New Opportunities For Divisions

Abstract

TECHNICAL DIVISIONS are vital to the success of the American Chemical Society. They create the bulk of the programming that is the backbone of the highly successful ACS national meetings. The technical content created by division members forms the basis of the internationally renowned ACS journals, symposium series books, and, increasingly, Web-based content. The communities created by the divisions are the scientific homes for many ACS members around the world. Indeed, one perspective is that ACS meetings are actually groups of 34 divisional minisymposia. I’d like to make you aware of several new opportunities for divisions to create value for their members arising from recent work by divisions, the Committee on Divisional Activities (DAC), and many others. Multidisciplinary programming has been a particular focus of ACS for the past several years. Since the fall of 2006, each ACS national meeting has had an organizing theme. In Salt Lake City, the theme will be Nanoscience, led ...