Chemical Interactions

Thank you to everyone who came to our meeting today! We love and appreciate all of you! If you have any questions about any of our upcoming events, feel free to reach out to us! Have a great winter break! Happy holidays!

Hello Everybody,

I would like to ask if there will be members who would like to go to the Discovery Children's Museum to volunteer for NanoDays. We would be doing a tour run on March 29th at 10:30 am and doing the actual event on April 5th from 9:00 am until 4:00 pm. We would basically be running booths for teaching students about nanoscience and nanotechnology. Lunch will be provided on the 5th. This would count as an Educational event towards the VIM program.

If you can and want to do this event, please get back to me at [email protected] as soon as possible.

There is a new ACS event coming up. The Southern Nevada Section of the American Chemical Society is proud to announce our upcoming seminar: "Of Rice and Beans: Why we eat what we eat." The seminar will be presented by Dr. Sunil Malapati and will take place on Wednesday, March 12 at the West Charleston campus of the College of Southern Nevada, room D101. The reception will begin at 5:30 pm, followed by the presentation at 6:00 pm. Visitors are welcome. Please find attached the seminar announcement. This will count as an ACS Event for VIM status.

Hope to see you all there!

-Alan Eister
President

I'm sorry for the late notice, but there is a presentation being held today on the challenges and opportunities for performance and reliability of thin film photovoltaic devices presented by Br. Shubhra Bansal from the U.S. Department of Energy. It is today (February 26th) at 2:30 pm on the campus of UNLV in the Science and Engineering Building (SEB) in room 2251. It will be about an hour long.

If anyone is interested in attending, this will fall under the Environmental requirement towards the VIM program.

The tournament director for the Nevada State Science Olympiad Competition is looking for judges to run the events at the State Competition on Saturday, March 8th at Rancho High School. She is looking for people with knowledge in Anatomy and Physiology, Genetics and Heredity, Astronomy and Solar System, as well as Forensics and Crime Scene Investigation.

The judge needs to make a test on the material to be administered on the day of the competition. The testing window is 1 hour for each event. Once the testing window is closed, the judge will need to score the test and turn in the final team placement. The total commitment is the time it will take to write the test and the 2-3 hours to administer and grade the test on Saturday, March 8th. Each event has a rule sheet that gives the parameters for the event. This allows the student competing to study in advance of the competition.

If you are interested, contact me at [email protected] with your name, major, phone number, and e-mail address so I can pass it along to the director.

This will count for either an ACS credit or an Educational credit towards VIM membership, which ever one you don't have by the end of the semester.

Chemical Interactions meeting of DASH tomorrow has been cancelled due to unforseen circumstances. I apologize for the inconvenience. We will still be going to Vegas Roots on Saturday at 9:30 am. I hope to see you there.

-Alan Eister, President.

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Hello Chemical Interactions, Alan here. I hope your winter vacation was wonderful and you enjoyed yourselves. As it comes to a close, I hope everyone is getting ready for a great semester.

As many of you may know, Chemical Interactions sells Lab Coats and Lab Goggles at the beginning of each semester for fund-raising. We ask members to help out in this process, since it tends to be a high volume process at times. We mainly need people to sell lab coats on Monday from 1:00am to noon and from 2:00pm to 3:00pm Tuesdays from 8:00 to 9:00 am, 11:00am to noon, and 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Wednesday from 11:00am to noon and from 2:00pm to 3:00pm, and Thursday from 3:30pm to 4:30pm. This is for the first two weeks of the semester, and since Monday the 20th is MLK Day, next Monday isn't required. Other time frames could use volunteers, but these are the highest anticipated customer volumes.

Please e-mail us at [email protected] if you can volunteer your time to lab coat sales and let us know when you are available. Thank you for your time.

-Alan Eister, President.

Our first meeting of Fall 2013 is today at 4:30 in CHE 102. Come and enjoy some pizza! :D