sermacs 2012 final report

SERMACS 2012 Final Report

I Introduction and General*

Name of General and Program Chair

General Chair – Charles Goss

Program Chair – Marc ter Horst

Symposia Chair – Ken Tomer

I (a) Executive Summary

In the summary include references to the ACS Strategic Plan that

illustrate how the meeting and its program fulfill the mission and

vision of the Society e.g. membership diversity. Cite examples from the

areas listed below that address:

1. The three core strategies: providing state-of-the-art chemical

information; serving as a premier professional organization

for practitioners of chemistry; and enhancing public

appreciation of the chemical sciences and technologies; and

2. The three developmental strategies: transform the definition of

chemistry to encompass its true multidisciplinary nature;

create a leading, dynamic, and integrated portfolio of products

and services; and promote inclusiveness throughout the

chemical enterprise.

The 64th

Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical

Society (SERMACS 2012) convened 14-17 November 2012 at the

Raleigh Convention Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. SERMACS

2012 made a comprehensive contribution to the mission and vision

of the ACS. The record-breaking 2307 diverse attendees gained

access to state-of-the-art chemical information presented in 1360

abstracts, 3 special conferences, 26 invited symposia, 98 oral

sessions, 40 poster sessions over 9 time slots, a vendor exhibition

with 57 booths, a graduate school fair with 24 exhibitors, 16

workshops, 5 awards receptions, Sci-Mix, WCC Luncheon, and the

ACS District Directors Ice Cream Social. The size and scope of the

meeting underscored ACS as the premier professional organization

for practitioners of chemistry. SERMACS 2012 enhanced public

appreciation of the chemical sciences and technologies by

presenting a positive image of chemistry and its contributions to

society.

The SERMACS 2012 meeting program and theme “Catalyzing

Sustainable Innovation” directly supported the ACS developmental

strategy to transform the definition of chemistry to encompass its

true multidisciplinary nature, create a leading, dynamic, and

integrated portfolio of products and services; and promote


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inclusiveness throughout the chemical enterprise. Relevant

examples are bulleted below.

A large technical program covering a spectrum of chemistry

and multidisciplinary topics. Many symposia and program

elements were organized by people from different sectors

such as RTI International, GlaxoSmithKline, Liquidia,

NCSU College of Textiles, NCSU Materials Science and

Engineering, UNC-CH College of Pharmacy, and the UNC-

CH Department of Environmental Toxicology.

Successful collaboration with 3 special conferences

representing diverse areas: (1) photonic assemblies,

materials, and catalysts for solar fuels, (2) NC-ACS Local

Section research and the 3D structures of proteins and

nucleotides through the use of structural bioinformatics, and

(3) the latest developments in magnetic resonance research.

A broad suite of programming that included a large and

bustling Vendor Exposition, a full Graduate School Fair,

ACS courses on “Leadership” and “Fostering Innovation”,

workshops on “Chromatography”, “Negotiations for Women

Chemists”, “Grant Writing”, “Chemistry Demonstrations”,

“ACS Career Workshops”, and “Career Connections”.

Strong programs designed specifically for undergraduates,

high school students/teachers, and Project SEED

students/organizers (the first of its kind at SERMACS).

Awards events that celebrated achievements in “Advancing

Diversity in the Chemical Sciences”, “Industrial Innovation”,

“Volunteer Service”, “High School Teaching”, “Oral and

Poster Presentations by Undergraduates and Project SEED

Students”, and “Team Science” (sponsored by Sigma Xi).

SERMACS 2012 was financially successful with a net surplus of

$138,131.28 that was split between SERMACS Inc. ($27626.26)

and the NC-ACS ($90,505.02).

I (b) Site Selection

Summarize the process and parameters used to decide on the final

location and include criteria that were considered.

SERMACS 2012 site selection began in 2008. Three sites were

considered:

(1) Sheraton Imperial Hotel in Research Triangle Park

(http://www.sheratonrtp.com/). This was the site of SERMACS

2004 and SERMACS 1998. It worked very well for these

meetings. Positives: previous experience, just enough space for

http://www.sheratonrtp.com/


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a “typical” meeting, location convenient to the Triangle, RTP

and RDU airport, meeting space would be free if enough hotel

nights were filled, free parking, several other hotels nearby for

overflow. Negatives: no restaurants or other attractions within

walking distance, the meeting space and catered food are not

particularly notable, several other hotels nearby could take

attendees away from host hotel.

(2) Durham Convention Center

(http://www.durhamconventioncenter.com/). This was deemed

too small and lacking enough nearby hotels, so was not pursued.

(3) Raleigh Convention Center (RCC,

(http://www.raleighconvention.com/). This opportunity was

brought to our attention by Jim Rydzak (GlaxoSmithKline,

Upper Merion, PA) who was on the planning committee for

FACSS 2010, which was going to be held at the RCC. He was

visiting the RCC to check out the venue, which was just

opening. He invited me to attend the grand opening event,

which involved meeting with representatives from visitRaleigh!

(www.visitraleigh.com/) who did a wonderful job showing off

the new convention center and associated Marriott City Center

hotel. Positives: RCC and Marriott were by far the most

“glamorous” venues. The RCC has interesting architecture and

interior design, more modern meeting rooms, and significantly

more ballroom space for the vendor exposition and poster

session. The Marriott is only a few years old with first class

accommodations. RCC meeting rooms were offered at a

significant discount along with a $10/room night rebate from the

Marriott if enough hotel nights were filled. The RCC on-site

catering by Centerplate is excellent. Downtown Raleigh is

reasonably accessible to RTP, RDU airport, and the Triangle.

There is plenty of convenient parking and only one other hotel

(Sheraton) directly nearby for overflow. It is an urban setting

with many restaurants, museums, theaters, and other cultural

attractions accessible by walking or the free R-line bus.

Negatives: cost of meeting space, parking fees, location not as

central as Sheraton Imperial, meeting rooms might be too big, no

previous experience hosting SERMACS.

Michelle Stevenson helped us get proposals from Sheraton Imperial and

RCC/Marriott. Her involvement was extremely beneficial because she

was able to negotiate inclusion of many important “extras” into the

proposed contracts such as free VIP suites, room upgrades, one free

room night for every 50 sold, etc. Our committee deliberated over these

options. Our Planning Committee deliberated these extensively but

http://www.durhamconventioncenter.com/

http://www.raleighconvention.com/

http://www.visitraleigh.com/


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ultimately concluded the RCC/Marriott offered the best opportunity to

have an extraordinary meeting.

I (c) Committee Members

List all committees and their members, being as inclusive as possible

of all those who made a contribution with their area of expertise and

contact information.

See following pages.


Position Name Address Phone e-mail

ACS Meeting Planning Office

Michelle Stevenson

American Chemical Society ACS Office of Regional Meetings

1155 16th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036

W 202-452-2138 Fax: 202-872-6128

[email protected]

General Chair Charles Goss GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398

W 919-483-9755 H 919-968-0940 M 919-423-7598

[email protected]

Treasurer Sol Levine Nature's Images by Sol 1307 Legacy Green Ave Wake Forest, NC 27587

H 919-453-2653 [email protected]

General Program Marc ter Horst (Chair)

NMR Facility Director 056 Caudill Labs

Department of Chemistry, CB #3290 UNC at Chapel Hill

Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290

Lab: 919-962-1149 Office: 919-843-5802

Dept fax: 919-962-2388 [email protected]

Symposia Kenneth Tomer (Chair)

Senior Investigator Laboratory of Structural Biology

NIEHS 111 T.W. Alexander Drive

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

W 919-541-1966 H 919-387-8441

Fax 919-541-0220 [email protected]

Ved Srivastava GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398 M 858-216-6154 [email protected]

Richard Palmer

Department of Chemistry Duke University

124 Science Drive Box 90354

Durham, NC 27708-0354

W 919-660-1539 [email protected]


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Alan Tonelli

INVISTA Prof. of Fiber & Polymer Chemistry

NC State University College of Textiles Box 8301

2401 Research Drive Box 8301 Raleigh, NC 27695


Shri Kulkarni

President KulTech Incorporated

311 South Academy Street Cary, NC 27511

M 919-632-3397 [email protected]

Alex Nevzerov

Department of Chemistry NC State University

2620 Yarbrough Drive Box 8204

Raleigh, NC 27695


Irina Nesmelova

Dept of Physics and Optical Science College of Liberal Arts & Sciences The University of North Carolina at

Charlotte 9201 University City Blvd, Charlotte,

NC 28223-0001


Alex Smirnov



Raleigh, NC 27695


Tatyana Smirnova



Raleigh, NC 27695


Thomas Meyer

Murray Hall 2202F Department of Chemistry

123 South Road The University of North Carolina at


mailto:[email protected]





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Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3290

Catherine Heyer

Murray Hall 2202E Department of Chemistry

123 South Road The University of North Carolina at



Posters Yaroslava (Yara)

Yingling

North Carolina State University Materials Science and Engineering

911 Partner's Way Engineering Building I, Room 3002

Raleigh, NC 27606


Undergraduate Program

Dan Shin

Campbell University School of Pharmacy

PO Box 1090, Buies Creek, NC 27506


Dan Barber LORD Corporation 406 Gregson Drive

Cary, NC 27511

W 919-469-2500 x2133 Fax 919-481-0349

[email protected]

W. Lin Coker III

Department of Chemistry 310A Leslie Campbell Hall of

Science Campbell University

PO Box 567 Buies Creek, NC 27506

W 910-893-1739 Fax 910-893-1887

[email protected]

Jeremiah Feducia

Department of Chemistry 108B Dabney

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695


Phil Brown

Department of Chemistry 108C Dabney,

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC 27695






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Kassy Mies

Department of Chemistry Meredith College

3800 Hillsborough Street Raleigh, NC 27607-5298


Graduate Fair Ana Muresan United States Patent and Trademark

Office 919-280-8775 [email protected]

Registration Bill Gutknecht Retired, Senior Chemist

RTI International

W 919-541-6883 (Wed,Fri)

H 919-489-1123

[email protected] RTI: (wfg/[email protected])

Home: ([email protected])

Vendor Exposition John Hines (Chair)

Senior Manager Pharmaceutical Sciences Laboratory

RTI International P.O. Box 12194 RTP, NC 27709

W 919-541-6647 Fax 919-485-2650

[email protected]

Reshan Fernando

Health Sciences RTI International P.O. Box 12194 RTP, NC 27709

W 919-541-6730 Fax 919-485-2650

[email protected]

Awards Jim Chao Retired IBM H 919-481-2060 M 919-308-5081

[email protected]

AV David Elam Summa Consultants, Inc.

100 Deerfield Trail Chapel Hill, NC 27516

W: 919-967-0535 Fav: 888-498-5842

[email protected]

Project SEED Alan Tonelli (Chair)

INVISTA Prof. of Fiber & Polymer Chemistry

NC State University College of Textiles Box 8301

2401 Research Drive Box 8301 Raleigh, NC 27695



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Public Relations Charles A Goss GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398

W 919-483-9755 H 919-968-0940 M 919-423-7598

[email protected]

Listserver William L. Switzer

Associate Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry

635 Dabney Hall North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695


Signage Anderson Cox Center for Drug Discovery &

Development RTI International

W M 252-940-9039.

[email protected]

Internet and Social Media

Anderson Cox Center for Drug Discovery &

Development RTI International

W M 252-940-9039.

[email protected]

Webmaster Dustin Wheeler

IT and Engineering Computer Services

Campus Box 7901 North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695-7901

Work: 919-515-9786 Mobile: 252-292-4945

[email protected]

Program Book Danna Mattocks (Chair) GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398

Work: 919-483-5764 Mobile: 919-413-4963

[email protected]

Bill Gutknecht Retired, Senior Chemist

RTI International

W 919-541-6883 (Wed,Fri)

H 919-489-1123

[email protected] wfg/[email protected] [email protected]

Events Charles A Goss GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398

W 919-483-9755 H 919-968-0940 M 919-423-7598

[email protected]

Workshops Catherine Brennan

Chemical Hygiene Officer Environment, Health and Safety

CB#1650 1120 Estes Drive Extension

University of North Carolina at

W 919-843-5331 Fax 919-962-0227

[email protected]


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Chemistry Demos Sol Levine (Chair) Nature's Images by Sol 1307 Legacy Green Ave Wake Forest, NC 27587


Kenneth Lyle

Department of Chemistry Duke University 124 Science Dr.

Box 90354 Durham, NC 27708-0354

W 919-681-9952 M 919-660-1621

[email protected]

William Switzer

Associate Professor Emeritus Department of Chemistry

635 Dabney Hall North Carolina State University

Raleigh, NC 27695


Melinda Box Wake Technical Community College

9101 Fayetteville Rd Raleigh, NC 27603


Sponsorships Charles A Goss (Chair) GlaxoSmithKline 5 Moore Drive

RTP, NC 27709-3398

W 919-483-9755 H 919-968-0940 M 919-423-7598

[email protected]

RKM Jayanty

Environmental Analytical Chemistry RTI International P.O. Box 12194 RTP, NC 27709


Reshan Fernando

Health Sciences RTI International P.O. Box 12194 RTP, NC 27709

W 919-541-6730 Fax 919-485-2650

[email protected]

Rachelle Bienstock NIEHS Retired NA [email protected]


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Pauline Ondachi RTI International P.O. Box 12194 RTP, NC 27709


Site Planning

Charlie Goss, Sol Levine, Keith Dawes,

John Hines, Bill Switzer and Carson Burrington


I (d) Meeting Organizing Committee Operations

Provide a calendar of the dates and number of times that the

organizing committee met and discuss how business was conducted,

e.g., phone, email, actual meetings.

Describe strengths and weaknesses of the committee:

- e.g. Did the committee work as a team or was the work

concentrated in the hands of a few members?

Include comments about how the committee operation could be

improved and describe any additional training that would be useful.

Due to the wide geographic spread of the team members, the

SERMACS 2012 Planning Committee held almost all meetings with a

mix of physical (room at GlaxoSmithKline) and online (teleconference

plus WebEx or Live Meeting) attendance. Exceptions were a few

meetings held at the RCC/Marriott in Raleigh.

Year Meeting Frequency Meeting Time

2008 Ad-Hoc

2009 Monthly 2nd

Wed, 4:30-6:00 PM

2010 Monthly 2nd

Wed, 4:30-6:00 PM

2011 Monthly 2nd

Wed, 4:30-6:00 PM

2012 Bi-weekly (Jan-Sep)

Weekly (Oct-Nov)

2nd and

4th

Wed, 4:30-6:00 PM

As appropriate, 4:30-6:30 PM

Meeting attendance was typically 3-5 in person and 3-5 online. Arrival

of committee members was variable for each meeting, which made

agendas challenging to manage. Ultimately, the agenda was basically

the order of arrival of attendees.

In addition to full team meetings, there were many sub-team meetings

as needed, and a huge amount of e-mail correspondence. Michelle

Stevenson had teleconferences approximately weekly with Charlie Goss

and others during 2012.

Michelle Stevenson traveled to NC three times to meet with the local

team and visit the RCC, Marriott, NC Museum of Natural Sciences.

She also met with the visitRaleigh organization which helped promote

the meeting with the RDU Airport, shuttle services, and local

businesses. These important visits established effective relationships

between the people involved and Michelle’s experience was enormously

valuable for making sure we had appropriate arrangements, controlling

expenses, and negotiating extra benefits from our partners.

Marc ter Horst and Charlie Goss attended the 2010 and 2011 Regional


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Meeting Planning Conferences organized by Michelle Stevenson and

held at ACS in Washington, DC. These well run conferences helped the

SERMACS 2012 team ensure meeting planning was proceeding on

track and enabled sharing of best practices across meetings.

The Planning Committee functioned as a team with the various

Committee Chairs taking responsibility for their respective areas. The

team created a Google Team Site

(https://sites.google.com/site/sermacs2012team/ ) that was an effective

central place to store and share information. It was used extensively

during meetings so that both in-person and online attendees could see

the same information. The team came together particularly well during

the SERMACS 2012, with everyone finally together in the same place.

Everyone filled their individual roles, but also chipped in to assist in

other areas as needed.

I (e) Budget Development

Describe how cost decisions were made for major income/expenses

such as Registration, Exhibit Booths, A/V costs, social events, etc.

Do not include budget pages here.

Cost estimates were made based on information from previous

SERMACS, particularly 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011.

I (f)

Other/Lessons Learned

The ACS Conference Management Staff, primarily Michelle Stevenson

in our case, are a critical resource for planning regional meetings. They

offer extensive knowledge about meeting organization, good

perspective based on previous meetings, and are a good independent

body to critique ideas offered by the local planning group.

II Meeting Program*

II (a) Data

Report the information using a spreadsheet format with the following

headings: Name of symposia and general sessions, names of

organizers for various symposia with contact info, undergraduate

program info, high school teachers’ program (if any) and social

events. Please include the number of attendees at each

presentation/social event.

Provide a copy of the abstract book in hard copy and electronic format

(if available) for the ACS Office of Regional Meetings files.

https://sites.google.com/site/sermacs2012team/


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SERMACS 2012 had a large technical program as summarized below.

1427 presentations (583 oral, 844 posters), a SERMACS

record!

3 special conferences (see Section II (g) for details)

57 invited symposia oral sessions

41 contributed paper oral sessions

40 poster sessions over 9 time slots

4 Vendor Seminars

The technical program covered a spectrum of chemistry and

multidisciplinary topics. It is notable that many symposia and program

events were organized by people from different sectors such as RTI

International, GlaxoSmithKline, Liquidia, NCSU College of Textiles,

NCSU Materials Science and Engineering, UNC-CH College of

Pharmacy, UNC-CH Department of Environmental Toxicology, and

Campbell University College for Pharmacy.

Marc ter Horst (Program Chair) and Ken Tomer (Symposia Chair) led

the program planning. Other key contributors were Daniel Shin

(Undergraduate Program Chair), Catherine Brennan (Workshops Chair),

Jim Chao (Awards Chair), Charlie Goss (Events Chair) and Al Tonelli

(Project SEED Program Chair).

The following tables (taken from the Excel spreadsheet attached below)

lists the SERMACS 2012 symposia and general sessions, the names of

organizers with contact information, the undergraduate program, the

high school and Project SEED program, and the social events. The

approximate attendance at each event is also listed.

SERMACS 2012 Program List 17Mar13.xlsx

The SERMACS 2012 Program Book is provided separately in both

hardcopy and electronic file formats.


SERMACS 2012 SYMPOSIA AND TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Symposia and General Sessions Organizer Contact email Approximate Number of Attendees

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) I Thomas Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] 124

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) Poster Session I

Thomas Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] 124

Computational Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 105

Electroanalytical Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 12

Innovations in Molecular Modeling: New Tools and Applications

Don Brenner (NCSU) [email protected] 10

Inorganic Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 29

Inorganic Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 105

Nanochemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 105

Physical Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 15

Physical Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 105

Polymer Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 30

Recent Advances in Micro and Nano-Fabrication

Ginger Rothrock (RTI International) Derek Schorzman (Liquidia Technologies)

[email protected] [email protected]

24

NC Distinguished Speaker Presentation Melissa Pasquinelli (NCSU) [email protected] 225

Welcome Reception and NC Local Section Poster Session

Melissa Pasquinelli (NCSU) [email protected] 225

Biochemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 10

Bioinorganic Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 151

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) II Thomas Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] 124

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) Poster Session II



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Chemistry and Applications of Smart Molecules and Materials I

Stephen Craig (Duke University) Kathy Franz (Duke University)


18

Chemistry of Bio-Nano Interfaces

Alex Smirnov (NCSU) Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU)

Don Brenner (NCSU)


[email protected] 24

Computational Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 20

Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine I: Impact of Medicinal Chemistry on

Infectious Diseases**

Ved Srivastava (GlaxoSmithKline) Katherine Widdowson (GlaxoSmithKline)

Brian Johns (GlaxoSmithKline)



Inorganic Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 14

Mass Spectrometry I: Clinical Diagnosis Russ Grant (LabCorp)

Gary Glish (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected]


Materials Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 12

Medicinal Chemistry Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 66

Nanochemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 28

Organic Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 14

Organic Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 151

Organometallic Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 10

Organometallic Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 151

Physical Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 14

Polymer Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 14

Scanning Force Microscopy in Biology: New Tricks and New Insights

Dorothy Erie (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 15

Separation Science in the Macro(molecular), Micro(bial) and

Nano(particle) World

Christa Colyer (Wake Forest University) [email protected] 10

Symposium Honoring Royce W. Murray - I Lloyd Horne (Murray State University)

Mark Wightman (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected]



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Biochemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 20

Biochemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 112

Bioinorganic Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 12

Biomaterials I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 22

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) III Thomas Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill [email protected] 124

Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC) Poster Session III


Chemical Biology I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 80

Chemical Biology Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 112

Chemistry and Applications of Smart Molecules and Materials II

Stephen Craig (Duke University) Katherine Franz (Duke University)


17

Computational Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 23

Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine II: Advances in Catalysis and Sustainable

Process Chemistry**

Vassil Elitzin (GlaxoSmithKline) Michael McClure (GlaxoSmithKline)

Ved Srivastava (GlaxoSmithKline)



Growing Impact of Public Domain Chemical Resources

Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) Sean Ekins (Collaborations in Chemistry)


50

Inorganic Chemistry III Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 10

Mass Spectrometry II: New Applications and Strategies Using Ambient Ionization

Methods

Jon Williams (GlaxoSmithKline) Gary Glish (UNC Chapel Hill)


50

Materials Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 10

Nanochemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 15

Organic Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 35

Organometallic Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 60

Polymer Chemistry III Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 35

SEMRC - Edward O. Stejskal Memorial Symposium

Alex Nevzorov (NCSU) Irina Nesmelova (UNC Charlotte)


94


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Symposium Honoring Royce W. Murray - II Lloyd Horne (Murray State University)

Mark Wightman (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected]


The Exposome James Swenberg (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 43

Analytical Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 146

Biomaterials Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 146

Electroanalytical Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 146

Energy and Fuels Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 146

Plenary Talk: Royce W. Murray, UNC Chapel Hill

Lloyd Horne (Murray State University) Mark Wightman (UNC Chapel Hill)


175

Polymer Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 146

Advanced Materials- Surface and Interfacial Chemistry for Sustainable

Innovation

Jesse Jur (NCSU) Julie Willoughby


24

Analytical Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 35

Atmospheric Chemistry: Gas-Particle Interactions and Climate Change - I

RKM Jayanty (RTI International) [email protected] 45

Chemical Biology: Chemical Answers to Biological Questions I

Paul Thompson (Scripps Florida) Alex Deiters (NCSU)


80

Chemical Education I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 40

Chemistry of Bio-Nano Interfaces II Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU)

Alex Smirnov (NCSU) [email protected]


Energy and Fuels I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 20

Entrepreneurial Chemistry: Academic/Industry Interactions I

Shri Kulkarni (KulTech) [email protected] 40

Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine III: Novel Approaches for Peptide Drug

Discovery

Michael Bishop (GlaxoSmithKline) Ved Srivastava (GlaxoSmithKline)


45

Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry I David Graves (University of Alabama

Birmingham) [email protected] 20


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Government Relations and Science Policy Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 10

Mass Spectrometry III: Instrumentation and Applications for the Future

Gary Glish (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 45

Mass Spectrometry Informatics: Static Knowledge or Driving New Scientific

Innovations? Antony Williams (Royal Society of Chemistry) [email protected] 24

Medicinal Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 160

Microorganisms: Organic Chemist's Culture Nicholas Oberlies (UNC Greensboro) [email protected] 50

Organic Chemistry III Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 35

Photochemistry Malcolm Forbes (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 24

SEMRC - Membrane Proteins and Peptides



47

SEMRC - Structure and Dynamics by NMR/EPR Session 1



47

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Biochemistry/Biomedical Chemistry

Daniel Shin (Campbell University) [email protected] 160

Undergraduate Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Organic Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Organometallic Chemistry


Atmospheric Chemistry: Gas-Particle Interactions and Climate Change - II

RKM Jayanty (RTI International) [email protected] 30

Chemical Biology: Chemical Answers to Biological Questions II

Alex Deiters (NCSU) Paul Thompson (Scripps Florida)


>80

Chemical Education II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 40

Chemical Education Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 158

Chemistry of Bio-Nano Interfaces III Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU)




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Dye-sensitized Solar Cells I Ahmed El Shafei (NCSU) [email protected] 17

Energy and Fuels II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 20

Entrepreneurial Chemistry: Academic/Industry Interactions II

Shri Kulkarni (KulTech) [email protected] 40

Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine IV: Drug Delivery- Biologics and Small

Molecules**

Charles Gersbach (Duke University) Ved Srivastava (GlaxoSmithKline)

Samuel Lai (UNC Chapel Hill)



Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry II David Graves (University of Alabama


Mass Spectrometry IV: Emerging Environmental Contaminants

Susan Richardson Gary Glish (UNC Chapel Hill)


45

Microorganisms: Organic Chemist's Culture II

Nicholas Oberlies (UNC Greensboro) [email protected] 50

Process Analytical Technology and Chemometrics

Frank Vogt (UT-Knoxville) [email protected] 18

SEMRC - Contrast Methods/MRI Alex Nevzorov (NCSU)

Irina Nesmelova (UNC Charlotte) [email protected]


SEMRC - NMR/EPR Methods/Materials Alex Nevzorov (NCSU)

Irina Nesmelova (UNC Charlotte) [email protected]


SEMRC - Poster Session Friday

Alex Nevzorov (NCSU) Alex Smirnov (NCSU)

Irina Nesmelova (UNC Charlotte)



SERMACS Industrial Innovation Award Luncheon and Keynote Lecture

Shri Kulkarni (Kultech) Sohrab Habibi (UNC Chapel Hill)


40

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Analytical/Bioanalytical Chemistry


Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Organic/Organometallic Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Computational Chemistry



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Undergraduate Poster Session: Environmental Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Materials Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Physical Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Polymer Chemistry


Analytical Chemistry II Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 30

Chemistry of Bio-Nano Interfaces IV Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU)



Dye-sensitized Solar Cells II Ahmed El Shafei (NCSU) [email protected] 17

Environmental, Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 25

Frontiers in Nucleic Acid Chemistry III David Graves (University of Alabama


High School and Project SEED Student Oral Presentations

Alan Tonelli (NCSU) [email protected] 17

High School Student Poster Presentations Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Preparing Students for College Chemistry Panel Discussion

W. Lin Coker, III (Campbell University) [email protected] 15

Project SEED Poster Session Alan Tonelli (NCSU) [email protected] 173

SEMRC - Structure and Dynamics by NMR/EPR Session 2





Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Computational Chemistry/Environmental

Chemistry Daniel Shin (Campbell University) [email protected] 20

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Inorganic Chemistry/Physical Chemistry



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Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Polymer Chemistry/Materials Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Analytical/Bioanalytical Chemistry


Undergraduate Poster Session: Biochemistry/Biomedical Chemistry


Agricultural and Food Chemistry Poster Session

Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Bioanalytical Chemistry I Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill) [email protected] 9

Bioanalytical Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Chemical Toxicology, Health, and Safety Poster Session

Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Chemistry and Applications of Colorants in the 21st Century

Renzo Shamey (NCSU) Harold Freeman (NCSU)


14

Chirality in Agrochemicals Steve McCall (BASF) Elin Ulrich (US EPA)


16

Environmental Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Materials Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Nucleic Acid Chemistry Poster Session Yaroslava Yingling (NCSU) [email protected] 173

Project SEED Best Practices Alan Tonelli (NCSU) [email protected] 20

SEMRC - NMR/EPR New Methods





SEMRC - Poster Session Saturday

Alex Smirnov (NCSU) Alex Nevzorov (NCSU)





SERMACS 2012 UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM

Organizers

Daniel Shin (Campbell University): [email protected]

Mary Moore (Eastman Chemical): [email protected]

W. Lin Coker III (Campbell University): [email protected]

Phil Brown (NCSU): [email protected]

Jeremiah Feducia (NCSU): [email protected]

Daniel Barber (Lord Corporation): [email protected]

Kassy Mies (Meredith College): [email protected]

Program Approximate Number of Attendees

Friday, 16 November 2012

Technical Sessions

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Biochemistry/Biomedical Chemistry 70

Undergraduate Poster Session: Inorganic Chemistry 160

Undergraduate Poster Session: Organic Chemistry 160

Undergraduate Poster Session: Organometallic Chemistry 160

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Analytical/Bioanalytical Chemistry 70

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Organic/Organometallic Chemistry 70

Undergraduate Poster Session: Computational Chemistry 158

Undergraduate Poster Session: Environmental Chemistry 158

Undergraduate Poster Session: Materials Chemistry 158

Undergraduate Poster Session: Physical Chemistry 158

Undergraduate Poster Session: Polymer Chemistry 158

Workshops

ACS Planning Your Job Search 25

ACS Preparing a Resume 25

ACS Effective Interviewing 25

ACS Speed Networking 25

ACS Resume Reviews 25

SERMACS Career Connections 20

Backward Course Design 14

Events

SERMACS Awards Reception at The NC Museum of Natural Sciences with Plenary Speaker Joseph DeSimone

200


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Saturday, 17 November 2012

Technical Sessions

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Computational Chemistry/Environmental Chemistry

20

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Inorganic Chemistry/Physical Chemistry

10

Undergraduate Oral Presentations: Polymer Chemistry/Materials Chemistry

10

Undergraduate Poster Session: Analytical/Bioanalytical Chemistry 173

Undergraduate Poster Session: Biochemistry/Biomedical Chemistry 173

Workshops

SERMACS Career Connections 10

Panel Discussion: Preparing Students for College Chemistry 15

Chemistry Demonstrations Workshop 75

Events

Chemistry Demonstrations 100

Undergraduate Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Marty St Clair 120


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SERMACS 2012 HIGH SCHOOL AND PROJECT SEED PROGRAM

Organizers

Alan Tonelli (NCSU): [email protected]

Marc ter Horst (UNC Chapel Hill): [email protected]

Charles Goss (GlaxoSmithKline): [email protected]

W. Lin Coker III (Campbell University): [email protected]

Program Approximate Number of Attendees


Technical Sessions

High School and Project SEED Student Oral Presentations 30

High School Student Poster Presentations 173

Project SEED Poster Session 173

Project SEED Best Practices Symposium 30

Workshops

Panel Discussion: Preparing Students for College Chemistry 15

HS Teacher Orientation by Learn NC 8

Chemistry Demonstrations 100

Chemistry Demonstration Workshop 75

Events

CHED High School Teachers Award Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Brian Thomas

30


SERMACS 2012 SOCIAL EVENTS

Event Organizer Contact email Approximate Number of Attendees

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Welcome Reception and NC Local Section Poster Session

Melissa Pasquinelli (NCSU) [email protected] 250

NC Distinguished Speaker Presentation Melissa Pasquinelli (NCSU) [email protected] 200

Thursday, 15 November 2012

WCC Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Barbara Ramsay Shaw

Laura Sremaniak (NCSU) Gail Webster (Guilford College)


50

Sci-Mix Charlie Goss (GlaxoSmithKline)

Michelle Stevenson (ACS) [email protected] [email protected]

300

Friday, 16 November 2012

Industrial Innovation Award Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Buck Goldstein

Shri Kulkarni (Kultech) Sohrab Habibi (UNC Chapel Hill)


40

ACS District Director's Ice Cream Social Michelle Stevenson (ACS) [email protected] 200

SERMACS Awards Reception at The NC Museum of Natural Sciences with Plenary Speaker Joseph DeSimone

Daniel Shin (Campbell University) Charlie Goss (GlaxoSmithKline)

Jeremiah Feducia (NCSU) Phil Brown (NCSU)



200


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Undergraduate Awards Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Marty St Clair

Daniel Shin (Campbell University) Danna Mattocks

(GlaxoSmithKline)


120

CHED High School Teachers Award Luncheon with Keynote Speaker Brian Thomas

James Chao (IBM Retired) Charlie Goss (GlaxoSmithKline)


30

SERMACS 2012 Final Report II (b) Plenary/Keynote Speakers

If any, provide all information available.

SERMACS 2012 had 8 plenary/keynote speakers across 7 events, as

listed below. Additional speaker and event details are provided in the

accompanying SERMACS 2012 Program Book.

2012 NC-ACS Distinguished Speaker Award Lecture

Admiring, Analyzing, and Improving the

3D Structures of Macromolecules

David C. Richardson

Professor of Biochemistry

Duke University

Jane S. Richardson

James B. Duke Professor of Biochemistry

Duke University

WCC Luncheon Keynote Address

Challenges, passions and opportunities:

balancing chemistry careers and our lives

Barbara Ramsay Shaw

William T. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

Duke University

Symposium in Honor of Royce W. Murray Plenary Lecture

Nanoparticle science and its analytical chemistry

Royce W. Murray

Kenan Professor of Chemistry

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

SERMACS Industrial Innovation Award Keynote Address

Engines of Innovation:

The Entrepreneurial University in the Twenty First Century


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Burton ‘Buck’ Goldstein

University Entrepreneur in Residence and a Professor of the Practice

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

SERMACS 2012 Awards Reception Plenary Address

Research Alone is Not Enough:

Opportunities for Chemists in Uncertain Times

Joseph M. DeSimone

Chancellor’s Eminent Professor of Chemistry at the University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill and William R.Kenan Jr. Professor of

Chemical Engineering at North Carolina State University and of

Chemistry at UNC.

Undergraduate Awards and Scholarship Luncheon Keynote

Address

Thirty Years of HIV Drug Development:a Message of Hope

Marty St. Clair

GlaxoSmithKline

ACS CHED Regional Award for Excellence in High School

Teaching Keynote Address

Detection of Designer Drugs and Formulations

Dr. Brian F. Thomas

RTI International


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II (c) Workshops

List the sponsors, topics and number of attendees.

The 16 workshops held at SERMACS 2012 are listed in the table below.

Workshop Date and Topic Sponsor Estimated

Attendance

Tuesday, 13-Nov

ACS Leadership

Development

Extraordinary Leader

Course - Learn effective

leadership that will help you

achieve exceptional results.

ACS Center for

Professional

Development

18

Wednesday, 14-Nov

TCDG Workshop: (1)

Getting the Most Out of Your

UHPLC/UPLC Columns, (2)

Fundamentals and

Advancements in Analytical

SFC/SFE

Triangle

Chromatography

Discussion Group

7

Wednesday, 14-Nov

COACh Workshop:

Negotiations for Women

Chemists (for Professionals,

Faculty, Post-Docs and

Graduate Students)

NC-ACS WCC

COACh

20

Thursday, 15-Nov

Career Connections

David G. Smith

20

Thursday, 15-Nov

NIH Funding for Chemists:

Grant Writing Tips for New

and Experienced Applicants

Thursday, 15-Nov

Sally E. Eckert-

Tilotta, Ph.D.

Scientific Review

Officer

National Institute

of Environmental

Health Sciences

71

http://208.77.250.174/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=1103&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=50bf9cf8-3b78-4663-8d79-f35902e5b673




http://coach.uoregon.edu/coach/

http://coach.uoregon.edu/coach/

http://www.sermacs2012.org/downloads/workshops/NIH%20Funding%20for%20Chemists%20Course%20Description.pdf


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Thursday, 15-Nov

ACS Leadership

Development Fostering

Innovation Course - Learn

how to tap into your own

innovation style and how to

stimulate innovative

thinking.

ACS Center for

Professional

Development

27

Friday, 16 November

ACS Career Services

Workshops

Planning Your Job Search

Preparing a Resume

Effective Interviewing

Speed Networking

ACS Resume Reviews

ACS Career

Services

125

Friday, 16 November

Government Relations and

Science Policy

Ryan Davison

ACS

10

Friday, 16 November

Career Connections

David G. Smith

20

Friday, 16 November

Backward Course Design An interactive chemical

education workshop that will

provide participants with a

roadmap for developing

active learning strategies that

incorporate civic issues,

technology, and problem

solving, based on the needs

of the participants.

SENCER

(Science

Education for

New Civic

Engagements and

Responsibilities)

14




http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=408&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=e924e767-3f77-4403-94e7-ad2ff52ebcbe

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=410&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=2b6fdec3-9062-44ec-ab87-cf15d058e4fd

http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=409&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=4340caad-bdef-47cd-8730-a6920a9eca0d

http://www.sencer.net/


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Saturday, 17 November

Career Connections

David G. Smith

10


Panel Discussion:

Preparing Students for

College Chemistry

W. Lin Coker, III

Campbell

University

25


Chemistry Demonstrations

Workshop A hands-on workshop with

10 different stations where

attendees can learn and try a

series of demonstrations in

various areas of chemistry,

all using readily available

and inexpensive materials

with a minimum of hazards

NC-ACS

Duke University

75


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II (d) Award Presentations

Provide a list of all awards and honorees, with descriptions of any

presentations by awardees.

SERMACS 2012 had 6 award presentations as listed below. The events

had associated Plenary/Keynote speakers listed in Section II (b). Jim

Chao (Awards Chair) led planning of these events. He also coordinated

the nomination and selection process for the ACS Ann Nalley Award,

the ACS CHED HS Teacher Award, and the SERMACS Industrial

Innovation Award. Melissa Pasquinelli (NC-ACS Section Conference

Chair) coordinated the awards presented during the Welcome Reception

and NC-ACS Section Conference.

Duke University faculty Dr. Jane S. Richardson, James

B. Duke Professor of Biochemsitry, and David C.

Richardson, Professor of Biochemistry, received The

North Carolina Distinguished Speaker Award at the

SERMACS Welcome Reception and NC-ACS Local

Section Conference on Wednesday, 14 November, 5:00

– 8:00 PM

The award recognizes their significant contributions to

understanding the 3D structures of proteins and

nucleotides through the use of structural bioinformatics,

macromolecular crystallography, molecular graphics,

structural analysis, and methods development.

Dr. Laura Sremaniak, Teaching Associate Professor

and Associate Chair, Department of Chemistry, North

Carolina State University, received the Marcus E.

Hobbs Award at the SERMACS Welcome Reception

and NC-ACS Local Section Conference on

Wednesday, 14 November, 5:00 – 8:00 PM.

Thw award recognizes significant, long-term

contributions to the North Carolina Section of the

American Chemical Society, particularly her roles as a

Councilor and chairing the WCC and Project SEED

Advisory Subcommittees.

http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/lab/richardson/richardson.php



http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/History/Distinguished%20Speakers%20Award/index.html

http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/History/Distinguished%20Speakers%20Award/index.html

http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/people/lss.html

http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/History/Marcus%20Hobbs%20Award/index.html

http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/History/Marcus%20Hobbs%20Award/index.html


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The ACS Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing

Diversity in the Chemical Sciences (Southeastern

Region)

Dr. Christine S. Grant, Associate Dean of Faculty

Development and Special Initiatives, College of

Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and

Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State

University, received the award at the SERMACS

Awards Reception at The NC Museum of Natural

Sciences on Friday, 16 November, 6:00 – 9:00 PM.

This award recognizes individuals and/or institutions that

have advanced diversity in the chemical sciences and

significantly stimulated or fostered activities that

promote inclusiveness within the region.

The ACS E. Ann Nalley Southeastern Regional

Award for Volunteer Service

Dr. Christopher J. Bannochie, Fellow, Savannah River

National Laboratory (SRNL) received the award at the

SERMACS Awards Reception at The NC Museum of

Natural Sciences on Friday, 16 November 2012, 6:00 –

9:00 pm.

This award recognizes the volunteer efforts of

individuals who have served the American Chemical

Society, contributing significantly to the goals and

objectives of the Society through their Regional

Activities.

The SERMACS Industrial Innovation Award

Dr. Christian Melander, Associate Professor,

Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State

University, and cofounder, Agile Sciences l received the

award at a Industrial Innovation Award Luncheon on

Friday, 16 November 2012, 12:00 – 1:30 pm.

This award is intended to recognize, encourage, and

stimulate industrial innovation in the Southeastern

Region.

http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/people/lss.html

http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/people/cmelander.html

http://agilesci.com/index.html


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The ACS CHED Regional Award for Excellence in

High School Teaching

Ms. Susanne M. Dana, Blacksburg High School,

Blacksburg, VA received the award at the CHED High

School Teachers Award Luncheon on Saturday, 17

November, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM. She was also

recognized at the SERMACS Awards Reception at The

NC Museum of Natural Sciences on Friday

This award is intended to recognize, encourage, and

stimulate outstanding teachers of high school chemistry

in the Southeastern Region.

http://www.chemistrywithmsdana.org/


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II (e) A/V Arrangements

List the type of media that were used and give approximate percentage

use (laptop, LCD, internet, microphones, etc.) and cost.

The AV arrangements went extremely well. Attendees were told to

bring presentations on their own laptops. Symposium organizers were

given the option to consolidate several presentations onto a single

computer. SERMACS 2012 contracted ($24,248) with American AV to

provide LCD projectors, screens, wired lapel microphones and laser

pointers in each meeting room. The RCC provided the basic sound

system ($300) for the whole meeting. Internet access for presentations

was provided by the RCC upon request. American AV provided 3-5

support staff throughout the meeting to address any problems with the

equipment or other issues.

American Audio Video

2862 Hartland Rd

Falls Church, VA 22043

Voice: (703) 573-6910

Fax: (703) 573-3539

II (f) Electronic Abstract Service

Provide commentary on the usefulness of the electronic abstract

service (PACS). Identify its most useful aspects as well as those that

caused difficulty. Make suggestions about how the service can be

improved

PACS was effective but quite tedious. Its most useful functions were

managing all the submissions and creating the final technical program

document, which is a huge benefit. The PACS system crash that

occurred near the SERMACS 2012 program deadline caused a major

disruption in workflow that nearly derailed the meeting. The service

could be improved by making all aspects of the process (e.g. abstract

submission and management, session creation and management, final

program creation and manipulation) work faster and easier.

Working with PACS was the most common complaint (mild term) from

Symposia organizers. Several came close to washing their hands of the

whole thing and more than several just ignored it altogether.


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II (g) Co-sponsorships and Affiliated Meetings

Identify any divisions, committees, and non-ACS societies that

sponsored symposia or meetings that were held in conjunction with

the regional meeting along with the role they played.

Describe how this opportunity was recognized and pursued.

Comment on the effectiveness of the collaboration.

SERMACS 2012 partnered with the three special conferences below.

(1) The Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) and Solar

Energy Research Center (SERC) hosted a conference on

“Photonic Assemblies, Materials, and Catalysts for Solar

Fuels”. This opportunity arose because Marc ter Horst

(Program Chair) works in the Chemistry Department at UNC

Chapel Hill, which also where the EFRC/SERC is based.

Several preliminary meetings between SERMACS and

EFRC/SERC members brought out key logistical and financial

concerns. These were resolved in a final meeting and the

partnership proceeded smoothly from then on.

(2) The North Carolina Local Section held its 126th NC-ACS

Local Section Conference Meeting featuring the NC

Distinguished Speaker Award Lecture. The NC-ACS Chair-

Elect, Melissa Pasquinelli, was responsible for organizing the

Local Section Conference. She and others in the local section

recognized an obvious collaboration opportunity because the

NC-ACS Local Section Conference has been held in the Fall, so

merging with SERMACS 2012 had clear potential synergy to

increase attendance at both meetings. It also did not make sense

to have it as a separate event that would take attention away

from SERMACS and incur additional expenses for the section.

The key issue that had to be resolved was how to make the Local

Section Conference accessible to members who were not going

to attend SERMACS 2012. Melissa resolved this by setting up a

parallel registration process for the NC-ACS Conference.

(3) The 41st Southeastern Magnetic Resonance Conference

(SEMRC) covered the latest developments in NMR, EPR, and

MRI with presentations from established and emerging leaders.

This opportunity arose because Marc ter Horst (Program Chair)

is an NMR spectroscopist so he was familiar with this

conference and reached out to the organizers (who were nearby

at NC State and UNC Charlotte) about a potential partnership.

Several preliminary meetings between SERMACS and the

http://www.serc.unc.edu/conf/

http://www.serc.unc.edu/conf/

http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/apps/photos/

http://www.sermacs2012.org/semrc/


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SEMRC organizers resulted in agreement to collaborate, but left

several key logistical and financial concerns outstanding. These

issues were then resolved individually over the course of many

planning meetings. For example, SERMACS 2012 contributed

to the SEMRC by hosting their meeting website. The SEMRC

contributed to SERMACS by recruiting a significant number of

attendees. The collaboration was effective for both groups.

As listed below, a number of SERMACS 2012 symposia were

sponsored or supported by contributions from ACS Divisions due to the

efforts of the symposia chairs and encouragement provided by Ken

Tomer (SERMACS 2012 Symposia Chair) and Richard Palmer

(SERMACS 2012 Symposia Committee).

Symposium Honoring Royce W. Murray

Lloyd Horne (Murray State University)

Mark Wightman (UNC Chapel Hill)

Supported by ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry

Chemical Biology: Chemical Answers to Biological Questions

Alex Deiters (NCSU), Paul Thompson (Scripps Florida)

Sponsored by ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

Supported by ACS Division of Biological Chemistry

Fungi: Organic Chemists in Culture

Nick Oberlies (UNC Greensboro)

Cedric Pearce (Mycosynthetix)

Sponsored by ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

Project SEED Best Practices: What Works?

Al Tonelli (NCSU)

Supported by ACS Innovative Projects Grants

Photochemistry

Malcolm Forbes (UNC Chapel Hill)

Supported by the Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS and the

Inorganic Chemistry Division of the ACS

Entrepreneurial Chemistry: Academic/Industry Interactions

Shri Kulkarni (Kultech)


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Sohrab Habibi (UNC Chapel Hill)

Supported by ACS Division of Small Chemical Business, ACS Local

Section Corporate Grants

II (h) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

ACS Division support was extremely helpful and should be further

encouraged and promoted. Key features that should be encouraged are

(1) no deadlines for requests from symposium organizers (i.e. a

continuous open door process), (2) minimal overhead, and (3) a

consistent payment policy across the divisions. Currently most

divisions provide symposium support directly to the regional meeting

(i.e. the sponsorship is sent to the meeting Treasurer). However, some

divisions (e.g. Organic) require the symposium organizer to submit

expenses to the division representative for reimbursement. The key

problem we experienced with the second approach was that some key

people (e.g. Treasurer, General Chair) were unaware of the division

support for some time, which made budget management more difficult.

III Meeting Finances*

III (a) Budget

Use the spreadsheet template provided. Include the worksheet on

registrations and income from various categories of registrants.

The table on the next page summarizes attendee registration and

income. Full registration details can be obtained from the files attached

below.

ACS SERMACS 2012 Final Report (2).xlsx

ACS SERMACS 2012 SOCIAL EVENT FINAL FINANCE.xlsx

The following pages


REGISTRATION SUMMARY

REGISTRATION CATEGORY ADVANCE NUMBER ON-SITE NUMBER

ACTUALS (from ACS

Report)

COMPLEMENTARY (INCLUDED IN

ACTUALS) PLANNEDREVENUE

ACTUAL REVENUE (from ACS

Report)

MEMBERS $150 325 $195 135 639 136 $75,075 $75,045.00

NON-MEMBERS $195 75 $235 20 199 85 $19,325 $21,721.25

GRADUATE STUDENTS $70 200 $90 100 500 49 $23,000 $31,950.00

UNDERGRADUATES $50 160 $70 135 524 44 $17,450 $24,760.00

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOW $80 50 $100 35 108 18 $7,500 $7,340.00

HS TEACHERS/STUDENTS $30 20 $50 0 66 7 $600 $810.00

RETIRED/EMEITUS/UNEMPLOYED $40 25 $50 20 32 1 $2,000 $1,280.00

SPOUSES/GUEST $15 25 $35 10 21 3 $725 $450.00

50-YR MEMBERS $0 20 $0 5 11 0 $0 $0.00

EXHIBITOR $0 60 $0 0 146 130 $0 $800.00

COMPLIMENTARY (NOTE 9) $0 225 $0 0

See next column NA $0 $0.00

REGISTERED ACS STAFF $0 5 $0 0 5 5 $0 $0.00

DAILY $0 0 $50 0 46 0 $0 $2,300.00

LOCALS $0 0 $0 0 10 10 $0 $0.00

TOTALS

1190

460 2307 488 $145,675 $166,456.25


The planned and actual SERMACS 2012 budget is presented below. SERMACS 2012

was financially successful with a net surplus of $138,131.28 that was split between

SERMACS Inc. ($27626.26) and the NC-ACS ($90,505.02).

SERMACS 2012 Budget Summary

REVENUE PLANNED 30Nov10

PLANNED NOTES

ACTUALS NOTES

REGISTRATION $145,675

$166,456.25 From ACS report

EXHIBITS $41,250 1 $52,950.00 From ACS report and

bank deposits

DEVELOPMENT (SPONSORS) $50,000

$137,733.00

From SERMACS 2012 Team Site (does not include SERMACS

support listed below)

WORKSHOPS $5,000

$2,800.00

TCDG, COACh, NIH, CAREER AM, CAREER PM,

CHEMISTRY DEMOS

GRADUATE SCHOOL FAIR $1,200

$7,750.00 From ACS report and

bank deposits

LUNCHEONS AND RECEPTIONS

$1,000

$7,280.00

Welcome Reception, WCC, Industrial

Innovation, SERMACS Awards,

Undergraduate, CHED HS Teacher

REIMBURSMENTS $7,500 2 $25,790.04 From bank deposits

MARRIOT REBATE FOR RCC $6,000

$7,540.00 From RCC Invoice

XB3 LOAN FROM SERMACS, INC

$4,650.00

SERMACS GRANT AND MATCHING FUNDS

$6,000.00

MISC CASH RECEIPTS

$5,416.00 From bank deposits

TOTAL $257,625

$424,365.29

ACS Total

$232,336.25 Total income

processed by ACS


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SERMACS 2012 Budget Summary Continued

EXPENSES PLANNED 30Nov10

PLANNED NOTES

ACTUALS NOTES

ARRANGEMENTS

RCC $19,000 3 $22,330.00 RCC payments + Marriott Rebate

NC Museum of Natural Sciences

$2,940.00 NCMNS, David

Curran

MARRIOTT

$20,629.34 Marriott

THANK-YOU FOR COMMITTEE

$5,000

$4,400.90 From bank charges

REGISTRATION $6,800 10 $9,836.00 ACS charges

ABSTRACT COSTS (ACS) $8,500 11 $0.00 Charges waived by

ACS

AV $25,000 4 $23,041.00 American AV

FOOD/BANQUETS/MIXER $35,000

$45,748.74 Centerplate and

Rocky Top

EXHIBITS $20,000 5 $7,394.23 Southeastern

Exhibition Services

PRINTING $10,000 6 $18,275.99 Omnipress, Hines,

Feducia

PUBLICITY $10,000 7 $9,479.38 Totebags, American Scientist Ad, Goss

Poster

TECHNICAL PROGRAM $75,000 8

INVITED SPEAKERS

$85,488.52 Payments for invited speakers, symposia

SPONSORSHIPS CORRECTIONS

$17,000.00 Sponsorhips not

processed through bank account

POSTER BOARDS

$4,550.00 Stone's Boards

UG AND HS PROGRAM

$4,300.00 Travel Grants and

Presentation Awards

WORKSHOP COSTS

$2,000.00 COACh Workshop

ADMINISTRATIVE/MISCELLANEOUS

$15,000

$1,289.05

VOLUNTEER REIMBURS.

$1,584.39

WEBSITE

$1,015.00 Dustin Wheeler


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XB3 LOAN REPAYMENT

$4,650.00

BANK STATEMENT CORRECTION

$281.47

TOTAL $229,300

$286,234.01

SURPLUS $28,325

$138,131.28

AMOUNT DUE SERMACS,

INC (20% OF PROFIT)

$27,626.26

AMOUNT ADVANCED TO NC-ACS

$20,000.00

BALANCE DUE TO NC-ACS

$90,505.02

NC-ACS TOTAL

$110,505.02

PLANNED NOTES

1: ASSUMES 55 BOOTHS AT $750 EACH 2: FROM ACS FOR USE BY EMPLOYMENT CLEARING HOUSE, OFFICES, DIRECTOR'S BREAKFAST, ETC

3: FOR SPACE, PHONE LINE HOOKUPS, ETC 4: ALL AUDIO VISUAL FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, BANQUETS, PREP ROOM

5: INCLUDES POWER, PIPE AND DRAPE, ETC.

6: ASSUMES MINIMAL PROGRAM BOOK WITH ABSTRACTS ON MEMORY STICK OR ON-LINE 7: PRIMARILY REGISTRATION, GIVE-AWAYS AND TRAVEL TO REGIONALAND/OR NATIONAL MEETINGS

8: PRIMARILY INVITED SPEAKER TRAVEL REIMBURSEMENTS

9: PRIMARILY INVITED SPEAKERS

10: 1360 REGISTRANTS @ $4.50 (ROUNDED TO $5) EACH IMPOSED BY NATIONAL

11: 850 ABSTRACT @ $9 PER ABSTRACT IMPOSED BY NATIONAL

The budget above was compiled based on the ACS reports, the total sponsorships

received and the bank account transactions. The SERMACS 2012 Treasurer (Sol Levine)

prepared a similar budget (attached below) based solely on the the bank account deposits

and checks. There are some minor differences between the two approaches but the final

totals are the same in both budgets.

SERMACS 2012 FINAL REPORT.xlsx


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III (b) Financial Accounts Used by Meeting

Provide data on all accounts that were opened/closed for the meeting

(checking, saving, etc, dates opened, credit card accounts, number of

checks written for expenses, number of checks written for refunds,

etc.)

List all those who had authority for financial transactions.

SERMACS 2012 has one Business Checking Account at First Citizens

Bank. It was opened in October 2011 and closed in November 2013.

Sol Levine and Charlie Goss had authority for transactions with the

checking account. Transactions as of account closing are summarized

below.

50 deposits

229 checks or on-line transactions for expenses (4 on-line)

147 reimbursement checks

35 student travel awards and undergraduate poster award checks

III (c) Grant Funding for Meeting

Summarize the sources of all grants received along with the specific

purpose of each grant. Include copies of any reconciliation forms

required by the grantor.

SERMACS 2012 received a $5000 Biotechnology Meeting Grant from

the North Carolina Biotechnology Center. Copies of the reconciliation

forms required are attached below.

SERMACS 2012 Technical Status Report 11Jan12.pdf

SERMACS 2012 Financial Status Report 11Jan12.pdf

The Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine symposium and the

Chemical Biology symposium were sponsored by a $24,000 grant from

GlaxoSmithKline.

III (d) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

Grants can be an effective way to pay for meeting expenses. Meeting

organizers should be encouraged to find out what opportunities are

available and to submit applications for funding.

IV Fundraising*


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IV (a) Data

Provide information about the sources of fundraising, amounts

solicited and received, contact info, etc.

Sponsorship fundraising was led by Charlie Goss (General Chair) and

RKM Jayanty (RTI International) with assistance from the other

committee members listed. Sponsorships received, their use, and their

contact information are listed in the table on the following pages. Total

sponsorship was $143,733.


SERMACS 2012 Sponsorships Summary

Level Amount

($) Designation Sponsor and Contact

Innovator $24,000

SYMP: "Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine", Ved Srivastava, GSK ($23000)

SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU ($1000)

GlaxoSmithKline

(http://www.gsk.com)

Sustainer $15,000

Start-Up Funds ($5000)

Welcome Reception and NC-ACS Local Section Conference ($10000)

NC-ACS (http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/)

Joan Bursey ([email protected])

Catalyst $10,000 SYMP: "Chirality in Agrochemicals"

BASF Crop Protection USA

(http://agproducts.basf.us/)

Steve McCall ([email protected])

Diamond $7,500 SYMP: Project SEED and HS, Al Tonelli, NCSU NIEHS (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/)

Diamond $7,500 Southeastern Regional Award Dinner ($5000)

Lanyards ($2500)

Eastman Chemical

(http://www.eastman.com/Pages/Home.aspx)

Tina Wilmer ([email protected])

Diamond $6,250

SYMP: "Atmospheric Chemistry: Gas-Particle Interactions and Climate Change", RKM Jayanty, RTI International ($5000)

SYMP: "Recent Advances in Micro- and Nanofabrication", Ginger Rothrock, RTI International ($1250)

RTI International

(http://www.rti.org)

Diamond $6,000

SYMP: Project SEED and HS, Al Tonelli, NCSU ($3000)

Undergraduate Travel Awards, Dan Shin, Campbell University ($3000)

SERMACS Inc

. (http://www.sermacs.org)

http://ncacs.sites.acs.org/

http://agproducts.basf.us/

http://www.eastman.com/Pages/Home.aspx


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Diamond $7,000 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevserov, NCSU ($3500)

SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU ($3500)

NCSU Department of Chemistry

(http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/index.html)

Jackie Hughes

Accounting Technician

NC State University, Chemistry Business Office

320 Dabney

Hall, Campus Box 8204

Raleigh, NC

27695-8204

Phone (919) 515-7361

Fax (919) 515-8909

[email protected]

Diamond $5,000 SERMACS Support

ChemSpider

(http://www.chemspider.com)

Lyndsey Fairweather

Marketing Campaign Manager

Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House

Science Park, Cambridge, CB4 [email protected]

http://www.ncsu.edu/chemistry/index.html

http://www.chemspider.com/



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Diamond $5,000 RCC Rental Fee

North Carolina Biotechnology Center

(http://www.ncbiotech.org)

Ginny DeLuca

Grant Process Operations


919-549-8842

fax 919-314-8296 [email protected]

Gold $4,580

1/2 Page Color Advertisement in American Scientist ($4080 Donation in-kind)

Sigma Xi Team Science Awards for Undergraduate Presentations ($500)

Sigma Xi

(http://www.sigmaxi.org)

Kevin W. Bowen, J.D.

Program Manager

Grants and Society Awards

[email protected]

Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society

P.O. Box 13975

3106 East NC Highway 54

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

Phone: 800-243-6534 or 919-549-4691 X206

Fax: 919-549-0090

Gold $3500 SERMACS 2012 Tote Bags

Laura Woodhouse Product Manager, Development & Clinical

Services Catalent

160 Pharma Drive Morrisville, NC 27560

T (816) 767-6819| M (816) 728-6582

[email protected]

http://www.ncbiotech.org/


http://www.sigmaxi.org/


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Gold $3,000 SYMP: "Fungi: Organic Chemists Culture", Nick Oberlies,

UNC Greensboro

ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

(http://www.organicdivision.org/)

Franklin A. Davis, FRSC, FACS

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry

Department of Chemistry

Temple University

13th & Norris Streets

Philadelphia, PA 19122

215.204.0477

215,204.0478 (fax)

Gold $3,000 SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU

ACS Division of Organic Chemistry

(http://www.organicdivision.org/)

Franklin A. Davis, FRSC, FACS

Laura H. Carnell Professor of Chemistry


Temple University

13th & Norris Streets

Philadelphia, PA 19122

215.204.0477

215,204.0478 (fax)

Gold $2,500 SYMP: "Separation Science in the Macro(molecular),

Micro(bial) and Nano (particle) World", Christa Colyer, Wake Forest University

Ameritox

(http://www.ameritox.com/)

http://www.organicdivision.org/

http://www.organicdivision.org/


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Gold $2,500 Sci-Mix

Scynexis

(http://www.scynexis.com)

Alissa.Maupin,

Marketing Communications Coordinator

SCYNEXIS, Inc.

Post Office Box 12878

Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2878

919-206-7246

[email protected]

Gold $2,500 SERMACS Support

Doty Scientific

(http://www.dotynmr.com/)

Judy Doty

Doty Scientific, Inc.

700 Clemson Rd.

Columbia, South Carolina 29229

[email protected]

Gold $2,500 SYMP: "PAT and Chemometrics", Frank Vogt, University of

Tennessee Knoxville

Mettler Toledo

(www.mt.com/PAT)

Zoe Fernandez

MarCom Manager

Mettler-Toledo AutoChem, Inc.

7075 Samuel Morse Drive

Columbia MD 20146

[email protected]

http://www.scynexis.com/

http://www.dotynmr.com/

http://www.mt.com/PAT


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Gold 2500 SERMACS Support

Bruker Daltonics

(www.bdal.com)

Nancy Salt

Marketing Coordinator

Bruker Daltonics Inc.

40 Manning Road

Billerica, MA 01821

Phone: 978 663- 3660, ext 1492

Fax: 978 667-5993

[email protected]

Silver $1,500 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevserov, NCSU



Ginny DeLuca



919-549-8842


Silver $1,500 SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU



Ginny DeLuca



919-549-8842


Silver $1,500 SYMP: "MS", Gary Glish, UNC Chapel Hill

http://www.bdal.com/




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Silver $1,500 SYMP: "Nucleic Acids", David Graves, Univ. Alabama

Birmingham

Glen Research Corp

(http://www.glenresearch.com)

Silver $1,250 SYMP: "Recent Advances in Micro- and Nanofabrication",

Derek Schorzman, Liquidia Techologies

Liquidia Technologies

(http://www.liquidia.com)

Silver $1,125 SYMP: Project SEED and HS, Al Tonelli, NCSU

ACS LOCAL SECT. INNOVATIVE PROJECT GRANT

(http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=1302&use_sec=false&sec_url_va

r=region1&__uuid=700a39bd-7e72-4bca-97db-5557666ce117)

Silver $1,000 SYMP: "Surface Modifications for Catalysis and Energy" Meadwestvaco

(http://www.meadwestvaco.com/index.htm)

Silver $1,000 SYMP: "Entrepreneurial Chemistry Academic/Industry" ACS Division of Small Chemical Business

(http://schb.sites.acs.org/)

Silver $1,000 SYMP: "Entrepreneurial Chemistry Academic/Industry"

ACS Local Section Corporate Associates Grant

(http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_TRANSITIONMAIN&node_id=1529&use_sec=false&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=978419f1-95fe-4502-a18a-

1cffd31c2e7f)

Silver $1,000 SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU CEM

(http://www.cem.com/)

Silver $1,000 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevsorov, NCSU Bruker Biospin EPR Division

(http://www.bruker-biospin.com/epr-


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products.html)

Silver $1,000

SYMP: "Growing Impact of Public Domain Chemistry Resources, Antony Williams, RSC

SYMP: MS Information: Static Knowledge or Driveing New Scientific Innovations, Antony Williams, RSC

ACS Division of Chemical Information

(http://www.acscinf.org/)

Bronze $750 SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU ACS Division of Biological Chemistry

(http://www.divbiolchem.org/)

Bronze $500 SYMP: "Royce Murray", Lloyd Horne, Murray State University ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry

(http://www.analyticalsciences.org/)

Bronze $500 SYMP: "Royce Murray", Lloyd Horne, Murray State University Pine Instrument Company

(http://www.pineinst.com/echem/index.asp)

Bronze $500 SYMP: "Royce Murray", Lloyd Horne, Murray State University Gamray Instruments

(http://www.gamray.com

Bronze $500 SYMP: "Royce Murray", Lloyd Horne, Murray State University CH Instruments

(http://www.chinstruments.com)

Bronze $500 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevsorov, NCSU (two $250 student

travel awards)

Wilmad Glass

(http://www.wilmad-labglass.com/)

Send names of students to: Maria T. DiMairia ([email protected])1-800-

220-5171, ext. 3638

Bronze $500 SYMP: "High Resolution NMR", Irina Nesmelova, UNCC Bruker Biospin NMR Division

(http://www.bruker-biospin.com/nmr.html)

Bronze $500 SYMP: "Nucleic Acids", David Graves, Univ. Alabama

Birmingham Bruker Biospin Division (http://www.bruker-

biospin.com/)

http://www.wilmad-labglass.com/


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Bronze $500 SYMP: "Chemical Biology", Alex Deiters, NCSU Glen Research Corp

(http://www.glenresearch.com)

Bronze $500 .SYMP: "Fungi: Organic Chemists Culture", Nick Oberlies,

UNC Greensboro

Mycosynthetix Inc

(http://www.mycosynthetix.com/)

Cedric Pearce Ph.D.

CEO/CSO

Mycosynthetix Inc

505 Meadowlands Drive Suite 103

Hillsborough NC 27278

919 245 0600

919 630 9335 cell

Bronze $500 .SYMP: "Fungi: Organic Chemists Culture", Nick Oberlies,

UNC Greensboro

Teledyne ISCO

(http://www.isco.com/)

Bronze $500 SERMACS Support Lord Corporation

(http://www.lord.com/)

Bronze $500 SYMP: Photochemistry, Malcolm Forbes, UNC Chapel Hill The Physical Chemistry Division of the ACS

(http://phys-acs.org/)

Bronze $500 SYMP: Photochemistry, Malcolm Forbes, UNC Chapel Hill The ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry

(http://www.acsdic.org/)

http://www.mycosynthetix.com/


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Bronze $500 SERMACS Support

Biotage

(http://www.biotage.com)

Lauren Hanna

Marketing Associate

Biotage

10430 Harris Oaks Blvd., Suite C

Charlotte, NC USA 28269

800.446.4752 Main

704.654.4843 Direct

434.296.8217 Fax

[email protected]

Bronze $500 Chemical Education Programming

ACS Division of Chemical Education

(http://www.divched.org/)

Michael B. McGinnis, Ph.D.

Professor and Department Head


North Georgia College & State University

205 Rogers Hall

Dahlonega, GA 30597

p. 706-864-1504

f. 706-867-2972

e. [email protected]

Bronze $500 SYMP: AFM, Dorothy Erie, UNC Chapel Hill Asylum Research

(http://www.asylumresearch.com/)

Carbon $250 SERMACS Support Collaborative Drug Discovery

(https://www.collaborativedrug.com/)

http://www.biotage.com/

http://www.divched.org/



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Carbon $200 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevsorov, NCSU

Isotec

(http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/chemistry/stable-isotopes-isotec.html)

Carbon $150 SYMP: "SEMRC", Alex Nevsorov, NCSU New Era Enterprises

(www.newera-spectro.com)

TOTAL $143,733


IV (b)

Exhibits

Include examples of fundraising letters, flyers, etc.

The sponsor development letter from the SERMACS 2012 Website is

attached below. Communication with potential sponsors was primarily

by e-mail, using language similar to the development letter.

SERMACS 2012 Website Sponsor Letter.pdf

IV (c) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

Successful sponsorship development depends on personal connections,

matching potential contributors with the appropriate opportunity, and

persistence. Symposium organizers should actively pursue sponsorships

from a variety of sources (e.g. ACS Divisions, companies, research

funding agencies).

V Exposition*

V (a) Data

List the vendors’ names, addresses, primary contacts, sponsoring

action [booth or coffee break], cost of booths, coffee breaks, etc

John Hines (RTI International) and Reshan Fernando (RTI

International) led the SERMACS 2012 Vendor Exposition planning.

Booths. Vendor Exposition booth prices were as follows.

Single Booth - $800

Double Booth - $1200

Premium Single Booth - $1100

Premium Double Booth - $1600

57 booths were occupied by 50 exhibitors as listed below.

http://www.sermacs2012.org/sponsorship.php


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SERMACS 2012 Vendor Information

Booth Number

Company Name and Contacts

Company Description

56

Advion, Inc.

Garry Williams 607-280-0865

[email protected]

Advion is a leader in MS & synthesis solutions. The expression CMS is a high performance, compact,

affordable single quad mass spectrometer. Its compact size allows it to fit in space-limited labs for direct access and immediate results for chemists

requiring mass confirmation, reaction monitoring, QC and purity analysis.

www.expressioncms.com

33

Airgas National Welders

Steve Baldwin 800-943-0333

[email protected]

Airgas, Inc. (NYSE: ARG), through its subsidiaries, is the largest U.S. distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases, and hard goods, such as welding equipment and supplies. Airgas is also a leading

U.S. producer of atmospheric gases, carbon dioxide, dry ice, and nitrous oxide, one of the largest U.S. distributors of safety products, and a leading U.S. distributor of refrigerants, ammonia products, and

process chemicals.

www.airgas.com

43

Alfa Aesar, A Johnson Matthey Company

Goerge Wachter 800-343-0660

[email protected]

Alfa Aesar, a Johnson Matthey Company, is a leading global manufacturer and supplier of

chemicals, materials and life science products for research. Our products are utilized by

pharmaceutical, biotechnology and other advanced technology companies in applications such as drug discovery, genomic and proteomic research, and

high technology product development.

www.AlfaAesar.com

25 Anasazi Instruments, Inc.

William H. Bearden [email protected]

No cryogen NMR! Anasazi Instruments, Inc. makes cryogen-free 60 and 90 MHz NMR instruments. These high resolution; permanent magnet NMR instruments are robust and have applications in

R&D, quality control, and teaching. These instruments are available in three configurations,

1H,

1H/

13C, and

1H/multinuclear. The Eft spectrometer

can measure simple 1D spectra as well as 2D COSY and 2D HETCOR spectra. Anasazi Instruments provides strong support and a strong warranty.

www.AIINMR.com

23

Anton Paar USA

Mark Coombs 804-550-1051 704-491-4880

[email protected]

Anton Paar produces high-quality measuring and analysis instruments for laboratory, research, and industrial applications. In the fields of density and

concentration measurement we are the established world leader. Our product portfolio also includes

viscometers, rheometers, polarimeters, refractometers, instruments for X-Ray structure analysis, microwave synthesis and microwave

decomposition.

www.Anton-Paar.com

30 Asylum Research The AFM/SPM technology leader offers CypherTM

,


http://www.expressioncms.com/

http://www.airgas.com/

http://www.alfaaesar.com/

http://www.aiinmr.com/

http://www.anton-paar.com/


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Terry Mehr 805-696-6444

[email protected]

the world’s fastest and highest resolution AFM, for the most accurate images and precise

measurements possible today. With a larger sample size and numerous environmental and advanced

options, Asylum also offers the MFP-3DTM

family of AFMs, including the MFP-3D-BIO, Stand Alone and

NanoIndenter. Ask us about our new Electrochemical Strain Microscopy technique for energy storage research and our new tools for

quantitative viscoelastic mapping-AM-FM and Loss Tangent imaging.

www.AsylumResearch.com

40

Biotage

Matt Barnard 919-539-8996

[email protected]

Biotage is a leading global supplier of instruments and consumables for medicinal chemistry. The company is also a well-established supplier of products in analytical chemistry and peptide

chemistry. Biotage products range from discovery through clinical trials and large-scale productions.

We offer application expertise and personal customer support, customizing solutions to meet the needs of customers. Biotage continues to provide new and innovative tools to meet today’s research

and development challenges.

www.biotage.com

48

BMG Labtech

Scott Klayner 919-234-4275

[email protected]

BMG LABTECH is a leading developer and global manufacturer of microplate reader instrumentation

with a wide range of measurement methods. Microplate readers are used in the pharmaceutical

and biotech industries, as well as in academic research establishments, for both basic research analysis and High Throughput Screening. BMG

LABTECH focuses solely on microplate readers and offers the most diverse selection of optical detection

systems in conjunction with integrated liquid handling equipment.

www.BMGLabtech.com

54 Bruker Daltonic

Ben Owens 919-614-8764

Bruker is a leading provider of Separation and Mass Spectrometry instruments for the Analytical

Sciences. Our innovative and easy-to-use product families (ESI-TOF, IonTrap, FTMS, MALDI-TOF, GC, GC-MS, ICP-MS) provide the highest performance,

highest value systems for a wide range of small molecule and protein analysis applications.

www.bdal.com

26

CEM Corporation

Michael Howe 800-726-3331

[email protected]

CEM is a leading global provider of innovative microwave laboratory systems for chemical

synthesis and sample preparation. Our systems provide fast, reproducible results in rugged, flexible

platforms available with a variety of vessels and accessories. The new MARS 5 System features One Touch Technology and app-based methods.

http://www.cem.com

60 CiVentiChem

Our Vision is to provide an integrated chemistry services platform to help our clients to IMPROVE the

success of research, shorten the time of development, and REDUCE RISK by offering our

http://www.asylumresearch.com/

http://www.biotage.com/

http://www.bmglabtech.com/

http://www.bdal.com/

http://www.cem.com/


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customers a reliable, efficient and high quality environment in which to DELIVER projects.

www.civentichem.com

55

Doty Scientific, Inc.

Laura Holte, Ph.D. 803-788-6497


Doty Scientific supplies quality NMR probes and MRI coils. Our Low-E MAS probes can be

configured for quad-resonance, double-broad band, H-F, Lock, and XVT. Narrow bore MAS probes to

-170°C. Our B-MAX probes provide maximum sensitivity and RF field strength. Doty PFG and

CryoMAS probes are unrivaled. Doty Windfuels will recycle waste CO2 into carbon-

neutral transportation fuels.

www.dotynmr.com

57

Environmental Express

Berna Mazon 843-576-1124

[email protected]

Environmental Express is a leading developer, manufacturer and distributor of environmental

laboratory equipment and consumable supplies for commercial, governmental, industrial and academic laboratories worldwide. The company provides an

entire range of laboratory products used in applications such as water/wastewater analysis, oil

and grease analysis, metals analysis and hazardous waste analysis.

http://www.envexp.com/

14

Extrel CMS

Brian Begel 412-963-7530;

[email protected]

Extrel CMS is one of the world’s leading manufacturers of quadrapole mass spectrometers for

over the last four decades. We offer solutions for Research Development, Fundamental Material and

Environmental Research, Pharmaceutical applications and custom systems. We design our

equipment for use in the most demanding and cutting edge applications.

www.extrel.com

51 Fun Science

[email protected]

The Fun Science was established in 1991 and its mission is to interject energy and enthusiasm about

science into the teaching experience. At Fun Science we make the learning process fun and productive for kids at all ages. We have helped

training thousands of teachers every year and clearly understand the time and resource limitations today’s

teachers are facing. Over the years Fun Science has improved its products based on direct teacher

feedback and evolved into much more than a provider of “science accessories”. Our focus is to

create ready to use experiments – complete scientific kits that are fun, engaging and teach valuable scientific principles that will promote a

lifetime love of learning. Each of our one-of-a-kind Fun Science Kits offer a variety of experiments with

easy-to-follow instructions: scientific skills, outcomes, observation and results – A COMPLETE lesson

plan!

http://www.funsciencekits.com

http://fivedollarfunscience.com/

47 Gamry Instruments

Chris Beasley

Gamry Instruments offers a full-line of potentiostats/galvanostats/impedance analyzers, and

other electrochemical instrumentation and

http://www.civentichem.com/

http://www.dotynmr.com/

http://www.envexp.com/

http://www.extrel.com/

http://www.funsciencekits.com/

http://fivedollarfunscience.com/


11/18/2013 - 61 -

215-682-9330 x115 [email protected]

accessories. We will also be demonstrating our electrochemical simulation software used to simulate

adsorption, electrocatalysis, PCET, SWV, and FT voltammetry. Stop by to learn how Gamry can assist

you with your research.

www.Gamry.com

9-12 17-20

IKA Works Inc.

Matthew Ginos 910-452-7059

[email protected]

IKA celebrates over 100 years as a global market leader in laboratory and analytical equipment. IKA

technology offers a vast spectrum of innovative devices for mixing, tempering, distilling and crushing

applications. Magnetic stirrers, overhead stirrers, dispensers, shakers, mills, rotary evaporators,

calorimeters, laboratory reactors and incubation shakers make up the laboratory and analytical

equipment portfolio. The company is headquartered in Staufen, Germany. Today, IKA employs over 800

people worldwide at six different locations on four continents.

www.IKA.com

24

Innovative Technology, Inc.

Ryan Bentley 978-462-4415

[email protected]

Innovative Technology, Inc. is a leading worldwide manufacturer of inert atmosphere glovebox systems

and solvent purification systems. We offer both standard and custom gloveboxes tailored to the individual customer requirements. Our PureSolv

solvent purification systems deliver dry solvent at the turn of a valve elimination hazardous & time-

consuming thermal distillation processes.

www.gloveboxes.com

15

Interchim, Inc.

Cathy Dyer 913-349-6426

[email protected]

Interchim is a global company which manufactures chromatography products for purification, analytical and sample preparation. The column product range is comprised of Flash, Prep, SPE, UPLC, and HPLC.

Instruments for purification include the first Flash system to withstand pressures of 435 psi / 30 bar. The company has introduced high efficiency Flash

Cartridges which run three times faster than conventional columns. Flash columns are available

in 30 different bonded phases for normal and reverse phase, ion-exchange and chiral chromatography. The company continues to introduce innovative products to support the demands of speed and efficiency for discovery and analytical chemists.

www.interchiminc.com

50

LEAP Technologies

Tamara Navarro 919-929-8814

[email protected]

LEAP Technologies offers customized automation applications including NMR sample handling, Bubble free automated NMR microtube filling station, mixing,

reconstituting for comprehensive sample preparation, sample isolation, SPE. Transfer

integrates HLPC purification with SPE functionality. LEAP eVol NMR, electronic syringe for NMR

capillaries to improve results, save time and money.

www.leaptec.com

http://www.gamry.com/

http://www.ika.com/

http://www.gloveboxes.com/

http://www.interchiminc.com/

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13

MeasureNet Technology

Glenn Davis 866-396-6765

[email protected]

MeasureNet brings Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) functionality to teaching laboratories. MeasureNet’s network design provides

high-quality data acquisition and unparalleled classroom management without the cost and

maintenance of bench-cluttering, stand-alone PCs. MeasureNet’s patented network technology enables

live data monitoring via the internet and remote storage for collaborative exercises between multiple

labs and multiple institutions. Each network supports up to 15 work stations for experiments that include

temperature, pressure, pH, voltage, and mass measurements. A shared UV-vis spectrometer

delivers 1-nm resolution spectroscopy to student workstations. Additional acquisition tools include a

dual-beam colorimeter, ion-selective electrodes, and electrochemistry probeware. MeasureNet users can

integrate GCs, HPLCs, and calorimeters for advanced laboratory applications.

www.measurenet-tech.com

38 Metrohm USA

866-METROHM [email protected]

Metrohm USA is your go-to source for precision, user-friendly titrators, ion chromatography systems,

pH/ion meters, voltammetric analyzers, oxidative stability instrumentation and more. All feature 3 year

warranties, and our IC suppressor features an unprecedented 10-yr warranty! All backed by expert application support and services-we’re there when

you need us.

www.metrohmusa.com

62

Mettler Toledo

Jeff Horsman 410-910-8118

[email protected]

METTLER TOLEDO enabling technologies help companies bring products to market faster, at lower costs and with higher quality. Our PAT tools ensure

processes are within boundary conditions, eliminating the risk of batch failures, delivering higher

yields at lower cost and allow users to realize the benefits of QbD through the transfer of more robust, lower cost commercial processes to manufacturing.

www.mt.com/reactir

61 Nano and More USA

NanoAndMore USA’s mission is to enable our customers to choose from a broad variety of product, brands and manufacturers the AFM tip that exactly

fits their needs. Available AFM probe brands include the budget conscious BudgetSensors™ and

MikroMasch™ lines, the premier NanoWorld™, NANOSENSORS™ and nanotools™ cantilevers and

other brands. Functionalized AFM tips. Colloidal AFM probes and other special probes like plateau

tips are available upon request. NanoAndMore also offers a range of premounted probes for Quesant instruments and older Park Scientific instruments.

http://www.nanoandmore.com/USA/home.php

39

Netzsch Instruments N.A. LLC

Bob Fidler 704-948-9534

[email protected]

Thermal Analysis and Thermal Properties Instruments, Adiabatic Calorimetry, and contract

testing services; DSC, DTA, TGA, STA (Simultaneous DSC/DTA-TGA), Dilatometers and TMA for thermal expansion specific heat, thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity by laser flash

http://www.measurenet-tech.com/

http://www.metrohmusa.com/

http://www.mt.com/reactir

http://www.nanoandmore.com/USA/home.php


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method, coupling to MS, GC/MS, and FTIR for evolved gas analysis, Dynamic Mechanical Analysis

(DMA), and DEA for dielectric analysis.

www.Netzsch.com

37

Parker Hannifin

Bruce Lasche 803-810-2931

[email protected]

Parker Balston Gas Generators for analytical instruments eliminate the expense, inconvenience

and danger associated with high pressure compressed gas cylinders. Parker Balston offers

Gas Generators for a variety of analytical applications including LCMS, GC, FTIR, and NMR.

Parker offers global distribution and support.

www.labgasgenerators.com

35 PCI

Nick Jones 317-557-3314

A premium service at a fair price, PCI is committed to providing you with fast turnaround, increased

equipment availability, and compliant documentation. These attributes help us meet the demand of all our

valued clients whose diversified products must comply with stringent quality standards in today's

highly competitive marketplace.

www.pci-llc.com

41

Pine Research Instrumentation

Marion Jones 919-782-8320

[email protected]

If you need to introduce your students to modern electroanalytical chemistry in an easy and

inexpensive way, then Pine’s WaveNow potentiostat and instructional Three-Electrode Cell are exactly what you need! This potentiostat is a lightweight

instrument with a USB interface. The instructional cell contains disposable, screen-printed electrodes.

www.pineinst.com/echem

21

Prism Research Glass, Inc.

Steven J. Foscato, VP 919-571-0078

[email protected]

Prism Research Glass, a manufacturer of Scientific Glassware, provides high quality Borosilicate and Quarts glass products for use in Environmental.

Chemical, and Pharmaceutical laboratories as well as for Fiber Optic and Semi-Conductor applications.

We produce everything from small Bench Top to Large Scale systems and offer custom glassblowing

services.

www.prismresearchglass.com

52

Proteovations

Benjamin Cargile 919-806-2158

[email protected]

Proteovations is dedicated to protein and peptide mass spectrometry analytics in support of academic, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology applications. Our

specialized services include fit-for-purpose qualitative and quantitative analytical method

development for peptide and protein biomarkers and therapeutics, detailed characterization of biological therapeutic molecules, drug target deconvolution,

proteomic profiling, and custom informatics.

www.proteovations.com

45

Quark Glass

Charles Hasseman 919-522-2808

[email protected]

Since 1983 Quart Glass has been serving the needs of the scientific and academic research communities for high quality specialty glassware and offer a repair

service. We are known for very quick delivery of custom as well as standard products.

www.quarkglass.com

16 Sarstedt, Inc. Established in 1961, the Sarstedt Group develops, manufactures, and markets equipment and

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http://www.labgasgenerators.com/

http://www.pci-llc.com/

http://www.pineinst.com/echem

http://www.prismresearchglass.com/

http://www.proteovations.com/

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Peter Rumswinkel 800-257-5101

[email protected]

consumables in the fields of medicine and research. Laboratory and research products include specialty

cell culture devices; consumables for molecular biology and PCR; liquid handling items; test,

centrifuge, and cryotubes; and benchtop instrumentation.

www.sarstedt.com

58 SERMACS 2013 SERMACS 2014

SERMACS 2013 will be hosted by the ACS Georgia Local Section. The meeting will be held at Loews

Hotel Atlanta on November 12 through 17.

http://www.sermacs2013.org/

SERMACS 2014 will be hosted by the ACS Nashville Local Section. The meeting will be held in Nashville

Tennessee. http://nashville.sites.acs.org/aboutus.htm

36

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments Inc.

Antoinette Swan Tom Hayes Jeff Ratliff

919-425-1010

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments is the American subsidiary of Shimadzu Corporation, headquarters in

Kyoto, Japan. We are a leading manufacturer of scientific instrumentation, including gas and liquid

chromatographs, mass spectrophotometers, environmental/TOC analyzers, balances, and

physical measurement equipment.

www.Shimadzu.com

34 Sigma Aldrich

Dawn Redington [email protected]

Sigma-Aldrich is a leading Life Science and High Technology company. Our chemical and

biochemical products and kits are used in scientific research, including genomic and proteomic research,

biotechnology, pharmaceutical development, the diagnosis of disease and as key components in

pharmaceutical, diagnostic and other high technology manufacturing.

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com

46

SP Scientific

Eric Goldman 267-229-8018

[email protected]

SP Scientific, is a leading manufacturer of

specialty equipment for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, industrial, academic, and OEM

applications. Products are sold under marketing leading brands that include Genevac solvent

evaporators and miVac sample concentrators, FTS precision thermal control systems and LyoStar

freeze dryers with SMART control for freeze drying cycle development, Virtis laboratory, pilot-plant, and

production scale freeze dryers, and Hotpack glassware washers.

http://www.genevac.com/en/Index.asp

http://www.sarstedt.com/


http://nashville.sites.acs.org/aboutus.htm

http://www.shimadzu.com/

http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/

http://www.spscientific.com/

http://www.genevac.com/en/Products.asp?S=3&V=1&Page=3

http://www.ftssystems.com/

http://www.virtis.com/

http://www.hotpack.com/

http://www.genevac.com/en/Index.asp


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8

Spectrum Chemicals & Laboratory Products, Inc.

Laura Sluss 843-343-6672

[email protected]

Spectrum manufacturers and distributes fine chemicals and laboratory products with quality and

delivery you can count on every time; serving chemists in all industries with analytical reagents, solvents, solutions and fine chemicals, including

>22,000 TCI organic chemicals and >400 chromatography/spectroscopy consumables from

PerkinElmer. A one-stop lab shop: chemicals, equipment, supplies.

www.SpectrumChemical.com

42

Synthonix

Nick White 919-875-9277

[email protected]

Synthonix specializes in the synthesis of building blocks and synthons that allows for chemical

diversification for hit-to-lead, fragment based design, focused library synthesis, and lead optimization.

Please do not hesitate to call to speak with one of our researchers. We are here to help you in your

efforts.

www.synthonix.com

32

TA Instruments

Neil Demarse 302-562-4196

[email protected]

Visit TA Instruments for innovative technology in thermal analysis, rheology and microcalorimetry. We

provide the highest accuracy and sensitivity measurements for polymers, organic and inorganic

materials, and biological and life science characterization. Our new Discovery DSC and TGA

deliver unparalleled accuracy for the most challenging measurements.

www.tainstruments.com

6-7

ThermoFisher Scientific

Mike Black 919-931-9402

[email protected]

Multiple GC and GC/MS products with extensive sample introduction techniques. 2)

LC/MS/MS instrumentation for the life sciences. 3) The newest ICP-MS, ICP and AA

instrumentation for elemental analysis including speciation and laser ablation techniques. 4) Workflow solutions for Clinical Research and

Toxicology featuring LC/MS, GC/MS and ICP-MS

www.thermofisher.com

49

ThruPore Technologies LLC

Martin Bakker 205-348-9116

[email protected]

ThruPore Technologies LLC, is proud to announce the availability of trail quantities of our new

HiePoreCatTM

palladium on carbon catalyst. Developed under NSF funding, this patent pending material provides higher activity, longer lifetime and greater ease of use. Drop by and tell us about your

catalyst needs and ask for a free sample.

53

Tosoh Bioscience LLC

Kevin Thomas 856-562-9899

[email protected]

Tosoh Bioscience is a global leader in the manufacturing and sales of high quality, innovative pre-packed HPLC columns and bulk resins with the

TSKgel, TOYOPEARL and ToyoScreen brand names. We now offer a dedicated system for GPC

analysis, the EcoSEC GPC System.

www.tosohbioscience.com

59 Triangle Chromatography

Discussion Group, NC-ACS (TCDG)

The purpose of the Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group (TCDG) is to maintain and

promote an interest in and to provide an opportunity for discussion and exchange of information with

http://www.spectrumchemical.com/

http://www.synthonix.com/

http://www.tainstruments.com/

http://www.thermofisher.com/

http://www.tosohbioscience.com/


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respect to all fields of chromatography. The membership is open to anyone interested in the field of chromatography. The group sponsors

various seminars and workshops in the triangle area throughout the year and our signature event includes

the annual “Triangle Chromatography Symposium and Instrument Exhibit”.

http://www.tcdg.org/

22

Vernier Software & Technology

Vernier Software & Technology 888-837-6437

[email protected]

Stop by the Vernier Software & Technology booth to see our exciting products for college chemistry such as our new Organic Chemistry with Vernier lab book.

Our new Polarimeter graphs light intensity versus angle so students don’t have to determine optical

maximum with their eye.

www.vernier.com

31

Wasatch Photonics &

Spectrecology

Cindy Gong 765-413-4022

[email protected]

Wasatch Photonics, Inc. is the leader in high

performance Volume Phase Holographic Gratings (VPHGs) and Volume Phase Holographic Optical Elements (VHOEs). Products developed by our world class design team include; Raman sensors

and instrumentation, advanced holographic components for spectroscopy, hyperspectral

imaging, astronomy and OCT. www.wasatchphotonics.com

Spectrecology is your source for the best

solutions to your spectroscopy measurement problems. We can design the perfect system that meets your needs and your budget. We carry the

best products – Wasatch Photonics Raman, Ocean Optics UV VIS spectrometers, Starna cuvettes, Spectrecology optical O2 sensors and TSI LIBS.

www.spectrecology.com

27 - 28 Waters Corporation

Mike Keilholz 800-252-4752 Ext. 6371

Waters Corporation creates business advantages for laboratory-dependent pharmaceutical organizations

by delivering scientific innovation to enable customers to make significant advancements.

Waters helps customers make profound discoveries, optimize laboratory operations, deliver product

performance, and ensure regulatory compliance with a connected portfolio of separations and analytical science, laboratory informatics, mass spectrometry,

as well as thermal analysis.

www.waters.com

29

Wilmad-LabGlass

Doug Grady/Dir. Of Sales & Marketing

856-691-3200 X3758; [email protected]

Wilmad-LabGlass, an ISO9001:2008 Certified Company, has been manufacturing and distributing

laboratory and scientific glassware. Wimad is a leading manufacturer of high precision engineered

glass components. Wilmad is also the market leader in NMR and EPR. LabGlass manufactures and distributes a wide variety of specialty laboratory

glassware products and equipment.

www.Wilmad-LabGlass.com

44 World Wide Medical

Products, Inc.

WORLDWIDE is a technologically advanced, quality-driven provider of essential laboratory products and services to the scientific community. Our mission is

http://www.tcdg.org/

http://www.vernier.com/


http://www.wasatchphotonics.com/

http://www.spectrecology.com/

http://www.waters.com/

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Megan Trivette 919-407-9032

[email protected]

to utilize our unique comprehension and understanding of the research and development

market while remaining dedicated to exceeding the wants and needs of our clients.

www.wwmponline.com

Sponsorships. Vendors did not sponsor coffee breaks, but did help sponsor the Sci-Mix

Raffle event (organized by Betsy Cass from BVS) by providing the items listed below.

IKA – Hot plate

Shimandzu – Balance

Vernier Software & Technology - $100 gift certificate

Waters – duffle bag

Wilmad Labglass – Pipette

Fun Science – 3-D Mirascope & neon colored tube rack

Nano World – Baseball caps

BMG Labtech – ½ doz small flashlights

Triangle Chromatography – 3 bright green knapsacks

Methrohm – stainless steel Water bottle & T-shirt

Quark Glass – glass beaker mug

World Wide Medical Supplies - $10 Target gift card

Synthonix - $20 Starbucks gift card

CiVentiChem - $20 Starbucks gift card

Tosoh Bioscience LLC – Red carrying bags

SP Scientific – 1GB memory cards, plus assisted in the printing costs for the vendor cards

Vendor Seminars. A special meeting room was reserved for vendor seminars.on 15-16

November. Four vendors purchased 60min seminar slots for $200 each.

Graduate School Fair. The SERMACS 2012 Exposition also featured a Graduate

School Fair organized by Ana Muresan (USPTO). Graduate School Fair booth prices are

listed below.

Single Booth one day: $200 until August 15, $300 thereafter

Single Booth two days: $300 until August 15, $400 thereafter

Double Booth one day: $400 until August 15, $500 thereafter

Double Booth two days: $600 until August 15, $700 thereafter

Literature Display Table: $50 until August 15, $100 thereafter

Additional Exhibitor Registrations ($50 each), indicate quantity

The 26 exhibitors and booth assignments are listed below.

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Graduate School Fair - Ballroom Lobby

Booth No.

School Name Booth

No. School Name

1

Fri & Sat

Jackson State University, Department of Chemistry

& Biochemistry

12

Fri & Sat

University of Arizona, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry

2

Fri & Sat

Clemson University

13

Fri & Sat

Georgia Tech

3

Fri only

Kennesaw State University 14

Fri & Sat

Emory University

3

Sat only

North Carolina Central University, Department

of Chemistry

15

Fri only

Duke University

4

Fri only

Vanderbilt University

15

Sat only

Florida International University

5

Fri & Sat

University of Rochester

16

Fri & Sat

North Carolina State University, Department

of Chemistry

6

Fri & Sat

UNC Charlotte 17

Fri & Sat

University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy

7

Fri & Sat

The University of Mississippi 18

Fri & Sat

Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering

8

Fri & Sat

University of South Carolina

19

Fri only

University of Memphis

9

Fri & Sat

The University of Georgia

20

Fri & Sat

University of Tennessee (Knoxville) Department of Chemistry

10

Fri & Sat

The University of Miami

21

Fri & Sat

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

11

Fri only

The University of Alabama

22

Fri & Sat

The Florida State University

11

Sat only

North Carolina A&T State University

Dr. Patricia Hagan Von Dreele Literature Table


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V (b) Vendor Feedback

Include reports of feedback or questionnaires that vendors have

provided including comments about future participation at regional

meetings.

SERMACS 2012 Vendor Exhibition Report

64th

Southeastern Regional Meeting of the American Chemical

Society

14-16 November, 2012

Prepared by: John Hines, Chair

Reshan Fernando, assistant chair

We started our communication and recruitment process in advance of

the 2011 SERMACS that was held in Richmond, VA. We attended the

2011 SERMACS held in Richmond, VA and spoke with each of the

exhibitors. We also handed out a one-page (2-sided, see appendix A)

flyer that included details of the vendor exposition including a floor plan

of the venue. We collected contact information from all attended

exhibitors. We asked them about their experience, both positive and

negative, with previous SERMACS meetings and what could be done to

improve the 2012 meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina. A summary of

their input is provided below.

Exhibitor Comments & Suggestions – 2011 Exhibitors

Pros Cons

Having poster presentations in

the exhibitor hall

Organizing the opening day

mixer in a location other than the

exhibitor hall; exhibitors were

asked to remain open while

everyone else attended the mixer

Having daily refreshments in the

exhibitor hall

No special (visual) identification

for the exhibitors name tag; a

common name tag for exhibitors

and attendees

Holding raffles in the exhibitor

hall and involvement of vendors

in executing the raffle

Exhibitor booths were located in

2 rooms and along a hallway that

led to less foot-traffic and less

gathering space for some vendors

that others

Same day (Wednesday) set up

and opening and Friday noon

shutdown allowed convenience

Same day booth set up (limited

time for set up) and opening of

the vendor exposition created a


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and cost savings for some

vendors; only 2-nights of hotel

hectic schedule for some vendors

Preferred 2-full day of vendor

exhibition compared to 1 full-day

and 2 half-days.

Preferred to have all vendor

booths in the same space (same

room)

Additionally, we distributed the 1-page (Appendix A) flyer at a variety

of other scientific conferences including 2012 Pittsburgh conference

(March 2012, New Orleans LA), 2012 Society of Toxicology meeting

(March 2012, San Francisco CA), 2012 ACS National meetings (2012

Philadelphia PA and San Diego CA), 2012 Triangle Chromatography

Discussion Group annual meeting (May 2012, Raleigh NC).

The exhibitor registration package (Appendix B) was sent out to

vendors via email on June 1, 2012. The registrations trickled in until

about mid-August and really started to pick up by late August. Almost

all exhibitors submitted their registration before the meeting and we

were able to finalize all booths by mid-October in time for the design of

the SERMACS 2012 Program Book.

The vendor exposition included 57 exhibitor booths that included 17

premium and 40 regular booths. A higher fee was charged for the

premium booths. A discount was given to the exhibitors who reserved

more than one booth (multiple booth reservation discount) as an

incentive. Exhibitors included 46 industrial exhibitors and 2 non-fee

exhibitors (Triangle Chromatography Discussion, an ACS affiliated

organization in NC and 2013 SERMACS host, Atlanta, GA). Each

exhibitor received 2 free meeting registrations as part of the booth

package. However, many exhibitors sent more than 2 representatives at

an additional cost of $50 per attendee. Exhibitors were also given an

opportunity to conduct exhibitor seminars for a nominal fee during the 2

days of the exposition where they could showcase their products and

applications. Three vendors have seized this opportunity to reach their

customers by conducting 1 hour seminars during the exposition.

The exposition was held inside the combined space of Ballrooms B & C

of the Raleigh Convention Center (RCC) that included more than

22,000 square-foot of floor space (Appendix C). The exhibition room

floor was design in such a way to allow ample walking/gathering space

for attendees to visit the exhibitors. A several round tables were

strategically placed in the walkways between the two rows of booths


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that created small meeting/gathering spaces for attendees to interact

with exhibitors and other attendees. All poster sessions (with the

exception of the special session posters affiliated to the Center for Solar

Fuels Conference) were held in the back of the exhibitor hall where

there was adequate space to house about 40 doubled-sided poster

boards. The poster sessions were conducted throughout the day on

Thursday and Friday that brought a significant traffic to exhibitor

booths. Furthermore, daily coffee and refreshment breaks were

strategically arranged in the space between the exhibitor booths and

posters that pretty much attracted everyone attended the meeting to the

exhibitor booths.

The exhibit hall was fully carpeted and was partitioned off with pipe

and drape, with an 8’ high backwall drape and 3’ high sidewall drape.

Each exhibitor booth was 10’ wide and 10’ deep and included a booth

identification sign (7” x 44”), 8’ skirted table, two chairs, and a waste

basket. Other upgrades and additional services (including special

electrical outlets, pre- and post-meeting shipping) were available from

Southern Exhibition Services (SES) for an additional charge. A selected

number of photographs of the exhibition hall were presented at the end

of this document.

The exhibit floor remained open from 1:00-9:00pm on Wednesday,

November 14 for vendors to set up their booths and a setup crew was

made available through Southern Exhibition Services (SES) to assist

any exhibitors with the setup activities. Almost all vendors completed

the setup prior to the opening time of the exposition. The exposition was

officially open from 8:30am to 8pm on Thursday, November 15 and

8:30am to 5:00pm on Friday, November 16. A reception for all

SERMACS attendees was held in the exhibitor hall on Thursday

November 15 at 6:00pm which drew a remarkable traffic to the

exhibition floor. All vendors were cleaned up and gone by about 8pm on

Friday, November 16.

Special services to exhibitors included a separate, exhibitors’ ONLY

refreshment area at a corner of the exhibitor hall which was very much

appreciated by the exhibitors. Additionally, exhibitors were provided

with two free beverage (wine/beer) tokens per both for the Sci-Mix

reception held in the exhibition hall on Thursday, November 15.

On the last day of the exposition, a 1-page survey questionnaire was

given to all exhibitors to get their feedback. We received the completed

survey from 20 vendors, about 50% response rate. A summary of survey

results is presented in Appendix D.


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Some specific vendor comments include:

- Food, water, coffee, and snack service was not satisfactory;

needed most improvement

- Thursday exhibit hours (8:30 am to 8:00 pm) considered too long

for a single day

- Met new customers who did not know about the company

- Traffic flow was much better than any other ACS regional

meeting

- Wednesday & Thursday is preferable for the exposition than

Thursday and Friday

- Great location for the show

- Great opportunities for networking

- Lack of an electronic contact/lead capture system

- Location was perfect; adjoining hotels were extremely nice and

convenient

- Increase activities in the exhibition hall to increase traffic flow

- No lunch served

- Facilities were spacious and temperature was comfortable

- Advertised setup period (Wednesday) was incorrect; exhibit hall

was not open until 12 midnight as stated

- Raleigh location has a great mix of university

- Need defined times for refreshment breaks

- No onsite meal locations

- No water

- 12 hour exhibition on day 1 is too much; mid-day break would

have been nice

- Like the traffic during Day 1; quality of attendees

- Let exhibitors know of breaks

- Like the friendly staff

- Least like – refreshments; lack of exhibitor schedule

- Nice venue; nice atmosphere

- Hotel got cancelled due to late arrival; had to stay off-site

- Really liked having posters at the back of the exhibit hall

- Please provide water

- Thursday was loo long; 6-8pm did not provide much traffic

- Very little activities in the exhibit hall to draw attendees to booths

- Lack of dedicated period for exhibition; too much competition for

attendees time

- Specific time in the program for exhibition

- More refreshment breaks in the exhibit hall to draw attendees to

booths

We want to thank all the exhibitors for their timely both


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registration/reservation and payment which were critical to the success

of the vendor exhibition. All vendors have shown exemplary

cooperation during the booth assignment, registration, setup, and

breakdown process. We want to express our appreciation for all the

volunteers who manned the exhibitor registration desk and those who

helped arranged the poster boards. We also want to recognize Ms.

Michelle Stevenson for her outstanding contributions to the success of

the exposition, especially in the critical areas such as vendor registration

and name tag preparation, credit card payment processing, arrangement

of refreshments for exhibitors, and design of the vendor survey

questionnaire. We extend a special thank you to Dr. Charlie Goss, the

general chair of the SERMACS 2012 for his outstanding leadership and

continued support throughout the planning and implementation phases

of the vendor exposition. Lastly, we wanted to that the entire

SERMACS 2012 organizing committee for their valuable comments,

suggestions and advice that made the vendor exhibition a one of the best

SERMACS experience for years to come.

The Exposition Appendices are provided in the PDF file attached below.

SERMACS 2012 Exposition Appendices.pdf

V (c) Approaches Used to Attract Vendors to Meeting

Describe how many attempts were made to contact vendors and the

rate of success.

How was the list of potential vendors generated?

The list of potential vendors was generated based on contacts made at

SERMACS 2010, SERMACS 2011, Pittcon 2012, National ACS

Meeting Spring 2012, Party in the Park (a special event in Research

Triangle Park), Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group

Symposium 2011, Triangle Chromatography Discussion Group

Symposium 2012, and personal contacts provided by SERMACS 2012

Planning Committee members.

Preliminary vendor contacts were made at the various meetings listed

above. Formal contact with the Invitation to Exhibit (attached below)

by email was initiated in June 2012 and was followed up with several

additional “waves” of contacts over the following months. Vendor

recruitment actually continued until just a couple weeks before the

meeting, with two booths sold after the Program Book was finalized.

The approximate rate of success was 25%.


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2012 SERMACS Invitation to Exhibit-Final.pdf

The Graduate School Fair exhibitor recruiting efforts followed a similar

to that described above for the vendors. A copy of the Invitation to

Exhibit for the Graduate School Fair is attached below. The

approximate rate of success was 65%.

SERMACS 2012 Graduate School Fair Packet.pdf

V (d) Exhibits

The vendor information packet is attached in the previous section. The

booth layout is shown below. The original layout had booths 1-7 along

the left wall, but most of these were removed to accommodate posters.

After preparation of this drawing, a double booth (6-7) was sold and put

back on the left side of the exhibit area, replacing several poster boards.

A key feature of the layout was placing the poster boards and coffee

break at the rear of the exposition so attendees had to walk through the

exposition to see posters and get coffee.

The SERMACS 2012 Vendor Exposition was held on

15-Nov-2012: 8:30am – 8:00pm (Sci-Mix from 6:00pm – 8:00pm)

16-Nov-2012: 8:30am – 5:00pm

The Graduate School Fair was held on the following dates and times.

16-Nov-2012: 8:30am – 5:00pm

17-Nov-2012: 8:30am – 5:00pm


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SERMACS 2012 Vendor Exposition and Graduate Fair Booth Layout

Ballrooms B & C and Ballroom Lobby

Graduate Fair


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V (e) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

Successful vendor recruitment requires persistent effort to make a wide

range of contacts, establish personal connections, and follow up. A

good website is important for marketing the meeting. Keeping the door

open for additional vendors as late as possible may result in some last

minute entries. The “Premium” and “Regular” booth pricing scheme

seemed to work well. Most of the vendors in the SERMACS 2012

Exposition did not participate in SERMACs 2004 (the previous

SERMACS held in the RTP area), so it is important to contact a wide

range of vendors, not just those that have traditionally attended the

meeting.

VI Publicity/Web Site*

VI

(a) Data

Identify all sources of publicity that were used to market the meeting including Call for

Papers, C&E News Ads, Special Flyers, Email, Websites and links, etc.

Name other meetings (locations and dates) at which your meeting was marketed and

the method used to market.

SERMACS 2012 published advertisements in the following publications.

ACS Matters

American Scientist Magazine fromSigma Xi

C&E News – Call for Papers

In Chemistry

Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry Newsletter

ACS Regional Meetings Website

Email – many messages to SERMACS members

PACS – messages to attendees

SERMACS 2012 was marketed at the following meetings.

SERMACS 2009 San Juan, Puerto Rico– word of mouth publicity

SERMACS 2010 New Orleans, LA – booth, distributed SERMACS 2012 flyers,

recruited vendors

SERMACS 2011 Richmond, VA –booth with poster, distributed SERMACS 2012

flyers, visitRaleigh pens, visitRaleigh information, recruited vendors

ACS National Meeting Denver, Fall 2011 - handed out SERMACS 2012 flyers

Pittcon 2012 - handed out SERMACS 2012 flyers, recruited vendors

ACS National Meeting San Diego, Spring 2012 – had a poster, handed out

SERMACS 2012 flyers, visitRaleigh pens, visitRaleigh information, recruited

vendors

ACS National Meeting Philadelphia, Fall 2012 - had a poster, handed out


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SERMACS 2012 flyers, visitRaleigh pens, visitRaleigh information, recruited

vendors

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(b) Publicity Methods

Estimate the cost effectiveness of the methods used (Email, Regular Mail, Web Pages)

Identify any “markets” that could have been used to publicize the meeting.

Email – very effective with zero direct financial cost

Regular Mail – not used

Web Pages – very effective with minimal financial cost

4” x 6” Card Flyers – these were very effective for handing out at events (e.g. ACS

Regional and National Meetings) with minimal financial cost (e.g. 5000 cards for $180 or

less from Club Flyers, http://www.clubflyers.com ). A PDF file with the flyer design is

attached below.

SERMACS 2012 Flyer 5Sep11 4x6 Combined.pdf

Business Cards – these were effective for handing out at events (e.g. ACS Regional and

National Meetings) with minimal financial cost (e.g. 500 cards for $30), but were not as

popular as the 4” x 6” flyers. A PDF file with the card design is attached below.

SERMACS 2012 Business Card 20Nov10 3x2 Combined.pdf

An obvious “Market” we could have used to publicize the meeting is the ACS Website,

as is done with Natiional Meetings. We used a variety of outlets (e.g. ACS Matters, In

Chemistry, C&E News, Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, Sigma Xi), but we never

considered positioning the meeting on the ACS website (other than in the relatively

hidden link on the Regional Meetings Page).

Other markets for publicity that should be considered are IUPAC, Sigma Xi, and AIChE.

SERMACS 2012 did partner with Sigma Xi, but could have done more if the

collaboration had started earlier.

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(c) Web Page Design

Include any data related to the effectiveness of the web page in marketing the meeting.

Provide an outline of information found on your meeting web site, e.g. site map,

directions, and give the URL.

Comment on how the Web can be used more effectively for future regional meetings.

http://www.clubflyers.com/

http://www.iupac.org/

http://www.sigmaxi.org/

http://www.aiche.org/


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The SERMACS 2012 website was essential for establishing the meeting brand image and

communicating with attendees. It was designed by Charlie Goss and Dustin Wheeler.

All advertisements and communications referred to the website, and attendees had to visit

the website to register, submit abstracts, etc… We do not have data on the effectiveness

of the web page in marketing the meeting. The Web might be used more effectively in

future meetings by eliminating the need to have a printed program book.

The SERMACS 2012 website address is given below.

http://www.sermacs2012.org

It was hosted as a subsite of the SERMACS site (http://sermacs.org/) on GoDaddy.com.

Below is the outline of the site information. Each of these items links to a separate web

page. Content on those pages is best viewed by going to the website.

HOME SUBMIT ABSTRACTS

REGISTER PROGRAM EXPOSITION EVENTS AWARDS WORKSHOPS HOTEL / TRAVEL UNDERGRADUATE GRADUATE FAIR HIGH SCHOOL SPONSORSHIP CONTACT US


http://sermacs.org/


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(d) Meeting Logo

Include a copy of a special meeting logo that was developed for the meeting, name the

designer, and describe where/when it was used.

How useful do you feel it was to give the meeting “brand recognition?

A copy of the SERMACS 2012 Logo is shown below as a jpg file. A Word file with the

logo is also attached via the icon below. The meeting theme “Catalyzing Sustainable

Innovation” and logo design were developed by Charlie Goss, Marc ter Horst, and

Michelle Stevenson. This logo was used in almost all correspondence, documents, and

signage associated with SERMACS 2012, including the meeting tote bag. It was

essential for giving the meeting brand recognition. We tried to take advantage of the fact

that both the NC-ACS and SERMACS had already developed logos, so we used those as

the building blocks for the overall meeting image.

SERMACS 2012 Letterhead 30Oct12.docx

We also had another version with the ACS logo on the left,, shown below which in

principle could be the template for a generic SERMACS logo.

SERMACS 2012The Southeastern Regional Meeting

of the American Chemical Society


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VI (e) News Media

Summarize all coverage of the meeting that was present in the general

news media [newspapers, TV, radio, C&E News]. Include samples of

press releases.

C&E News published the Call for Papers and a Meeting Summary.

Copies of the articles are attached below.

Southeastern Regional Meeting Call For Papers _ July 9, 2012 Issue - Vol. 90 Issue 28 _ Chemical & Engineering News.pdf

2012 Southeastern Regional Meeting _ November 12, 2012 Issue - Vol. 90 Issue 46 _ Chemical & Engineering News.pdf

VI (f) Exhibits

Include any examples of publicity that were used for the meeting.

The poster advertisement attached below was used to promote

SERMACS 2012 at several meetings attended by Committee Members.

SERMACS advert 13Sep11a.pdf

VI (g) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

Only the Webmaster could modify the SERMACS 2012 website. The

changes needed were provided to the Webmaster by the General Chair.

This ensured consistency and avoided conflicts, but led to consistent

difficulty making website updates in a timely manner because both the

General Chair and the Webmaster volunteers were quite busy with other

projects. It would probably have been better to have a system that

allowed multiple people to make changes with oversight from the

Webmaster and General Chair.

Having the SERMACS 2012 website as a subsite on the SERMACS site

was cost effective (free) and directly linked the regional meeting with

the board site. However, interacting with the host SERMACS website

also caused some challenges. For example, getting access to set up an

additional subsite to support the Southeastern Magnetic Resonance

Conference was confusing and took longer than desired.


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VII Arrangements*

VII (a) Data

Comment on any special arrangements/considerations made for the

meeting and associated costs.

The SERMACS Awards Reception

(http://www.sermacs2012.org/events.php) was held at the NC Museum

of Natural Sciences (http://naturalsciences.org/). The museum rental

cost $2450, AV support cost $265, the catered reception cost $8677, and

the musical entertainment cost $120.

VII (b) Special Needs

Name any special needs for attendees with disabilities, and other items

such as special meals, that you were required to provide.

The SERMACS 2012 facilities are all relatively new and were designed

to accommodate attendees with disabilities. SERMACS 2012 catered

events provided vegetarian meals upon request by attendees.

VII (c) Additional Comments/ Lessons Learned

Special arrangements should be made considering what advantages are

provided (e.g. features not available otherwise) , cost, and

transportation.

* For each major section please include in the final report content information

on the author, e.g. “Submitted by ________”

http://www.sermacs2012.org/events.php

http://naturalsciences.org/

sermacs 2012 final report

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