Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 STUDENT AWARDS LUNCHEON
~ Michelle Shearer ~
2011 National Teacher of the Year
“Teaching, Learning and the Power of the Human Factor”
Sunday, April 15th, 12:00 – 3:30 pm
Crown Plaza Hotel
Timonium, MD
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 Student Awards Luncheon
Volume 68, Number 3, April, 2012
Councilors:
2011–2013 Merle I. Eiss, Retired, [email protected]
2011–2013 Paul Smith, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, [email protected]
2012–2014 Stephanie J. Watson, N.I.S.T., [email protected]
2012–2014 Dana Ferraris, Johns Hopkins University, [email protected]
2012–2014 Jan Kolakowski, US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center,
Alternate Councilors:
2012–2014 Sandra Young, Army Research Lab, [email protected]
2012–2014 Takashi Tsukamoto, Johns Hopkins University, [email protected]
2012–2014 Charles M. Zapf, McCormick & Company, Inc., [email protected]
2012 Members-at-large:
George Farrant, Retired, [email protected]
Lisa, Fridman, Stevenson University, [email protected]
Suzanne Procell, Army Research Laboratory, [email protected]
Beatrice Salazar, Baltimore County Public Schools, [email protected]
Megan Shanholtz, Johns Hopkins University, [email protected]
Award Committee Chairs: Student Awards – George Farrant, Retired, [email protected]
Remsen Award – Dana Ferraris, Johns Hopkins University, [email protected]
Braude Award – Louise Hellwig, Morgan State University, [email protected]
Maryland Chemist Award–Angela Sherman, Notre Dame of Maryland University, [email protected]
Maryland Section on the Web: Webmaster:
maryland.sites.acs.org Megan Shanholtz, Johns Hopkins University
Chesapeake Chemist Editor-in-Chief: Contact us at:
Holly Cymet, Stevenson University [email protected]
2012 Section Officers:
Chair 2012 – Holly Cymet, Stevenson University, [email protected]
Vice-chair (chair 2013) – Sara Narayan, Stevenson University, [email protected]
Chair-elect (chair 2014) – James A. Saunders, Retired, [email protected]
Immediate-Past Chair (chair 2011) – Takashi Tsukamoto, Johns Hopkins University
Secretary – Louise Hellwig, Morgan State University, [email protected]
Treasurer – Angela Sherman, Notre Dame of Maryland University, [email protected]
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
“Teaching, Learning and the Power of the Human Factor”
~ Michelle Shearer ~
2011 NATIONAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Sunday, April 15th, 12:00 – 3:30 pm
Crown Plaza Hotel
2004 Greenspring Drive, Timonium, MD 21093
12:00-12:45pm Registration/Networking and appetizers
12:45-1:45 Luncheon
1:45-2:30 Student Awards
2:30-3:30 Presentation
Price $20 for members/nonmembers, $10 for students, Awardees free
RSVP (by April 10) [email protected]
Directions to the Crown Plaza Hotel: From the Baltimore beltway (I-695), take exit 24 for I-83 N (signs for Timonium/York Pa)
Take exit 16A for Timonium Road toward Timonium E
Turn right at W Timonium Rd
Take the 1st right onto Greenspring Drive
The hotel is on the right, set back from the road.
For more information, visit www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/cp/1/en/hotel/ballt
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
Teaching, Learning and the Power of the Human Factor
Education at any level is a dynamic responsibility because children of all ages are complex human beings
with dreams, goals, talents, flaws, and needs. In her work as an educator, Michelle Shearer, 2011 National
Teacher of the Year, believes that everyone with a stake in the success of students must always be conscious
of their profound power as people to influence the lives of children. Her teaching philosophy, based on the
belief that an educator’s strong positive connection with students is essential to their academic success,
centers around a theme she experiences constantly has an educator: when students feel that a teacher is
genuinely invested in their progress, they become eager to invest in themselves and take ownership of their
educational efforts. America’s education system may search for a novel strategy or technological
advancement to ensure academic success for all learners, yet what students most need is to experience
positive rapport, high energy, and high morale within every classroom, much of that through interaction with
a teacher who understands that human beings are the ultimate inspiration for passionate, productive, life-long
learning.
Speaker Biography On May 3, 2011 before a White House audience that includes the 2011 State
Teachers of the Year, President Barack Obama presented to the American people, the
2011 National Teacher of the Year, Michelle Shearer, a tenth through twelfth grade
Chemistry teacher from Urbana High School in Frederick County, Maryland.
As the daughter of a teacher, Ms. Shearer says that education was so central to her
life that she recognized from a young age that she wanted to become a teacher. While
studying at Princeton University, she had the opportunity to learn sign language and
volunteer to teach a deaf fourth grade class. From that point on, Ms. Shearer knew
that she had to become a teacher. She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Princeton University and
a master’s degree in deaf education from McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. She is also certified
in special education.
Ms. Shearer believes that there is an aspiring scientist in all of us. Although chemistry, as she says, can be an
intimidating subject that is often viewed as difficult for students to grasp, she has always embraced this
simple idea: Chemistry is everywhere, and thus chemistry is for everyone. Her personal teaching style
incorporates her beliefs about teaching in that she is always conscious of the chemistry between the students
and her in addition to the chemistry curriculum itself. Ms. Shearer does not let any students fade into the
background, and every year she watches students unsure of their scientific abilities transform into confident,
mature learners in the positive and high-energy classroom environment she and her learners create.
Her methods have a powerful impact. Derrick Williams, a former student at the Maryland School for the
Deaf, says, "Ms. Shearer has the passion and the drive to ensure that each individual in the classroom has a
precise understanding of the content she is teaching and her classes are structurally built for nothing else but
success."
She was chosen the National Teacher of the Year from among the fifty-five 2011 state and territorial teachers
of the year. Selected by the oldest and most prestigious awards program to focus public attention on
excellence in teaching, Ms. Shearer began a year as a full-time educational spokesperson in June 2011. The
National Teacher of the Year Program, a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers, is sponsored
by the ING Foundation and Target, in partnership with the University of Phoenix and People to People
Ambassador Programs.
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 ACS MARYLAND SECTION STUDENT AWARDEES
Tyler Jenish
Ann Arundel Community College
Toni-Rose Guiriba
Baltimore City Community College
Zachary J. Barthel
Community College of Baltimore County
Annette Butler
Coppin State University
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 ACS MARYLAND SECTION STUDENT AWARDEES
Amanda Lee
Goucher College
Jamy Anne Therres
Harford Community College
Jamie Lee Bingaman
Hood College
Chris Gunther
Howard Community College
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 ACS MARYLAND SECTION STUDENT AWARDEES
Moon Young Liza Lee
Johns Hopkins University
Thomas J. Lee
Loyola University Maryland
Louis Lachman
McDaniel College
Tsehai A. J. Grell
Morgan State University
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 ACS MARYLAND SECTION STUDENT AWARDEES
Nancy Abu-Bonsrah
Mount Saint Mary's University
Nicholette Stachowiak
Notre Dame of Maryland University
Travis Bradley Lear
Saint Mary's College of Maryland
Rebecca Hollins
Stevenson University
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 ACS MARYLAND SECTION STUDENT AWARDEES
Carlo Mercado
Towson University
Joshua Kotler
United States Naval Academy
Julia Wittkamper
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Jordan Tryhubenko
Washington College
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
Join Us for the
43rd ACS Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting
Registration and Abstract Submission are Now Open
www.marmacs.org/2012
Come, Present, Learn, Network!
Thursday, May 31st
Remsen Award Dinner
Dr. Daniel G. Nocera
Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy and Professor of Chemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“The Artificial Leaf”
50 Year Member Luncheon
Speaker:
Dr. Donald Boesch
President, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Studies
Friday, June 1st
Beers of Baltimore Beer Tasting
Steve Frazier, The Brewers Art
Stephen Jones, Oliver Breweries
"Yeast Metabolism and the Flavor Chemistry of Beer"
Women Chemists Committee Luncheon
Speaker:
June E. Streckfus
Executive Director, Maryland Business Roundtable for Education
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
Great Programming for Undergraduate Students
Friday, June 1st
Panel Discussion on Careers in Chemistry
Poster Session on Student Member Group Activities
Chromatography Forum of the Delaware Valley Awards Symposium
Saturday, June 2nd
Undergraduate Research Poster Session
Great Programming for
Teachers in Higher Ed
Thursday, May 31st
The Chemistry Classroom for the
21st Century
On-line and Hybrid Chemistry Courses
Friday, June 1st
Companion Software for Freshman and
Organic Texts: Enhancing Student
Learning
Saturday, June 2nd
Active Learning in the Chemistry
Classroom and Laboratory
Come, Present, Learn, Network!
www.marmacs.org/2012
Great Programming for
K-12 Students and Teachers
Friday, June 1st
Environmental Chemistry for
High School Students
Forensic Chemistry for
High School Students
Saturday, June 2nd
Environmental Chemistry for
High School Teachers
Forensic Chemistry for
High School Teachers
STEM for Elementary School Teachers
Kids in Chemistry - Hands on Experiments
for Elementary Students
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
MARM 2012
Undergraduate Program
“Life after Graduation” Q&A Panel Friday 9am-12pm
Room UC 110
Ever wonder what life is like after walking across the stage? Want to know what you can do
with your degree? Come hear a range of panelists discuss career options including graduate
school, industry, and government positions.
Lunch A voucher for the BBQ lunch will be provided for Friday for at least the first 30 people that
are awarded housing. Please see the Undergraduate Housing Application on the MARM
website (www.marmacs.org/2012) for more details on getting funding for one night of
dorm room housing.
“Sounds like a Good Idea”
Student Chapter Poster Session Friday 1:30pm-3pm
Room UC Ballroom
Like electrons in an atom, every student chapter has its own unique spin. (SEE WHAT I DID
THERE?). Come see what other chapters are up to and present your own best ideas!
Refreshments will be served.
**Abstracts for this poster session should be submitted to [email protected]. The
winning poster will receive four $25 amazon.com gift cards.
“Chit Chat and All That” Student Networking Friday 6pm
Chemistry Courtyard/MEYR 145
Food and friends - what could be better? Grab some pizza, meet some new people and get
new ideas.
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
Symposia Topics Include Chemistry of Renewable Energy
Food and Sensory Chemistry Bioanalytical Chemistry
Nanotechnology Environmental Health and Safety Mass Spectrometry and NMR of Biomolecules
Computational Biochemistry Carbohydrate Chemistry
Medicinal Chemistry
There Will Also be General Sessions and Poster Sessions Analytical Chemistry
Biochemistry Inorganic Chemistry Organic Chemistry Physical Chemistry
Chemistry Education
Employment Workshops Thursday, May 31
ACS Planning Your Job Search 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM
ACS Preparing a Résumé
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
ACS Effective Interviewing 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
Upcoming Events and Announcements
CALL FOR NOMINATION: 2012 Maryland Chemist Award The Maryland Chemist Award Committee is accepting nominations for the 2012 Maryland Chemist Award.
The nominee must be a member of the Maryland Section of the ACS, and the work on which the nomination
is based should have been performed in Maryland. Supportive documentation should include copies of the
resume of the nominee and his/her list of publications. A short statement describing the outstanding
contributions of the nominee to scientific research, education, industry, technology, etc., will be helpful and
appreciated. Please send nominations to Dr. Angela Sherman. Nominations are PREFERRED to be sent in
via e-mail: [email protected]. If you cannot submit your nomination via e-mail, please contact Dr.
Sherman via e-mail or phone (410) 532-5713 to arrange for alternate delivery method. The deadline for
submission of nominations is April 30, 2012.
CALL FOR NOMINATION: 2012 Braude Award The Braude Award, established by George and Monique Braude, is awarded at the October meeting and
honors a professor conducting outstanding research involving students at a college or university in the
Chesapeake region. Nominations are now being accepted for the 2012 Braude Award. Please submit a list or
description of the research accomplishments of the nominee, as well as an indication of the number of
students involved in that research, to Louise Hellwig via e-mail: [email protected]
SAVE THE DATE: Earth Day events in April
Friday, April 13 - 9:30am-12pm - Open House/FREE Hands-on Earth Day event for students grades K-5 at
the APG Youth Center (zip code: 21005)
Saturday, April 14 - 9am-12pm - Project Clean Stream - Earth Day Community Event (Watershed Clean-
up) in Baltimore City (zipcode: 21214)
Saturday, April 21 - 12-4pm - Earth Day at the Maryland Science Center— hands-on science experiments.
If you are interested in helping out with any of these events, please contact Sandy Young:
SAVE THE DATE: Hands on Activities for Students
9th Annual Physics Fair!
When: Saturday, April 21, 11am-5pm
Where: Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg Hall (directions on the website below)
Hosted By: Department of Physics & Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University
Cost: FREE
http://physics-astronomy.jhu.edu/events/physics_fair
USA Science & Engineering Festival
When: Saturday & Sunday, April 28 & 29 (Sat - 10am-6pm; Sun - 10am-4pm)
Where: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place, NW, Washington, DC 20001
Cost: FREE
http://www.usasciencefestival.org
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
2012 Maryland Section Event Schedule
Event Date Location
Earth Day April 22
Student Awards Lunch
Michelle Shearer
Sunday, April 15 Crown Plaza Hotel, Timonium
MARM
Remsen Award
May 31-June 2 UMBC
Wine social June TBA
Undergraduate student event September TBA
Braude Award Dinner October TBA
National Chemistry Week October 21-27
Komen Run/Walk October Hunt Valley
Women Chemists Committee Dinner November TBA
Maryland Chemist of the Year Dinner December TBA
If you have any ideas or suggestions about new events please feel free to contact us at
Recent Activities MARCH DINNER MEETING On March 14, Dr. Sharon Kennedy of
Colgate-Palmolive spoke at the
Maryland Section meeting held at
Anne Arundel Community College.
Her topic: “Chemistry Behind the
Colgate Smile”. She discussed her
work on toothpastes, in particular how
the structure of Total retains the
antibacterial agent on the teeth for up
to twelve hours. She then discussed
toothbrushes, particularly the “360”
toothbrush. Dr. Kennedy pointed out
the tremendous amount of chemistry
and engineering that goes into these
consumer products. After her
presentation the audience could select
sample toothpaste, toothbrushes, and
“wisps”, the one-time use oral care product for use away from home, to take with them. We thank Dr.
Kennedy for these insights into consumer chemistry, and for alerting the many students present to yet
another career using their chemistry degrees.
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
April Chemical Anniversaries Leopold May
The Catholic University of America
Washington, DC
April 6, 1928 Fifty years ago, James D. Watson shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in
1962 with F. H. C. Crick and M. H. F. Wilkins for their discoveries concerning the molecular
structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material. He
was born on this date and is a researcher on the double helix structure of the deoxyribonucleic
acid (DNA) molecule.
April 14, 1887 The first assembly of the Association des Chimistes Belges (Association of the Belgian
Chemists) was held at the La Brasserie Belge in Brussels, on this date.
April 19, 1912 One hundred years ago, Glenn T. Seaborg was born on this date. He co-discovered americium
(Am, 95) 1944, berkelium (Bk, 97) 1950, californium (Cf, 98) 1950, curium (Cm, 96) 1944,
einsteinium (Es, 99) 1952, fermium (Fm, 100) 1953, mendelevium (Md, 101) 1955, nobelium
(No, 102) 1958, plutonium (Pu, 94) 1940, and seaborgium (Sg, 106)) 1974. In 1951, he and
Edwin M. McMillan received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discoveries in the
chemistry of the transuranium elements.
April 20, 1912 One hundred years ago, Gertrude E. Perlmann was born. She did research in protein
chemistry and received the Garvan Medal in 1965.
April 20, 1927 Twenty-five years ago, K. Alexander Müller shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with J. Georg
Bednorz for their important break-through in the discovery of superconductivity in ceramic
materials in 1957. He was born on this date.
April 21, 1889 Seventy-five years ago, Paul Karrer shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1937 for his
investigations on carotenoids, flavins and vitamins A and B2 with Walter N. Haworth for his
investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C. He synthesized vitamins A, 1931, B2
(riboflavin), 1935, and E (tocopherol), 1938, and was born on this date.
April 22, 1919 Twenty-five years ago, Donald J. Cram shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with C. J. Pedersen
and J-M. P. Lehn for their development and use of molecules with structure-specific
interactions of high selectivity. He did research in the application of stereochemical
techniques to organic reaction mechanisms, invented carceplexes or guest molecules completely
encapsulated by the host, synthesized a variety of host-guest complexes including crown ether
complexes and was born on this date.
April 28, 1937 Seventy-five years ago, Champion International was incorporated on this date.
Additional historical events can be found at Dr. May’s website,
http://faculty.cua.edu/may/Chemistrycalendar.htm
April, 2012 Volume 68, Number 3
REMINDER: Receiving the Chesapeake Chemist
Hopefully, if you are reading the Chesapeake Chemist this month, you are receiving it via e-mail from us.
We went to electronic-only mailings to our MD ACS membership in October 2006.
Changing your e-mail address? Moving out of the MD ACS area?
E-mail changes can be updated either by:
E-mailing us at [email protected] – give us your member #, full name, and e-mail changes
and we can ensure that your records are updated with National ACS.
Contacting the National ACS membership division: 800-333-9511 (US only) or [email protected]
To ensure that you receive the Chesapeake Chemist, please add the MD ACS e-mail (contact-
[email protected]) to your accepted e-mail address list IF you have a spam filter.
If you are a member who currently doesn’t receive the Maryland ACS Chesapeake Chemist but download it
from our website, it is possible that National ACS does not have your e-mail address on file. If you want to
receive the Chesapeake Chemist via e-mail, please e-mail us at [email protected] – give us your
member #, full name, and e-mail address and we can ensure that your records are updated with National
ACS.
The current edition and previous editions of the Chesapeake Chemist can ALWAYS be obtained via our
website: http://mdchem.org – please see the Newsletter Archive link on the right-hand side of the website.
The Chesapeake Chemist is e-published monthly September through June by the Maryland Section of the American Chemical Society. Send submissions to the editor in electronic format. The Maryland Section is not responsible for opinions expressed herein. Editorials express the opinions only of the authors. The editor is not responsible for all unsigned material.
micron inc ANALYTICAL SERVICES
MATERIALS CHARACTERIZATION
MORPHOLOGY CHEMISTRY STRUCTURE
OM / SEM / EDXA / TEM / SAED, EPA / WDXA XRF / ESCA / AUGER / XRD
DSC / TGA / MFTIR
3815 LANCASTER PIKE, WILMINGTON, DE 19805 Phone: 302-998-1184, Fax: 302-998-1836
E-mail: ([email protected] )
Website: (http://micronanalytical.com/)
