NJCG @ EAS 2009

Eastern Analytical Symposium has refocused and expanded its Outreach program
for undergraduates and high school teachers.

EAS will offer four seminars essentially for undergraduate students during the November meeting (Nov. 16 - 19, 2009). Each seminar will have outstanding presenters from academia and industry. The goal of each seminar is to demonstrate the advantages of a career in chemistry. The topics of these seminars include:

Teaching Forensic Science in High School
Sunday, November 15, Seminar E09-S01
Free Registration Limited to Middle and High School Teachers
1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
This seminar will be offered exclusively to high school teachers. Dr. Richard Saferstein, leading author of forensic textbooks, and Dr. Lawrence Kobilinsky, Dean, John Jay College, will head the seminar staff that will include Jay Tobin and Dr. Lawrence Quarino. The focus of this educational seminar is to encourage high school teachers to use present-day police laboratory techniques in their classrooms.

What Does an Analytical Chemist Do in Industry
Monday, November 16, Seminar E09-S02
Free Registration for Qualified Teachers and Students
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This seminar, organized by Procter and Gamble, is designed to familiarize students with varied career opportunities for analytical chemists in industry. Diverse roles an analytical chemist may fill in industry are examined, such as scientific consultant, method developer, and problem solver. Significant time is spent on exploring the process of solving problems. Actual case studies solved at P&G are posed, providing students with a strategy for approaching and solving these problems. This course is structured for interactive participation.

Women in Chemistry
Monday, November 16, Seminar E09-S03
Free Registration for Qualified Teachers and Students
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This seminar organized by Mary Ellen McNally, DuPont, features Dr. Martha Greenblatt, Rutgers University, Dr. Diane Zezza, Schering-Plough Research Institute, and Dr. Nancy Barbour, Bristol-Myers Squibb. The focus of this seminar is to have each speaker discuss their reason for becoming a chemist, the path of their career in chemistry and the science that keeps them excited about their career.

Analytical and Forensic Chemistry
Tuesday, November 17, Seminar E09-S04
Free Registration for Qualified Teachers and Students
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This seminar, organized by Dr. Richard Saferstein, will have several speakers and they will discuss a variety of analytical technologies that are applicable to solving forensic science problems. Students will be introduced to the science of forensic toxicology and will learn the strategies that forensic toxicologists employ to detect poisons and drugs in the human body. Significant achievements that have been made in utilizing DNA typing for the purposes of linking biological evidence to a single individual will also be discussed. A number of actual case discussions will be presented and finally an overview of how forensic analysis makes use of minute particles in resolving crimes will be given.

Chemistry and Space
Wednesday, November 18, Seminar E09-S05
Free Registration for Qualified Teachers and Students
10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This seminar, organized by Alvin Bober, is designed especially to acquaint undergraduates with a career in space studies. Our present international space program relies on multi-facets of chemistry science. Drs. Don Thomas a former astronaut and Towson University, Suzanne Young of Tufts University and NASA, Brooks Pate of University of Virginia and Frank Scalza of NASA will discuss their careers in Space and Chemistry. Each of these presenters careers revolve around chemistry in space, the universe and Earth. They will outline what it takes to be a member of a chemistry space team.

Registration for the seminars is free; however, students and teachers must pre-register to reserve a space. Information on schedules and registration will be posted the EAS website as soon as they are finalized.

Please contact Eastern Analytical Symposium at askeas@EAS.org or visit our website at www.EAS.org for more information.