WELCOME TO THE MINNESOTA LOCAL ACS SECTION WEBSITE
The Minnesota Local Section (#513) of the American Chemical society serves chemists, chemical engineers, educators, and the general public in Minnesota and Western Wisconsin.
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UPCOMING MEETING
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ACTIVITY HIGHLIGHT
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OTHER NEWS
Shaping the Future of Chemistry
The new Education Chair for MN ACS, Chuck Wheeler Handlon, would like to encourage all members to consider engaging with teachers and students to promote chemistry STEM careers and provide the expertise and knowledge of the applications of chemistry in many science and engineering fields. There is a free tool that can be used to facilitate this engagement called Future Forward (http://www.futureforward.org/). Please contact Chuck for more information.
Chemistry Shorts
Chemistry Shorts is a new series of brief films that spotlight innovative ways that chemists and chemical engineers are working to solve important problems and create new opportunities. Each film is accompanied by a lesson plan that offers suggestions on how to integrate it into the classroom. It is available at https://chemistryshorts.org, or on YouTube and Twitter at https://www.youtube.com/c/chemistryshorts and https://twitter.com/chemistryshorts.
NOTICE ON CORONAVIRUS
To stay on top of recent developments on the coronavirus pandemic, check out the following websites provided by ACS National:
How ACS is adapting to the coronavirus pandemic http://cen.acs.org/acs-news/comment/ACS-adapting-coronavirus-pandemic/98/i13
ACS efforts and resources on COVID-19 http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/covid-19.html
Chemistry in coronavirus research: a free to read collection from the ACS https://axial.acs.org/2020/02/03/coronavirus-research/