At the May executive board Meeting, chair-elect Suresh Iyer announced that he will be unable to continue his duties due to an imminent relocation to India.
Given the need for continuity in programming, the Board gratefully accepted Becky Guza's offer to take over as Chair-Elect for the remainder of 2013 and to fill the position of Chair for 2014.
We wish Dr. Iyer the best as he makes his move. How long until you're missing a May slush-storm?
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1744 Terrace Dr., Roseville MN
Cost: $10 per person. Pizza will be provided.
You may pre-pay via PayPal from the Reservations page, here.
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There is no May event, since we did two in April.
Our next event will be Saturday, June 15, at the East Lake St. library in Minneapolis.
As usual, we will be open to the public from 1:30-3:30. Volunteers please plan to arrive at 1:00 to help set up and learn experiments.
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Current membership cost is only $10.00 per calendar year. Annual renewal is necessary and reminders may not be sent. Your one-calendar-year membership will commence once payment is received. If you are interested, send a check made out to ‘MN-ACS’ to Mary Slinger, 19547 Roberds Lake Blvd., Faribault, MN 55021. Please include the following information: Name, complete address, e-mail address, phone number, and classification (i.e., graduate student/undergraduate/high school teacher/consultant/other).
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Do you know MNACS has a Facebook group? If you're a Facebook user, you can add yourself to the group to see our updates right on your news feed.
| MNACS is slowly transitioning to the 21st century "social-media" Internet. Our old text-based LISTSERV is no longer running (the hamster powering that server died) and we are now moving to Facebook and Google Groups to replace that service.
- If you want to be part of the Facebook group, just go to your Facebook account and in the Search box, look for American Chemical Society Minnesota Local Section (or "Like" us at left!)
- There are two Google Groups set up. MNACS-Ex is the executive committee's group - primarily about business, meeting planning and minutes, etc. The other group, MNACS, is for more general topics.
- The MNACS group is an open group: anyone can sign up for it. People who sign up can post messages, and you have the option of receiving messages in several formats: as they are posted; as a daily digest, or reading only when you visit the page. Visit the page to sign up. It has very little traffic now.
- The MNACS-EX group is a closed group. If you are interested in receiving those messages, go to the group page and click "Request an invitation to join this group".
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Get involved in ACS!
MN-ACS
runs monthly meetings and volunteer opportunities. Share your
professional skills and your enthusiasm for chemistry. Meet other
chemists and broaden your horizons.
| Want to host an event? Know a good speaker? MN-ACS is
always planning for future events. If your organization would be
interested in hosting an ACS event, or if you'd like to suggest a
speaker, a topic, or a location for one of our talks, please e-mail the
chair-elect (see "Contacts" page.)
If you have an item you'd like to list on the Events Calendar, please send full details using the form on the Contacts page. Please note that to submit an item you must be a member of MN-ACS or an affiliated organization. "Spam" events or events not judged to be of interest to our membership will be deleted.
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