Chemists celebrate Earth Day: 2007 report and 2008 preview

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Andy Jorgensen, andy.jorgensen@utoledo.edu, Department of Chemistry - MS #602, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, Marisa Burgener, m_burgener@acs.org, Office of Community Activities, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street NW, Washington, D.C, 20036, and Kara M. Jackson, kara.jackson@stjude.org, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 332 N. Lauderdale Street, Mail Stop 507, Memphis, TN 38105-2794.
Chemists Celebrate Earth Day is an outreach program of the American Chemical Society developed to enhance the public's awareness of the contributions of chemistry to our everyday lives and the nation's economy, as well as to showcase chemistry's value in sustaining a healthy planet. In 2007 this joint effort of the ACS Committee on Community Activities, the Committee on Environmental Improvement, and the Green Chemistry Institute celebrated its fifth year with the theme: "Recycling–Chemistry Can!" This report will summarize the activities of local sections in the program, which featured student poetry and video contests, community recycling events and an online photo exchange. A preview of the 2008 celebration will also be presented under the theme: "Streaming Chemistry."
 

General Posters
7:30 PM-9:30 PM, Sunday, August 19, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Poster

Sci-Mix
8:00 PM-10:00 PM, Monday, August 20, 2007 BCEC -- Exhibit Hall - B2, Sci-Mix

Division of Chemical Education

The 234th ACS National Meeting, Boston, MA, August 19-23, 2007