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The American Chemical Society's Committee on Community Activities honors the service of 27 ACS members with a 2024 Outreach Volunteer of the Year Award . These volunteers from local sections and international chemical sciences chapters are recognized for their outstanding science outreach efforts. Every year, one of these awardees is also named Global Outreach Volunteer of the Year. The recipient of the 2024 global award, who has conducted outreach with their local section for over 30 years, has chosen to remain anonymous. "This year's global award recipient has demonstrated inexhaustible enthusiasm for inspiring and encouraging the next generation of chemists, and for easing the apprehension and mystery that many people associate with chemistry," Lori Stepan, chair of the ACS Committee on Community Activities, states in an email. The rest of this year's local section and international chemical sciences chapter Outreach Volunteer of the Year awardees are Betty Jo Chitester of
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