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Volume 53 November, 2010 Number 5

I n s I d e T h I s I s s u eActivities Calendar .................................................................................page 2

Comments from the Chair ......................................................................page 3

Treasurer’s Report ..................................................................................page 3

ACS Award Dinner .................................................................................page 6

Local Section Member Honored .............................................................page 6

ACS Project SEED .................................................................................page 7

Scary Halloween Chemistry .....................................................................page 8

National Chemistry Week Poster Contest ..............................................page 9

Periodic Table of the Elements Revitalization .......................................page 11

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R Ac t i v i t i e s cAlendAr Date Event VenueJan 27 ACS tour speaker- Fortman 30 YCC-student member Periodic Table RPSEC (Aiken)

Feb 24 Executive Committee Meeting

March 3 ACS tour speaker- Hassell 21-25 ACS National Meeting San Francisco, CA 26 ACS YCC-student member workshop 27 ACS Ambassador workshop

April 17 Earth Day 24 Chemistry Olympiad USC-A

May 1 Adopt-A-Highway 2-8 National Laboratory Day Executive Committee Meeting June

July IPG Report BIT BIT

Aug 18 Creech Award Boll Weevil Cafe 22-26 ACS National Meeting Boston, MA 26 Green Jackets Game Lake Olmstead Stadium Executive Committee Meeting

Sept BIT 9 Murder Mystery Chemistry Maria’s Mexican (Aiken) 14 College Night James Brown Arena

Oct 9 Poster Judging, Georgia-Carolina State Fair 14 JuliaBrumaghim,ClemsonUniversity OldEdgefieldGrill 16 SEED USCA 16 National Chemistry Week Georgia-Carolina State Fair 23 National Chemistry Week Georgia-Carolina State Fair 23 National Chemistry Week Western Carolina State Fair Executive Committee Meeting

Nov 6 Adopt-A-Highway Country Inn & Suites

Dec 1-4 Joint SERMAC and SWRM New Orleans, LA 17 ACS/AICHE Awards Dinner North Augusta Community Center

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chaiROur National Chemistry Week efforts went over very well. I want to thank Linda Youmans-McDonald for her efforts in organizing events as well as all of the volunteers who helped out. We had over 2500 visit the booth during SEED (Science Education Enrichment Day) and were named in several media outlets.

This will be our last newsletter for 2010. I would like to thank all of the people who have helped make this a successful year. I would also like to congratulate the winners from the election.

Chair-elect Jake Venzie

Secretary Claire Wills

Treasurer Lewis Baylor

Councilor Chris Bannochie

Alternate Councilor Tom Walters

Tad Whiteside will be taking over chair duties and I know I am leaving the section in capable hands. I also will apologize in advance for shirking oneofmyfinalchairduties,butIwillbe unable to attend the award dinner

duetotraveltoPacifichem.Ihopeeveryone has a safe and enjoyable holiday season and a happy 2011. Do not forget that 2011 is the Interna-tional Year of Chemistry!

- Glenn Fugate

tReaSuReR’S RepoRtTheSection’sfinancialstructurehasundergone some changes in the past six months. First, Wachovia was taken over by Wells Fargo, so our accounts have rolled over to Wells Fargo. Second, ACS determined that it could no longer legally main-tain investment accounts for its local sections. Thus, the ACS Invest-ment Pool was closed at the end of August, and our Section’s money in the amount of $40,879.84 has been transferred to our Wells Fargo busi-ness savings account.

Current Balances (10/31/2010)

Checking $7,560.39 Savings $66,701.61

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Income 2010 Budget 2010 ActualACS allotment $6,300.00 $6,400.00Dues: Local Dues $1500.00 $1,502.00 Section Dues Meetings (Income at door) $2,500.00 $737.00Grants: LSAC Leadership Grant $300.00 $675.00 Nano Innovative Program Grant $2,000.00Interest $10.00 $112.70Periodic Table Donations $8,300.00 $2,417.17Total Income $18,910.00 $13,843.87

ExpensesAwards and Scholarships: Appreciation Awards $250.00 $0.00 Creech award $645.00 $916.79 Future Cities $500.00 $0.00StudentAffiliateGrant $50.00 $0.00 Undergraduate ACS Travel Grant

$1,000.00 $750.60

Administrative fees: Bank Charges/Fees $158.65 $0.00Meeting Expenses: Speaker Costs $700.00 $1,171.00 Venue Costs $2,000.00 $520.25 Food Costs $2,000.00 $526.28 Meeting Supplies $300.00 $12.71 Other Meeting Expenses $- $52.55

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Expenses (continued) 2010 Budget 2010 ActualMiscellaneous $250.00 $485.42Outreach Programs: Chemistry Olympiad $450.00 $366.69 National Chemistry Week $500.00 $511.75 YCC $350.00 $174.73 Minority Affairs $400.00 $0.00 Other Volunteer Efforts $250.00 $300.20Periodic Table Project: Meeting Expenses $300.00 $0.00 Supplies $12,000.00 $4,091.95Publications and Mail: Postage $50.00 Printing $50.00 $25.91 Website $50.00 $44.85 Other [Adobe Indesign] $250.00 $228.93Travel $350.00 $0.00Total Expenses $22,853.65 $10,180.61Investments Total budget $ (3,943.65) $ 3,663.26

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R l o c A l n e w sacS awaRd dinneRThe American Chemical Society and The American Institute of Chemical Engineers cordially invite you and a guest to attend the Year-End Award Luau. It will be held Friday, Decem-ber 17, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. at the North Augusta Commu-nity Center, 495 Brookside Avenue, North Augusta, SC. The cost is $25 per person or $45 per couple, and tropical attire is encouraged. This will be a traditional Hawaiian Luau with Hula Dancers, BBQ (Pig or Chicken), Mai Tai’s, and a selection of Beer and Wine and multiple desserts. Please RSVP by December 5, 2010 to Tad Whiteside (tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov) or 803-725-8267 and specify if you would prefer pork or chicken. Your invitation will be arriving in the mail soon.

- Tad Whiteside

local Section membeR honoRedI would like to congratulate Prof. Chad Leverette on his recent award. Chad is a professor at USC Aiken and was recently awarded with the Governor’s Professor of the Year Award for a four-year institution. The award board cited both his research efforts and his volunteer work with K-12 science outreach.

- Glenn Fugate

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R l o c A l n e w sACS Project SEEDProject SEED is the ACS program that places economically disadvan-taged high school students in aca-demic, industrial, and governmental research laboratories for eight-to-ten weeks during the summer. For 43 years, Project SEED has helped high school students expand their educa-tion and career outlooks and pro-vide opportunities for students who historicallylackexposuretoscientificcareers.

Project SEED offers two research op-portunities:

•TheSummerIprogramwillprovidefirst-timeparticipants(risingjuniorsand seniors) a fellowship award of $2,500.

•Thesecond-yearprogram,Sum-mer II, provides Project SEED Summer I students with an additional summerofscientificresearch,andthese students will receive a fellow-ship award of $3,000. Additionally, Summer II students will be eligible for a travel grant of up to $100 to pres-ent their research at an ACS or other scientificmeeting,contingentontheavailability of funds.

Eachstudentdoesascientificre-search project in chemistry or related fieldunderthedirectsupervisionofascientist/mentor. The students must be economically

disadvantaged, must be enrolled in high school and must have taken one year of high school chemistry.

Although the researchers/mentors receivenofinancialremunerationfrom the ACS, chemists and chemis-try departments are willing to par-ticipate in the Project SEED experi-ence. Their willingness is derived from SEED’s positive aspects in terms of developing an understand-ing in young people from diverse cul-tural backgrounds, the enthusiasm a young student brings to the research group, and the opportunity to serve the community in which their institu-tion is located.

If anyone in ACS-SR is interested in sponsoring a student, or growing this program, please contact Tad White-side (tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov) for further information.

- Tad Whiteside

childRen leaRn ScaRy halloween chemiStRy foR national chemiStRy weekChildren of any age look forward to Halloween as a night of scary costumes and masks. What better time is there to sponsor this year’s theme of “Behind the Scenes with Chemistry” - Celebrating the chemistry in movies, movie set design, makeup artistry, and common special effects?

And what’s better at Halloween than learning how to make and apply “fake skin” and “fake blood”.

Trey Shaffer, with the help of his mom Amy Shaffer, applies a mixture of Vaseline, cornstarch and cocoa (fake skin) to his forearm. Then they dribbled a solution of light corn syrup and red food coloring (fake blood) into grooves in the fake skin. “This is really cool,” said Trey. “All you have to do now is fall on the ground, start to yell and hold your arm, and you can really gross people out.” Amy stood back and shook her head in semi-approval.

Hands-on science “makeup” experiments continued throughout the day for area children during this year’s celebration of National Chemistry Week, Oct. 23. The

event, held at the Western Carolina State Fair, the Georgia-Carolina State Fair, and at SEED at USC-Aiken, is an outreach program hosted by the Savannah River section of the American Chemical Society,theworld’slargestscientificsociety. Using common household “chemicals”, children experienced the look and feel of real make-up that has the appearance of lumps of skin with bleeding scars, stitches, and an occasional worm. The activities were planned to demonstrate concepts in chemistry, which can explain the mystery behind the “magic” that is showninfilms.

National Chemistry Week is designed to diminish the term “magic” associated with the “unexplainable” and direct attention to the chemistry that makes special effects work.

- Tom Walters

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StudentS win 2010 national chemiStRy week poSteR con-teSt Midland Valley High School stu-dents used their creative talents and designed over 57 posters for the National Chemistry Week poster contest. The theme for 2010 was “Behind the Scenes with Chemistry” - Celebrating the chemistry in movies, movie set design, makeup artistry, and common special effects. The three winning entries explored chem-istry in movies, set design, makeup and special effects.

So just how is chemistry used in the movie industry?

Lauren Rainwater, 11th grade, won firstplacebycapturingthe2010NCW theme in her poster that cre-atively uses elements from the pe-riodic table to spell out “Chemistry”, and showing how other elements are usedinlightfixturesandmakeup.Avery Morgan Sheehan, 12th grade, won second place by showing a chemical equation used to make synthetic fog for a movie set. Amber Bates, 11th grade, won third place by describing the chemistry of camera filminpictures,wordsandachemi-cal equation,.

The Georgia-Carolina State Fair provided prize money of $10, $7 and $5 for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place. In ad-dition,LaurenRainwater’sfirstplaceposterautomaticallyqualifiesfortheACS National poster contest.

National Chemistry Week is designed to educate the public about the con-tributions of Chemistry to everyday life and through this effort diminish the term “magic” associated with the “unexplainable” and direct attention to the chemistry that makes special effects work. The activities reached over 3000 students, parents, and teachers this year with our poster contest, SEED, and the Aiken and Augusta Fairs. The Savannah River Section of the American Chemical Society sponsored the event, and the Georgia-Carolina State Fair in Augusta graciously agreed to host the poster contest.

- Tom Walters

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1st Place Poster - Lauren Rainwater, 11th grade,

2nd Place Poster - Avery Morgan Shee-han, 12th grade

3rd Place Poster - Amber Bates, 11th grade

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In order to celebrate the Interna-tional Year of Chemistry in 2011, we will have a grand unveiling of the revitalized Living Periodic Table of Elements on Friday, January 28 at 7:00 p.m. Heavy hors d’veours will be served along with beer and wine.

Tickets will be $20/person. Two drink tickets are included. Additional beverages may be purchased for $5. This celebration is free of cost to all element sponsors. RSVP must be received to Elise Fox (elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov or 803-507-8560) by Friday, January 14. We are a 501(c)3 so all donations are tax deductible. To date, the following elements have been sponsored:

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Element Sponsor Element Sponsor1 H JL Steimke 60 Nd CM Jantzen2 He AM Willibrand 61 Pm JW Cleary3 Li 62 Sm SA Myers4 Be TA Fredericks

(mem.)63 Eu LM Papouchado

5 B 64 Gd RJ Lascola6 C South Aiken HS 65 Tb7 N I&EC Division 66 Dy8 O Aiken HS 67 Ho9 F Halocarbon 68 Er10 Ne IBEW-1579 69 Tm11 Na 70 Yb12 Mg SRS F/H Labs 71 Lu13 Al ASM Intl. 72 Hf CL Crawford14 Si CE Wills 73 Ta15 P I&EC Division 74 W T Whiteside16 S 75 Re MS Wellons17 Cl 76 Os18 Ar Morris Beard 77 Ir C Dzaugis19 K KE Zeigler 78 Pt EB Fox

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Element Sponsor Element Sponsor20 Ca 79 Au DS Hobbs21 Sc 80 Hg HA Blant22 Ti SL Crump 81 Tl DA Orth23 V WV Wright 82 Pb24 Cr C Fredericks (mem.) 83 Bi I&EC Division25 Mn Elanco Tech. Center 84 Po26 Fe Lewis Baylor 85 At27 Co AIChE-CSR 86 Rn28 Ni JB Pickett 87 Fr USCA-RPSEC29 Cu RS Beck 88 Ra RP Crapse30 Zn Elanco Tech. Center 89 Ac31 Ga CJ Bannochie 90 Th32 Ge RF Gilmore, Jr. 91 Pa33 As I&EC Division 92 U RA Malstrom34 Se 93 Np DG Karracker35 Br 94 Pu GF Kessinger36 Kr JH Gray 95 Am WG Ramsey37 Rb RH Young 96 Cm NE Bibler38 Sr DT Hobbs 97 Bk DNCT39 Y WB Crapse 98 Cf RW Benjamin40 Zr 99 Es41 Nb 100 Fm JR Cadieux42 Mo 101 Md GA Fugate43 Tc Covidien 102 No44 Ru GB Rawls III 103 Lr SRNS45 Rh 104 Rf AIChE-CSR46 Pd RT Walters 105 Db47 Ag MG Bronikowski 106 Sg BK Culligan48 Cd 107 Bh49 In 108 Hs

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50 Sn 109 Mt51 Sb I&EC Division 110 Ds52 Te 111 Rg53 I RG Spaunburgh 112 Cn54 Xe JC Hart 113 Uut55 Cs G&M Senn 114 Uuq56 Ba NA Johns 115 Uup57 La 116 Uuh58 Ce 117 Uus59 Pr 118 Uuo

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The CSRA Chemist Editor: Jon Duffey Printing By: Rob Lascola

OfficersandCommitteeChairs-2010ACS-SR Contact E-mail acssavannahriver@gmail.com Chair Dr. Glenn Fugate glenn.fugate@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-1590Chair-Elect Dr. Tad Whiteside tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov (803) 752-8267Imm Past Chair Dr. Elise Fox elise.fox@srnl.doe.gov (803) 507-8560Secretary Mrs. Claire Wills hcewills@gforcecable.com (803) 648-1799 Treasurer Dr. Lewis Baylor lbaylor@equitechintl.com (803) 652-7270Councilor Dr. Chris Bannochie cj.bannochie@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-8088Alt Councilor Dr. Tom Walters tom.walters@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-8177Archivist Dr. Chris Bannochie cj.bannochie@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-8088Career Dev Dr. Tad Whiteside tad.whiteside@srnl.doe.gov (803) 752-8267Distribution Dr. Rob Lascola robert.lascola@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-2380Education Dr. Kimberly Crapse kim.crapse@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-6107Envrn. Impr. Dr. Nicholas Bridges nicholas.bridges@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-7279Govt. Affairs Dr. Tom Walters tom.walters@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-8177Industrial Rel. Dr. David Newell james.newell@srnl.doe.gov (803) 442-3312Membership Dr. Rob Lascola robert.lascola@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-2380Minority Affairs Dr. Sardar Yousufzai yousufzais@mail.paine.edu (706) 821-8261Natl Chem Week Mrs. Linda Youmans- McDonald linda.youmans-mcdonald@srs.gov (803) 952-7885Olympiad Dr. Monty Fetterolf montyf@usca.edu (803) 648-6851 x3378Publications Dr. Jon Duffey jonathan.duffey@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-3859Public Relations Dr. Tom Walters tom.walters@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-8177WCC VacantWebsite Dr. Maria Westbrook maria.westbrook@srnl.doe.gov (803) 725-5357YCC Dr. Will James charles.james@srs.gov (803) 642-8342

The CSRA Chemist: This newsletter is published approximately six times per year by the Savannah River Section of the American Chemical Soci-ety. Circulation is 300 per issue. Opinions expressed by the editor or contributors do not necessarily reflect the official position of the Section.

Mailing Address: Savannah River Section - American Chemical Society, c/o Dr. Jon Duffey, Savannah River National Laboratory, Building 773-A, Aiken, SC 29808. All newsletter articles should submitted by e-mail to jonathan.duffey@srnl.doe.gov.

Meeting Announcements: The CSRA Chemist will announce scientific meetings of interest to chemists and chemical engineers (when space is available). For information and deadlines, contact Jon Duffey.

Change of Address: On the web at http://www.acs.org; by telephone at 800-333-9511; by email: service@acs.org. The Local Section receives roster updates on a monthly basis from ACS National.

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