RSC USA East Coast Local Section
Winner: 2024 Inspirational Committee Award
RSC USA East Coast Local Section
For the diversification of their activities to engage a wider audience of chemists and non-chemists.
Celebrate RSC USA East Coast Local Section
The RSC USA East Coast Section has been established since the mid-60s. Its committee includes two educators, one pharmaceutical scientist, and one well-published author/consultant chemist, along with occasional support from past presidents. They meet around three times a year.
Read moreI would love to see more attention paid in the networks and among chemists themselves that making connections between chemistry and other fields (art, music, literature, politics) is important. It shows that chemistry is a product of its times, and directly contributed to history and these other fields.
The RSC is a society which I had joined as a student after being inspired by my mentors, especially the late Mr AJS Williams (University of Wales-Aberystwyth). He was very passionate about the subject, fond of sharing about the RSC, and would invite me to the meetings. Furthermore, I would go with him on Saturday mornings to local schools and assist him in his lecture demonstrations on energy. I thoroughly enjoyed being his assistant and noted how much joy it would bring him, as well as myself when communicating the various concepts with middle and high school students. Even at this stage of my career, I love engaging students or members of the public and giving back through the RSC! I am proud to be part of our RSC!.
Within the past five years, I have begun publicizing and discussing interesting historical vignettes and chemists. Bringing chemistry's story of its development to experts and the public is most important for giving people a positive view of chemistry. Talking to the US Section about Alexander Borodin, a man "trying to hunt two hares" at the same time in both chemistry and music, in December 2023 at the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia helped to enlighten scientists and students that chemistry evolved over time, and didn't just spring into being, magically.
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