National Meeting Press Center
Save the Date: ACS 239th National Meeting
The 239th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will be held March 21-25, 2010, in San Francisco, Calif. More than 11,000 scientists and others are expected to attend the meeting, which will include more than 8,000 reports on new discoveries about chemistry and a host of other fields — including medicine, health, food, energy, environment — that involve chemistry.
The ACS Office of Public Affairs will host a press center with wireless Internet access, telephones, computers, photocopy and fax machines, and refreshments. Full audio and video from daily press conferences will be available over the Internet for reporters planning to cover the meeting from their home bases. Public affairs staff will be available to help arrange interviews with scientists. Embargoed news releases, abstracts of scientific presentations, less-technical summaries, and a schedule of press conferences will be available later. Stay tuned for details regarding media registration.
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ACS LiveChat Press Briefing Center
For reporters unable to travel to San Francisco, the ACS News Service is providing access to press conferences on the Internet, with live video and audio and offer an enhanced media kit with hundreds of non-technical summaries of the presentations, news releases and other resources. Archived press briefings from the 238th National Meeting are available.
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238th ACS National Meeting
Press releases from ACS’ Washington D.C. National Meeting are available at Eurekalert’s ACS page.
Recorded press sessions from the 238th National Meeting in Washington D.C. are available at http://ustream.tv/channel/acslive (scroll down to “ACS Live’s Video Clips”).
The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 154,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.
Watch press conferences from the 237th ACS National Meeting (March 22-26).