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The 37th Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM 2010) of the American Chemical Society will take place on June 2-5, 2010. It will be hosted by the Northern New York section of the ACS, and held in Potsdam, NY on the SUNY Potsdam campus. Our theme is "Chemistry for a Sustainable World." Please join us!
Register by May 21st to receive the "early bird" rate. The final date for abstract submission has been extended until April 30.
Nominations for most regional awards are due by April 15th - be sure to nominate someone from your local section!
Conference outline
- Wednesday, June 2nd: 6pm plenary address by Dr. Catherine Hunt, followed by the opening reception and main poster session.
- Thursday, June 3rd: Plenary address by Prof. Vicki Colvin, then all-day technical sessions, vendor exhibition, career events. Evening plenary with Prof. Paul Anastas, followed by a free performance of a comedy musical.
- Friday, June 4th: ACS Governance breakfast, then all-day technical sessions & vendor exhibition. Evening awards banquet, then a concert by Crane faculty.
- Saturday, June 5th: Events for K-12 teachers and their students, leadership training, and a visit to the Sunfeather Soap factory.
Plenary speakers
- Prof. Paul Anastas, head of Research at EPA, also professor of chemistry at Yale University, plans to attend and give a keynote address on green chemistry.
- Prof. Vicki Colvin, Rice University, will speak on Eco-responsible Nanotechnology: Safety by Design.
- Dr. Catherine T. Hunt, 2007 ACS president and Director of Technology Collaboration Development, Dow Chemical Company.
Preliminary program
Come and join us at NERM 2010 for these symposia:
General symposia
- Analytical chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Ewa Pater, SUNY Plattsburgh.
- Environmental chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Ning Gao, St. Lawrence University.
- Inorganic chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Matthew Maye, Syracuse University.
- Organic chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Steven T. Diver, SUNY Buffalo, and Prof. Fehmi Damkaci, SUNY Oswego.
- Physical chemistry (oral & poster), organized by Prof. Nikolay Dimitrov, SUNY Binghamton.
- General papers (oral) covering other topics, organized by Prof. Matthew Skeels, St. Lawrence University.
- General posters covering other topics, organized by Prof. Clifford Rossiter, SUNY Potsdam.
- Undergraduate and graduate student poster session, organized by Dr. Silvana Andreescu and Dr. Andrea Ferro, both of Clarkson University.
Special symposia
- Smart polymer materials & hybrid systems, organized by Prof. Sergiy Minko, Clarkson University.
- Novel materials and nanomaterials for energy conversion, organized by Prof. Oumarou Savadogo, École Polytechnique de Montréal.
- Nanotechnology & the environment, organized by Prof. Dan Goia and Prof. Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University.
- Analytical chemistry for emerging contaminants in the environment, organized by Prof. Diana S. Aga, SUNY Buffalo.
- New trends in chromatography, organized by Dr. Yong Guo, Johnson & Johnson, Raritan, NJ.
- Nanotechnology: Emerging analytical/bioanalytical & medical applications, organized by Prof. Chuan-Jian Zhong, SUNY Binghamton.
- Bioelectronics and biosensors, organized by Prof. Evgeny Katz, Clarkson University.
- Scanning probe microscopy in modern nanotechnology, organized by Prof. Igor Sokolov, Clarkson University.
- Metals in living systems, organized by Prof. Wolff M. Kirsch, MD, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA.
- Metal ions and metalloproteins, organized by Prof. Fadi Bou-Abdallah, SUNY Potsdam
- Metal ion complexes in biological imaging, organized by Prof. Janet Morrow, SUNY Buffalo.
- Oxidative stress and antioxidants: diagnosis and therapy, organized by Prof. Silvana Andreescu, Clarkson University.
- Biology and physiology of stem cells in the CNS, organized by Prof. Margot Mayer-Pröschel, University of Rochester.
- Detection of protein biomarkers for medical applications, organized by Prof. Jim Rusling, University of Connecticut.
- Biochemistry and biophysics of proteins and membranes, organized by Prof. Edward Moczydlowski, Clarkson University
- Organometallics and main group chemistry, organized by Prof. James Spencer, Syracuse University
- Synthetic organic chemistry: the next generation, organized by Prof. Hélène Lebel, University of Montreal
- Cope Scholar Symposium honoring John A. Porco, Jr., organized by Prof. Corey Stephenson, Boston University.
- Green chemistry in industry for a sustainable world, organized by Dr. Berkeley "Buzz" Cue, BWC Pharma Consulting, LLC & the Green Chemistry Institute Pharmaceutical Roundtable.
- The chemistry of natural products, organized by Prof. José L. Giner, SUNY-ESF
- Biofuel combustion for residential and commercial space heating, organized by Prof. Philip Hopke, Clarkson University and Ellen Burkhard, Ph.D, NYSERDA.
- Chemistry and the war against cancer, organized by Dr. Vinay Likhite, Baroda Cancer Research
- Drug development and design, organized by Dr. Jason Herr, Albany Molecular
- Chemical Education in the Northeast: looking back and projecting forward, organized by Prof. Julianne Smist, Springfield College.
- K-12 education, organized by Dr. Dana Barry, Clarkson University. This Saturday session is especially suitable for high school chemistry teachers.
Please contact Prof. Martin Walker (conference chair), Prof. Maria Hepel (program chair) or Prof. Devon Shipp (exhibition chair) for more information.
