The Spring ACS meeting is just around the corner! If you are attending the meeting we hope that you enjoy the time with colleagues and get to learn something new. Be sure to join the CHED social event on Sunday from 5-7pm. Let’s also share a big thank you to Pam Clevenger and Faith Yarberry who are the meeting co-chairs. For the Spring meeting we had 1,640 submission submissions to CHED and our joint programming including 355 oral presentations, 89 posters, and 1,194 undergraduate student posters. For this spring, there will no longer be hybrid sessions. Instead, all talks will be in person or will be fully online (per the ACS this is much more sustainable. We will also have the “pods” that were demoed in the Fall 2024 meeting. These are inflatable rooms that share space in one of the exhibition halls. There will also be more hot topics session (designed to attract individuals from across divisions) and much more.
Although the Spring 2025 meeting hasn’t yet occurred, the Program Committee is already working on the Fall 2026 meeting. We wanted to thank the many people who provided suggestions for potential symposia. The meeting itself will be shorter with only 3.5 days of technical sessions. The CHED offerings as a result will be a bit lighter (we only have 16 half-day session we are allowed to schedule). However, we are still aiming at providing a range of symposia. You can head to maps.acs.org to check out the different symposia and submit an abstract while you are there! The deadline for submissions is March 31st. We hope to see you in Washington, DC!
Looking even farther ahead, we are starting to make plans for the Spring 2026 meeting. Be on the lookout for a call for symposia that will go out later this spring to all CHED members. We are very keen on providing a range of symposia that will be broadly interesting and your suggestion can help make that happen.