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The Chair’s Corner
It is finally Fall and we are seeing some, slightly, lower temperatures! I hope you were able to attend the DFW Local Section’s September virtual dinner meeting. Prof. Eric Simanek the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and the Chair of the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry at Texas Christian University presented an amazing talk titled, “The Science and History of Whiskey." If you were there, you learned about Whiskey as well as many, many other things. Thank you to Prof. Eric Simanek for that delightful presentation BCongratulations again to our Dr. Mihaela C. Stefan, Eugene McDermott Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Associate Dean for Graduate Education, School of Natural Science & Mathematics, University of Texas at Dallas for being the 2021 Wilfred T. Doherty award winner and Dr. Heather Thompson Science Educator at Mansfield ISD for being the 2021 Werner Schulz Award winner. We are looking into options in November and December to celebrate their awards as well as our 2020 winners. The 2021 ACS Southwest Regional Meeting (SWRM) is right around the corner. The meeting will be held October 31 – November 3 in Austin, TX. Registration is still open for this exciting event (https:// www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/ regional/southwest.html). Congratulations to the student travel award winners from the DFW Section: Melissa Orr from the University of Texas at Arlington who will be presenting on “Synthesis and Characterization of Heteroanionic Ln2O2Te (Ln = La, Ce, Pr)” and Alshaima’a Qunies from the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center who will make a presentation on “Discovery of Slack Potassium Channel Inhibitor In vivo Probes: Optimization of the hit compound VU0531245”. Once again, the executive committee continues to be very excited about 2021 and the local section's future. If there is anything that I can do for you, please don’t hesitate to reach out at any time (trey.putnam@ttuhsc.edu) Best, Trey Putnam 2021 Chair DFW Local Section of the ACS
2021 DFW Section Officers
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