Fall 2021, Spring 2022 Periodic TableTalks Schedule

By Ana de Bettencourt-Dias | April 27, 2021
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The schedule for the Periodic TableTalks for the fall 2021, spring 2022 is: 9/15/2021               Sustainable Energy and the Environment Sarah Thoi (Johns Hopkins U) ‘Harnessing the Power of Molecular Chemistry for Sustainable Electrochemical Storage’ Amy Prieto (Colorado State U)   10/20/2021             Organometallic Chemistry 11/17/2021              Solid State Chemistry Julia Zaikina (Iowa…

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2021 Chemistry of Materials Lectureship

By Ana de Bettencourt-Dias | June 9, 2021
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          Congratulations to graduate student Shruti Hariyani and her advisor Jakoah Brgoch (both at the University of Houston) for being this year’s recipients of the Chemistry of Materials Lectureship for their paper ‘Local Structure Distortion Induced Broad Band Emission in the All-Inorganic BaScO2F:Eu2+’. This award is sponsored by our Division of…

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DIC Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry nominations

By Joanne Stewart, 2020 DIC webmaster | July 7, 2020

The nomination deadline for the 2020 ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry Undergraduate Award in Inorganic Chemistry has been extended to July 31. You can check to see if your school has nominated a student at https://www.ionicviper.org/2020dicaward. You can nominate a student on the webform at https://www.ionicviper.org/dicaward. This award is intended to recognize achievement by undergraduate…

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Fall 2020 National ACS Meeting will be completely virtual

By Joanne Stewart, 2020 DIC webmaster | June 10, 2020

Dear Members of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry, The ACS has decided to transition the Fall 2020 National Meeting to a completely virtual meeting. There will be no physical events associated with the meeting held in San Francisco. The virtual meeting will take place from August 17–20, 2020. While additional details will be forthcoming, ACS has selected virtual tools so that all accepted oral and poster abstracts will…

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Teaching inorganic chemistry remotely

By Joanne Stewart, 2020 DIC webmaster | March 31, 2020
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This is a reminder of all of the great inorganic chemistry teaching resources on the VIPEr website. Or for answers to real-time questions (“Does anyone have data for the Job’s method lab?”), consider joining the VIPErPit on Discord, where a hearty group of inorganic chemists are solving one another’s remote teaching challenges in real time.…

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Checking in with Inorganic Folks!

By Julie Kovacs, 2020 ACS-DIC chair | March 28, 2020

I wanted to both check in with everyone, and provide an update re: the San Francisco ACS meeting. At this point, we are proceeding as if the San Francisco meeting will occur, until we hear otherwise. The Plenary Awards session originally scheduled for Philly will occur on Monday morning in San Francisco. The Awards banquet…

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