Seton Hill College
ACS-SA Chemistry Club
Fall 2000
Buchner Bulletin
Seton Hill College
ACS-SA Chemistry Club
Fall 2000
Following a college tradition of community service, six club members participated in the Labor of Love on September 9. The students cleared litter from the Club’s 2.5 mile stretch of highway as part of their Adopt-A-Highway program. Six club members participated in the second Adopt-A-Highway event of the year on October 31.
The chemistry club prepares to hit the road!!
Front (l-r) Emily Matz, Ann Marie Staub
As part of a National Chemistry Week contest to collect the most number of non-perishable food items, six chemistry club members held a food drive at a local Giant Eagle. Students from Norwin High School’s Interact Community Service Club also donated food. Many thanks to Kelly Weston ('99), the Interact Club Advisor. 565 total food items were donated to the Center Against Domestic and Sexual Violence in Westmoreland County.
A mountain of food.
Chemistry club members sort and count the donated food items.
On Thursday, December 14, five club members traveled to the Mother of Sorrows Catholic school in Murrysville to teach science lessons to the seventh and eight grade students.
On Tuesday, November 7th, eight club members traveled to Aquinas Academy in Greensburg to teach three classes of 8th grade students Paper Chromatography, Magic Paper Towel, and Chemistry in a Ziploc Bag.
Chemistry Club
members pose
with students
from Aquinas
Academy
On Wednesday, November 8th, five club members participated in an annual phone-a-thon in an effort to ask alumnae from Seton Hill to make donations to the college’s annual fund.
On Thursday, November 9th, senior chemistry club member Ann Marie Staub presented her summer research from Miami University in Ohio. Her seminar was entitled "Characterization of EL01, an Enzyme Involved in Fatty Acid Elongation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae."
Senior Ann Marie
Staub explains
the process of PCR.
As part of a contest for National Chemistry Week, Chemistry club members created a Periodic Table of the Elements out of various food and other kitchen related items. The "Periodic Table of Food" was posted in 2nd Lynch Hallway throughout the week.
"The Periodic Table of Food"
Now that’s food for thought!
On Saturday, November 11th, eleven club members and two faculty members traveled to the Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh in order to present chemistry demonstrations to the public in celebration of National Chemistry Week. As this year’s theme was "Kitchen Chemistry," we presented Magic Paper Towel and a Density Column, using common kitchen items.
It’s Magic!
Watch as
Phenolphthalein
turns pink
in the presence
of Windex and disappears again as the
ammonia evaporates!
On September 28, eight club members participated in the annual Club Fair at Seton Hill. In order to draw interest, we presented Magic Paper Towel and Chemistry in a Ziploc Bag. New members signed up as a result of the fair, and the club was awarded $50.00 for having the most interactive table.
Ann Marie Staub
and Demetra Chengelis
welcome new members.
In celebration of Mole Day on Monday, October 23, chemistry club members kicked-off the day with a "Mole Day Breakfast." Later in the day, club members hosted our annual "Happy Mole Day Sale," where we sold Happy Mole Day Bags as well as chances to guess the number of moles of M&M’s in a jar.
Happy Mole Day!
From left to right:
Demetra Chengelis, Christin Hanigan,
Sara Hileman, Tracey Harshberger,
and Jen Cippollini.
On October 23, in celebration of Mole Day, senior Kami Carrera presented a seminar on her summer internship with Bayer Corporation in Pittsburgh. Her seminar was entitled: "Physical Testing at Bayer."
On October 25, junior Jessica Conlon presented a seminar on her summer internship with Bayer Corporation entitled: "The Wonderful World of Polyurethanes."
This semester, six club members and one faculty member represented Seton Hill at six meetings of the student affiliates of the Society of Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh and board meetings of the student affiliates of the SACP.
In a joint effort with Seton Hill’s Biology Club, the Chemistry Club hosted a dinner to honor faculty from the Division of Math, Science, and Computer Technology. At the dinner, senior students spoke about their favorite attributes of their professors.
V. FUNDRAISING AND AWARDSFor the seventh consecutive year, the Seton Hill Chemistry Club was awarded "Outstanding Chapter" by the ACS (American Chemical Society).
Congratulations to the Chemistry Club for winning $500.00 for the three NCW challenges presented by the Pittsburgh Section of the ACS, including: most food items collected, most creative ways of collecting food, and most creative presentation of the Periodic Table of the Elements.
This semester, 19 Chemistry Club members, in a record breaking new total, raised $1265.00 in profit from our biannual Sarris Candy sale.