Symposia
Invited Speakers
Noon Plenary Presentation
Laboratory Safety in Academia
Prof. Peter Dorhout
Kansas State University, Past President of the American Chemical Society
Standardizing Risk Management in Laboratory and Pilot plant Facilities: A Model
Kim Johnson
Shell Global
Critical Aspects of a Robust Potent Compound Containment Program
A.K. Doane, R.I. Livingston
Award Banquet Presentation
Title TBA
Bonnie Charpentier
Cytokinetics, Past President of the American Chemical Society
November 12
Young Talent in the Rocky Mountain Region Symposium
Contributed talks by non-tenured faculty in the Rocky Mountain region
ACS Leadership
Fostering Innovation
Four-hour facilitated workshop
Career Planning
Careers in Industrial Chemistry: Identify Your Role in the Industrial Value Chain
Two-hour facilitated workshop
Opportunities for Chemists in the Federal Government
Two-hour facilitated workshop
Empowering Academic Researchers to Strengthen Safety Culture
The American Chemical Society is sponsoring a program to help educate graduate students about lab safety culture and opportunities for promoting safety. The participants will be awarded a certificate for completion of the course (can be added on resumes).
This three-hour workshop will be led by Sarah Zinn (University of Chicago) and Jessica DeYoung (University of Iowa). The purpose of this workshop is to help develop individualized plans for the creation or improvement of student safety programs. You can read more about the results of previous workshops in this Journal of Chemical Health and Safety (K. A. Miller and K. I. Tyler, Journal of Chemical Health and Safety, 2019, 1871-5532; https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.8b26309). Other key topics include hazard assessment, risk management, safety management practices, and complementary top-down approaches. This workshop is primarily directed at graduate student issues, but faculty and staff are encouraged to participate.
Sustainability Symposium
Invited Speaker: Prof. Eugene Chen, Colorado State University
Prof. George Stanley, Louisiana State University
Dr. Andrew Sutton, Los Alamos National Lab
General Sessions
Poster Session with Poster Awards
November 13
Each symposium will have an associated poster session with awards.
Medicinal Chemistry Symposium
Invited Speakers: Prof. Courtney Aldrich, University of Minnesota
Prof. Gunda Georg, University of Minnesota
Prof. Andrew Wiemer, University of Connecticut
Prof. David Weimer, University of Iowa
Prof. Cynthia Burrows, University of Utah
Prof. Mark Brown, Colorado State University
Prof. John Enemark, University of Arizona
Prof. Jeanne Pemberton, University of Arizona
Senior Chemists Symposium
Invited Speakers: Prof. Gareth Eaton, University of Denver
Prof. James Bamburg, Colorado State University
Prof. B. George Barisas, Colorado State University
Prof. Josef Michl, University of Colorado
Prof. Ellen Fisher, Colorado State University
Prof. Cortland Pierpont, University of Colorado
Prof Richard Ernst, University of Utah
Prof. Veronica Bierbaum, University of Colorado
Plenary Award Talks
Prof. Nancy Levinger, Colorado State University
Prof. Gunda Georg, University of Minnesota