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KACS Newsletter 2011 3
KACS Newsletter 2011 3
{(Bi)monthly} Newsletter
March 13, 2011 Vol. 1 - Issue 3
Our 2010 Annual Report for the Kalamazoo section can be viewed on
our web site (see link under Executive Committee on our home page).
Everything was submitted on time thanks to the diligence of our past
chair Sue Stapleton and treasurer John Miller.
Earth Day
We still have openings for any member to come and represent ACS at
our outreach table during the Kalamazoo Nature Earth Day celebration
on April 16. See our last newsletter for more details. Please contact
Lydia Hines (lemhwgh@gmail.com) if you are able to help for any
amount of time.
Introduction
Lydia Hines
Virtual Journal
David Bolliet
As part of this year’s celebrations of IYC, ACS created a Virtual Journal where
one can find highlights from scientific journals in the fields of energy,
environment, health, and materials. Issue 2 can now be found online. Topics in
the February issue include personalized solar energy, “karrikins” and the key role
they play in post forest fires new plant growth, a more efficient and less
expensive synthesis of Tamiflu®, and a new process for making conductive
energy textiles. A link to the IYC Virtual Journal can be found on our homepage.
In July, one of the three finalist Thanks to all who participated in this challenge.
winners (one in each age Below is the solved puzzle.
category: 13-14, 15-16, and 17-
18) will get a chance to become Up to the task for another Sudoku challenge? Go
the grand-prize winner and to page 6 of this newsletter for your chance to
receive, among other things, a win a prize…
$50,000 scholarship, and a
National Geographic trip to the
Galapagos Islands.
Have fun!
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