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Fifty Years Ago in the Southwest Retort
The ACS tour speakers this month are Dr. James W. Cobble of Purdue speaking on “A Chemist in Hot Water;” Dr. R. A. Osteryoung of Colorado State speaking on one of two topics, “Computer-Controlled Electrochemical Experimentation” or “Chemistry and Electrochemistry in Fused Salts;” and Dr. John R. Von Waser of Vanderbilt, whose topic is “Pollution Abatement Through Population and Environmental Control.” at Rice University, and Dr. Bill Glaze gave recent seminars at Texas Tech, UT El Paso, New Mexico State, and UTArlington. The Coordinating Board of the Texas University System on April 21 formally approved the Master of Science Program in Chemistry at UTD. UT-Dallas faculty members Dr. Lynn Melton and Dr. Dick Caldwell gave seminars, respectively, at East Texas State and TCU.
Dr. Carl S. Marvel of the University of Arizona will be the principle speaker for the fall meeting of the ACS Houston Polymer Group. His topic will be “Thermally Stable Polymers.” Compiled by E. Thomas Strom Dr. Allan Bard of UT-Austin recently visited the chemistry department at Stephen F. Austin College as a consultant on analytical chemistry under an NSR COSIP grant.
The Lab Crest Division of Fischer and Porter Co. has announced the availability of a quartz lined two stage water distillation still.
Dr. Larry Bone of East Texas State gave an invited lecture on “The Importance of Hydrogen Bonding in Ion Clusters” at the “International Conference on Nucleation Theory and its Applications” held in April in Atlanta. ETSU student Bryan Bartlett has been given a 3 year NSF fellowship for graduate studies in chemistry. Faculty member Dr. Denis Quane gave a seminar at UT-Arlington. Tarleton State has had two guest speakers recently: Dr. S. H. Bauer, Welch Lecturer from Cornell and Dr. Bill Smith from TCU. At North Texas State University (now UNT), Dr. Paul Jones recently spoke At Baylor, Welch Professor Dr. Malcolm Doyle gave a seminar at Oklahoma State University on “Electrospray Mass Spectrometry of Macromolecules.” At the University of Arkansas, recent seminars were given by Dr. Kenneth Hedberg of Oregon State and Dr. Larry Bartell of the University of Michigan.
The Chair’s Corner
The year of 2021 was a slower year for the ACS DFW local section due to the COVID 19 pandemic. We still managed to have a few virtual talks and other activities for Chemists Celebrate Earth Week in 2021. Our winners for 2021 Doherty and Schultz, Awards are listed below. Congratulations to: • Mihaela C. Stefan, Winner of the Wilfred
T. Doherty Award for 2021. • Heather Thompson, Winner of the Werner
Schulz Award for 2021. We had no winner for Chemistry Ambassador in 2021, but we hope to have a winner in 2022. Dr. Kayla Green from Texas Christian University has been named a recipient of the 2022 Outreach Volunteers of the Year award for the Dallas-Fort Worth Local Section. An article was posted in C&EN (see below the link) https://cen.acs.org/acs-news/ACS-honors2022-Outreach-Volunteers/100/i9? utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social& utm_campaign=CEN We would like to congratulate the newly elected Executive Committee members. Dr. Rajani Srinivasan was elected as chair elect for ACS DFW local section 2022. She is endowed Munson research professor and associate professor of Chemistry in the department of Chemistry, Geosciences and Physics, College of Science and Technology at Tarleton State University, a part of Texas A&M University System, located at Stephenville TX. Her research group comprised of undergraduate and master’s student focusses on developing novel non- toxic, ecofriendly plant derived polymers and their application as delivery system for chemotherapeutic and diabetic drugs and as flocculants for removal of emerging contaminants including microplastics from various sources of water. As a chair elect and future chair, she wants to increase the green chemistry awareness in the DFW local section.
Violeta Vega Gomez was elected as Secretary for ACS DFW local section 2022. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from University of Puerto Rico in 2000, Mayaguez Campus, and her MBA in Human Resources Management from University of Phoenix, Puerto Rico Campus in 2006. She worked as a Science Teacher at CTS Cabo Rojo, PR from 2002-2003. After receiving her PR Chemist License, she worked at Eli Lilly from 2003-2006 for the Method Validation and Raw Material Teams. She worked as a Quality Specialist, Packaging Department at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, then she joined Cemex Puerto Rico as a Chemist in 2007. She was transferred to Cemex USA, Alabama
Plant as a Quality Manager in 2019, overseeing the Quality and Shipping Departments and supervising 15 employees. Since 2020, she is working as the Chief Chemist for Ash Grove Cement Plant (a CRH Company) in Midlothian Texas, where she oversees the Quality Department, she is part of the Activities Committee and is the Chairperson for the Inclusion & Diversity USA Central Region Committee. She is also a licensed Life Insurance Agent in the state of Texas.
Kirby B. Drake was elected as Councilor for ACS DFW local section 2022. She is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kirby Drake Law PLLC in Dallas, Texas. Since 2002, Ms. Drake has focused her efforts on helping clients successfully navigate their intellectual property (IP) challenges. She has a special focus on the patent process, as she is a registered patent attorney. Ms. Drake is active in the American Chemical Society, both on the local and national levels. Most recently, she served as Chair of the National Committee on Patents and Related Matters, and she currently serves on the National Committee on Constitution and Bylaws (C&B). Rebecca Weber was elected as Councilor for ACS DFW local section 2022. She earned a PhD in Physical Chemistry at UNT with Dr. Angela Wilson in 2015. She has been a member of ACS since an undergraduate in 2008. She is working at UNT as faculty since 2016, teaching General and Physical Chemistry. Rebecca has also been the cofaculty advisor for the student ACS chapter from 2016-2019. She is involved in chemistry education research and is passionate about increasing the involvement of underrepresented students in chemistry. The 2022 Meeting in Miniature will take
place at the University of Texas at Dallas on April 23, 2022. We are excited to have an inperson meeting in 2022. The plenary speaker for the 2022 Meeting in Miniature is Professor Kirk Schanze, who is the Editor in Chief of the ACS Applied Materials family of journals. The executive committee is excited about 2022 and the local section's future. If you have any comments or suggestion, please email me at mihaela@utdallas.edu Best, Mihaela C. Stefan
2022 Chair DFW Local Section of the ACS
