Congratulations to the DIC members who received ACS national awards in 2021!
ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry
Kenneth D. Karlin, Johns Hopkins University
ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution
sponsored by Research Corporation for Science Advancement
Daniel Rabinovich, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry
sponsored by Millipore Sigma
Kristin Bowman-James, University of Kansas
ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry
sponsored by Dow
Melanie S. Sanford, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Alfred Bader Award in Bioinorganic or Bioorganic Chemistry
sponsored by the Alfred R. Bader Fund and the George and Christine Sosnovsky Endowment Fund
Amy C. Rosenzweig, Northwestern University
F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry
sponsored by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund
Marinella Mazzanti, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal
sponsored by the Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal Endowment
Carol J. Burns, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator
sponsored by the Gray Award Endowment
Smaranda C. Marinescu, University of Southern California
Frederick Hawthorne Award in Main Group Inorganic Chemistry
sponsored by the M. Frederick Hawthorne Award Endowment
Karl O. Christe, University of Southern California
Gabor A. Somorjai Award for Creative Research in Catalysis
sponsored by the Gabor A. & Judith K. Somorjai Endowment Fund
Paul J. Chirik, Princeton University
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 students in inorganic chemistry and to encourage further study in the field. Every ACS Certified Department is eligible to nominate one student to receive this award. The American Chemical Society Division of Inorganic Chemistry established this award in 2009.
Please direct your inquiries regarding this award directly to Professor Sheila Smith (sheilars@umich.edu).
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 be presented, either live or on-demand.
As soon as we learn more details about the virtual format and other scheduling details, we will forward those to you.
Stay Healthy and Safe!
Julie Kovacs, Professor and Chair, DIC
Department of Chemistry
University of Washington
Jeffrey J. Rack
Secretary for Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
University of New Mexico
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.
Because in the midst of it all, as was pointed out in a recent VIPEr BITES blog by Betsy Jamieson:
I get by with a little help from my friends
Mm, gonna try with a little help from my friends. . . .
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 will occur on Monday evening. If those of you who were originally scheduled to run a symposium in Philly, would like to re-schedule for a future meeting, we suggest that you re-apply using the appropriate form on the DIC Symposia Requests page.
I’m guessing that those who have never dealt with a crisis of this magnitude, are having a hard time dealing with the anxiety, fear, and stress associated with the chaos that has become our new normal . Having dealt with a health crisis of my own a number of years ago, I want to remind you of the fact that we will get through this, we are all in this together, and we will come out of this with a bigger appreciation for all of the wonderful things that life has to offer!
Take care everyone. Stay healthy!
Julie Kovacs, Chair, ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry
Congratulations to Richard Brutchey, the 2020 recipient of the Inorganic Nanoscience Award!
Please check the website linked below for updates regarding the Philly ACS meeting
Congratulations to 2020 recipient of the Inorganic Lectureship, Eric Shelter! Way to go Eric!!
Imagine all of this year’s ACS inorganic awardees in one place! Don’t miss it!
ACS Awards in Inorganic Chemistry Plenary SessionJulie Kovacs, Presider and Organizer; S. A. Koch, N. S. Radu, Organizers
Monday Morning March 23, 2020 Section A Pennsylvania Convention Center Michael A Nutter Theatre
8:30 AM F. Albert Cotton Award in Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by the F. Albert Cotton Endowment Fund. Synthetic Strategies to Produce Transition Metal Complexes Containing Reactive Metal-Ligand Multiple Bonds. Daniel J. Mindiola
9:00 ACS Award in Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by MilliporeSigma. Colors and Shapes: Golden Inorganic Nanocrystals. Cathy J. Murphy
9:30 ACS Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Inorganic Chemistry sponsored by Strem Chemicals, Inc. On Being A Quantum Inorganic Chemist: The Importance of Bonding In and Within Inorganic Chemistry. Bruce E. Bursten
10:00 ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in Chemical Sciences. Infectiously Inorganic: Metallocentric And Mentoring-Centric View of Advancing Bioinorganic Chemistry at the Host-Pathogen Interface. Kathy J. Franz
10:30 Intermission.
10:45 Harry Gray Award for Creative Work in Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator sponsored by the Gray Award Endowment. Molecular Chemistry of Halide Perovskites. Hemamala Karunadasa
11:15 ACS Award in the Chemistry of Materials sponsored by DuPont. Halide Perovskites: Unprecedented Opportunities (and Some Challenges) for semiconductor Design and Application. David B. Mitzi
11:45 ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry sponsored by Dow. C-H Functionalizations Enabled by Boron Reagents and Transition Metal Complexes. Mitch R. Smith
Congratulations to Justin Wilson for being selected as the 2019 Emerging Investigator in Bioinorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Lecturer, sponsored by Jonathan L. Sessler
