Upcoming Events

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Join us on November 9th for a talk from Juan Carlos Ramos, Senior R&D Engineer Manager at HP, Inc. He will present a talk on HP, Inc. Reinventing MEMS and Microfluidics for Printing & Beyond.

For more details, check out the flyer here.

Join us on October 21 & 22, 2023 to help facilitate science demos at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) with guests ranging from kids to adults!

The October 2023 Portland Section meeting will be an online webinar among Puget Sound, Oregon, and Portland Sections. The Section will pay for food and drink for Watch Parties to attend this virtual event up to $15 per person. We hope this will facilitate undergraduate and graduate student participation in the 4pm session, but any Section member can organize one!

The Portland Section ACS invites you to attend a special symposium and dinner in honor of the late Thomas Dunne (1930 - 2020), dedicated professor (Reed College1963 - 1995), ACS member, and tireless supporter of the Portland Section, Saturday 23 September: symposium 3 - 5 PM in Vollum Lecture Hall on the Reed Campus (free and open to the public), followed by a reception and dinner (reservations required for dinner, please register by September 10th). Further details may be found here.

Lewis & Clark College will host Geraldine (Geri) Richmond in a public lecture ("The Urgent Need for Science and Innovation to Save this Warming Planet") on Monday, September 18. The talk will be at 7 pm in the Fowler Student Center, Council Chamber. Dr. Richmond is the Under Secretary for Science and Innovation at the US Department of Energy. Dr. Richmond's visit and public lecture are supported by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation. All are welcome! For more information, contact Anne Bentley at bentley@lclark.edu. 

In lieu of a formal dinner meeting in May, Lacamas Laboratories in Portland has graciously offered a tour of their facilities! Meeting promptly at 6pm, two tours and two information sessions will be presented. After the tours, meet at Waterfront Taphouse if you'd like to partake in a no-host dinner at 7:30pm.

Tami Lasseter Clare is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Portland State University where she teaches a range of undergraduate and graduate courses and is the Director of the Pacific Northwest Conservation Science Consortium, in partnership with five major museums in the region. Join us for her talk on Identification of dyes used in Chilkat Weaving.

Nicole James did her PhD in Physical Chemistry at The University of Chicago, and is an Assistant Professor at Reed College where she teaches general and physical chemistry and conducts chemistry

education research. Join us for her talk titled Deficit and anti-deficit framing: A systematic review to improve equity and inclusion in science education.

Steven E. Mansoor, M.D., Ph.D., is a physician-scientist in the Department of Chemical Physiology and Biochemistry (CPB) and the Knight Cardiovascular Institute (KCVI) at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Please join us for an educational discussion on  Structural Mechanisms of P2X Receptor Gating, and how understanding P2X structure and function informs computational drug design approaches.

Charles Springer is a Professor in the Advanced Imaging Research Center (AIRC) at OHSU and has over 50 years experience in MR science. Please join us for an enlightening discussion on Human MRI Does Non-invasive Chemistry: Mapping Metabolic Activity.