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Changes for Fall 2020 

Due to COVID-19, we have to make some changes to our usual club activities. We still have many informational and helpful events planned for you all - General Meetings, Outreach events, and Social activities. Hopefully we can have all the usual activities and events that ACS does during the Spring semester!

• All the General meetings will be online.
• No Membership Dues.
• Cancelled events (for the Fall semester): 
  • Notebook Sales
  • Foot ball Game Ushering
  • Conference 
  • Committee Meetings
• We will still have Outreach activities and social activities!

General Meetings for​ Fall 2020

At every meeting, a Guest Speaker will discuss their work in chemistry, either in industry or research. All the meetings are online.
Time: Every other Wednesdays 5pm - 6pm
Meeting Dates:

• September 9th
• September 23rd
  • Dr. Matt Worden, Physical Chemistry Lab Professor at the UT, will be having a Q&A session about Chemistry, teaching, graduate school and other useful information.
• October 7th
  • Dr. Thomas Brenna will be joining us! He will be giving a talk about steroids and methods of detecting and analyzing them.
  • Dr. Brenna is a professor of pediatrics at Dell Medical School. He holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from Cornell University, and his research couples nutrition and chemistry in a broadly interdisciplinary program. His research group is concerned with three areas:  requirements for polyunsaturated fatty acids in the perinatal period; development of advanced analytical chemical instrumentation; and development of high-precision isotope ratio mass spectrometry for anti-doping applications.
  • Visit this website to learn more about Dr. Brenna:
  • https://dellmed.utexas.edu/directory/tom-brenna
• October 21st
  • Dr. Rueben Gonzales will be discussing some topics on Analytical Chemistry and Neuroscience. Dr. Gonzales's group is working toward understanding the neurochemical basis for ethanol drinking behavior, studying the effects of ethanol on basic dopaminergic neuronal activity in vivo.
  • http://sites.utexas.edu/gonzales/
• November 4th
  • Dr. Mukund Chorghade is the CSO (Chief Scientific Officer) of a pharma company. He will be talking about entrepreneurship in Chemistry.
    
  • Below is the background information about Dr. Chorghade.
    

• November 18th
  
• December 2nd
  •  Dr. Michael Krische, a professor in the Department of Chemistry at the UT Austin, will be talking about catalysis, materials, and Synthesis. His research areas include catalysis, chemical biology, Material Science, and Organic Chemistry.
  • https://sites.google.com/a/utexas.edu/the-krische-research-group/home
    

Upcoming Event

FURS 2020 (Fall Undergraduate Research Symposium)

• Date: October 17th, Saturday
• Virtual Sessions via Zoom
• Symposium for UT undergraduates to speak about their research in sessions or in a 3 minute Science Slam.
• Deadline to register: October 5th. visit the website to register. (https://sites.cns.utexas.edu/mbssg/abstract-submission)
  

Committee Meetings for Fall 2020

We won't be having Committee Meetings this semester because of the COVID-19. :(