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51品茶students represent Chemistry Club at ACS meeting in San Francisco

Molly Wright, Brea Rivard, and Jessica Woolf perform green chemistry activities at the Chem Demo Exchange.
Molly Wright, Brea Rivard and Jessica Woolf perform green chemistry activities at the American Chemical Society national meeting's Chem Demo Exchange. The 51品茶Chemistry Club received an Outstanding Student Chapter Award and a Green Chemistry Chapter Award at the meeting.

Three members of the 51品茶Chemistry Club, President Molly Wright (Biochemistry, 鈥17), Vice President Jessica Woolf (Biochemistry, 鈥17) and Brea Rivard (Chemistry and Applied Mathematics, 鈥19) recently traveled to San Francisco to represent the club at the 253rd national meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS).  Also in attendance was the club faculty advisor, Amy Keirstead, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Chemistry and Physics and a member of the ACS Undergraduate Program Advisory Board.

The 51品茶students participated in several activities representing the club, including accepting their award for Outstanding Student Chapter and Green Chemistry Chapter (one of 46 and 52 chapters, respectively, to receive these awards nationwide) at the student awards ceremony.  Clad in their blue 鈥淯Ne CHeM ClUB鈥 periodic table t-shirts, the three performed green chemistry activities at the Chem Demo Exchange and represented the only student chapter to have a focused effort on green chemistry outreach.  As an 鈥渙utstanding chapter,鈥 the club was invited to present at the meeting鈥檚 Successful Student Chapters poster session to share their ideas and success stories with other undergraduate students and faculty. 

In addition to the official club functions, the students attended a wide variety of events ranging from networking and graduate school preparation workshops to technical talks and poster sessions. Rivard and Woolf also presented at the undergraduate research poster session.

The students鈥 travel was supported in part by the 51品茶Department of Chemistry and Physics, the 51品茶College of Arts and Sciences, NSF-RUI program CBET-1264511, the ACS Undergraduate Programs Office and the Maine Section of the American Chemical Society.  

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