An ACS member benefit: Volunteering with your local section

Abstract

Volunteering with your American Chemical Society local section is a great way to build your professional network and develop transferable skills. By volunteering, you can improve your skills relevant to supervising a research group, managing a lab, leading a department, finding funding resources, or running a business. ACS local section volunteers support their local sections by engaging in important tasks such as building teams by matching personal and professional interests and talents, seeking funding for innovative projects, planning events from start to finish, engaging in strategic planning, and finding and developing new leaders through coaching and feedback, all in a collaborative and collegial environment. Many ACS local sections host formal meetings as an important recurring function of the section. These meetings may be scientific in nature, focus on professional development, or be some hybrid of the above with a more social theme. Last year, for example, the Detroit Local Section