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| 2003 | |||
| January 24 | Dr. Daniel W. Armstrong Iowa State University |
High Efficiency Microbial Analysis, Viability Determination and Antibiotic Screening: The Marriage of Separation Science and Microbiology | Steven's Steak House Elmhurst, IL |
| February 21 | Mr. Gary Kitmacher NASA, Johnson Space Center |
Views from Space | Rosewood Rosemont, IL |
| March 14 | Public Affairs Award: Inara Brubaker UOP |
Roles for Chemical Scientists in a Technological Society | Wellington Restaurant Arlington Heights, IL |
| April 25 | Dr. Michael Pellin Argonne National Laboratory |
Analytical Chemistry of Star Dust* | Midwest Conference
Center Northlake, IL |
| Saturday, May 17 |
Elementary Education Committee | Color Workshop | Columbia College Chicago |
| May 30 | Gibbs Medal Award: Prof. John Brauman, Stanford University |
Gas Phase Ionic Chemistry | Argonne Guest House Argonne National Laboratories |
| May
31 - June 2 |
----- | Great Lakes Regional ACS Meeting | Loyola University Chicago |
| June 20 | Dr. Tejal A. Desai Boston University |
Microengineering Drug Delivery: From Pores to Particles | Holiday Inn Willowbrook |
| Tuesday, Aug 5 |
A night of comedy with the Galileo Players | Metropolis Performing
Arts Centre Arlington Heights, IL |
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| September 19 | Dick Bisbing McCrone Associates |
Imaging in the Forensic Microscopy Laboratory | Oak Brook
Marriott 1401 West 22nd St. Oak Brook, IL 60523 |
| October 24 | Professor Daryle H. Busch University of Kansas |
Basolo Medal Award: Ventures in the Design of Homogeneous Oxidation Catalyst Systems |
Kendall College and Northwestern Technological Institute Evanston, IL |
| Saturday October 25 |
National Chemistry Day | ChemDay | University of Illinois, Chicago |
| November 21 | Dr. Peter Dorhout Colorado State University |
Plutonium Chemistry and the DOE Legacy | Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 |
| December 12 | Dr. James O'Brien Southwest Missouri State University |
Famous Mad Hatters | Monastero's Ristorante 3935 W. Devon Ave. Chicago, IL |
| 2004 | |||
| January 23 | Sharon Bertsch McGrayne | Claire C. Patterson: A Chemist Leads the Fight Against Leaded Gasoline | Ann Sathers |
| February 20 | Dr. Charles "Chip" Palmer DuPont Textiles and Intermediates |
Spandex Technology - The Science of Stretch and Recovery | Holiday Inn North
Shore 5300 W. Touhy Ave. Niles, IL |
| March 19 | Dr. Sara Risch from "Science by Design" |
Public Affairs Meeting: " The Flavor of Chemistry or the Chemistry of Flavors" |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| April 23 | Dr. Richard P. Van Duyne Northwestern University |
Nanoparticle Optics for Surface-Enhanced Sensing and Spectroscopy | The Parthenon 314 South Halsted Chicago, IL |
| May 3-6 | Powder & Bulk Solids Conference | Join the Chicago Section at booth 2550 at the International Powder & Bulk Solids Conference | Donald
E. Stephens Convention Center Rosemont, IL |
| May 21 | Gibbs Medal Award: Prof. Ronald Breslow Columbia University |
Progress on a New Approach to Cancer Chemotherapy | North Shore Lights at Hotel Moraine Highwood, IL |
| June 25 | Dr. Donald Wink University of Illinois, Chicago |
Education Night: Relevance and Chemistry Education |
Fountain Blue
Banquets |
| July 23 | Chicago Section Summer Social | Fiddler on the Roof | Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 |
| August 13-22 | ----- | Chicago Section at the Illinois State Fair | Springfield, IL |
| August 22-26 | ----- | National ACS Meeting | Philadelphia, PA |
| Thursday September 23 |
Romesh Kumar Argonne Nat'l Labs |
Joint with the Joliet Section: Hydrogen & Fuel Cells: Where We Are, Where We Are Headed |
University of St. Francis Joliet |
| October 17-20 | ----- | 36th Great Lakes Regional ACS Meeting | Hotel Pere Marquette Peoria, Illinois |
| October 22 | Dr. Malcolm H. Chisholm Ohio State University |
Basolo Medal Award: Routes to New Generation Polymers Employing Single-site Metal Alkoxide Catalysts, Polyesters, Polyethers and Polycarbonates from Renewable Resources |
Lecture: Northwestern University Dinner: Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
Saturday |
National Chemistry Day | Theme-"Health and Wellness" Speakers, exhibits, and demos all day |
Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| November 19 | Dr. Eloy Rodriguez Cornell University |
Julius Stieglitz Lecture: |
Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, IL |
| December 10 | Sheila G. Bailey NASA |
Missions to Mars – Past, Present, And Future | Willowbrook Holiday Inn |
| 2005 | |||
| January 14 (a week early) |
Dr. Catherine Woytowicz Principal, Spider Consulting |
Non-traditional Career Opportunities for Chemists: Drafting International Treaties, Advising Government, Writing Books, Solving Crime, and Teaching - what’s it all about? | The Parthenon Restaurant Chicago |
| February 25 | J. J. Emerson University of Chicago |
Gene Traffic in Vertebrate Genomes: Examples from Chicken and Mammals | Rosewood Restaurant Rosemont, IL |
| March 13-Mar 17 | ----- | National ACS Meeting | San Diego, CA |
| March 18 | Tom Kucera | Public Affairs Award "The Shifting Paradigm of the Central Science" |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| April 19-20 | AIChE Symposium | "Chemical Engineering -- At the Crossroads of Technology" | IIT Chicago |
| April 22 | Dr. Alan F. Bain, D.O., |
Luncheon meeting, recognize 50-year members "Complementary and Alternative Medicine: Bringing the Power of Bio-Energy into the Mainstream of American Medicine" |
Monastero's Ristorante 3935 W. Devon Ave. Chicago, IL |
| April 23 Saturday 9 am-2 pm |
Dorothy Rodmann | Job Search/Interviewing Skills Workshop | Loyola University LSB building Auditorium room 142 |
| May 13 | Prof. David Evans Harvard University |
Gibbs Medal Award: "Control of Stereochemical Relationships in the Assembly of Organic Structures, Advances that have Transformed the Face of Organic Chemistry" |
North Shore Lights at Hotel Moraine Highwood, IL |
| June 24 | Prof. Ronald Breslow Columbia University |
Progress on a New Approach to Cancer Chemotherapy | Steven's Steak House Elmhurst, IL |
| July 29 | ACS Summer Social | "Sherlock's Last Case" Dinner Theater |
Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 |
| Aug 12 to 21 | Chicago Section at the Illinois State Fair | Springfield, IL | |
| Aug 28 to Sept 1 | ----- | National ACS Meeting | Washington, D.C. |
| September 23 | Donald Dabdub University of California-Irvine |
Heterogeneous Interfacial Reactions: A New Paradigm
in Atmospheric Chemistry |
Fountain Blue Banquets Des Plaines, IL |
| October 15 Saturday |
Chicago Chemistry Day | Theme-"The Joy of Toys" | DePaul University |
| October 21 | Prof. John E. Bercaw California Institute of Technology |
Basolo Medal Award: Selective Catalytic Oxidations of Methane: Keys to the Effective Use of Natural Gas |
Lecture: Northwestern University Dinner: Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
| October 26-28 | 40th Midwest Regional Meeting of the ACS | Joplin, Missouri | |
| November 18 | Peter Lykos Illinois Institute of Technology |
Project-Based Learning | Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| December 9 | Charles P. Casey 2004 President, ACS University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Holiday Party: "Challenges for Chemists" |
Willowbrook Holiday Inn |
| 2006 | |||
| January 20 | Catherine Middlecamp University of Wisconsin - Madison |
"The Radium Girls and The Firecracker Boys" | Manzo's Restaurant 1571 S. Elmhurst Rd Des Plaines |
| Howard Morton David McAlonan both of Abbott Labs |
Joint meeting with AIChE: |
Abbott Labs |
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| February 23 & 25 | DuPage Area Engineers' Week | " Women in Science and Engineering" | IIT Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus Wheaton, IL |
| March 17 | Harinder
Singh University of Chicago |
Public Affairs Lecture Meeting: |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| March 26-30 | ----- | National ACS Meeting | Atlanta, GA |
| April 28 Luncheon meeting |
Mark Ratner Northwestern University |
Nanotechnology | Hackney's on Lake Glenview, IL |
| May 12 note early date |
Jacqueline K. Barton Caltech |
Gibbs Medal Award: "DNA Charge Transport Chemistry and Biology" |
Chateau Rand 900 East Rand Road Des Plaines, IL |
| May 31- June 2 |
Great Lakes Regional Meeting | "A Festival of Chemistry in the City of Festivals" | Hyatt Regency Hotel Milwaukee, WI |
| June 23 | Penny Le Couteur Capilano College North Vancouver, B.C |
Excerpts and discussion of her book: "Napoleon's Buttons - How 17 Molecules Changed History" |
Monastero's Ristorante 3935 W. Devon Ave. Chicago, IL |
| Friday, July 14 |
Summer Social | Minor League Ball Game: Schaumburg Flyers vs. Kansas City T-Bones |
Alexian Field Schaumburg, IL |
| August 11-20 | Illinois Sections of the ACS at the State Fair | Please join us at the Fair | Springfield, IL |
| September 10-14 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | San Francisco, CA |
| September 29 | Paul Kelter University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana |
Education Night "The Lessons I’ve Learned from 25 Years of Teaching" |
Benedictine University Lisle, IL |
| October 20 | Prof. Ivano Bertini |
Basolo Award Metal Ions in the Proteome |
Lecture: Northwestern University Dinner: Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
| October 28 | Chemistry Day (National Chemistry Week) |
Theme-- “Your Home: It’s All Built on Chemistry” | Columbia College Chicago |
| Saturday November 4 |
Job Search Workshop for Chemical Professionals | University of Illinois Chicago |
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| Wednesday November 15 |
Samuel Danishefsky Columbia University |
Julius Stieglitz Lecture: On the Power of Chemical Synthesis |
The Parthenon Restaurant Chicago |
| December 8 | Bassam Z. Shakhashiri University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Holiday Party: "Joy of Chemistry" |
Fountain Blue Banquets Des Plaines, IL |
| 2007 | |||
| January 19 | Dr. Francesca Casadio Art Institute of Chicago |
"A World Class Collection Under the Microscope: Scientific Research at the Art Institute of Chicago" | Colletti’s
Dining and Banquets Chicago |
| February 22 (Thursday) |
Dr. Bruce Cook Exxon Mobil Research |
Joint with AIChE "Chemistry of Gasoline Sulfur Reduction" |
European Crystal Banquet Center |
| March 16 | Lee R. Marek Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago |
Public Affairs Meeting: "Chemistry On the Late Show With David Letterman-Part 1" |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| March 25-29 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Chicago, IL |
| April 13 (lunch meeting) |
Gabriela Weaver Purdue University |
Distinguished Service Award Meeting "Authentic Research Experiences for the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum" |
Hackney's on Lake Glenview, IL |
| May 25 | Sylvia T. Ceyer MIT |
Gibbs Lecture: “Bulk Hydrogen: A New Kind of Surface Species with a Chemistry of its Own” |
The Arboretum Club Buffalo Grove, IL |
| June 21 (Thursday) |
Ruth Ann Armitage Eastern Michigan University |
Joint with YCC: "Archaeological Chemistry of Rock Paintings: Radiocarbon Dating and Chemical Analysis" |
Viceroy of India Lombard, IL |
| Friday, July 27 |
Summer Social | Minor League Ball Game: Schaumburg Flyers vs. Joliet Jackhammers |
Alexian Field Schaumburg, IL |
| August 10-19 | Illinois Sections of the ACS at the State Fair | Please join us at the Fair | Illinois
Fairgrounds Springfield, IL |
| August 19-23 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Boston, MA |
| September 28 | Roald Hoffmann Cornell University |
"More about Mme. Lavoisier than M. Lavoisier" | Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| October 19 | Richard R. Schrock M.I.T. |
Basolo Award "Catalytic Reduction of Dinitrogen to Ammonia at Room Temperature and One Atmosphere with Protons and Electrons" |
Lecture: Northwestern University Dinner: Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
| October 20 Saturday |
Chemistry Day | "The Many Faces of Chemistry" | Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago |
| November 16 | Zafra Lerman Columbia College |
Education Night, Joint with Chemists' Club "Using Visualization To Make Chemistry Accessible To All" |
Holiday Inn North Shore 5300 W. Touhy Ave. Skokie, IL |
| December 7 | Peter Ludovice Georgia Tech |
Holiday Party- Joint with Chemists' Club and Iota
Sigma Pi "Labcoats and Other Fashion Statements" |
Willowbrook Holiday Inn |
| 2008 | |||
| January 24 (Thursday) |
Jennifer Holmgren UOP |
Joint with AIChE "Biofuels: Unlocking the Potential" |
European Crystal Banquet Center 519 W. Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, IL |
| February 22 | Fraser Stoddard Trustees Professor Northwestern University |
Kilpatrick Lecture, joint with IIT " Chemistry and Molecular Nanotechnology in Tomorrow's World " |
IIT’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center |
| March 27 (Thursday) |
Robert J. Massie President, Chemical Abstracts Service |
Public Affairs Meeting: "Chemical Information: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| April 6-10 | National ACS Meeting | New Orleans | |
| April 17 (Thursday) |
Dr. Li Li Ji University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Joint with Joliet Section "The Cell Found Fire: The Utility of Free Radicals in Exercise-Induced Adaptations" |
University of St. Francis Joliet |
| May 9 |
Carolyn R. Bertozzi Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and University of California, Berkeley |
Gibbs Award: "Chemistry in Living Systems: Shedding Light on Glycans" |
Carriage Greens Country Club Darien, IL |
| June 10-14 | CERMACS 2008 | Central Regional Meeting of the ACS | Hyatt
Regeancy Columbus, OH |
| June 20 (lunch meeting) |
Jeffrey Weidenhamer Ashland University |
Joint with the Milwaukee Section: Distinguished Service Award and 50-year members "Lead: An Ancient But Still Present Hazard" |
Illinois
Beach Resort Illinois Beach State Park Zion, IL |
| August 8-17 | Illinois Sections of the ACS at the State Fair | Please join us at the Fair | Illinois
Fairgrounds Springfield, IL |
| August 17-21 | National ACS Meeting | Philadelphia, PA | |
| September 26 | Ricard Silverman Northwestern University |
Education night Joint with Loyola Topic: Lyrica |
Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| October 8-11 | MWRM2008 | 43rd Midwest Regional ACS Meeting | Ramada Inn Kearney, NE |
| October 17 | Professor Robert Grubbs, California Institute of Technology |
Basolo Award Joint with Northwestern "The Synthesis of Large and Small Molecules using Olefin Metathesis Catalysts" |
Lecture: Northwestern
University Dinner: Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
| October 25 (Saturday) |
ChemDay 2008 National Chemistry Week |
"Having a Ball with Chemistry" | Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| November 19 (Wednesday) |
Joan Brennecke Notre Dame |
Stieglitz Lecture Joint with Univ. of Chicago "Ionic Liquids: Worth Their Salt" |
The Parthenon 314 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL |
| December 12 | Alanah Fitch Loyola University |
Holiday Party Joint with Chemists' Club & Iota Sigma Pi "A History of Lead and Humanity" |
Fountain Blue Banquets Des Plaines, IL |
| 2009 | |||
| January 22 Thursday |
William Roe President & CEO Coskata, Inc |
Joint with AIChE "Technology of Efficient Conversion of Biomass to Fuel (Ethanol)" |
European Crystal
Banquet Center 519 W. Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, IL |
| February 27 | Susan Olesik Ohio State University |
Kilpatrick Lecture "Unique Carbon Chemistry: Applications in Space Science and Nanoscience" |
IIT’s McCormick Tribune
Campus Center 3201 South State St. Chicago |
| Wednesday, March 18 |
George R. Lester President, George Lester, Inc. |
Public Affairs meeting "Wha'cha Gonna Do When the Oil is Gone? Energy Sources for the Twenty-First Century" |
Cafe La Cave 2777 Mannheim Rd Des Plaines, IL |
| March 22-26 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Salt Lake City, UT |
| April 24 | Robert Wolke Author |
"A Little Knowledge Makes a Dangerous Cook" | Manzo's Restaurant 1571 S. Elmhurst Rd Des Plaines |
| May 13-16 | GLRM 2009 | Great Lakes Regional Meeting | Lincolnshire Marriott |
| May 15 | Louis Brus Columbia University |
Gibbs Award Banquet "Benjamin Franklin and J. W. Gibbs" |
with GLRM at Lincolnshire Marriott |
| June 19 Lunchtime |
Jerry Rice Julie Parente Museum of Science and Industry |
DSA, 50-year members, “Science Rediscovered: A Campaign for Science and Leadership” |
Chevy Chase Country
Club |
| August 14-23 | Illinois Sections of the ACS at the State Fair | Please join us at the Fair | Illinois
State Fairgrounds Springfield, IL |
| August 16-20 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Washington, DC |
| September 21-25 | ACS Short Course Circuit | University
Center 525 South State St Chicago |
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| September 25 | Mary L. Good Donaghey College University of Arkansas |
Education Night, Public Affairs Award to Mary L. Good “Science and Innovation in the Global Economy -- Why It Matters and Who Needs to be Concerned” |
Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| October 16 | Basolo Award Dinner Peter J. Stang |
Basolo Award Dinner joint with Northwestern "Abiological Self-Assembly: Predesigned Metallacycles and Metallacages via Coordination" |
Lecture: Technological Institute, Northwestern University Dinner: Scott Hall Northwestern University |
| October 24 (Saturday) |
ChemDay 2009 National Chemistry Week | Chemistry
Day "Chemistry — It's Elemental" |
DePaul
University 2250 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago, IL |
| Wednesday, November 18 |
Mitch Jacoby Senior Editor C&EN |
"A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Weekly News Magazine of the World
of Chemistry" |
Zhivago's Restaurant Skokie |
| December 4 | Wendy S. Wolbach DePaul University |
Holiday Party: "Carbon, Meteorites, and Extinctions" |
Willowbrook Holiday Inn |
| 2010 | |||
| Thursday, January 21 | Michael Koehler CEO, Packer Engineering |
Joint with AIChE "Chemists and Engineers in the Courtroom" |
European
Crystal Banquet Center 519 W. Algonquin Road Arlington Heights, IL 60005 |
| February 19 | Braja Mandal | Kilpatrick Lecture | IIT’s McCormick Tribune Campus Center 3201 South State St. Chicago |
| February 20 | DuPage Engineers Week | "Engineering Today's Play into Tomorrow's Careers" | IIT Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice Campus 201 East Loop Road Wheaton, IL |
| March 12 | Elena V. Shevchenko Argonne National Labs |
Public Affairs Meeting: “Nanoparticles and Structural Diversity at Nanoscale” |
Café La Cave 2777 Mannheim Road, Des Plaines, IL |
| March 21-25 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | San Francisco |
| Monday, April 12 |
Sara Risch Science By Design |
“Advances in Food Packaging” | The Parthenon 314 S. Halsted St. Chicago, IL |
| May 14 | Maurice Brookhart University of North Carolina |
Gibbs Award Banquet “Alkane Metathesis: A Route to Tomorrow’s Fuels?” |
Casa Royale 783 Lee Street Des Plaines, IL |
| Thursday, June 17 |
Joe Alper Parrotfish Consulting |
DSA Award, 50 & 60-year member "Confessions of a Science Nerd" |
Manzo's Restaurant 1571 S. Elmhurst Rd Des Plaines |
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| August 13-22 | Illinois Sections of the ACS at the State Fair | Please join us at the Fair | Illinois
State Fairgrounds Springfield, IL |
| August 22-26 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Boston, MA |
| September 24 | Vicki Colvin Rice University |
Education Night | Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| October 22 | Roald Hoffman Cornell University |
Basolo Award | Lecture: Technological Institute, Northwestern University |
| Saturday, October 23 |
Chemistry Day | “Behind the Scenes with Chemistry!” | Loyola University Devon & Sheridan Chicago, IL |
| Thursday, November 18 |
Stieglitz Lecture | ||
| December 10 | Holiday Party, Joint with Chemists' Club & Iota Sigma Pi | Willowbrook Holiday Inn |
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| Wednesday, January 19 |
Dr. Arup K. SenGupta LeHigh University |
Joint with AIChE | |
| Thursday, February 24 |
Teri Odom Northwestern University |
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| March 27-31 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Anaheim, CA |
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| * May 20 | Gibbs Award | ||
| * Thursday, June 23 |
Adrian Whitty Boston University |
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| August 28-Sept 1 | ACS National | National ACS Meeting | Denver, CO |
| * September 23 | Norbert Pienta University of Iowa |
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| * October | Basolo Award | ||
| * Thursday, November 17 |
Robin L. Garrell UCLA |
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| * December 9 | Sidney Perkowitz Emory University |
Holiday Party | |
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