Our chapter has pledged its commitment to our student members to guide them to improve as future professionals and productive social entities. While majorly composed by biology students, the ACS Student Chapter at the University of Puerto Rico at Aguadilla (ACS UPRAg) excels at chemistry. We are biologists that love chemistry. We celebrated the 2014 International Year of Crystallography and just like carbon turns into diamonds, an organized crystalline structure, when exposed to pressure and heat, our members, with the help of ACS UPRAg as a catalyst, will be transformed into leaders in society and mentors for next generations. Our success as an Outstanding Chapter comes from the hard work, motivation, and dedication of our active members. It is their enthusiasm, creativity and versatility that, year by year enhances the Chapter’s formation into a well organized diamond.<br/>One of our main goals as a student chapter is to transform people’s lives with the power of chemistry. We work for our members but specially, we work for our community. From teaching children about the exciting world of science and experiments to bringing joy to the elderly by spending quality time with them, ACS UPRAg encompasses the whole community to help improve their lives. By improving our community lifestyle, we ensure an interaction with the local and college community. An example of our commitment with the community is the celebration of our first Health Fair. The Health Fair is for the open community and we’ll have the participation of several health organization. ACS UPRAg is also part of the first Analytical Chemistry and Green Chemistry Symposium organization committee in which our members have the opportunity to develop presentation skills.<br/>We will continue working with our members to improve their formation as diamonds for society while becoming leaders in our community.

Forging leaders: Diamonds for society

249th National Meeting (2015)

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