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Call for Abstracts – ACS Empirical Research Symposium at NOBCChE
ACS is organizing a symposium on empirical research on women of color in science on Thursday, September 27th in Washington, DC at the 39th Annual Conference of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE). The submission deadline is Thursday, May 31. Speaker travel expenses will be covered.
Check out interviews with some of the 2011 winners of the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences: Donna Nelson, Carol Parish, Zakiya Wilson, and Hongtao Yu
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Women Chemists of Color
The ACS Women Chemists of Color initiatives aim to broaden awareness of challenges for women of color found at the intersection of gender and ethnicity; to gather more data about women chemists of color; and, to provide a forum for building community.
ACS Diversity Programs in the News
Marie Maynard Daly is the first African American woman to receive a doctoral degree — earning it from Columbia University in 1947. Prior to that, she attended Queens College in Flushing, New York, where she graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry. After receiving her Ph.D., she held an instructor position at Howard University for two years and began research on the composition and metabolism of components in the cell nucleus. Later in her career, Daly developed programs to increase the number of minorities in medical schools and graduate science programs. In 1988, she established a scholarship fund at Queens College for African Americans in commemoration of her father.
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