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Fall 2007 - Winter 2008
View Our Slideshow for Fall 2007! Thanks for a memorable National Chemistry Week! It was so memorable, we even made it on Our 2007 National Chemistry Week activities included: Mole Day @ the Hands-On Museum, Experiments in the Diag, Experiments at EMU for Family Day, Liquid Nitrogen Ice-cream Social, T-shirt Making Social, Sciencepalooza and More! Other Events So Far: Festifall, Northfest, Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream Social, AIDS Walk Michigan, and much more! Find out about upcoming events! Fall 2006 - Winter 2007 |
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During the 2006-07 school year, we tried to increase membership, both locally and nationally. Our faculty advisor, Dr. Paul Jones, worked with the local Huron Valley chapter in order to provide reimbursement for all students who became official ACS-SA members. As a result, we increased the number of officially registered ACS-SA members to 15.Additionally, we tried to increase participation locally. We increased the number of officers to 12. We also increased our expectations for officers to ensure that each officer is committed to the organization. All officers became official ACS-SA members (the equity issues were resolved with the reimbursement program). We also tried to increase general participation by planning fun events that students would want to participate in. We conducted experiments in the Chemistry atrium during National Chemistry Week, and we performed demonstrations for kids at the Hands-on Museum and during Kids Fair.
List of Main Events: Mole Day Trivia in Chemistry Atrium (10/23/06) Monthly Faculty Dinners Green Chemistry Talks with Dr. Kirchhoff (11/6/06-11/7/06) View our slideshow for Fall 2006 - Winter 2007! Detailed Review of the Fall 2006 - Winter 2007 School Year ACS Student Affiliates at University of Michigan Use Their Passion for Chemistry to Inspire the Community and Other Students Check out an article that was published about our student affiliates group in 1997! (Check it Out!)
Abstract Going from almost zero to more than sixty active members in less than a year, the University of Michigan American Chemical Society Student Affiliate chapter is a success story about revitalizing a struggling chapter. Innovative officer positions, increased delegation of authority, and courage to try new ideas generated this special chemistry. In order to encourage each member to be creative and reach his or her full chapter potential, the officers stressed, |
Dream of an outstanding activity, and everyone will make it happen.
Strategically, this philosophy was reinforced by electing members who had spearheaded projects to the new officer positions. In the following article, we will present the events and philosophies that created the strong intra-Student Affiliate and inter-Student Affiliate/community chemical bonds.