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April 2017 Vol. XCV, No.8
NORTHEASTERN SECTION • AMERICAN CHEMIC
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FOUNDED 1898
NESACS
MonthlyMeetingEsselen Award Meeting at HarvardAward to Neil M. Donahue
Highlights fromRecentNESACS BoardMeetings
Advances inChemicalSciencesSymposiumRoyal Sonesta Hotel, CambridgeMay 5, 2017
NESACSCandidates forElection
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NESACS at Fenway Park! Monday June 12thPhillies vs. Red Sox
This year our NESACS Red Sox outing is on Monday, June 12th, at 7:10p.m.
This year, the ticket process is bit different. Instead of sending your check tothe NESACS office, please use our Eventbrite site for payment:
nesacs.eventbrite.com
The cost of the tickets is $34.75, which includes fees.
Once we receive your payment, you will be sent a link to get your tickets!
Members are encouraged to bring their families, friends, and colleagues to this NESACS traditional outing.
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The Nucleus is published monthly, except June and August, by the Northeastern Section of the AmericanChemical Society, Inc. Forms close for advertising on the 1st of the month of the preceding issue. Textmust be received by the editor six weeks before the date of issue.Editor: Michael P. Filosa, Ph.D., 18 Tamarack Road, Medfield, MA 02052 Email:
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The Northeastern Section of the American-Chemical Society, Inc.Office: Anna Singer, 12 Corcoran Road,Burlington, MA 01803(Voice or FAX) 781-272-1966.e-mail: [email protected] Homepage:http://www.NESACS.orgOfficers 2017ChairLeland L. Johnson, Jr.WuXi AppTecBrookline, [email protected] Levine35 Cottage StSharon, MA 02067-2130(516)[email protected] Past ChairJerry P. JasinskiKeene State CollegeKeene, NH [email protected] SingerMilliporeSigma3 Strathmore Rd, Natick, MA 01760774-290-1391, [email protected] Saha67 Bow StArlington, MA 02474-2744(978)[email protected] GordonArchivistKen MattesTrusteesRuth Tanner, Peter C. Meltzer, Dorothy PhillipsDirectors-at-LargeRalph Scannell, John Burke, David Harris,Ioannis Papayannopoulos, Michael P. Filosa,John NeumeyerCouncilors/Alternate CouncilorsTerm Ends 12/31/2017Michael P. Filosa John PodobinskiDoris I. Lewis Sonja Strah-PleynetPatricia A. Mabrouk Anna Waclawa SromekMark Tebbe Mary BurgessMorton Z. Hoffman Ralph ScannellTerm Ends 12/31/2018Katherine Lee Mukund S. ChorghadeCatherine E. Costello Andrew ScholteRuth Tanner R. Christian MoretonJackie O’Neil Ajay PurohitKenneth Mattes Robert LichterTerm Ends 12/31/2019Thomas R. Gilbert Leland L. Johnson, Jr.Mary Jane Shultz Mary A. MahaneyMichael Singer Jerry P. JasinskiLisa Marcaurelle Sofia SantosMarietta Schwartz Patrick M. Gordon
ContentsNESACS Golf Tournament Announcement____________________2Wedgwood Pines CC, Stow, MA, August 14, 2017.
NESACS at Fenway Park! Announcement ____________________2Monday, June 12th. Phillies vs. Red Sox
Highlights from January and February NESACS Board Meetings __4Compiled by Michael Singer, NESACS Secretary
Monthly Meeting _______________________________________5Esselen Award Meeting at the Harvard Faculty Club, Professor Neil M.Donahue, Carnegie Mellon University to receive the award.
19th Annual Northeast Student Chemical Research Conference__6At Harvard University, 12 Oxford St., April 8, 2017
Advances in Chemical Sciences Symposium__________________7At the Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA. May 5, 2017.
2017 NESACS Candidates for Election _____________________9
Seminar Calendar _____________________________________12
Cover: Professor Neil M. Donahue, 2017 Esselen Award Recipient (Photo courtesy of Professor Donahue).
Editorial Deadlines: Summer-September 2017 Issue: July 15, 2017October 2017 Issue: August 15, 2017
All Chairs of standingCommittees, the editor of THE NUCLEUS, and the Trustees of SectionFunds are members of theBoard of Directors. AnyCoun cilor of the American Chemical Societyresiding within the section area is an ex officiomember of the Board of Directors.
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From the January MinutesNERM: M. Hoffman➢Northeast Regional Meetings
(NERM) will not be held in 2017 or2018 due to a lack of local sectionswilling to serve as hosts in thoseyears. The next annual meeting ofthe NERACS Board will take placeat noon on Tuesday, August 22, 2017,in Washington, DC, on the occasionof the ACS national meeting. TheAtlantic Basin Conference on Chem-istry (ABCChem) will take place onJanuary 24-27, 2018, at the IberostarResort in Cancun, Mexico.
Special CommitteesFundraising: Brian Chamberlainfor the committee➢ January 2017 Fundraising Report:
Restart of NESACS Golf Tourna-ment
➢ The NESACS golf tournament is ascramble format fundraiser and net-working event last held in 2014. Afundraising committee has beenformed to organize an NESACS golftournament for 2017.
➢Members of the new committee in-clude Brian Chamberlain, MeredithEno and Leland Johnson. The com-mittee has connected with membersof the previous committee consistingof Harry Mandeville and Amy Tap-per on email and conference call.
➢ Tournament goals, format, locationand timeline were discussed. Histor-ically, the goal of the organizingcommittee was to keep the price ofthe golf and dinner near cost andraise money through corporate spon-sorship.
➢Harry has provided the committeewith a recommended site, past emaillists, player registrations, and corpo-rate contacts. Brian, Meredith andLeland will meet at the NESACS
meeting on 1/12/17 and discuss nextsteps for the 2017 tournament, whichinclude securing a venue and date.
Government Relations: Doris LewisGovt. Affairs Planning Meeting Dec.10 at the Newton Marriott:
Doris Lewis, Matthew Jacobsen,and Catie Rawlins met to plan the up-coming meeting at Joe Kennedy’s officeand to organize resources for future meet-ings with congressional representatives.
Catie has opened a Google DriveFolder to compile resources and notes toshare with the group including the ACSvideo “Tips for a Successful Meeting”,and will start a spreadsheet to keep trackof interested members with congres-sional district and representative.
Catie will make up the info sheetfor NESACS & NSYCC. Matt will printcopies of ACS policy info, the infosheets on ACS, NESACS, and NSYCCand the talking points; Doris has con-tacted OPA for updated numbers of ACSconstituents in the Fourth District.
Our group will gather at WholeFoods Cafe immediately before themeeting for final planning and distribu-tion of materials. This activity was valu-able not only in setting up this meeting,but in training our younger chemists andassembling materials and meeting for-mat to be used in future meetings.Meeting with Congressman JoeKennedy Dec. 12 at his Newton of-fice:
Joe Kennedy represents the 4thCongressional District in which we haveover 900 ACS member constituents. At-tending: Doris Lewis, GAC Chair,Matthew Jacobsen, Policy Liaison,Catherine Rawlins, 2016 YCC Repre-sentative, Caitlyn Mills, 2017 YCCRepresentative, Sonja Strah-Pleynet,STEM representative.
We had more younger chemist vol-unteers for this event than we had avail-
able spaces, and have a waiting list forfuture visits. The congressman was verygenerous with his time and shared anoverview of policy issues related to sci-ence, very much appreciated by ouryounger chemists for whom this was afirst congressional visit; all participantsare enthusiastic at the prospect of futuremeetings. The “ask” was for Rep.Kennedy to attend one of our monthlysection meetings, and the response wasa definite “Yes.”
Our next congressional office meet-ing will be in early 2017 with Rep. MikeCapuano of the 7th Congressional Dis-trict in which we have over 1900 ACSmember constituents, to be arranged byMatt Jacobsen. (Thanks to Dorothy Gray
Highlights from BoardMeeting Minutes forJanuary and FebruaryCompiled by Michael Singer, NESACS Secretary
NESACS Sponsors 2016Platinum $5000+Amgen Biogen Johnson Matthey Millipore-SigmaPCI Synthesis SK Life Science
Gold $3500 up to $5000Navin Fluorine
Silver $2000 up to $3500Abbvie American Chemical Society IAC Grant Boston Foundation Esselen Bristol-Myers Squibb Mettler Toledo Novartis Strem Chemicals Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Bronze $500 up to $2000Alexion AstraZeneca Chemical Computing Group Cydan Development DeuteRx LLC GL Chemtech International Limited JEOL USA Inc Pharmacore Relay Therapeutics Selvita, Inc. Toxikon
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Abstract“Atmospheric Ozonolysis: From Colli-sional Energy Transfer to Particle Physicsand Everything in Between”Atmospheric new-particle formation isresponsible for more than half of theparticles that serve as Cloud Condensa-tion Nuclei (CCN) in the present-day at-mosphere, and may have been the sourceof a far greater fraction in the pre-indus-trial era. Uncertainty in the CCN num-ber, especially for the pre-industrial era,is one of the largest sources of uncer-tainty in our overall estimation of cli-
mate forcing. The problem is vexing be-cause aerosol-cloud interactions (the“indirect” effect of particles on climate)are especially sensitive to when CCNconcentrations are small because cloud-droplet properties change significantly,whereas the effect saturates at higherconcentrations. Thus, if pre-industrialCCN levels were high, increased CCNfrom anthropogenic pollution will nothave had much negative climate forcing(cooling), whereas if pre-industrial CCNlevels were low, pollution may have hada dramatic cooling effect and masked upto half of the total warming from long-lived greenhouse gases.
In the Cosmics Leaving OutdoorDroplets (CLOUD) experiment atCERN, we seek to conduct experimentsunder tightly controlled conditions span-ning the conditions of temperature,reagent and oxidant concentrations andion-pair formation rates found in thepresent-day and the pre-industrial at-mosphere in order to isolate the molec-ular interactions responsible foratmospheric new-particle formation.Nucleation often involves a mixture ofinorganic (sulfuric acid and bases) andorganic (highly oxidized) compounds,with different mixtures typifying differ-
Biography
Neil M. Donahue is the Thomas LordProfessor of Chemistry in the Depart-ments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineer-ing and Engineering and Public Policyat Carnegie Mellon University, where hehas been since 2000. He is the foundingdirector of the Center for AtmosphericParticle Studies (CAPS) CMU and isnow the director of the Steinbrenner In-stitute for Environmental Education andResearch, which represents all environ-mental research and education at CMU.CAPS is ranked among the world lead-ers in research addressing fundamentalbehavior of atmospheric aerosols andtheir relationship to both air quality andclimate. He is a Pittsburgh native.
Donahue has a Bachelor’s degree inPhysics from Brown University and adoctorate in Meteorology from MIT. AtMIT he worked with Ron Prinn on thechemistry of non-methane hydrocarbonsin the marine atmosphere, combiningprocess modelling with in-situ measure-
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Monthly MeetingThe 969th Meeting of the Northeastern Section of the AmericanChemical Society-Esselen Award MeetingThursday – April 27, 2017Harvard University, Cambridge, MAHarvard Faculty Club, 20 Quincy Street4:30 pm Monthly NESACS Board Meeting5:30 pm Social Hour (Harvard Faculty Club)6:15 pm Dinner (Harvard Faculty Club)8:00 pm Award Meeting, Mallinckrodt Building, 12 Oxford St., Pfizer
Lecture Hall (MB23), ground floor. Leland L. Johnson, Jr., NESACS Chair, presiding Welcome and Award History – Karl B. Hansen, Chair, Esselen
Award Committee Presentation of the Award - Gustavus J. Esselen, IV Introduction of the Award Recipient– James G. Anderson,
1993 Esselen Award Winner, Harvard University Neil M. Donahue, Thomas Lord Professor of Chemistry,
Chemical Engineering and Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Award Address: “Atmospheric Ozonolysis: From Collisional Energy Transfer to Particle Physics and Everything in Between”
Dinner reservations should be made no later than noon, Monday, April 17. Reser-vations are to be made using EventBrite services: nesacs.eventbrite.com. Selectthe Gustavus John Esselen Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest and theappropriate ticket package. Members, $30; Non-members, $35; Retirees, $20;Students, $10. Reservations for new members and for additional information,contact the secretary Anna Singer at (781)272-1966 or e-mail at [email protected]. Reservations not cancelled at least 24 hours in advance must be paid.THE PUBLIC IS INVITED – RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIREDFree Parking in the Broadway Street Garage (3rd level or higher). Enter fromCambridge Street via Felton Street. u
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of OPA for the constituent figures!)
From the February MinutesChair Elect: Mindy LevineWomen Chemists Committee:
The WCC hosted a very successfulwomen chemistry lunch last month withDr. Allison Campbell.
The chair of the local WCC, CarolMulrooney, went to the ACS LeadershipDevelopment Institute in Dallas Texasand received more formal training inleadership.
Current plans are underway for awage gap panel discussion to take placeat some point this spring. The localWCC is very interested in recruitingmore members to be active in this com-mittee.The Chair Elect: The Chair-Elect at-tended the leadership development in-stitute in Dallas and made someimportant connections. We ran a verysuccessful January monthly meeting andreceived great feedback from Dr. Alli-son Campbell about her experiences. Weare tentatively planning a long rangeplanning meeting in the June timeframe. Stay tuned for more information.➢ I am in contact with tonight’s speaker
and Novartis regarding reschedulingthe dinner and lecture. Current target
is February 23, 2017.➢ The Dallas Leadership conference
was a great experience.Budget Committee: James Piper➢No changes from the Jan 2017
budget proposal were made. ➢ The proposed budget is an $11K
deficit budget. There is enough cashin the operating fund from 2016 tocover the deficit budget.
➢With an active fund raising commit-tee planning a golf tournament – willhave a positive impact on the deficitbudget.
➢ The FY2017 budget was approvedunanimously by voice vote.
Awards: Mukund Chorghade➢ The NESACS Fellows committee is
looking for good quality candidatesfrom both academia and industry.Requirements have been circulatedto the Board. The committee willpre-screen potential candidates forboth scientific contributions andACS activities at both the Nationaland Local levels.
➢ The Committee will help to coordi-nate nomination papers and support-ing documents.
Membership: Brian D’Amico➢We now have a NESACS email ad-
dress: [email protected]• This gives us an official looking
email address to use to contact new
members. It’s still best to contact mevia my personal email for a moretimely response.
I’m working on rewriting the newmember letters to be sent out electroni-cally, based on the ones that were sentout by mail by the previous chair.
I am looking into making revisionsto the volunteer brochure, at the sugges-tion of Michael Singer, as a way of en-couraging new members to get involvedin the section.
Ideally we could produce versionsboth for printing as a tri-fold brochure,as well as one that displays well elec-tronically.
If no one is opposed to this beingupdated, I will be reaching out to thevarious committees in the previousbrochure to seek out updated statements.If anyone has any feedback or items forinclusion, feel free to reach out to me. Public Relations: Jack DriscollA. STEM Journey:
For January & February most ofour time is spent on STEM Journey. Wemet with the Sandwich School commit-tee on Feb. 1 and made a 25-minutepresentation on STEM Journey.
They are very pleased to haveSTEM Journey at Sandwich HighSchool. We will be interviewed by CapeCod communications on Feb. 8 for theSunday morning Journal which will beheard on 99.9, 104 and 104.7 FM. Wewere also interviewed by the SandwichChamber of Commerce last week aboutPID analyzers and STEM Journey.
We continue to add exhibitors likethe Rhode Island Section of the ACS,NEACT etc. Dr. Luke Roberson willwear his NASA zero G uniform sincethe ACS President-elect will wear hiseagle scout uniform.
We will have a number of Ex-hibitors outside from MA including Liq-uid Robotics (CA based), Exxon Mobil(NJ) STEM exhibit, Oceans Wide(Maine), Teledyne Marine (CA) etc.
We have seven local colleges in-cluding Suffolk University, Ben FranklinInstitute of Technology, Mass Maritine,Cape Cod Community College, BristolCommunity College, and NortheasternUniversity. We expect to have 12-15college admissions tables at our mini-
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A day-long symposium focusing on: Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Synthesis, and Methodology
Eminent scientists from industry and academia will deliver plenary lectures.
Speakers:
Fraser Stoddart, Nobel Laureate – Northwestern University Stephen L. Buchwald - MIT
Sabine Hadida - Vertex Gary Molander – U Penn
Jeremy Jenkins – Novartis Timothy Guzi – Blueprint Medicines
Plus: Vendor Exhibition Hall and Networking reception
Symposium registration fee: $ 50.00 Students: $ 25
On-line registration and payment: http://www.fourwav.es/view/349/registration/ : Alternatively send your full contact information and a check for $50 made payable to NESACS care of Dr. Ashish Saha, Treasurer, 67
Bow Street, Arlington, MA 02474 For additional details, please contact any of the Organizing Committee:
Raj Rajur, ([email protected]); Mark Ashwell, ([email protected]); Dan Elbaum, ([email protected]); Andrew Scholte, ([email protected]); Jeremy Green ([email protected]); Blaise Lippa ([email protected]); Anne Mai Wasserman ([email protected]); Neal Green ([email protected]), Mukund Chorghade, ([email protected]); Alan Rigby, (mailto:[email protected])
Directions to Royal Sonesta Hotel: Use the following address for your GPS: 40 Edwin H Land Blvd, Cambridge, MA 02142: Ph:(617) 806-4200
The Sixth Annual Advances in Chemical Sciences Symposium
Location: Royal Sonesta Hotel Cambridge, MA
Date: May 5th, 2017
6th ANNUAL ADVANCES IN CHEMICAL SCIENCES
Supporting Organizations ACS, NESACS, RSC_US and
IUPAC
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college fair. This will be a great event. B. Family Science Days- Feb. 18-19,2017 at Hynes Convention Center
We will have a NESACS table atAAAS. This is a free event and we ex-pect ACS President Allison Campbelland past ACS President BassamShakashri to drop by.
At AAAS In 2013, there were be-tween 3,000-4,000 people in attendance.If you are in the area drop by with yourkids. If you are interested in volunteer-ing, please contact Jennifer [email protected]. ChemLuminary AwardsWe are working on three ChemLumi-nary Awards:• STEM Journey III• Climate Science• Wicked Cool autumn Festival for
National chemistry week
Special CommitteesFundraising: Brian ChamberlainThe NESACS Scramble Golf Tourna-ment fundraiser is tentatively scheduledfor Monday, Aug. 14th at WedgewoodPines Country Club in Stow, MA.
The fundraising committee is re-viewing and negotiating the pricing andterms of the contract. The committee isplanning to have the details finalized intime to include an announcement in theApril issue of The Nucleus. Government Relations: D. Lewis➢ The Northeastern Section Younger
Chemists (NSYCC) are taking aleading role in government affairswith congressional visits planned toRepresentatives Mike Capuano andKatherine Clark and an upcomingmixer featuring science policy. Abrief planning meeting will be heldimmediately after the FebruaryBoard meeting.
➢ACS has published a policy state-ment on the Presidential ExecutiveOrder: “Protecting the Nation fromForeign Terrorist Entry into theUnited States” that was emailed to allmembers by NESACS and ACS andpublished on the NESACS web site.
➢AAAS has announced an event De-
fending Science and Scientific In-tegrity in the Age of Trump
Date: Saturday, February 18Time: 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.Location: Sheraton Boston Hotel (BackBay A Room), 39 Dalton St., Boston,MA 02199The panel will be moderated by AndrewRosenberg, director, Center for Scienceand Democracy at UCS. Confirmedpanelists include:• Lewis Branscomb, visiting scholar,
School of Global Policy & Strategy,University of California San Diego
• Gretchen Goldman, research director,Center for Science and Democracy atUCS
• John Holdren, former assistant to thepresident on science and technology
• Jane Lubchenco, university distin-guished professor, Oregon State Uni-versity
• Amy Luers, director, climate change,Skoll Global Threats Fund
• This event is open. Registration atAAAS is not required.
NERM: M. Hoffman➢Northeast Regional Meetings
(NERM) will not be held in 2017 or2018 due to a lack of local sectionswilling to serve as hosts in thoseyears. The next annual meeting ofthe NERACS Board will take placeat noon on Tuesday, August 22, 2017,in Washington, DC, on the occasionof the ACS national meeting.
➢ The Atlantic Basin Conference onChemistry (ABCChem) will takeplace on January 24-27, 2018, at theIberostar Resort in Cancun, Mexico.This new conference, which will bein symmetry with and complemen-tary to PacifiChem, is a collaborativeeffort with the sister societies of theACS around the Atlantic Basin re-gion. These include the EuropeanAssociation for Chemical and Mo-lecular Sciences (EuCheMS), Mexi-can Chemical Society (SQM),Canadian Society for Chemistry(CSC), Brazilian Chemical Society(SBQ), Federation of African Soci-eties of Chemistry (FASC), LatinAmerican Federation of ChemicalAssociations (FLAQ), and the SouthAfrican Chemical Institute (SACI).
Project Seed: J. Sacher Applications have been submitted for 7students this summer as part of ProjectSEED. Stonehill College (Easton, MA)• Louis Liotta (2)• Marilena Hall (1)
Dartmouth (Hanover, NH)• Ivan Aprahamian (1)• Chenfeng Ke (1)
Broad Institute (Cambridge, MA)• Carol Mulrooney (1)• Joshua Sacher (1)
The stipend of $2,500 per student($17,500 total) will be split betweenNESACS and the national ProjectSEED program ($8,750 each).Project SEED future goals:• Contact school districts, guidance
counsellors, and chemistry teachers inlocal school districts to make themaware of the program and to helpidentify applicants. (Feb)
• Plan enrichment activities for the stu-dents as a group [potential difficultydue to long distance travel]. (Apr-Jun)
• Develop contacts within industry andencourage industry involvement inProject SEED (May-Nov)
Women’s Chemist Committee: C.Mulrooney➢ The Women Chemists Lunch with
Allison Campbell was held during theday of the NESACS January Meet-ing. It took place at Catalyst Restau-rant as an informal gathering with 10participants who were able to intro-duce themselves and get to know our2017 ACS President. The lunch wasenthusiastically received and wewould like to host more gatherings ofthis type with future female speakersat monthly meetings, to enable morewomen chemists to connect withspeakers and with each other.
➢ I would like to note that Allison gavevery positive feedback for the Janu-ary 12 events, expressed her appreci-ation of us as hosts, and said that itwas a very good start to her tenure asACS President. Thank you to all in-volved in planning and participat-ing on this day!
➢ From January 27-29 I attended the
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ments of hydrocarbons in the marineboundary layer and the ocean mixedlayer. Subsequently he spent the betterpart (the very best part) of a decade inthe laboratory of Jim Anderson at Har-vard, where he honed his skills as achemical physicist focused on combin-ing theory with measurements of ele-mentary radical-molecule reactionkinetics over a wide pressure and tem-perature range to explore and explainthe factors controlling reaction barrierheights and overall reactivity in gas-phase radical-molecule reactions impor-tant to atmospheric chemistry. At CMUhe turned his attention to organic partic-ulate matter in the atmosphere, againcombining theory and experiments toconsider the coupled thermodynamicsof phase partitioning and oxidationchemistry through the full life cycle oforganic material in the atmosphere. Hehas shown that organics material is verydynamic, with compounds condensingto and evaporating from the condensedphase frequently during their roughlyone-week residence time in the atmos-phere, all the while undergoing oxida-tion chemistry, especially in thegas-phase via OH-radical attack. Mostrecently, he joined the CLOUD consor-tium at CERN to focus on the role thatgas-phase organic oxidation chemistryplays during new-particle formation inthe atmosphere. The poorly understoodrole of new-particle formation in climate
forcing is one of the leading uncertain-ties in the climate system.
Donahue is a Fellow of the Ameri-can Geophysical Union, past local(Pittsburgh) section president of theAmerican Chemical Society, past na-tional board member of the AmericanAssociation for Aerosol Research, editorof Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics,associate editor of the Journal of Geo-physical Research, Atmospheres, andserves on the editorial board of the Jour-nal of Aerosol Science. He has pub-lished more than 210 peer-reviewedjournal articles, with more than 12,000total citations and an h-index of 59. Hehas four papers in Science, four in Na-ture, and six in PNAS. u
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ent regions (location and altitude) of theatmosphere. Recently we have foundthat a fascinating and relatively exoticcombination of minor but important ox-idation pathways dominates new-particleformation associated with organic com-pounds. The key players are organoper-oxy radicals, some of which engage inrapid “auto-oxidation” reactions withinseconds to produce highly oxidizedproducts in a single generation (definedas progression from a long-lived precur-sor to a long-lived product compound).Some highly-oxidized peroxy radicalscombine with each other to produce co-valently bound products which, by dintof their large number of polar functionalgroups and large carbon number, have asufficiently high gas-phase supersatura-tion to overcome the free energy barrierto nucleation. The reactions, nucleationrates, and subsequent growth rates de-pend sensibly on temperature, revealinga mechanism that may have dominatednew-particle formation during the pre-industrial epoch. u
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Candidatesfor ElectionChair- Elect
Raj (SB) RajurAndrew Scholte
SecretaryMichael Singer
Trustee Ruth TannerRobert Lichter
AuditorPatrick Gordon
Councilor / Alternate Councilor Michael P. FilosaPam MabroukMorton Z. HoffmanMatthew M. JacobsenPatrick M. GordonCarol MulrooneyRobert LichterRaymond E. BorgAjay PurohitJune LumSonja Strah-PleynetMukund S. ChorghadeRaj (SB) RajurAnna SromekAndrew ScholteSofia Santos
Director-at-Large Ralph ScannellJens BreffkeJohn M. BurkeJim Piper
Nominating Committee Sonja Strah-PleynetCaitlyn MillsThomas R. Gilbert
Richards Award Committee Jerry JasinskiRavi SharmaMalika Jeffries-ELDoris Lewis
Esselen Award Committee Prakash RaiRobert HansonJohn MacorJeffrey Steinfeld
Petition Candidates: “Any groupcomprising 2 per cent or more ofthe Northeastern Section may nom-inate candidates…” See NESACSwebsite for details. u
Neil Donahue attacks on the famous RialtoStreet Climb, one of Pittsburgh’s toughest, witha grade of 25%. http://www.bicycling.com/rac-ing/dirty-dozen/dirty-dozen-2015-climbing-the-steepest-street-in-the-us-for-fun
ACS Leadership Institute and partic-ipated in the following workshops:Engaging Colleagues in Dialog, En-gaging and Motivation Volunteers,and Planning Successful Activities. Icame out of these workshops with alot of ideas and resources to supportWCC events this year. Mindy and Ialso met members of local sectionsin Eastern New York, RhodeIsland, and Connecticut Valley, andwould like to co-sponsor an eventwith them this summer.
➢An IPG grant proposal titled: TheNESACS Multi-Generational Men-torship Initiative was submitted incollaboration with the YCC andSCC. We will be planning multipleevents through 2017 and 2018around the theme of mentorship.
YCC: C. Rawlins1. Chemistry Supplies Donation Out-
reach with UMSS and NESTSa. Catie Rawlins (NEU), Meredith
Ward (UMB), Clifford Ellstrom(UMB), and Amanda Vo (BU) wereall on a Career Panel at Urban Sci-ence Academy January 17th as a partof their Science Week. We visited thechemistry classroom, met the stu-dents, and delivered the supplies do-nated by the NSYCC. Some of thepanelists served as judges for theirScience Fair as well.
b. Next visit to East Boston HighSchool planned for February 17th(tentative)
c. Keeping this as an ongoing event/collaboration
2. Submitted IPG Grant Jan 31st forYCC, WCC, and SCC collaborativeactivities!
a. “The NESACS Multi-GenerationalMentorship Initiative”
b. Made possible thanks to Carol Mul-rooney’s hard work. Thank you toMort and Lee for feedback.
3. Winter Science Policy Mixer withGovt. Affairs Committee
a. February 13th at 6 PM - LandsdownePub
b. Decided to spin our usual WinterMixer into a Science Policy event tocapitalize on this surge of youngerchemists interest in policy
c. All ages welcome!4. Northeastern Student Chemistry Re-
search Conferencea. April 8th at Harvard University,
Mallinckrodt Buildingi. Call for abstracts sent out - March
8th deadlineii. Plan to charge $10 for registration
again - waiting to determine spaceconstraints before accepting all sub-missions
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Looking for seminars in the Boston area?
Check out the NESACS Calendar
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Check the NESACS home pagefor late Calendar additions:http://www.NESACS.orgNote also the Chemistry Department webpages for travel directions and updates.These include:http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/chemistry/s
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April 3Prof. Eric Jacobsen (Harvard)“Anion-Binding Catalysis.”Boston University, Metcalf, Rm 113 4:30 pm
April 4Prof. Kristina Varga (Univ. of New Hampshire)Univ. of New Hampshire, Parsons N10411:10 amProf. Ronald Raines (U. Wisconsin-Madison)“Diazo Compounds: Versatile Tools forChemical Biology.”Tufts, Pearson, Rm. P106 4:30 pm
April 5Prof. Anne Gershenson (UMass Amherst)WPI, Gateway Park 1002 12:00 NoonProf. Georg Jander (Cornell)“Molecular and Chemical Ecology of Plant-Insect Interactions.”Northeastern, 129 Hurtig Hall 12:00 noon
April 6Prof. Eiichi Nakamura (University of Tokyo)MIT, Room 6-120 4:00 pm
April 7Prof. Eiichi Nakamura (University of Tokyo)MIT, Room 6-120 4:00 pm
April 11Prof. Craig Ogle (U. North Carolina-Charlotte)Univ. of New Hampshire, Parsons N10411:10 amProf. Yu Zhu (University of Akron)“Molecular Packing of π-Conjugated SmallMolecules and Polymers through FusedHydrogen Bond-mediated Self-assembly.”Tufts, Pearson, Rm. P106 4:30 pmProf. Don Tilley (UCal-Berkeley)Boston College, Merkert 130 4:00 pm
April 12Prof. Kenichi Yokoyama (Duke)Boston University, Metcalf, Rm 113 4:30 pmProf. Lynmarie Thompson (UMass-Amherst)WPI, Gateway Park 1002 12:00 NoonProf. David Crich (Wayne State)“Development of New Methods forDiastereoselective Glycosidic Bond Formation.”Northeastern, 129 Hurtig Hall 12:00 noon
April 13Prof. Craig Ogle (U. North Carolina-Charlotte)“Development and Applications of aBioconjugation Tool Kit.”Tufts, Pearson, Rm. P106 4:30 pmProf. Regan Thomson (Northwestern)MIT, Room 6-120 4:00 pm
April 18Prof. Garret Miyake (U. Colorado-Boulder)Brandeis, Gerstenzang 121 4:00 pmProf. Shiladitya Sengupta (Brigham andWomen’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School)Tufts University, Pearson, Rm. P1064:30 pm
April 19Prof. Partha Basu (Indiana University-PurdueUniversity)“Development of Chemistry and ChemicalBiology.”Northeastern, 129 Hurtig Hall 12:00 noon
April 24Prof. George Makhatadze (RPI)Brandeis, Gerstenzang 121 4:00 pm
April 25Prof. Jie He (University of Connecticut)Brandeis, Gerstenzang 121 4:00 pmProf. Mark Gandelman (Technion-Israel Instituteof Technology)“New Bonding and Reactivity: Chemistry of N-Cations and N-Radicals.”Boston College, Merkert 127 4:00 pm
April 26Prof. Mark Gandelman (Technion-Israel Instituteof Technology)Brandeis, Gerstenzang 121 TBA
April 28Prof. Andrew Bocarsly (Princeton)Boston College, Merkert 130 4:00 pm
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