Program Committee - Fall 2022

The Program Committee’s main goal is to oversee the division’s technical program, start-to-finish, at the fall and spring national meetings. In working toward this goal, we interact cordially and professionally with the many people involved in programming, respond to their diverse requests in a timely manner and have to follow the protocols and enforce the rules by which all who contribute to the program must play.

Fall 2022 CHED programming offers several sessions tied to the ACS There, Sustainability in a Changing World. These include: Safety Education: An Integral Part of a Sustainability Curriculum, Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability, Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage in Undergraduate Teaching and Research, and Sustainable Polymeric Materials & Strategies in Education & Outreach. We also are sponsoring the GSSPC symposium, Achieving Scientific Excellence through Interdisciplinary and Collaborative Research.

Much of ACS programming seems to settled in to the pandemic shifts to presentation formats and now has had some consistency across a few meetings in planning. Working on behalf of the division requires interaction with many others: presenters, organizers, program chairs from other divisions, and ACS staff. A number of committee members and ACS staff members have been especially helpful in the planning of this meeting. Sincere thanks go out to:

• Jessica VandenPlas and Mitzy Erdmann for their support and efforts in Fall 2022 CHED program planning.
• Nicole DiFabio and Kelechi Uzo-Okoro, from the ACS in the Undergraduate Program Office, who worked with the undergraduate students and us to address their needs and questions
• Kevin McCue, Robin Green, and Josh Blair from ACS, for managing and guiding the entire Society’s program changes from face-to-face to virtual status.

Heather Johnson, for the countless ways she supports each program and our communication with members of the division