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ACS Meeting News

Scenes from ACS Spring 2025 in San Diego

by Sara Cottle
April 13, 2025 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 103, Issue 10
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Two adults standing with a child in the middle wear lab coats while holding “Chemistry is Cool” signs and a laboratory beaker.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
2025 ACS president Dorothy J. Phillips shares some cool chemistry fun and a smile with a child and parent at the selfie station at ACS Kids Zone.

Almost 14,300 professionals, students, and others in the chemistry community gathered in San Diego March 23–27 to learn, share, and network at ACS Spring 2025—and the meeting also had the option of participating virtually. The theme for the meeting was “Pushing Boundaries. Solving global challenges.”

ACS Kids Zone, a premeeting event, took place on Saturday. Attendees then spent 5 days connecting with each other through networking and career events, keynote events, lectures like the Kavli Lecture series, presentations, and live workshops—all while learning about the latest in research, tools, and services.

A man dressed in a mariachi costume sings as a costumed figure of a mole dances.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
Professor Molenium dances with a local mariachi band for the official opening of the Expo Hall.
A person holds a cell phone camera to take a photo of another person standing in front of a wall that reads “Proud to be a Chemist.”
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
Conference attendees lined up all week to take photos in front of the Proud to be a Chemist wall.
A group of people walk through a door being held open by a woman wearing a lab coat.
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A group of conference attendees enters Lab 271, which is part of the plot of an escape room experience offered as a group activity at recent ACS meetings.
Two girls each hold a small puppy and smile.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
Two conference attendees held puppies, which were available for adoption, in the ACS Puppy Playhouse area.
A woman is sitting behind a table signing a paper and looking up at a man who is talking to her.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
2025 ACS Priestley Medalist Frances Arnold signed covers of C&EN and took photos with conference attendees during a meet-and-greet session.
Two people sit at the edge of two large white chairs positioned beside each other and lean in to speak to each other.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
2025 ACS President Dorothy J. Phillips (right) and keynote lecturer Krzysztof Matyjaszewski (left) take a moment to speak before taking to the stage for the Fred Kavli Innovations in Chemistry event.
A man plays guitar while another man claps his hands.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
Expo Hall exhibitors got creative in engaging with conference attendees.
Two girls stand near each other, one holding a phone, and take a photo of Majorana 1, which is behind a glass case.
Credit: Sara L. Cottle
Conference attendees were fascinated by Majorana 1—the world’s first quantum processing unit, developed by Microsoft—on display in Expo Hall.
A group of people stand to the left, listening to someone present a poster.
In-person poster sessions began on Sunday, March 23, where conference attendees could walk down rows of posters and listen to presenters speak on various research topics.
A person wears a brightly colored shirt with a print of the period table on it.
A conference attendee wearing a periodic table shirt stops to listen to a lecture by Ingrid Montes in the ACS Member Lounge.

CORRECTION

This story was updated on April 28, 2025, to correct the spelling of Frances Arnold in a caption. Her first name is Frances, not Francis.

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