Hello Members!!

Just keeping y’all up to date with the Metro State Chem Club happenings. For Starters We will be doing a community/campus outreach event February Monday the 8th, 2010 from noon to 3 pm aprx. We will need volunteers for all types of things including designing advertisements, working on project material, presentation, and other oddball jobs. Anybody who is interested is encouraged to take the bull by the horns, and should attend club meeting to get a full grasp on the event.

Other news; We will be hosting the next meeting at the Wynkoop Brewing Company, which corresponds to Cafe Scientifique!! (Tuesday, 17 November, 2009) We will arrive an hour early to get good seats, and discuss club matters. The plan is to adjourn the meeting at the start Cafe Scientifique (6:30pm). The lecturer will be Mitch Begelman, Professor of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences, JILA Fellow, University of Colorado, Boulder, and he will be speaking on – Gravity’s Fatal Attraction: How Black Holes Rule the Universe – As the Universe evolves, could it be the ultimate fate of all matter to be “swallowed” by black holes? More info can be found at http://cafescicolorado.org/Begelman.htm which gives a brief of the topic, and bio of Mitch Begelman. This should be a fun event, and a great way for us to get together to continue the Metro State Chem Club.

Hey Folks,

Many of you have asked me to keep y’all posted on what has happened with the club, or spoken about at the meeting.

For starters there has been a change in officers due to larger amounts of motivation needed to get functions working. New officers can be found and contacted at http://www.mschemclub.org/contacts/

At the meeting we discussed doing a Public Service event of connecting Chemistry to everyday life. This will be done through a showing of King Corn at the Turnhall on campus located in the Tivoli. We are looking at doing this event the first week of February as there is some ground work that needs to be covered before then, which includes rental of hall, movie permissions, catering details. budget, presentation development, and a few other details.

We also spoke about bring back field trips that were once part of the club. Currently, we are finding out about a trip to NREL, and Tour of the Labs at the National Ice Core Laboratory if any of you missed it the first time. Ideas of visiting a lab developing synthetic polymers was discussed (and sound exciting), but we have yet to locate one in the Front Range that we could contact, any leads would be appreciated.

The next Chem Club meeting will be Thursday Oct 22nd at 4 PM in Room 312 of the Sci Bld (aka P chem Lab)

Anybody with comments or wishes to participate can reach any of the officers at http://www.mschemclub.org/contacts/
Thank you, & good day,

Prez