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Table of Contents: Title Pages Silicon Valley ACS Wins 2024 ChemLuminary Award for Outstanding Local Section Career Program 1-2 Bay Area Chemistry Symposium 2024 1 Diversity in Science: Bridging Communities Through the History of AIDS Research 2 New ACS Volunteer and Youth Protection Policy 2 Upcoming Events 3 Stanford Chemistry Events 4 National Chemistry Week 2024: Picture Perfect Chemistry 4 Reactions Science Videos 5 ACS Council Meeting Fall 2024: Selected Highlights 5 Molecule of the Week Update for Vancomycin 6 New Members 6 Chemistry Quiz 6 Chemistry of the Smell of the Sea Infographic 7
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Title Pages Join us in the 2025 SVACS Leadership Group 1 ACS 2024 Fall National Meeting 1-2 ACS ChemLuminary Awards 2 Chemistry Quiz 2 CAS Insights 2 InChI New Version Available in GitHub 3 Upcoming Events 3 2024 Ottenberg Award Recipient: Madalyn Radlauer 4 SVACS Members with 50+ Years of Membership 4 2024 Annual Picnic & Awards Photo Album 5 ACS Funding and Award Opportunities & Deadlines 6 New Members 6 What the Heck is Electroadhesion? Superglue? (Video) 6 Advancing Laboratory Safety Through Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Respect 7 WCC Celebrates Beyond the Binary 7 YCC 2024 Fall Meeting Roadmap 7 WCC Denver Events 8 Book Review for Chemical Histories of Soot and Buckminsterfullerene 9 Paris 2024 Olympic Medals Composition Infographic 10
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Title Pages 2024 Silicon Valley ACS Picnic and Awards 1 Picnic Message 1-2 Chemistry Olympiad 2 Frances Arnold Awarded 2025 Priestley Medal 2 The Materials Project 2 Upcoming Events 3 SVACS Selected as a Finalist for Two ACS ChemLuminary Awards 4-5 ACS Funding & Award Opportunities & Deadlines 5 Future of ACS National Meetings 6 Reactions Science Video 6 Top 200 Drugs for 2023 7 Heterocycles – Open Access from CLOCKSS Archive 7 Accelerating Drug Discovery: Proteins With Predicted Hydrogens 8 Financing Open Access to Federally Funded Research 8 Chemistry Quiz 8 Molecule of the Week Update: Dimethylmercury 9 WIPO Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI 9 New Members 9 The Chemistry of Tequila Infographic 10
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Title Pages Joint GGPF/ACS Silicon Valley Seminar 1-2 2024 Annual BBQ Picnic & Awards Ceremony 2 Tech Trek Volunteers Wanted 2 Upcoming Events 3 The State of Science Address 4 2025 Silicon Valley ACS Board Elections 4 ACS 2023 Annual Report Published 4 2024 SVACS Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) 5 SVACS Winner for CCEW’s Illustrated Poem Contest 6 Peter Atkins Offers Physical Chemistry Textbook Free as a ‘Gift to the Chemistry Community’ 7 New Members 7 CAS Biofinder Discovery Platform Launched 7 CAMEO Chemicals: New Version Available 8 Safety Tipsheets & Best Practices 8 When Online Content Disappears 9 Crest Toothpaste Designated an ACS Historic Chemical Landmark 10 Using Chemistry and a 300-Year-Old Technique to Reinvent a Drink (video) 10 New Middle School Chemistry Website is Here! 10 Chemistry of Cannabis Infographic 11
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Title Pages ChemHIST Talks 1-2 Meet the Heroes of Chemistry: Featuring the Scientists behind Paxlovid™,RelyX™, and Trikafta® 1-2 Mercury Rising: The Toxicology of a Global Pollutant 1-2 ACS Proactive Membership Benefits Program 2 Upcoming Events 3 Stanford Chemistry Department - Upcoming Events 4 Hartnell College Career & Resource Fair 4 Local Science Fair Award Winners 5 Ottenberg Award: Call for Nominations 5 Want to Serve on an ACS National Committee in 2025? 6 Chemistry Quiz 6 Build a More Inclusive Graduate Program: Free Workshops for Faculty 6 New Members 6 ACS Graduate Student & Postdoc Recognition Program 7 2023 Guide to the Business of Chemistry 7 ACS Funding & Award Opportunities for May-June 7 Reactions Science Videos 8 Science of Synthesis Early Career Advisory Board: Call for Nominations 8 Research Grants Available from ACS GCI Pharmaceutical Table 8 A Key Chemistry Journal Has Disappeared from the Web. Others at Risk. 9 Join an Industry Roundtable of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute 9 How is Alcohol-Free Beer Made? (Infographic) 10
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