250th ACS National Meeting

“Innovation From Discovery To Application” will be the theme in Boston this August. A plenary session on that topic will be held on Sunday, Aug. 16, from 3 to 5 PM and will feature Paula Hammond from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Peter Schultz from Scripps Research Institute California, and Karen Wooley from Texas A&M University. Many notable symposia are scheduled, including “Small Splash, Big Waves: Research at Primarily Undergraduate Institutions” and “Innovation in Materials for Emerging Uses.” ACS President Diane Grob Schmidt will host 29 technical divisions and nine committees in original programming over 836 half-day oral sessions and 134 poster sessions, including Sci-Mix. More than 9,200 papers and nearly 3,000 posters will be presented at the meeting. In concert with the meeting theme, Schmidt will sponsor several presidential events. On Sunday, Aug. 16, “National Science Foundation’s Centers for Chemical Innovation” highlights the research at that institution and features the ...