genentech Research & Early Development Dr. Joel I. Shulman, Professor of Chemistry, University of Cincinnati - formerly at Procter & Gamble Dr. Peter J. Stang, Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, The University of Utah Dr. Matthew Tirrell, Pritzker Director, University of Chicago Institute for Molecular Engineering Dr. George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University Dr. Mark S. Wrighton, Chancellor and Professor of Chemistry, Washington University, St. Louis Dr. Mary Kirchhoff, Director, ACS Education Division (Staff Liaison) American Chemical Society
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ACS Presidential Working Group on Climate Science
The Working Group’s first of two tasks will be to develop a toolkit on the science of global climate for the 163,000 ACS members. A toolkit is an easy-to-use collection of basic equipment necessary to successfully perform a task. The Climate Science Toolkit will equip ACS members with the information and other resources necessary to help them assemble separate pieces of their knowledge on this topic into a robust intellectual structure.
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ACS Presidential Working Group on Climate Science The second task is to articulate strategies for ACS members to use the Toolkit in disseminating climate science information to • school teachers, • college and university faculty, • civic and religious groups, • professional scientific and educational organizations, and • elected public officials at all levels and in all branches of government. These strategies should be aimed to enrich and expand upon the ACS policy statements on climate change and related ACS programs and activities.
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ACS Presidential Working Group on Climate Science Dr. Jerry A. Bell, WISL Faculty Associate, University of Wisconsin (Chair) Dr. Joseph “Joe” Francisco, William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Science and Chemistry, Purdue University Dr. Peter Mahaffy, Professor of Chemistry, King’s University College Dr. Kathleen Shultz, President, Business Results, Inc., ACS Board Dr. Susan Solomon, University of Colorado-Boulder Dr. John Wiesenfeld, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry (retired), Florida Atlantic University Mr. Michael Woods, Assistant Director of Science Communications, ACS Office of Public Affairs (Staff Liaison) Mr. Rudy Baum, C&E News Editor in Chief (Consultant) Dr. Barbara Finlayson-Pitts, Professor of Chemistry, UC-Irvine (Consultant) Mr. Thomas R. Karl, Director, National Climactic Data Center (Consultant) Dr. Mario Molina, Professor of Chemistry, UC-San Diego (Consultant) American Chemical Society
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