Catawba College ACS chapter has made an exciting move towards green chemistry through outreach. This academic year kicked off with a sustainability social following opening convocation by providing students with an opportunity to participate in environmentally friendly hands on activities. Some of these included: making your own chap stick, potting your own succulent, and naturally dying friendship bracelets. Following this successful event, our ACS chapter focused its attention on National Chemistry Week with the theme “Chemistry is Out of this World”. Our ultimate aim for events such as this is to ensure that all students on campus have the opportunity to be aware and involved in a more positive lifestyle change toward environmental awareness and sustainability. Throughout the year, the Catawba ACS chapter also hosted several other outreach and professional development programs such as STEM Siblings, or our annual demo day, to enrich the lives of both our students and other young people. STEM Siblings is a program that pairs upperclassmen science majors with underclassmen with the goal of guiding them through their future endeavors at Catawba. Aside from outreach, ACS has facilitated various fundraising events including the science department t-shirt sale and partnering with Girl Scouts of America to host a badge round-up. These fundraisers make it possible for our ACS chapter to continue community outreach and attend the National ACS conference. Moving forward we plan to expand and refine our chapter events for the future.

Sustaining community interest in chemistry

2019 Spring National Meeting

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.