John Martyny, PhD, CIH
National Jewish Health, DENVER

…on the following topic:

“Cooking Meth With Kids in the House: The Dark Side of Chemistry”

If you are interested in learning more follow this link:

http://cafescicolorado.org/Martyny.htm

To wrap things up, I want to thank everyone who had a hand in the King Corn event for all their support!   I would also like to encourage anyone who might have considered taking an active role in the club but, for whatever reason, couldn’t find the time, to come on down and share your ideas!

Have a terrific break!
Ralph D. McBride
MSCC Treasurer

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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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.

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

Well I tallied the replies, and here it goes. We will be meeting up tomorrow
(Thursday) at 4:00 pm in room 312 Sci (aka P Chem lab room). There will be some
zza!! Other than Beaujo’s I don’t know of anybody else who does gluten free, so
sorry no gluten free zza. We will be introducing new officers, discussing the
King Corn project, planning any future field trips we may want to take, and
going over who and what we might do for an elementary school who has asked us if
we would like to do some demos.

See you then!!

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

We are having a meeting this Friday (3-13-09) at 10:00am outside the Chem. office. We need to replace the position of President and any others that need to be filled. This election is only going to fill these positions through the rest of this semester. There will be another election at the beginning of next year as usual. You must be an active member to participate in this election. If you are an active member and would like to take part you can either email me at cloux@mscd.edu or come to the meeting. I will send out the ballot options in the next few days so you need to be quick.

Christa

cloux@mscd.edu

Sorry for the bother, but as I am learning this web site as we go there tends to be hiccups. Turns out I wasn’t saving new subscribers to the CSV file and that might of been why some people were not receiving emails. I’ve added everybody to the CSV file and am now testing the system to ensure I’ve figured my mistake. Please send me a confirmation of this email, so that I can check everybody off the list who is receiving email, and chase down any loose ends.

Thanks for your cooporation have a nice weekend,

Eckhard Koehler

Challenge: The theme for NCW 2009 is “Celebrating Chemistry—It’s Elemental” (chemistry of the elements). SAACS are being asked to develop a hands-on activity for elementary school children that showcase a “well-known” element or elements in the periodic table.

The deadline to register to compete in the 2008 Chemvention Competition has been extended to Monday, October 5. Please send an email to oca@acs.org of your intentions to participate in the competition. Rules and guidelines can be found at www.acs.org/ncw. Contest entries are due to the ACS Office of Community Activities on Friday, November 16.

FREE Resources and Materials Available for NCW Celebrations

Visit www.acs.org/ncw to order your free resources and materials to help with your NCW celebration! Celebrating Chemistry, the publication for elementary school children, balloons and much more is available for free! Limited quantities available, so be sure to place your orders soon. Allow up to 2-3 weeks delivery time.

If there are any questions about Chemvention or NCW, please contact Stacy Jones in the ACS Office of Community Activities at oca@acs.org or 800-227-5558, ext.4458.

National Chemistry Week is a community-based program
sponsored by the ACS Office of Community Activities

Nancy Bakowski
Manager, Undergraduate Programs Office
American Chemical Society
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Washington, DC 20036
phone:202-872-6166
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