The University of Kansas (KU) American Chemical Society Student Chapter, KU Chemistry Club, is dedicated to community outreach and member enrichment through our bi-weekly meetings and volunteering events. As a diverse, science-based student organization, KU Chemistry Club has worked extensively to serve all of its members. We have accomplished this by hosting meetings and other events designed to appeal to a wide variety of science majors and tracks, including a graduate student discussion panel, and guest speakers with extensive experience in academia and industry. The KU Chemistry Club officers’ sensitivity to member feedback produced an invited lecture on the chemistry of cooking, and multiple engagements with the current Chancellor of the University of Kansas, who majored in chemistry as an undergraduate. As our involvement within the Lawrence community has grown, KU Chemistry Club has added a Development Chair to create and integrate new, high-quality science demonstrations into our volunteering events. In tandem with this, we have dedicated time to teaching members how to run all our demonstrations, with a particular focus on how to do so safely. KU Chemistry Club has stayed financially self-sufficient with our annual goggle and notebook sale, supplying over 700 undergraduate students with high-quality materials for the laboratory courses in which they enroll. Proceeds from these sales go directly to fund outreach events, including our capstone event, the annual Carnival of Chemistry, which serves nearly 1000 residents of our college town of Lawrence and the surrounding communities. The increased effectiveness of our scientific outreach and member enrichment during the past year has invigorated KU Chemistry Club towards investing in fellow members, our campus, and the broader community, and sharing the fun and societal significance of the chemical sciences.

University of Kansas Chemistry Club: Investing in our members, our campus, our community

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