ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 OFFICERS American Chemical Society Chair: John Protasiewicz Chair-Elect: Bernadette Donovan-Merkert Division of Inorganic Secretary: Jeffrey Rack Treasurer: Lisa Berreau Membership: Jason D’Acchioli Chemistry At-Large Members In this Issue James Boncella Kim R. Dunbar Joshua D. Figueroa Councilors Announcements General Announcements 2 Debbie Crans Messages Chair John Protasiewicz 6 Thomas R. Cundari Karen Goldberg Chair-elect Bernadette Donovan-Merkert 7 Silvia Ronco Alternate Councilors Past-Chair Claudia Turro 7 Paula Diaconescu Treasurer Lisa Berreau 8 Connie Lu Hannah S.Shafaat Program Chairs Nora Radu & Steve Koch 9 Ann Valentine Membership Chair Jason D’Acchioli 12 Program Chairs Steve Koch News Solid State Subdivision 13 Nora Radu Awards co-Chairs Nanoscience Subdivision 14 Tim Warren PUI Representative 15 Michael Shatruk Inorganic Stamp Corner 16 Subdivisions Information DIC Officer Contact Information 17 Bioinorganic: Edith (Phoebe) Glazer (Chair) About the ACS DIC 21 Jonathan Sessler (Chair-Elect) From our Sponsor 22 Organometallic Milton R. Smith, III (Chair) Elon Isau (Chair-Elect) Solid State & Mat. Chem. Amanda J. Morris (Chair) Bart Bartlett (Chair-Elect) Nanoscience Josh Goldberger (Chair) Brandi Cossairt(Chair-Elect) Coordination Eric J. Schelter (Chair) Tong Ren (Chair-Elect) Sustainable Energy & Environment Cliff Kubiak (Chair) Prepared by Jeffrey Rack, Secretary, ACS-DIC DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY !1 WWW.ACSDIC.ORG ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 Announcements Student Travel Awards The DIC is accepting applications for student travel awards for graduate and undergraduate students presenting research talks or posters at ACS National Meetings. The amount of the award is $450.00. The deadline for receipt of applications is January 15 for the Spring ACS National Meeting, and June 1 for the Fall ACS National Meeting. Winners will be notified by March 1 and August 1, respectively, for the Spring and Fall meetings. Selection process: Applications submitted by undergraduate researchers, graduate students in the first two years of their PhD and graduate students in the final years of their PhD will be reviewed separately. Within each category, the selection process will be based on scientific merit. Preference will be given to applicants who have not been awarded a Student Travel Award previously. Eligibility: 1. The student must be a member of the DIC and must present his/her paper in the DIC program. Students who are not making presentations are ineligible. 2. Only one nomination will be accepted per research group for each meeting. Exceptions may be granted for collaborative projects. Application Procedure: Use the linked questionnaire (travelgrantappform.pdf or travelgrantappform.doc) as a cover page for your application package. Please make sure to complete it in its entirety. The following items should be submitted after the form in this order: 1) A proof of your current ACS and DIC membership status, such as a copy of your receipt or a printout of “My Account” from acs.org showing your active divisional membership in DIC (you must log on to access this). 2) An abstract of the work to be presented in the DIC program with authors and affiliations listed and presenting author underlined. 3) A resume or CV, including a list of publications and presentations. 4) A recommendation letter from your research advisor (if your advisor prefers this to remain confidential, please have him/her, or a third party, submit the application on your behalf) The application must be saved as a SINGLE pdf file and emailed as an attachment to [email protected] . Please, use the applicant’s last name to name the pdf file. Please note that [email protected] email address is not consistently monitored. Accordingly, questions concerning the application process should be directed to the Award co-Chairs: http://acsdic.org/ officers.htm (scroll to bottom of page for a link to full contact information). DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY !2 WWW.ACSDIC.ORG ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 Announcements ELECTION RESULTS Congratula*ons to the newly elected 2018 officers of the Division of Inorganic Chemistry. And thanks to the all of the candidates for their willingness to serve our division! Chair-elect Ana de BeCencourt-Dias – University of Nevada – Reno Treasurer-elect Lisa Berreau – Utah State University Members-at-large Claudia Turro – The Ohio State University Councilor Clark Landis – University of Wisconsin Alternate Councilor Chip Nataro – LafayeCe College Bioinorganic Subdivision Chair-elect Andy Borovik – University of California – Irvine Organometallic Subdivision Chair-elect Paula Diaconcescu – University of California – Los Angeles Solid State Subdivision Chair-elect Stephen Maldonado – University of Michigan Nanoscience Subdivision Chair-elect Jill Millstone – University of PiCsburgh Coordinaon Chemistry Subdivision Chair-elect Suzanne Bart – Purdue University Sustainable Energy and Environment Subdivision Chair-elect Louise Berben – University of California – San Diego DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY !3 WWW.ACSDIC.ORG ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 Announcements (continued) The Nanoscience Subdivision of the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry (DIC) is pleased to solicit nomina?ons for the Inorganic Nanoscience Award, sponsored by the University of South Carolina NanoCenter. The award consists of $3000 made out to the winner as well as a plaque to be presented to the recipient at the Fall 2018 ACS mee?ng in Boston, MA. The recipient will be based at either an academic ins?tu?on or a na?onal laboratory seng in North America. The intent of the award is to recognize sustained excellence, dedica?on, and perseverance in research in the area of inorganic nanoscience. Recipients are expected to be at the mid-career stage, i.e., no more than 10 years post tenure (or equivalent appointment) and/or between the ages of 36-45 in awarding year. Preference will be given to nominees who have not won an ACS award during the past five years. Self-nomina?on is allowed. Each nomina?on should include (1) a 5-page curriculum vitae, (2) a list of the nominees’ 10 most significant publica?ons, and (3) a one-page statement that highlights the key research discoveries that merit a na?onal award in the area of inorganic nanoscience. Each nominee should also arrange for three le\ers of support to be sent separately. Only one of the three suppor?ng le\ers can be from the nominee’s home ins?tu?on. Nomina?ons and le\ers of support should be emailed as pdf a\achments to the Nanoscience Subdivision Chair [email protected]. Inquiries (but not nomina?on materials) can be addressed to the Nanoscience Subdivision Chair: hp:// acsdic.org/officers/. The winner will be selected from nomina?ons submi\ed by January 15, 2018. The award winner will be announced on March 10, 2018. DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY !4 WWW.ACSDIC.ORG ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 Announcements (continued) Spring and Fall 2016 DIC Travel Grant Awardees Each recipient received $450 to a3end the San Francisco or Washington DC Mee<ngs Fall - Washington DC Mee2ng Spring - San Francisco Mee0ng Kevin Wyss - Auburn University Jonathan Mason - Benedic9ne University Allison Batka - University of Michigan Marianne Donley- Villanova University Alex Allen - UNC Charloe Madeline Riffel - UCLA Sarah Nathan - Cornell University Edward Nguyen - Cal. State. Univ. Long Beach Andrew Schaefer - Stanford University Jessica Lohrman - University of Kansas Basil Ahmed - Western Michigan University Ryan Cammarota - University of Minnesota Michaela Carlson - University of Illinois - Joya Cooley - UC Davis Urbana Champagne Sco Coste - Northwestern University Anna Chris9anson - Texas A&M Courtney Forde - University of Illinois - Huiguang Dai - University of Cincinna9 Urbana Champagne Pranaw Kunal - University of Texas AusHn Shengda Ding - Texas A&M Shaoyang Lin - Virginia Tech Haipeng Lu - Univ. Southern Calif. Yan Xie - SUNY Stony Brook Anton Razgoniaev - Bowling Green State Univ. Shuo Zhao - Carnegie Mellon University Darpandeep Aulakh - Clarkson Univ. Stephanie Carpenter - University of Courtney Downes - Univ. Southern Calif. Rochester Daniel Ekekwe - University of Canterbury Jeffrey Einkauf - Florida Atlan9c Univ. (NZ) Julie Fenton - Penn. State University Yongping Fu - University of Wisconsin Sarah Gibbons - Dartmouth College Weijia Niu - University of Florida Jerod Kieser - Case Western Reserve Georgiy Akopov - UCLA University James Yarnell - North Carolina State Arthur White - Iowa State Univ. University Hannah Zeitler - University of Washington Tyler Pearson - Northwestern Univ. DIVISION OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY !5 WWW.ACSDIC.ORG ACS DIC NEWSLETTER 2017 Message from Chair, John Protasiewicz Wow, what a busy year. A lot has happened in the past year. Where do I start? First, let me say that one of the very best part of being on the DIC execu?ve commi\ee is the opportunity to work with truly excep?onal DIC members from all branches of inorganic chemistry and from all sorts of occupa?ons. I would encourage everyone to consider becoming ac?ve in the DIC by sending your Chair-elect a message to indicate your willingness to volunteer and in what capacity. The Chair-elect is responsible each year for presen?ng a list of candidates for elec?on. Even if you are not called upon immediately, names are oden saved for the following year's slate. We also have a number of appointed posi?ons that require filling during the course of the year. In addi?on to providing valuable service to the division, you will have the unique opportunity to get to network with your division's leaders and enjoy a special dinner at the start of each na?onal ACS mee?ng! As always, the DIC execu?ve commi\ee has worked hard to bring vibrant programming to the na?onal ACS mee?ngs. We are fortunate to have experienced program chairs Nora Radu and Stephen Koch to keep everything organized and running smoothly. Our recent strategic plan has been very successful and the financial situa?on for the division is strong, guided by the efforts from our talented treasurer Lisa Berreau. Our secretary Jeff Rack has undertaken a number of ini?a?ves of note.