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Chicago Section http://chicagoacs.org NOVEMBER • 2012 CHICAGO SECTION AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY Joint Meeting of the University of Chicago Department of Chemistry and the Chicago Section ACS Julius Stieglitz Award Lecture, Dinner and Presentation WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2012 Holiday Inn Chicago-Elk Grove 1000 Busse Road Elk Grove Village, IL 60007 847-847-437-6010 DIRECTIONS From Chicago Take I-90-94 west to I-90 west (follow signs for Rockford); exit south on Elmhurst Rd to Landmeier Rd. Turn right onto Landmeier to Busse Rd.(Rt. 83) to arrive at the Holiday Inn. From Indiana and South Take the Tri-State (I-294) north to I-290; go west on I-290 to Rt. 83. Take Rt. 83 north and stay on it for 4 to 5 miles to the Holiday Inn on Rt 83 (Busse Rd) and Landmeier. From Milwaukee and North Take the Tri-State (I-294) south to I-90 west (follow signs for Rockford). Exit south onto Elmhurst Road. Take Elmhurst Rd. south to Landmeier Rd. Turn right onto Landmeier Rd and stay on it to the Holiday Inn on Landmeier and Busse Rd (Rt. 83). Dr. Joseph M. DeSimone PARKING: Free Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of North JOB CLUB 5:00 - 6:00 P.M. Carolina (UNC)-Charlotte; William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor SOCIAL HOUR 5:30 - 6:30 P.M. of Chemical Engineering at North Cash Bar Carolina State University–Raleigh and of Chemistry at UNC; Director, Frank DINNER (See Page 2) 6:30 P.M. Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, UNC-Charlotte STIEGLITZ LECTURE by DR. JOSEPH M. DESIMONE 8:00 P.M. TITLE: Translating Basic Science IN THIS ISSUE into Products and the Role of Diversity in Making that Happen 2 Dinner Information 7 Women in Chemistry Film Series 3 ChemShorts for Kids 8 Chemistry History Abstract: In 1965, Gordon Moore, 3 Holiday Party 9 The Un-Comfort Zone co-founder of Intel, described the 4 Stieglitz and the Lectures 9 Food and Toy Drive trend that the number of components 4 Cultures in Academia 9 Summer Industrial Internships in integrated circuits had doubled every year since 1958. This trend 5 Stieglitz Lecturers 9 Ad Index has continued to today, enabled by 6 Chicago’s Specialty 10 HS Chem Teaching Guidelines advances in photolithography which Chemical Co.- Witco 10 Calendar has taken the minimum feature size of (continued on page 2) 11/12 2 (continued from page 1) transistors down from about 10 microns Enterprise, a business institute for the 2001 Outstanding Inventor of the Year in 1970 to 0.045 microns (45 nm) today. UNC campus. Award from the Triangle Intellectual In biological terms, this corresponds to He has published nearly three Property Law Association going from the size of a red blood cell hundred papers in various intellectual to the size of a single virus particle! As and scholarly areas of his work and 1999 Carl S. Marvel Creative Polymer such, this top-down nano-fabrication has received 135 domestic and foreign Chemistry Award, presented annually technology from the semiconductor patents. He has received awards and to recognize accomplishments and/ industry is, for the first time, in the size recognitions from many different donors or innovation of unusual merit in the range to be relevant for the design of honoring his work. A few of them are field of basic or applied polymer medicines, vaccines and interfacially listed below as representative of his science by younger scientists active Janus particles. works. He is a great teacher and has This lecture will describe the insights, the been responsible for many students 1998- 2001 Alfred P. Sloan Research team and the strategies behind translating as postdocs, graduate students, and Fellowship the basic science and engineering from one undergraduates who have worked in his industry (microelectronics) into products labs. 1993 Presidential Faculty Fellow useful in other fields (medicine and Dr. DeSimone has these achievements Award from the National Science vaccines) to improve the health and well- and accomplishments, and many others, Foundation being of society. after 20 years of work on the faculty as a professor. We are very pleased to honor 1992 National Science Foundation Comments and Biography: We are him for giving our 2012 Stieglitz Lecture. Young Investigator - Division of pleased to welcome Dr. DeSimone as Materials Research our Stieglitz Lecturer for 2012. We are A Select List of Awards Received by fortunate to have a chemist of such Dr. Joseph DeSimone honor and achievement as our speaker Put your business card here for this evening. If you view his resume’, 2012 Stieglitz Lecture Reach prospective clients by it is easy to see why the honors have advertising in come. First, his work has taken place in 2012 ACS Fellow those areas which are at the forefront The Chemical Bulletin of our society’s technical needs and 2012 Member of National Academy of ....................... interests: computers, nanotechnology, Sciences and medical technology, to name several For more information, call prominent areas. Second, his work has 2012 Walston Chubb Award for the Section office been successful in serving as a bridge Innovation - – Sigma XI (847) 391-9091 at a time when there is a need to merge the research and development findings 2010 AAAS Mentor Award, honoring or email at from science and engineering to create DeSimone’s dedication to [email protected] new and more efficient techniques and advancing diversity in the products. Dr. DeSimone has certainly chemistry PhD workforce been prominent as a leader in this DINNER INFORMATION regard. 2008 Recipient of the $500,000 Joe received his B.S. in chemistry Lemelson-MIT Prize Menu: Fresh Fruit Cup; Soup Du Jour; from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Tossed Salad with Choice of Dressing; PA, near Philadelphia, in 1986. He 2008 Tar Heel of the Year by the Raleigh Rolls & Butter; ENTRÉE CHOICE: received his Ph.D. in chemistry from News One of “One Hundred Blackened Tilapia, Beef Prime Rib, Virginia Polytechnic and State University Engineers of the Modern Era” by or Pasta Primavera; Chef’s Choice: in Blackburg, VA in 1990 with Dr. James the American Institute of Chemical Vegetable & Starch; Coffee Service and E. McGrath as his advisor. And so, Engineers (AIChE) marking the Dessert we can see how successful he has 100th Anniversary of the AIChE been in carrying out this work by the The cost is $35 to Section members manner and number of his awards and 2006 H.F. Whalen, Jr. Award for who have paid their local section dues, recognitions. They have come equally Entrepreneurship by ACS Div. members’ families, and visiting ACS from the technical as well as the social of Business Development & members. The cost to members who sides of our society. We can see this by Marketing have NOT paid their local section dues many he has received during the past and to non-members is $37. The cost to twenty years. 2005 Member of the National Academy students and unemployed members is Dr. DeSimone has been very active of Engineering $20. Seating will be available for those and creative in the various areas of who wish to attend the meeting without his work and in areas of leadership for 2002 Wallace H. Carothers Award dinner. his university. This is reflected by his from the Delaware Section of the appointments in the many leadership American Chemical Society Dinner reservations are required and roles for his University. This is also should be received in the Section reflected by his achievements in being 2001 Esselen Award for Chemistry in Office via phone (847-391-9091), email recognized as a Named Professor the Public Interest to recognize ([email protected]) or website of Chemistry at UNC and as a a chemist for outstanding (http://chicagoacs.org) by noon on Distinguished Professor of Chemical achievement in scientific and Monday, November 5. PLEASE HONOR Engineering at NC State. Just recently technical work that contributes to YOUR RESERVATIONS. The Section he was appointed Director of the Frank the public well-being must pay for all dinner orders. No-shows Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private will be billed. 11/12 3 The Elementary Education Committee of the Chicago Section ACS presents this column. They hope that it will reach young children and help increase their interest in science. Please print it out and pass it on to your children, grandchildren, or elementary school teachers. Teachers are encouraged to incorporate the projects in this column into their lesson plans. Burning Your Candle from Both Ends Kids, the “seesaw” candle is a fire science trick that teaches how combustion and Newton's Third Law of Motion work. A candle, balanced between a pair of glasses, seesaws up and down on its own as it burns. The most important thing you’ll need to see this trick is an adult partner. Have them get a long, thin candle, a needle, two glasses of the same height, a sheet of aluminum foil, and watch them do this trick. First, protect the experiment area with a sheet of aluminum foil. Then, expose the wick at both ends of the candle. If it has some wick pressed onto the bottom of the wax, loosen it. If there isn't any wick then use a dull knife to cut away some wax. Push the needle all the way through the candle about halfway down its length, so half of the needle sticks out either side of the candle. If the candle wax is soft, the needle may push through easily, but if the wax is hard or thick, then grasp the needle with pliers or tweezers, heat it in a flame and push it through the candle.