{"id":18386,"date":"2024-10-29T08:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=18386"},"modified":"2024-10-28T16:07:49","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T20:07:49","slug":"elizabethtown-college-chapter-of-the-student-affiliates-of-the-american-chemical-society-wins-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2024\/10\/29\/elizabethtown-college-chapter-of-the-student-affiliates-of-the-american-chemical-society-wins-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College Chapter of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society Wins Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Elizabethtown College chapter of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS) recently won an ACS Commendable Student Communities Award<\/a> for their dedicated work during the 2023-24 school year.<\/p>\n

The ACS presents the honor yearly to ACS Student Chapters across the United States who have shown dedication to their chapter and community through their events and activities.<\/p>\n

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Members of Etown’s chapter of the Students Affiliates of the American Chemical Society at their annual pie-a-professor fundraiser.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt means a lot to us to earn the award,\u201d Elizabethtown College Chemistry major Ryan Smith \u201925 said. \u201cOur club put in a lot of effort last year to try to make the semesters as enjoyable as possible for our members.\u201d\"\"\"\"<\/p>\n

Student chapters of the ACS have three main purposes: social, outreach, and professional. The club hosts and organizes many events to meet these goals, including bonding over sand volleyball with chemistry faculty members, events for National Chemistry Week, Trunk-or-Treat, an Easter egg hunt, and a Chemistry Department trip to Shady Maple Smorgasbord. The club also helps to partially fund a biannual trip to the ACS Conference<\/a>, which took place in New Orleans, La. in the spring of 2024.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most impactful support we get is from our department faculty,\u201d Smith said. \u201cThe relationships that we have fostered with our professors make it easy to ask them to participate in our events, even if that means asking them to get pied in the face as a fundraiser for our club.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Etown chapter of the Student Affiliates of the ACS is advised by Elizabethtown College A.C. Baugher Professor of Chemistry, James MacKay. The 2023-24 school year was MacKay\u2019s first year advising the club.<\/p>\n

\u201cChemistry is a tough major and a hard subject, but it was and is because of the Chemistry Club that we can show how chemistry can be really fun and engaging as well,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cOur students that lean into these activities are learning great leadership skills and engaging the next generation with the beauty and power of Chemistry!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Elizabethtown College chapter of the Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society (ACS) recently won an ACS Commendable Student Communities Award for their dedicated work during the 2023-24 school year. The ACS presents the honor yearly to ACS Student Chapters across the United States who have shown dedication to their chapter and community through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":18388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,775],"tags":[1439,1770,1123,2414,2413],"class_list":["post-18386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-campus","tag-american-chemical-society","tag-chem","tag-chemistry","tag-club","tag-student-affiliates-of-the-american-chemical-society","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18386"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18411,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18386\/revisions\/18411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}