Over a 30+ year career I have focused on service to my community and to ACS. Most of my career has been at Texas A&M University at Galveston (TAMUG), a branch campus of TAMU, located on a small island adjacent to Galveston Island. It is a full 4 year university but all of its degree programs are marine oriented. I have strived to make chemistry more interesting and accessible to the marine biology and oceanography students. In fact I facilitate TAMUG's ability to offer an ACS accredited chemistry minor by virtue of a cooperative arrangement with the chemistry department at our main campus in College Station. In this talk I will talk about engaging non-chemistry students, revisit the highs and lows of my service, some forays into research with undergraduates and peers, and the role of ACS in the career of a chemist on a campus with no chemistry department.

Melanie J. Lesko: Mixing organic chemistry and water!

244th National Meeting (2012)

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