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NEWSLETTER
Fall 2013
Leaders in Attracting, Developing, Promoting, and Advocating for Women in the Chemical Sciences
Chairs Message
As I sit down to write this Chairs Letter, I cant believe three years have passed so rapidly. It has been my honor and privilege to serve as the Chair of the Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society. During this time, I have had the opportunity to meet accomplished women chemists from around the globe as well as those just starting out in their careers who are an inspiration to all women in the chemical enterprise. I want to thank the current members of the committee who give so much of their time to make our programs and events such a huge success; I know this great tradition will carry on. In Indianapolis, the WCC will be holding a symposium entitled 24th Anniversary of the WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Award. This program, which started 24 years ago and has been supported by Eli Lilly and Company, has provided funding for over 600 undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral female chemists to travel to national meetings and present the results of their research. The WCC continues to support this program to achieve our goal of increasing participation and retention of women in the chemical sciences and related disciplines. The symposium on Monday, September 9, will feature past award recipients who will describe how the travel award positively impacted their careers. The WCC continues to be an active participant of the Chemical Entrepreneurship Council (CEC). This collaboration with other ACS Committees and Divisions, as well as the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA), has allowed the WCC to leverage resources to help women scientists develop new professional pathways and aid in the important subject of retention of women in scientific professions. At Indianapolis, the WCC is proud to cosponsor a technical session on Tuesday, September 10, entitled STEM Women in Innovation and Investing. This panel discussion features successful women in the STEM and investing fields and will aid women in gaining the necessary skills required for translating research into commercial innovations. In addition to the above events, on Monday, September 9, the WCC will host Lynn Zettler at the Women in the Chemical Enterprise Breakfast. She will provide a fun, interactive presentation/workshop on the Myth of Work/Life Balance. Come and learn more about the ABCs of living your fulfilled life. At the WCC Luncheon on Tuesday, September 10, we will present the 13th Overcoming Challenges Award. The recipients of the 2013 fall Eli Lilly Travel Award will be recognized during the WCC/Eli Lilly Poster Session and Reception just prior to the luncheon. Our luncheon keynote speaker will be Dr. Christina Bodurow, Senior Director External Sourcing Eli Lilly and Company and past WCC Chair. On Tuesday afternoon, the WCC is pleased to be continuing the WCC Just Cocktails program following the STEM Women in Innovation and Investing session. This reception will afford opportunity for networking following the event. If you have any questions about the Indianapolis meeting check out our website at http:// womenchemists.sites.acs.org/. Judy Cohen
ACS Fellows
Networking
Women Chemists Committee wcc@acs.org http://womenchemists.sites.acs.org/ American Chemical Society, 1155 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036
Tuesday, September 10
Arthur C. Cope and Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award Symposium Indiana Convention Center, Sagamore 3/4
Sponsored by ORGN; Cosponsored by WCC 8:00 am - 12:00 pm
WCC / Eli Lilly Travel Award Poster Session 11:00 am - 12:00 pm JW Marriott, Grand Ballroom 3/4 WCC Luncheon (Ticketed Event) 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm JW Marriott, Grand Ballroom 3/4 Arthur C. Cope and Arthur C. Cope Scholars Award Symposium
WCC Just Cocktails Reception and Open Session 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm JW Marriott, Grand Ballroom 7
24th Anniversity of The WCC/Eli Lilly Travel Award Symposium 1:00 pm - 2:40 pm Indianapolis Marriott Downtown, Columbus Room
Monday, September 9 7:30 am - 9:00 am JW Marriott, White River Ballroom E Keynote Speaker Lynn Zettler, PCC Founder of LifeAction Coaching, Inc
WCC Luncheon "Women Chemist 2025" (Ticketed Event) Tuesday, September 10 12:00 pm1:30 pm JW Marriott, Grand Ballroom 3/4 Keynote Speaker Christina Bodurow, Ph.D. Senior Director, External Sourcing, Development Center of Excellence at Eli Lilly and Company
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The ACS symposium in honor of Heather C. Allen, for the ACS National Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, was organized by Man Xu from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The symposium was chaired by Dominique Verreault from Ohio State University and was held on Wednesday, April , 2013, during the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana. The symposium began with an introduction describing the scholarships for underrepresented minority middle and high school students that were initiated by the awardee over the past 10 years. Invited speakers included John Hemminger (University of California, Irvine), Barbara Finlayson-Pitts (University of California, Irvine), Y. Ron Shen (University of California, Berkeley), Mary Jane Shultz (Tufts University), and Karin Musier Forsyth (Ohio State University), among others. Several current and past Allen lab students also presented research that ranged from lung surfactant work to physical chemistry studies of the air/aqueous interface with emphasis on applications to atmospheric aerosol chemistry. The awardee gave an overview of the scholarship program for young women and acknowledged her mentors and the role that each one played in her career, and she presented research highlights on molecular organization at aqueous surfaces using nonlinear spectroscopic methods and liquid -surface imaging.
logue . Women can use confident understatements to be heard, without sounding arrogant. Specifically, Judy's advice is to use persuasive proud of or love to approach to convey interest and capability. For example:
The kind of challenge I like best is... I really go for situations that require me to...
After Judys talk, the attendees had the opportunity to put the concepts into action. Each of the tables selected a scenario where they needed to convince a supervisor of something, such as selling a project idea or asking for a promotion. Within the table groups, the attendees brainstormed a bragging dialogue using the proud of or the love to approaches they had learned. After some time for discussions, a representative from each table shared a statement with the audience to allow the group to benefit from the brainstorming power of the room. The slides from Judy's talk are available on her website (http:// www.jgiordan.com).
The Women in Chemical Enterprise Breakfast at the Spring 2013 meeting featured a talk and workshop by Dr. Judith Giordan, titled: Being HeardPowered by YOU: Bragging...and Building your Personal Brand. Judy explained why it is important for women to be leaders and shared some tools that can be used effectively in building a personal brand. Here are some of the highlights from her talk:
Fortune 500 firms with the best records of putting women at the top are 18% to 69% more profitable Companies with three or more women on their board outperform competitions on all measures by at least 40% Women expect lower salaries than men for the same jobs Strong links exist between actual success and attitudes and beliefs
Perceptions:
Both male and female managers overestimate home work stress experienced by women Judy recommends that we change our personal and business dia-
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Danielle Dremann, from Wayne State University, showed a poster titled Development of Heptameric Peptides to Target H69 of the BacteProfessor Susan Kauzlarich changed the landscape for many at the rial Ribosome. Her research tackles the issue of antibacterial reluncheon and encouraged many women to be successful in the chemi- sistance by targeting bacterial ribosomes. She hopes to continue her cal field. Congratulations! research with design of pharmaceuticals based on the peptides she is Amy Balija currently investigating. Andrea Hardman, from The Ohio State University, presented her work
SPRING 2013 POSTER SESSION FOR WCC ELI LILLY TRAVEL on Urea Catalyzed Construction of Oxazinanes. The goal of her reAWARD WINNERS search is to use catalysis of urea to target lung cancer molecules, as it
At each of the ACS National Meetings, the Eli Lilly travel award winners present posters on their current research activities during a session held directly before the Women Chemists Committee Luncheon. The session was well attended and covered a broad range of interests from all areas of chemistry. During the Spring 2013 meeting in New Orleans, seven women presented their research. Melissa Weinrich, from the University of Arizona, presented a poster titled Understanding Chemical Synthesis: From Novice to Expert Student. She is working to generate models of how students think and adapt to information during the learning process. She would like to teach one day and conduct research on the chemical education process. Jana Olson, from Rice University, presented her research on a poster titled Polarization Switching Mechanism of Nanorod Plasmons. She is investigating the mechanisms behind camouflage used by animals such as the octopus, which can easily change colors to match its surroundings. She is using gold nanorods to create materials that change would have an advantage over other materials that would be toxic.
Maria Angelella, from the University of California, San Diego, presented her work on Annihilation within Aggregates of a Perylene Diimide DimerInsights from Transient Absorption and Picosecond Resonance Raman Spectroscopy. She is using excited-state resonance Raman spectroscopy to look at the interactions among dimers, which cannot be identified using absorption spectroscopy. Shana Santos, from the University of Michigan, showed her work titled Identification of Small Molecule Substrate-Competitive Kinase Inhibitors. Her research is looking to elucidate proteins related to C-Src kinase inhibitors to better understand and combat C-Src, which is related to certain cancers.
Dawn Shaughnessy
FINALISTS: INDIANA
The WCC of the Indiana local section held a supercharged, hands-on LinkedIn workshop on December 13, at Heritage Interactive. The facilitator was Deborah Smith, a sought-after social media professional from the New Jersey area. Twenty -seven participants from local companies received LinkedIn operational training and user strategy, spanning from basic knowledge to advanced skills. All participates left the workshop with new online networking skills and a better understanding of how to use LinkedIn to create the momentum they want. The workshop was very valuable for job seekers, those who want to stay connected, and retirees. The workshop was made possible via a Local Section/Corporation Associates grant from the ACS. The event was well received by the attendees. The LinkedIn Workshop educated women on how to promote themselves on Linked -In and how to utilize the internet to network. Continued on page 5
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NASHVILLE
Alice Popejoy, 2012 Public Policy Fellow for AWIS, presented perspectives from Capitol Hill on women in STEM to local section members and women undergraduate and graduate students. They provided women chemists with vital public policy information on issues of concern to women in STEM during a national election year. Some of these issues focused on the gender wage gap, worklife satisfaction, leadership, and importance of mentoring. The event was outstanding because of the public policy information that was provided to the audience. This program supported the mission of the WCC by providing a forum for women chemists and all women in STEM during a critical election year. Women undergraduate students who hosted this event also learned networking, organizational, and communication skills needed to be professionals in the chemical sciences. Students were given the opportunity to plan this event and to spend one -on-one time with the speaker.
VIRGINIA
The WCC of the Virginia Local section hosted a Chemistry Career Panel that featured Jeanette Brown, a chemist and author of the book, African American Women Chemists. In addition to speaking about her career, Ms. Brown gave a talk about the careers of some of the first African American women chemists, followed by a book signing and reception. College women often dont know the paths they can follow with a chemistry degree. The small number of women faculty at some institutions limits the diversity students will see. Without proper career planning, women disproportionally leak out of the chemistry pipeline. The panel allowed students to interact with chemists who have followed diverse career paths and who are at different stages of their careers. All the speakers were women chemists who could provide an immediate connection to the women students. Van transportation allowed students to attend from several local universities and community colleges.
Lisa Houston
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Christine Chow
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Do work and life ever balance? The Women in the Chemical Enterprise Breakfast at the Fall National ACS meeting will feature an interactive workshop on the "Myth of Work/Life Balance" by Lynn Zettler. The presentation/workshop will go over the ABCs of living a fulfilled life. Anyone who has (or wants) both a life and a career, will benefit from this workshop, whether you are married and with or without children, single, or empty nesting Come join us at the breakfast and learn how to juggle life and career as a Pro. The breakfast will be held on Monday September 9, at the JW Marriott Indianapolis, White River Ballroom E.
(The Coca-Cola Company), Margaret Chu-Moyer (Amgen), Malika Jeffries-El (Iowa State University), Gia Fazio (Arcadia Biosciences), Sonja S. Capracotta (NanoSight), Mindy Levine (University of Rhode Island) and Kristin Nuzzio (University of Illinois). [AU: Names listed in order of presentation, or should they be arranged alphabetically?] We invite you to join us for this symposium and help us thank Eli Lilly for 24 years of support of the travel award The nine recipients of the Fall 2013 Eli Lilly Travel Award will also be in attendance during this meeting. The WCC wishes to extend congratulations to these women: Ashley Adams (Stanford), Alina Borovika (University of Michigan), Susan Flynn (Syracuse University), Nacole King (North Carolina State University), Christine Meck (City University of New York Graduate Center), Mary Nguyen (University of California, Riverside), Elizabeth Petro (Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine), Anna Simon (University of California, Santa Barbara), and Sara Smith (University of Pittsburgh). The awardees will be presenting their research during technical sessions and will also be participating in a special Eli Lilly Award poster session at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 10, immediately preceding the WCC Luncheon.
Amy Nicely
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Networking
WCC Facebook WCC LinkedIn WCC ACS Network Just Cocktails ACS Network WCC Open Meeting Just Cocktails Reception Tuesday, September 10, 4:00 PM 5:30 PM JW Marriott Indianapolis, Grand Ballroom 7 The event is targeted at mid-career chemists and presents ad fun, collaborative time for networking, connections and career advice, ect. Women Chemists of Color Networking Social Monday September 9, 10:00 AM 12:00 PM JW Marriott Indianapolis, Room 204 Join us Monday morning to network, learn about this ACS initiative,
WCC Leadership
Chair: Judy Cohen Awards and Recognition: Laura Sremaniak and Amy Nicely Communications & Technology: Bevin Parks Professional Development: Kelly George Programs & Events: Amber Charlebois Program Chair: Amy DeBaillie Newsletter Editor: Michelle Rogers Webmaster: Lisa Houston Recording Secretary: Kim Woznack
WCC Leadership
Thank you for reading the WCC semiannual newsletter. I hope that you find the articles inspirational and informative! If you have an article or an announcement that may be useful to our readership, please feel free to send it to me at wcc@acs.org. We welcome all suggestions.
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