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Scenes From The ACS National Meeting In Boston

by Photos by Linda Wang and Rudy M. Baum
September 10, 2007 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 85, Issue 37

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Kristian Kather is a researcher at Bayer CropScience in Germany. I ran into him on the way to Monday night's Sci-Mix.
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Members of the ACS Board of Directors and international guests gather for the signing of the C6 agreement on sustainability (C&EN, Aug. 13, page 54). From left to right are Giovanni Natile of EuCheMS; Henning Hopf of the German Chemical Society; Executive Director and CEO Madeleine Jacobs; Richard Porte of the Royal Society of Chemistry; Russell J. Boyd of the Canadian Society for Chemistry; Eusebio Juaristi of the Mexican Chemical Society; President-Elect Bruce E. Bursten; President Catherine T. (Katie) Hunt; Board Chair Judith L. Benham; and Immediate Past-President E. Ann Nalley.

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Xuefang Lu, with her son Kaden Li, is from China. Lu, an analytical chemist, was taking a break from sessions to review her job-search materials.
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ACS had a strong showing all over Boston.
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Farzaneh Alihosseini, a graduate student in agricultural and environmental chemistry at the University of California, Davis, is from Iran. I met her at the meeting of the Iranian Chemists Association.
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At the Women Chemists Committee luncheon, Hunt (far right) is joined by WCC Chair Amber S. Hinkle (from left), Zafra M. Lerman, keynote speaker Ada E. Yonath, and Hessy Taft.
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Chemists from Astellas Pharma in Japan. From left to right: Akio Kakefuda, Kazuhiro Ikegai, Isao Kinoyama, Yoshiyuki Kido, and Noriyuki Kawano.
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Chemistry postdoc Albert K. Korir, of the University of California, Riverside, explains his research during the Academic Employment Initiative at Sci-Mix.
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Vasumathi Desikan, a graduate student in chemistry at Iowa State University, is from India. I spotted her walking to the convention center.
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Candidates for ACS president-elect 2008: Howard M. Peters (left) and Thomas H. Lane.
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Nurtay Urdabayev, a research scientist at ThermoFisher Scientific, is from Kazakhstan. I met him at a career fair workshop.
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ACS scholars reunite during a reception held by the Committee on Minority Affairs.
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Shatha Qaqish, a graduate student at the University of Saskatchewan, in Canada, is from Jordan. We crossed paths at a reception hosted by the Younger Chemists Committee.
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Children learn about diabetes by testing for glucose in a solution during the Chemistry in Action: Health & Wellness community outreach event at the Museum of Science.
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Andreas Becker of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, in Tampa, Fla., is from Germany. During a career fair workshop on challenges of foreign-born students, he let me photograph him.
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Board Chair Benham (left) and past-president Helen M. Free attend the ACS Board reception.
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Raj Nagarajan, a medicinal chemist, is from India. I spotted him outside the Chemjobs Career Fair.
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A bird's-eye view of the council meeting.
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ACS's champions of diversity: From left, Katherine Glasgow, chair of the Younger Chemists Committee; Linette M. Watkins, chair of the Committee on Minority Affairs; James M. Landis, chair of the Committee on Chemists with Disabilities; Amber S. Hinkle, chair of the Women Chemists Committee; Milagros Delgado of the Committee on Committees; and V. Michael Mautino, chair of the Committee on Technician Affairs.
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Sabine Brünger-Weilandt (left), president and CEO of FIZ Karlsruhe, in Germany, visits with Jacobs during the board reception.
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Brian A. Lee, an undergraduate majoring in chemical engineering at Brown University, checks out a process reactor at the exposition.
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Brian A. Lee, an undergraduate majoring in chemical engineering at Brown University, checks out a process reactor at the exposition.
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Harvard chemist E. J. Corey signs copies of his newest book, "Molecules and Medicine," at the Publications Division/C&EN booth.
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Harvard chemist E. J. Corey signs copies of his newest book, "Molecules and Medicine," at the Publications Division/C&EN booth.

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