The mission of the International Activities Committee is threefold:
(1.) Raise international awareness to ACS
(2.) Create international relationships with faculty for research collaborations and other scholarly activities.
(3.) Oversee a budget to provide an individual an opportunity to attend an international conference. The funds are designed to aid individuals who otherwise would not get an opportunity to attend the conference.
- Being accepted as a symposium organizer at BCCE2024
- Scholarly activity
- Title "Effective Approaches to Inclusive Chemistry Education"
- Held office hours on IUPAC GWB2024 for the ACS
- Outreach activity
- https://www.acs.org/education/outreach/iupacglobalwomensbreakfast.html
- Selected a recipient for the International Travel Award 2024
- Budget management
At the upcoming meeting, we will focus on the following:
- collaborating the IUPAC GWB 2024 with the ACS and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
- organizing a symposium at BCCE2025 (symposium proposal has been accepted)
- identifying avenue for expanding collaboration with other ACS committee
- promoting visibility of the committee through social media.
At last meeting, we formed four subcommittees as shown below.
- Award sub committee
- Marketing sub committee
- Global Women’s Breakfast sub committee - 2024 virtual
- Organizing a committee for BCCE sub committee
We did not select a grant winner for the International Travel Award 2023 (due to Covid-19)