Abstract

The American Chemical Society and its local sections are all whipped up about National Chemistry Week (NCW). Festivities will start on Nov. 5, and by the time the celebration is over on Nov. 11, all 188 local sections will have participated and millions of people will have had the chance to hear positive messages about chemistry, to experiment in the kitchen, to sample ACS publications online, and to help their local communities with a food drive. The unifying event this year, Chemists Reacting to Hunger, has been promoted to all local sections, which have been urged to coordinate food drives to benefit local organizations. This is the first time NCW has featured this kind of activity. Also a first, the ACS Publications Division will make electronic editions of all ACS journals online available to the public free of charge—all week long. The National Chemistry Week program office at ACS headquarters has been busy. We have ...

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