Thank you Karen Allen & Katinka Csigi!
BUWIC would like to say a heartfelt thank you to our faculty advisor Karen Allen and our staff advisor Katinka Csigi! Thank you both so very much for your time and guidance!
And congratulations to Katinka on her retirement!
Officer Election Results: 2015-2016
The nominations are in and the officers for the 2015-2016 academic year are:
President: Reem Telmesani
Vice-President: Jessica Biagi
Alumni Liason: Stacy Chin
Outreach Coordinator: Alexis Courtney
Seminar Coordinator: Amanda Vo
Funding Coordinator: Emily Allen
Co-Treasurer: Stephanie Maiocco
Co-Treasurer: Sarah Neville
Secretary: Gabrielle Fleming
Webmaster: Anjeza Beharaj
And thank you to Katie Summo, Diane Hamann, and Gina Kim for their great work as the previous BUWIC Seminar Coordinators and Webmaster!
BUWIC Invited Colloquium Speaker 2014-2015: Professor Laura Gagliardi
Prof. Laura Gagliardi is currently a distinguished professor in the Chemistry Department at the University of Minnesota and holds a graduate faculty appointment in Chemical Engineering and Materials Science. Her research interests span areas such as gas separation and catalysis in metal-organic frameworks, modeling excited states with multireference quantum chemical methods, and quantum chemical characterization of catalytic processes.
Check out her group page: Gagliardi Group Page
Thank you to Professor Gagliardi for visiting BU!
Chemistry Day May 2015 a Success!
Boston University Women in Chemistry- Chemistry Day- May 1st, 2015
The Boston University (BU) Chemistry Department and BU Women in Chemistry (BUWIC) sponsored the seventh annual Chemistry Day on Friday, May 1st, 2015. Through this collaboration, we hosted over 80 high school students, from Brighton (Brighton) and O’Bryant (Roxbury) high schools. The event began by welcoming our high school students with a one-hour demonstration show led by BUWIC’s Outreach Coordinator, Reem Telmesani (BU Chemistry, 2nd year). These demonstrations focus on chemistry concepts regarding pH changes of a solution, sublimation with dry ice, the ideal gas law, crime scene chemistry with luminol, making “Elephant’s Toothpaste,” and the “Methane Mamba.” Afterwards, the students broke off into 8 smaller groups led by our BU undergraduate volunteers to tour different chemistry labs. Students also got to work in groups in our undergraduate teaching laboratory to perform an oxidation and reduction metal experiment (a variation on a CH101 undergraduate lab experiment) and also use glow sticks to investigate different antioxidants in common vitamins and foods. Experiments were led by the following graduate students: Kathryn Summo (Officer), Alexis Courtney-Young (Secretary), Stephanie Maiocco (Treasurer), Gina Kim (Webmaster), and Stacy Chin (President). Before returning to their high schools at the end of this half-day event, the students enjoyed a BBQ lunch sponsored by the Chemistry Department.
BU Chemistry Day is the conclusion of an outreach program coordinated by Reem during the 2015 spring academic semester. Throughout the course of the program, 7 BU undergraduates visited multilingual chemistry classrooms at Brighton and O’Bryant, weekly or every other week to mentor students, assist teachers with instruction, and perform demonstrations.
BU Chemistry is grateful to all of those involved, with special thanks to:
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BUWIC- Stacy Chin (President), Reem Telmesani ( Outreach Coordinator), Alexis Courtney-Young (Secretary), Kathryn Summo (Officer), Jessica Barnes (Vice President), Diane Haman (Seminar Coordinator), Stephanie Maiocco (Treasurer), Emily Allen (Social Coordinator), and Gina Kim (Webmaster).
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Teaching lab coordinators: Boris Bezverkhny and Alex Golger
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Graduate Student and Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow Volunteers: Randolph Escobar, Steven Hannigan, and Amanda Vo
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Undergraduate “Outreachers”: Sharon Chityat (Brighton), Kelly Demeo (O’Bryant), Jeremy Weber (O’Bryant), Elizabeth Golden (Brighton), Abby Eichelman (Brighton), Grace Ferri (Brighton), Delaney Doran (Brighton),Tessa Lynch-Colameta (Brighton)
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Undergraduate Volunteers: Rachel Rosen, Zambeta Tsapos, Blake Jardin, Marlee Quinn, Kyle Bannon, Will Blessing, Thuy Duong Le
