Sanda Sun is an organic chemistry professor at Irvine Valley College as well as a food research chemist consultant for various food companies such as ConAgra and Senomyx. Sanda represents Orange County, California, as an ACS Councilor since 2008. She is a member of Committee on Community Activities (CCA) and a liaison to Committee on Public Relations and Communications (CPRC). Sanda is also a member of the Education Committee for her local section and is in charge of a chemistry examination in which top local high school students compete annually.Born in Myanmar, at thirteen she immigrated with her family to Boston. Sanda achieved both her undergraduate and graduate studies at Boston University. However, when she was only a thesis short of her PhD, Sanda fell really ill and decided to get a temporary job to pay for her mounting hospital bills. She relocated to southern California, where she obtained a position as a chemist for ConAgra Foods (formally Hunt-Wesson). She remained with ConAgra foods for 25 years until the company moved to Omaha in 2004. The process of donating old instruments to local colleges as she closed down the analytical laboratory led her to begin teaching general and organic chemistry. Sanda and her students have organized numerous outreach programs, performing demonstrations and hands-on experiments with elementary school children in celebration of National Chemistry Week and Chemist Celebrate Earth Day.

Sanda Sun:  Irvine Valley College

248th National Meeting (2014)

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