Lunchtime Careers Conversation Tuesday, June 6 Dr. Pat Confalone (Wilmington, DE), Chair-ACS Board of Directors Dr. Ingrid Montes (San Juan, Puerto Rico), Pat N. Confalone is an independent ACS Director-at-Large consultant, Confalone consulting LLC and Ingrid Montes is the Assistant Dean of vice president at DuPont, Global Research & Graduate Studies and Research Program, Development [retired]. He earned his University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Bachelor's Degree from Massachusetts Campus. She earned her Bachelor's degree at Institute of Technology in 1967, Master's the University of Puerto Rico in 1980, and Degree from Harvard University in 1968, her Ph.D. in 1985. She has been a member of Ph.D. from Harvard University (R. B. the American Chemical Society since 1980. Woodward) in 1970, and Post-Doc at Harvard University (R. B. Woodward) in 1971. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1967. Dr. Peter Dorhout (Manhattan, KS), ACS President-Elect Dr. Donna Nelson (Norman, Oklahoma), Peter K. Dorhout is Vice President for ACS Immediate Past-President Research at Kansas State University. He Donna J. Nelson is a professor of chemistry received his bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Oklahoma. She received from the University of Illinois at Urbana- her B.S. in chemistry at the University of Champaign in 1985 and earned his Ph.D. in Oklahoma and earned her Ph.D. in chemistry inorganic chemistry from the University of at the University of Texas at Austin. She has Wisconsin-Madison in 1989. He was a been a member of the American Chemical postdoctoral fellow at the Ames Laboratory Society since 1975. at Iowa State University and has been a research collaborator with Los Alamos National Laboratory. He has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1986. Lunchtime Careers Conversation Tuesday, June 6 Dr. Laura Pence (West Hartford, CT), ACS Director, District I Laura E. Pence is a Professor of Chemistry in Dr. Kathleen Schulz (Albuquerque, NM), the College of Arts and Sciences at the ACS Director-at-Large University of Hartford. She earned her Kathleen M. Schulz is the President of Bachelor’s Degree in chemistry from Business Results Inc. and is retired from Lebanon Valley College in 1987, her Ph.D. at Sandia National Laboratories/Lockheed- Michigan State University in 1992, and was a Martin Corporation. She has worked in postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts every sector of the chemical enterprise - Institute of Technology until 1995. She academe, industry, consulting, and spent a year as an ACS Congressional government contracting in health, Science Policy Fellow in the US Senate from environment, nuclear and defense 2012-2013. She has been a member of the applications. She earned her Bachelor's American Chemical Society since 1987. degree summa cum laude from Eastern New Mexico University 1964, and a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from the University of Missouri-Columbia. She has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1964. Dr. Dorothy Phillips (Natick, MA), ACS Director-at-Large Dorothy J. Phillips is a director, strategic marketing at Waters Corporation (retired). She earned her Bachelor's degree in chemistry from Vanderbilt University in 1967 and her Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Cincinnati in 1974. Her almost 40-year industrial career began at the Dow Chemical Company (1974-84). She has been a member of the American Chemical Society since 1973. .