13. SMACS 2009 Homecoming LuAU
14. SMACS 2009 BSA Clinic
December 7, 2008- Organizational Meeting: The following officers were elected for 2009:
President: Kayla A. Poindexter Vice President: Punam Patel Secretary: Robert Casey Unger Treasurer: Ashish Patel Executive Committee Members: Elizabeth Abernathy, James K. Griffin,Carolyn Nguyen, Lepold Phiapalath
SAACS president Kayla Poindexter, vce president Punam Patel, Kiran Vaswani, Brandi Griggs and faculty advisor attended the meeting. Here are a few pictures from the ACS awards ceremony event.
SAACS 08-09 Green Chemistry
During the year SAACS members helped with the UTM’s Recycle efforts four times, sponsored speakers: Dr. Jim Byford on Gasohol, October 21, Dr. Tim Burcham on Bio-diesel, November 15 and Dr. Dan Johnson on the Role of Ionic liquids in Green Chemistry.
UTM SAACS president Kayla Poindexter Dr. Daniel Johnson from Murray State University with UTM SAACS receives the latest Green Chemistry Chapter students after his Green Chemistry presentation on Ionic Liquids. award from Dr. Bob Peoples, director of the April 6, 2009 ACS Green Chemistry Institute. March 22, 2009
Dr. Daniel Johnson from Murray State University making a Dr. James L. Byford, Dean of Agriculture Green Chemistry presentation sponsored by UTM SAACS. spoke to SAACS on gasohol on October 21, 2008 Below: Part of audience with Dr. Byford
UTM SAACS sponsored the seminar on bio-diesel by Dr. Timothy N. Burcham, professor of agriculture and natural resources, on November 15, 2008. His seminar had more than one hundred high school students and teachers attend.
UTM SAACS members helped in the Recycle Project at UT-Martin four times during the year. In the picture SAACS president is presenting a $100 check to Project coordinators Dennis Costa and Mike McCullough for a mural that Martin artist Les MacDiarmid will prepare for the Recycle Center. Others present in the picture are: SAACS faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee and members Kayla Baker, Casey Unger, Ashish Patel, Robert Mitchell, Punam Patel who are displaying the SAACS poster Chemists Celebrate the Earth Day to highlighting their sustainability and green chemistry projects.
SAACS 08-09 Miscellaneous
UTM SAACS-November 2008 Boy Scouts taking test at the clinic SAACS getting BSA clinic demos ready
SAACS let Genie out of the bottle UTM SAACS after KLS Meeting
SAACS 08-09 Miscellaneous-2
UTM SAACS present a program for Martin Primary School during National Chemistry week.
High School students participating in the Science Bowl sponsored by UTM SAACS.
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SAACS recruiting new members by presenting a demonstrations program (above) and by offering periodic chart cupcakes (below).
SAACS 08-09 29th Annual High School Science Bowl
One hundred and nine students from eleven schools participated in the 28th Annual High School Science Bowl.
Science bowl in progress. Bartlett High School
Creekwood High School Hutchison High School
Houston High School Madison Academic
Martin Westview High School Memphis University School
Trinity Christian Academy University School of Jackson-2nd runner up
Waverly County Sponsoring Teachers at the workshop
SAACS 08-09 ACCM 32nd Annual Area Collegiate Chemistry Meeting cosponsored by Murray State and UT-Martin SAACS was held at Murray on April 5. ACS president-elect Dr. Joseph Franxisxo was the keynote speaker.
Front row: James K. Griffin, Casey M. Ellington, Elizabeth A. Abernathy, Christy R. Lowe, Kayla A. Poindexter, Kayla Baker, Punam Patel, Tiffany Brewer (presenter), Carolyn U. Nguyen (presenter), Lauren Bivens (presenter), Kiran G. Vaswani (presenter) and Dr. S.K. Airee (SAACS advisor)Back row: Cory L. Jones, Dr. Paul Higgs, Ashish J. Patel, Bradley A. Bugg (presenter), ACS president-elect Dr. Joseph S. Francisco, Robert H. Mitchell, and Dr. Charles R. Thomas. Not pictured: Dr. Jozsef Devenyi, Dr. James Smart, and Brandi Griggs (presenter)
Kayla Poindexter & Carolyn Nguyen Kiran Vaswani
Brandy Griggs with ACS president-elect & Dr. Smart Lauren Bivens Bradley Bugg
Tiffany Brewer
SAACS 08-09 Boy Scouts Chemistry Badge Clinic UTM SAACS sponsored chemistry merit badge clinic for Boy Scouts on October 18, 2008. 37 Boy Scouts from 8 northwest Tennessee troops participated.
SAACS 08-09 Salt Lake City National Meeting
Four SAACS - Brandy Griggs, Kayla Poindexter, Punam Patel , Kiran Vaswani- and faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee attended the National ACS meeting in Salt Lake City, March 20 -25.
UTM SAACS Griggs, Vaswani & Patel UTM SAACS with Green Chemistry Chapter watching Demos with Household Chemicals and Outstanding chapter awards along ACS president Dr. Thomas H. Lane
With Eminent Scientist Speaker Dr. Luis With Green Chemistry Institute director Dr. Echegoyen & Manager of the ACS Robert Peoples and ACS past president Dr. Undergradute Education Office Nancy William F. Carroll in front of SAACS poster. Bakowski
March 26, 2009 Hey guys, We had a meeting tonight at 6:00 to discuss the ACCM trip, as well as a few other upcoming events that SAACS is involved in. Punam Patel, Kiran Vaswani, Kayla Poindexter, Casey Unger, Christy Lowe, Casey Ellington, Robert Mitchell, Kayla Baker,Corey Jones, Dr. Airee, Elizabeth Abernathy, Ashish Patel, and Carolyn Nguyen all attended. In case you could not make it, here a those upcoming events we discused: - April 4th is the ACCM event in Murray. This is a MUST ATTEND event for those who want to be listed for the Honor Roll. The event lasts from 9:00 A.M.-2:00 P.M., but we will be leaving from the EPS parking lot at 7:30 that morning. In order to be counted as present at this event, you must stay until 12:00. Be sure to bring $5 for lunch. -April 6th is when Dr. Johnson will be giving a presentation on Green Chemistry at 7:00 P.M. His presentation is entitled "Ionic Liquid in Green Chemistry". -April 22nd is Earth Day. Please send any ideas that you have to Kayla Poindexter, and you will receive credit for a meeting. -April 25th is the Chemistry Olympiad at 8:00 A.M. Kayla Poindexter, Kayla Baker, and Elizabeth Abernathy are all signed up to work this event. Also, for those of you who went to Salt Lake City, don't forget to pay $100 to Kiran Vaswani. I believe this covers all that the topics we discussed. I hope you all have a great weekend. Thanks,,
Casey Unger
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Page Updated by Michael A. Johnson & Christy R. Lowe on December 14, 2007
President: Kayla A. Poindexter Vice President: Punam Patel
Secretary: Robert Casey Unger Treasurer: Ashish Patel Executive Committee Members: Elizabeth Abernathy, James K. Griffin,Carolyn Nguyen, Lepold Phiapalath
December 9, 2007- Chemistry Help Session Members Attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Megan Malin, Allan Hess and Tiffany Brewer. Dr. Carol Blanchard and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee provided a great amount of help to about fifteen students. Annually SAACS, along with some of the professors in the chemistry department, provide a help session for students at UTM to come and receive help with chemistry.
November 10, 2007- 28th Annual High School Science Bowl Members attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Megan Malin, Punam Patel, Heather Housel, Luke Sprague, Shawn Smith, Ashish Patel, Kiran Vaswani, Carolyn Nguyen, Carol Chan, Chad Waters, Hillary Crossett, Brandi Griggs, Michael Johnson, Kendra Salter, Tiffany Brewer, Charles Mitchell, Kayla Poindexter, Allan Hess, Casey Ellington, faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee, and several of the UTM faculty assisted and attended the science bowl.
November 8, 2007- Science Bowl Prep #2 Members attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Megan Malin, Punam Patel, Heather Housel, Luke Sprague, Shawn Smith, Ashish Patel, Kiran Vaswani, Carolyn Nguyen, Carol Chan, Chad Waters, Hillary Crossett, Brandi Griggs, Michael Johnson, Kendra Salter, Tiffany Brewer, Casey Ellington and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee.
November 6, 2007- Science Bowl Prep #1 Members attended: Punam Patel, Heather Housel, Kiran Viswani, Carolyn Nguyen, Allan Hess, Kayla Poindexter, Ashish Patel, Robert Mitchell, Christy Lowe, Michael Johnson, Megan Malin, Hillary Crossett, Chad Waters, Casey Ellington, Brandi Griggs, Charles Mitchell, Carol Chan, Luke Sprague, Tiffany Brewer and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee.
November 5, 2007. Fulton County School System Careers Day Robert Mitchell and Megan Malin presented a program on careers in chemistry and a set of demonstrations at the Fulton Co High School in Kentucky (25 miles from Martin)
November 1, 2007- Organizational Meeting Members Attended: Christy Lowe Robert Mitchell, Casey Ellington, Punam Patel, Luke Sprague, Ashish Patel, Charles Mitchell, Kayla Poindexter, Chad Waters, Tiffany Brewer, Kelsy Miller, Michael Johnson, Megan Malin, Hillary Crossett, Carolyn Nguyen, Shuntaro Tsukiyama, Kendra Salter and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee.
November 1, 2007- Westview High School Demos Members Attended: Christy Lowe, Punam Patel, Chad Waters, Megan Malin, Shuntaro Tsukiyama, Hillary Crossett and Michael Johnson.
October 25, 2007- Rotary Club Demo Show Members attended set up: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Chad Waters, Punam Patel, Jessica Clepler, Kayla Poindexter and Carolyn Nguyen Members Attended Demo Show: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Chad Waters, Megan Malin, Carol Chan, Allan Hess, Punam Patel, Kayla Poindexter, Ashish Patel, Carolyn Nguyen, Jessica Clepler and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. At this meeting, several SAACS performed demos related to green chemistry followed by a green chemistry power point presentation by Robert H. Mitchell.
October 25, 2007- National Chemistry Week Demos and KLS Meeting Most of the UTM SAACS attended this meeting and demo show. Also, other colleges from around the area attended this meeting and performed demos as well. It was a fun night filled with "The many faces of chemistry." UTM SAACS presenters: Megan Malin, Punam Patel, Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell and Kayla Poindexter.
October 24, 2007- National Chemistry Week Prep Meeting Members Attended: Chad Waters, Punam Patel, Megan Malin, Robert Mitchell, Christy Lowe, Kayla Poindexter, Ashish Patel, Jessica Clepper, Carolyn Nguyen, Allan Hess, Carol Chan and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee
October 13, 2007- Homecoming Members Attended: Kiran Viswani, Carol Chan, Punam Patel, Jessica Clepper, Chad Waters, Megan Malin, Kayla Poindexter, Robert Mitchell, Michael Johnson, Allan Hess, Ashish Patel, Tiffany Brewer, Kelsy Miller, Christy Lowe, Chad Poindexter, chemistry secretary Lana Ferrell and Faculty advisors Dr. S. K. Airee and Dr. Nancy Hinds. SAACS hosted a tent on this day were we showed several demos as well as made liquid nitrogen ice cream for the visitors. The nursing students at UTM provided blood pressure checks for the guests.
October 11, 2007- Organizational Meeting Members Attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Kayla Poindexter, Ashish Patel, Megan Malin, Chad Waters, Punam Patel, Carolyn Nguyen, Tiffany Brewer, Nathan Brown, Carol Chan Kiran Vaswani and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. At this meeting we discussed National Chemistry Week and the semester t-shirt.
October 10, 2007 -Picture with Governor Phil Bredesen Members Attended: Christy Lowe and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee.
October 6, 2007- Senior Day Members Attended: Robert Mitchell and Christy Lowe
September 27- Social Gathering and Organizational Meeting Members Attended. Kyle Bailey, Andrew Moore, Luke Sprague, Punam Patel, Ashish Patel, Charles Mitchell, Allan Hess, Carolyn Nguyen, Kendra Salter, Kayla Poindexter, Robert Mitchell, Michael Johnson, Megan Malin, Chad Waters, Carol Chan and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. At this meeting we discussed Senior Day, Homecoming, Censational Day and BSA Clinic. We also enjoyed liquid nitrogen ice cream.
September 18, 2007 KLS Meeting at Union University in Jackson Punam Patel and faculty advisor attended. Program was by Dr. John Fortman, Wright State University Title: "Humorous Chemistry on Popular TV Shows"
September 13, 2007 -Dr. Higgs Lecture Members Attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Allie Naiseh, Andrew Moore, Charles Mitchell, Jonathan Mitchell, Megan Malin, Chad Waters, Kyle Bailey, Punam Patel, Alexis Luckey, Brandi Griggs, Allan Hess, Kendra Salter, Ashish Patel and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. UTM faculty included: Dr. Jozsef Devenyi, Dr. Nancy Hinds, and Dr. Mark Keranen.
September 11, 2007- ChemMagic Show (recruitment) Members Attended: Robert Mitchell, Christy Lowe, Carolyn Nguyen, Brandi Griggs, Carol Chan, Hillary Crossett, Kayla Poindexter, Megan Malin, Chad Waters, Jessica Clepper, Kendra Salter, Allan Hess, Kiran Vaswani and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. Other students: Andrew Moore, Parker Hunt, Luke Sprague, Thomas Hester, Michael Johnson, Alexis Luckey and Jonathan Routon.
September 10, 2007 -Organizational Meeting Members attended: Christy Lowe, Megan Malin, Chad Waters, Carolyn Nguyen, Carol Chan, Robert Mitchell, Shuntaro Tsukiyama, Kayla Poindexter, Allan Hess and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee
August 30, 2007- KLS Meeting in Murray Members Attended: Christy Lowe, Robert Mitchell, Chad Waters, Megan Malin, Kayla Poindexter, Kiran Vaswani and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee
August 29, 2007- Organizational Meeting Members Attended: Kayla Poindexter, Robert Mitchell, Christy Lowe, Charles Mitchell, Carolyn Nguyen, Carol Chan, Kiran Vaswani, Jonathan Mitchell, Chad Waters, Megan Malin, Brandi Griggs and Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee. Several upcoming events were discussed: KLS meeting, Received grant, Dues, Dr. Higgs presentation, NCW, Boy scouts clinic, National meeting in New Orleans, Meeting in Nashville, Science Bowl, and Recruitment.
Seated: Michael Tinnesand (ACS Academic Programs Associate Director), Andrew Nielson, Delana McDaniel, Andrew Bernard (UTM SAACS 2005 president), Kendra Salter, Edurne Lopez, Lucia Lopez, and Dr. S.K. Airee (Faculty Advisor) 1st row standing: James Fisette, Rodel Marc Cacas, Tina Kox, Blake Poole, Charles Orton, William Wade, Dr. Nancy Hinds (Faculty Advisor), Jilandra Williams, Phuongdinh Nguyen, Megan Malin, and Julie Liu back row standing: Robert Mitchell, Tucker Leigh, Tanisha Stewart, Sam Patel, Justin Sutton, Brad Bledsoe, Jon Bain (UTM SAACS 2006 president), Charles Mitchell, Audrey Smith, Alexandria Boyce, Tobey Taylor, and Chad Waters
Thursday, January 26, 7 PM, Room 317 EPS
SAACS Green Chemistry Speaker Dahlia Haynes from Clemson University "The renewable resource material, Lactic for commodity thermoplastic applications"
Eight SAACS and FA joined Ms Haynes for dinner at the Catfish Restaurant and Steakhouse from 5 to 6:30. More than thirty students and faculty attended the seminar at 7PM
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SAACS officer to recount experiences as exchange student in Germany
The University of Tennessee at Martin chapter is sponsoring a presentation by a former officer, Emily C. Bethart, about her experiences as an exchange student in Germany. The presentation will be at 7 p.m., Feb. 9, in Room 317 of the Joseph E. Johnson Engineering and Physical Sciences Building. Bethart, a senior chemistry major, left in July 2005 as the first exchange student from the chemistry department to Technischen Universitat in Braunschweig, Germany, for a five-month exchange. She worked her "Praktikum" with Dr. Ullrich Engelhardt, the food chemist in the Lebensmittelchemie Institute, creating a standard definition for tea typing. She also enjoyed her German classes. After graduation in May 2006 at UT Martin, Bethart plans to return to Germany to work on her master's degree in preparation for teaching chemistry and English at the Hochschule level in Germany.
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Dr. John J. Meister, Forest Products Research Center, Albuquerque, NM
"Synthetic Lumber: The Preparation of Polymers and Plastics from Forest Products"
We will leave around 5:30 PM.
Saturday, March 4, 8 AM to 12:30 in EPS
SAACS sponsor Chemistry Merit Badge Clinic for Boy Scouts
One of the required activities for SAACS. Need to meet 2 to 3 times prior to the clinic to prepare for this event.
Thirteen SAACS did attend this meeting, A poster paper was presented by the chapter on our green chemistry activities and we did get recognized at the Awards Ceremony on Sunday.
AND WHO SAYS CHEMISTRY AND BASKETBALL DON'T MIX [Photo by Dean Smith] Click the link above to the C&EN National meeting Blog. UTM SAACS are featured in a C & EN Blog linked above are: Brad Bledsoe, Nick Appleton, Tucker Leigh, and Sam Patel.
Seated: Dr. Doug Sterrett (Dean of the College of Engineering and Natural Sciences), Dr. John Petersen (President of the University of Tennessee), Keith Butler (Chief Chemist, American Ordinance, Milan Army Ammunition Plant), Dr. Greg Mitchell (Supervisor of Chemists & Chemical Engineering Group), Dr. Catherine T. Hunt (ACS President), Dr. Robin Rogers (Director of the Green Manufacturing at the University of Alabama), Dr. James Mack(Green Chemistry Research Director at the University of Cincinnati), Dr. Tom Rakes (Provost andVice Chancellor Academic Affairs) , Jon Bain (UTM SAACS President). Standing in front row: Nic Appleton, Andy Bernard, Andrey Smith, Christy Lowe, Phuongdinh Nguyen, Kiran Vaswani, Dr. Rosemary Effiong, Jessica Mitchell, Charles Orton, Kendra Salter, Dr. Nancy Hinds, Carol Peterson, and Dr. S. K. Airee Standing in back row: Lana Ferrell, Brad Bledsoe, Alexandria Boyce, Dr. Robert Hartshorn, Dr. Rick Thomas, James Fisette, Rodel Cacas, Joshua McCoy, Jessica Clepper, Robert Mitchell, Allister Wilton, Charles Mitchell, Tucker Leigh, Tobey Taylor, Shuntaro Tsutiyama, Dr. Charles Harding, Tanisha Stewart, Dr. Antony Harmon
September 1, 2005 Organizational Meeting: Members present: Brad Bledsoe, Kala Smith, Phuong Nguyen, Audrey Smith, Jonathan Bain, Charles Orton, Andy Bernard, Nicolas Appleton, Alexandra Boyce, Tucker Leigh, Faculty advisor Dr. S. K. Airee
September 8, Organizational Meeting: Nick Appleton, Dani Avent, Brad Bledsoe, Alexandria Boyce, Dan Comer, Delana McDaniel, Joel Morrison, Andy Nelson, Phoung Nguyen, Charles Orton, Kendra Salter, Audrey Smith, Jilandra Williams and FA
September 15, CHEMAGIC SHOW More than thirty people attended including the followiing SAACS: Dani Avent, Peter Hunter, Tina Knox, Julie Liu, Lucia Lopez, Christy Lowe, Delana McDaniel, Charles Mitchell, Phuong Nguyen, Andy Nielson, Sam Patel, Blake Poole, Kala Smith, Kiran Vaswani, Chad Waters,.
September 29, Green Chemistry Speaker Dr. James Mack of the University of Cincinnati:
October 8: Reception for SAACS/Chemistry Alumni at the Homecoming on Saturday
President: Andrew R. Bernard Vice-President: Jonathan A. Bain Secretary: Meera S. Patel Treasurer: Nicolas C. Appleton Additional Executive Committee Members: Rodel A. Cacas, Julie Liu, Delana McDaniels and Kala M. Smith Faculty Advisor: Dr. S. K. Airee
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Updated May 23, 2006, by Sam Patel & S,K.Airee