Central PA Local Section
of the
American Chemical Society
Centennial Celebration of Central Pennsylvania Chemistry
Join us as we celebrate the centennial of the Central Pennsylvania Local Section!
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 4-8 pm
Business Building, Penn State University
Student poster symposium & reception followed by a catered dinner and keynote lecture by Dr. Ayusman Sen.
Registration includes admission to the poster session and cocktail reception, as well as a catered dinner and keynote lecture.
ACS Members: $30
Graduate Students: $25
Undergraduate Student: $10
Non-members and Guests: $35
View the Book of Abstracts. More than 40 presenters will share their work!
Kenneth D. Karlin, the Ira Remsen Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, is a world-wide renowned bioinorganic chemist who focuses his research on the design, synthesis and study of coordination complexes whose chemistry is relevant to biological processes, mainly metalloenzyme active site chemistry, involving copper and/or heme (porphyrin-iron) complexes and their chemistry with molecular oxygen, its reduced derivatives, and nitrogen oxide compounds. He/his-research-group has published 386 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
Bioinorganic Chemistry studies roles of metals in biological systems. Many critical processes in living systems require metal ions, including respiration, much of metabolism, nitrogen fixation, photosynthesis, development, nerve transmission, muscle contraction, signal transduction, and protection against toxic and mutagenic agents.
John P. Reeves Lectureship in Chemistry at Juniata College
The Juniata College Chemistry and Biochemistry Department is excited to host Dr. Kenneth D. Karlin, the Ira Remsen Professor of Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as our 8th John P. Reeves Lecturer in Chemistry on September 30th – October 2nd. This lectureship brings annually top experts in different subfields of chemistry to Juniata College (JC). Our Reeves lecturer spends three days at JC, gives three talks, and gets immersed in conversations with faculty, students, and visitors. This year’s speaker is one of the world’s leading experts in bioinorganic chemistry.
You all are cordially invited to attend all three talks, the Monday reception and the Monday dinner. The first lecture (that typically introduces audience into the realm of the visitor’s research and is therefore more general and more “friendly” for understanding without prior knowledge in the field) is scheduled for Monday, September 30th at 4:15-5:15 pm in Neff auditorium (von Liebig Center for Science), followed by a reception in Pheasant Lounge and the evening will end with a dinner at 6:30-8:30 pm in Sill Boardroom. All activities are free thanks to our generous Reeves endowment but RSVP for the dinner (via email to baran@juniata.edu) is required by Monday, September 23rd. Feel free to bring your students or other guests even if they are not ACS members.
Read the abstracts from his three talks here.
The Central PA Local Section of the ACS extends from about Altoona in the west, through Huntingdon and State College, to Lock Haven in the east.
The section comprises about 500 members, about 50% of whom are associated with one of the four-year colleges or universities in our area. Here is a complete demographic scan from 2019 of our section.
Our Bylaws, adopted in 2010 (rev. 2023), are the rules we go by. These may be changed at any time by a vote of the membership.