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CNC-ACS Officers

Mr. Clifton Bell Chair bellce@wssu.edu

Mr. Cale Murray Chair-Elect caleacs@gmail.com

Ms. Janice Foushee Secretary-Treasurer jfoushee@ashland.com

CNC-ACS Website http://www.cnc-acs.sites.acs.org/

Newsletter Editor: Bill Eberle bill.eberle@syngenta.com

PVN Coverage 2

Earth Day 7

Womens Chemist Com-mittee Event

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Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group

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Calendar of Events 9

2013 Executive Commit-tee and Committee Heads

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Highlights in this issue: Page

Volume 45, Number 4

Central North Carolina Section American Chemical Society

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13th Annual Poster Vendor Night (PVN) Draws Huge Crowd

There will be no April Section Meeting as we had two meetings in March. That, coupled with the National ACS Meeting, Spring Re-cess, and the International Home Furnishing Market resulted in the decision to forgo a formal meeting this month.

Please see the Calendar of Events on page 9 for future events.

Busy March for CNC-ACS

The Central NC section of the ACS hosted its 13th Annual Poster Vendor Night on March 26th. Approximately 200 chemists attended what has be-come the section’s largest meeting. 15 vendors came and displayed their latest products and innovations.

Please see pages 2-6 for more infor-mation from Poster Vendor Night.

No April Local Section Meeting

13th Annual Poster Vendor Night Draws a Big Crowd The Central NC section of the ACS hosed its 13th Annual Poster Vendor Night on March 26th. Approximately 200 chemists attended what has become the section’s largest meeting. 15 vendors came and displayed their latest products and innovations. The local section appreciates the financial support of the following companies:

Ace Glass Bruker Instruments Lab Logic ABSciex

Waters Gerstel Quark Glass Resolution Systems

Thermo Instruments Sigma Aldrich JEOL Spectrum Chemicals

Agilent Technologies Fisher Scientific CG Sciences

In the other half of Poster Vendor Night, 45 posters from Industry and Undergraduates and Graduate Students from the Triad were presented. The volunteers from the local section judged the posters and awarded three prizes to the top three posters in both the Undergraduate and Graduate levels. The winners in the Undergraduate category were:

All photos courtesy of Robert Yokley.

1st Place

Daniel Nasrallah, UNC-G (Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Mitchell P. Croatt)

Exploration of DMSO effects on metal catalysts in the synthesis of cyclooctatetraenes

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2nd Place

3rd Place

Richard Gray, WSSU (Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Sayo.O. Fakayode)

Spectroscopic Probing the Binding of Mercury Ion Human Serum Al-bumin

Allison Parker, High Point Universi-ty (Faculty Sponsors: Dr. Mietek Jaroniec, Dr. Chris Fowler)

Synthesis of Carbon-Titania Core-Shell Nanostructures

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The winners in the Undergraduate category were:

1st Place

2nd Place

Karen Vandermolen, UNCG (Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Nicholas H. Oberlies) Effects of Media on the Fungal Metabolome

Lara Al Fakhouri, UNCG

Synthesis of GPR55 Agonists

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3rd Place

Poster Vendor Night would not have been possible without the help of many volunteers. The Central NC section would like to recognize the following individuals:

Judges Cheryl Beste, Syngenta Ken Crumb, Syngenta

Kent Kabler, Syngenta Jennifer Lindley, Syngenta

William Meyerhoffer, Syngenta Dan Minnema, Syngenta

Angela Moore, Syngenta John Owen, EN-CAS Laboratories

Jonathan Patterson, Syngenta Debbie Pritchard, FTCC

Sameer Tyagi, Syngenta Ted Valenti, Syngenta

Sue Yi, Syngenta

Hospitality Amy Quattlebaum, Syngenta John Willis, Syngenta

PVN Organizing Committee Jill Tierney, PPG Bill Eberle, Syngenta

TJ Mayer, Syngenta Hein Nguyen, Syngenta

Suneel Kandagalta, UNCG (Faculty Advi-sor: Dr. Gregory M Raner)

Study of Antioxidant Activity of Açaí Extracts (Euterpe oleracea)

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Scenes from PVN

I’m Larry, this is my brother Daryl and my other brother Daryl (with apologies to Ted Valenti, Lou Mayer and TJ Mayer)

WCC Networking Event

On Saturday March 16, women chemists from the Central North Carolina Section and the North Caroli-na Section of the ACS met at Stonefield Cellars. Enologist Robert Wurz discussed winemaking with the group and led a wine tasting. It was informative, fun and provided a great venue for meeting women chemists from the Triad and the Triangle.

The NC Section will host the next joint event, “Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace.” Look for an-nouncements and plan to attend!

Dr. Hazari’s talk a big hit ACS Tour Speaker, Dr Al Hazari gave a presentation on “The Fun but Educational History of Chemistry” at UNC-G on March 28th that was attended by approximately 70 individuals.

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THIRTIETH TRIANGLE CHROMATOGRAPHY SYMPOSIUM AND INSTRUMENT EXHIBIT

Thursday, May 16, 2013

at the

McKimmon Conference and Training Center

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina

Sponsored by the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group of the North Carolina Section of the American Chemical Society

VENDOR EXHIBITS, STUDENT POSTER COMPETITION, EXHIBITOR SEMIMARS, LUNCH ON SITE (included with Registration fee), REFRESHMENTS, PRIZE DRAWINGS

PROGRAM

Manon Villeneuve, GlaxoSmithKline: “Supercritical Fluid Chromatography (SFC) – From Method Development and Preparative to CO2 Recycling”

Morteza Khaledi, North Carolina State University: “Organized Assemblies of Amphiphilic Mole-cules for Chemical Separation”

Howard James Keynote Speaker: Russell Grant, LabCorp: “Chromatography and Clinical Diag-nostics; the Post-Apocalyptic Rapture”

Antony Williams, Royal Society of Chemistry: “Utilizing Online Databases for the Purpose of Structure Identification – Approaches Utilizing the ChemSpider Resource”

Visit our Web Pages: http://www.TCDG.org

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Chemistry Olympiad Results

Nine area High School Students took the Chemistry Olympiad Exam in March at WSSU. All students who participat-ed in the local screening exam were issued a certificate by the ACS. Two students: Timothy Chang (Early College at Guilford) and Evan Thomason (Forsyth Country Day School) scored high enough to move to the next round.

Qualicaps, Inc. manufactures empty gelatin capsules for the pharmaceutical industry. We are located in Whitsett, NC between Greensboro and Burlington.

Analytical Chemist

This position insures the quality of the final product by testing all raw materials, intermediate solutions, in-process and finished products. Minimum requirements are Bachelors in a scientific discipline and 2 years professional experience in chemical testing. Preferred candidates will have a BS in Chemistry, and at least 3 years experi-ence in Analytical Chemistry testing by USP/NF, EP, and JP in a cGMP environment. However, an equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered. The candidate will be able to operate, perform set-up and maintain laboratory testing apparatus, equipment and instruments. Additional responsibilities include pre-paring and maintaining logs, records and reports, assisting with writing SOP’s, test methods and executing vali-dations. Must have excellent verbal/written communication skills and be proficient with Microsoft Word & Excel.

We offer: Competitive salary, 401 (k), Vacation, Holidays, Tuition Reimbursement, Health/Life/Dental/Vision In-surance and a Credit Union.

Please send your resume with salary requirement to:

HR – Lab

Qualicaps, Inc.

6505 Franz Warner Parkway

Whitsett, NC 27377-9215

HR@qualicaps.com

FAX 336-449-3333

No telephone calls please.

EOE

Calendar Of Events

May 16th Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group: 13th Symposium and Instrumenta-tion Exhibit; NC State, Raleigh, NC

June 13th Family Picnic Social: Bur-Mil Park 7 to 9pm

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Officer and Committee Head Contacts Office Officer E-mail Phone Chair Cliff Bell bellce@wssu.edu 750-2545 Chair Elect Cale Murray caleacs@gmail.com 501-4706 Secretary/Treasurer Janice Foushee jfoushee@ashland.com 333-2738 Councilor ('13) Robert Yokley TR6VOL@triad.rr.com 595-7530 Councilor ('15) Tim Ballard tballard@en-cas.com 785-3252 Alternate Councilor ('12) Paul Weller wellerp@elon.edu 278-6225 Alternate Councilor ('12) Gail Webster gwebster@guilford.edu 316-2486 Director ('13) Kent Kabler kent.kabler@syngenta.com 632-6014 Director ('14) TJ Mayer tj.mayer@syngenta.com 632-6079 Past Chair Edward Robinson erobinson@lortobco.com 335-6625 Analytical Sub Group Jeremi Johnson JeremiJohnson@lortobco.com 335-6624 Awards Robert Yokley TR6VOL@triad.rr.com 595-7530 Education Yulia Basova ybasova@yahoo.com 834-2335 * Chemsense OPEN * National Chemistry Olympiad OPEN * Science Center Advisor Jerry Walsh jlwalsh@uncg.edu 334-5672 * UNC-G High School Lab Day Jerry Walsh jlwalsh@uncg.edu 334-5672 Earth Day Bill Nell williamnell@bellsouth.net 764-9322 Government Relations Edward Robinson erobinson@lortobco.com 335-6625 Hospitality Pat Duffy duffypatriciaj@gmail.com 209-0302 Long Range Planning Dave MacInnes 254-8453 Membership OPEN Minority Affairs Julius Harp harpj@ncat.edu 285-2239 National Chemistry Week Dennis Ergle dergle@lortobco.com 335-6629 Cynthia Willard cwilliard@lortobco.com 335-6729 Newsletter Editor Bill Eberle bill.eberle@syngenta.com 632-7569 Poster Vendor Night * Vendor Coordinator OPEN * Poster Coordinator Jill Tierney tierney_j@bellsouth.net 430-8601 Project Seed OPEN Professional Relations OPEN Public Relations & Publicity OPEN Public Affairs Edward Robinson erobinson@lortobco.com 335-6625 * Science Advisor - Howard Coble Dave MacInnes * Science Advisor - Richard Burr Liliana Garcia llilianagarcia@live.com Student Member Coordinator Bethany Eaton bethany.eaton@salem.edu 366-7596 Student Member Faculty Coord. Paul Weller wellerp@elon.edu 278-6225 Web Page John Merle merlejo@wssu.edu 750-2237 Womens Chemists Gail Webster gwebster@guilford.edu 316-2486 Younger Chemists OPEN

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