Hello fans & members,

Some of you may know that the Chemistry Club has been attempting to show a documentary film at the Tivoli, where we will be highlighting the involved chemistry. After many months of hoop jumping, we have been awarded full sponsorship through the Student Activities department on campus!!! This means We WILL be showing the film precluded, or followed by some presentations, Monday March 1st in the Tivoli between 12 & 3 pm. We will need all types of volunteers to make this a successful venture. If you have interest in the film, or participating for the event, please let me know, and the sooner the better. To those of you who’ve helped us get this far, Thank You. We look forward to this event, and hope all you do as well!!

Thank you,

Eckhard Koehler

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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

We are looking to do a showing of King Corn where we will be highlighting the aspects of Chemistry that the movie glazes over. This will be to help people understand how Chemistry, food, and politics are a part of your everyday life even if you don’t notice it. Keep posted for more details.

Folks,
As you may or may not be aware, part of the Auraria Campus Master Plan includes the centralization of the three schools (Metro, CCD, CUD) into neighborhoods.  Metro’s neighborhood is the parking lot next to the Tivoli (north of the old parking garage).  The first building is in the design process and is expected to cost around $52 million, with approximately $10 million in back-fill renovation of vacated space.  The first building is being designed as a “one stop shop” for student needs, housing nearly all student support services plus administration, the First Year Success program, classrooms, lounges (which will be designed with student input), etc.

Please visit the Metro State is Rising website at http://MetroStateRising.com for more information.  There are links for the Fact Sheet and Neighborhood Master Plan on the right side of the screen.

MOST IMPORTANTLY:  This first building will be payed for with an increase of student fees.  This increase can only be passed by student vote.  Please visit the website and vote in favor of the building.  There is a very informative FAQ page, and it highlights the fact that even after the proposed fee increase, Metro is still the best deal in the state!

The SGA elections happen on April 13-17, and students will receive an email to their mscd.edu account asking for their vote on this issue.  Please look for this email!

I’d be happy to answer any questions,
Dr. Ball

This is a great opportunity for us to get involved at the 2008 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans. Plus, winners get funds to show case there idea. I think James has offered a great idea, and I for one am looking forward to being part of a team that develops this task, and show case it in NEW ORLEANS. This will be a awesome time, and look great on a resume for grad schools in case anybody needs any extra motivation. Being that the DEADLINE is 11/16/07 I suggest we decide if there are other ideas, or if this is the one we like by this weekend.

Contest entries are due to the ACS Office of Community Activities on Friday, November 16.

Challenge: The theme for NCW 2008 is ³Having a Ball with Chemistry²
(chemistry and sports). Affiliates will develop a hands-on activity for
elementary school children that depicts how/where chemistry is connected to
sports materials (shoes, equipment, clothing, etc.) and/or performance
(metabolism, nutrition, physiological)
Rules and guidelines can be found at www.acs.org/ncw

If there are any questions about Chemvention or NCW, please contact Judith
Jankowski in the ACS Office of Community Activities at oca@acs.org
or 800-227-5558, ext.
6078.