2026 Crano Memorial Lecture Award-Call for Nominations
Published 1/4/2026
The Akron Section of the ACS is accepting nominations for the Crano Memorial Lecture Award, to be presented at the April 2026 General Meeting, to an outstanding chemistry professional in any field. The award consists of a $1,200 honorarium and an engraved plaque. The recipient delivers a lecture at the University of Akron to a ... Read more
Professor Omar K. Farha named 2025 Crano Memorial Lecture Awardee
Published 3/16/2025
Dr. Omar K. Farha Professor of Chemistry Northwestern University Omar K. Farha is the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry and Department Chair at Northwestern University, an Executive Editor for ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and President of Numat Technologies. His current research spans diverse areas of chemistry and materials science ranging ... Read more
Akron Section Bylaws – Update
Published 11/17/2024
ACS National has informed the Akron Section of the ACS that our current local section bylaws are out-of-date and no longer consistent with the ACS governing documents. The Akron Section of the ACS executive committee have drafted updated bylaws (posted below) following the ACS governing documents. A vote of local section membership is required to ... Read more
Call for Nominations – 2024 Akron Section Award
Published 6/30/2024
The Akron Section is accepting nominations for the Akron Section Award, to be presented at the November General Meeting to an outstanding chemistry professional within a 500 mile radius of Akron in any field. The award consists of a $1000 honorarium and engraved plaque. The lecturer delivers a lecture at the University of Akron for ... Read more
Kent State Honors Week Poster Session
Published 3/31/2024
The Student Affiliates and the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Kent State University will be holding their 10th annual Honors Week Poster Session on Monday, April 15th from 5:30-8:00pm. This will be in the Integrated Sciences Building. Both undergraduate and graduate students in STEM discipline from Kent State and area institutions will be presenting their research. ... Read more
SCIENCEPALOOZA 2024!
Published 2/4/2024
-The original online science festival and webinar series!!!- Date: Friday, February 9, 1:00 pm Eastern Standard Time (note special time!) Webinar: “Lessons in Chemistry!” New York Times #1 best-selling author Bonnie Garmus will join us from London to discuss how Lessons in Chemistry are Lessons in Life! Speaker: Bonnie Garmus Author of New York Times #1 Bestseller, Sunday Times ... Read more
Prashant Jain – 2023 Akron Section Award Winner
Published 10/29/2023
Awardee: Prof Jain’s is G. L. Clark Professor of Physical Chemistry and University Scholar at UIUC. His lab specializes in nanoscale light–matter interactions and nanoscale chemical imaging. His noteworthy recent contributions are discoveries of plasmon resonances in doped nanocrystals and plasmonic redox catalysis. His group’s website is https://nanogold.org. Prashant is a Fellow of the American ... Read more
Joint Cleveland-Akron September Meeting 9/21
Published 9/16/2023
Sustainability in the Tire Industry: Radically Re-Thinking our Raw Materials Supply Chain Ross Widenor and Ron Shaffer, Bridgestone Sept. 21, 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm at The Brew Kettle in Hudson RSVP at the Cleveland Section Website Here As the tire industry strives to deliver sustainability objectives, one major challenge will be to decouple our ... Read more
2023 Akron ACS Award – Call for Nominations
Published 6/4/2023
The Akron Section is accepting nominations for the Akron Section Award, which will be presented at the November General Section Meeting, to an outstanding chemistry professional within a 500 mile radius of Akron in any field. The award consists of a $1,000 honorarium and engraved plaque. The lecturer delivers a lecture at the University of ... Read more
2023 CCEW Illustrated Poem Contest
Published 5/5/2023
The Akron Section of the ACS hosted an illustrated poem contest in celebration of Earth Week that encouraged students to think creatively and promote this year’s CCEW theme, The Curious Chemistry of Amazing Algae. Students from area schools were invited to submit their creative works to be judged according to the ACS rubric that focused on ... Read more