5:30 p.m. Meet and Greet

6:00 p.m.     Dinner

7:00 p.m.     Lecture - : Dr. Glenn Fugate, SRNL. "Nuclear Forensics at Savannah River National Laboratory"


Reservations: RSVP to Linda Wilbanks (e-mail at linda.wilbanks@newberry.edu) or 803-321-5635 by Thursday, October 28th, 5:00 p.m. Please include the names and affiliations of each person attending. We always welcome attendance at the presentations even if you are unable to come for the dinner!

The High Sensitivity Measurement Technology group at Savannah River National Laboratory is involved with a variety of nuclear forensics programs in the USA. One of these projects involves work with US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other national laboratories to measure various radioactive components in several NIST Certified Reference Materials (CRMs). Current and ongoing work with NIST CRM 4355 Peruvian Soil will be discussed.

Dr. Glenn A. Fugate works in the Nonproliferation Technologies Section of the Homeland Security Directorate at Savannah River National Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the Florida State University in 2004 in Inorganic Chemistry, specializing in chemistry of the f-elements. Dr. Fugate is currently the Chair of the Savannah River Section of the ACS, Chair-elect of the Separations Science and Technologies subdivision of the Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Division of ACS and is an adjunct faculty member at Clemson University and University of Missouri.

These candidates have submitted their statements for consideration by the WCACS members prior to this year's election of section officers:

Candidate for Chair-Elect:

Blaine Childress
Sealed Air Corporation
100 Rogers Bridge Road
Duncan, SC 29334

Mr. Childress is a Research Scientist at Sealed Air Corporation. Throughout his career he has worked at the North American Research Center in Duncan, South Carolina, the world headquarters for Food Packaging and Medical Products divisions of Sealed Air, with assignments in Microscopy, Analytical Chemistry, Product and Process Development, Technology Protection, Product Innovation, and Technology Scouting.

Since 2007 he has managed the Sealed Air Open Innovation program, searching for partners to solve global technology problems.

Blaine has an undergraduate degree in Textile Chemistry from Auburn University and a MS in Organic Chemistry & Polymer Science from Clemson University. He is a member of the Sealed Air Innov8 team, the American Chemical Society, the Licensing Executive Society, and serves on the Advisory Boards of South Carolina InnoVision and the Roper Mountain Innovation Center. In his capacity as a US Patent Agent, he actively pursues and protects the intellectual property of Sealed Air world wide. He presently holds 11 US patents.


Candidate for Councilor:

George Heard
Department of Chemistry
UNC Asheville

Originally from Australia, and active in the Royal Australian Chemical Institute before moving to the U.S., I have been an active member in the Western Carolinas ACS Section since moving here in 1999. I am an Associate Professor of Chemistry at UNC Asheville, and have been one of the Alternate Councilors for WCACS since 2005. I have been the faculty advisor for the UNC Asheville Chemistry Students Club for the past seven years and coordinated the Chemistry events for the Western North Carolina regional Science Olympiad for the past five years.

Within the Western Carolinas section, I am currently the coordinator for the Chemistry Olympiad, and have organized several meetings in Asheville and Hendersonville. For the past three years I have been the Western Carolinas representative on the ACS Committee for Community Activities (CCA) and am on the theme team for National Chemistry Week 2012. I hope to be able to continue those appointments if elected Councilor.


Candidate for Alternate Councilor:

John Kaup
Furman University

John Kaup has been an ACS member for over 15 years and an active local section member for the past 6 years. He was an active participant in our hosting of SERMACS 2007 and was able to leverage this opportunity to broaden the outreach focus of our local section and has continued to expand our NCW and CCED outreach throughout this time serving as CCED coordinator and NCW co-coordinator. He served on the SOCED Task Force on Undergraduate Programming (2007-2009), was the Undergraduate program chair at the Salt Lake City national meeting (Spring 2009) and served as Faculty Advisor (2001-2009) for the nationally recognized Clemson SAACS Chapter. He believes strongly in fostering connections between ACS and K-16 participants (including teachers and students in the K-12 system). He currently serves as Alternate Councilor (2008-2010) for the Western Carolinas.


Candidate for Secretary:

Alice Claggett

Alice currently is serving as secretary of the Western Carolinas Section.

Pittcon 2011 is the world's annual premier Conference and Exposition on laboratory science. Pittcon is the one place you can evaluate and compare products from nearly 1,000 exhibitors from around the world, network with thousands of the world's leading scientific minds and enhance your professional development by attending a Technical Session or Short Course.

The Western Carolinas section of the American Chemical Society (WCACS) is proud to participate in the ACS sponsored NCW Poster Contest. Specific details on the contest are available through the attached PDF or by directly linking to the ACS NCW site (www.acs.org/NCW). WCACS will accept up to four (4) entries per grade category per school. The grade categories, as indicated on the contest form, are K-2, 3-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Entries must be received by Monday October 18th to be considered for the national competition. As an example, an elementary school with K through 5th grade students could submit a total of 8 entries: 4 entries from students in the K-2nd grade and 4 entries from students in 3rd –-5th grade. Local section volunteers will judge the submissions based on the criteria indicated in the contest guidelines and will forward one winning entry in each of the four grade categories to the national competition. Feel free to contact John Kaup (john.kaup@furman.edu) if you have any questions.

Submission should be sent to the following address:

ACS NCW Poster Contest
Attn: John Kaup
Office of Integrative Research in the Sciences
Townes South Suite - 071
Furman University
3300 Poinsett Highway
Greenville SC 29613

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WCACS is reaching out into our local community to celebrate National Chemistry Week and could use your help! Take a look at the various events being organized and contact John Kaup (john.kaup@furman.edu) or Laura Wright (laura.wright@furman.edu) if you are interested in volunteering for one or more of these opportunities. In each case, we have a game plan for delivering demos, activities and/or hands-on lessons, but the section could use a host of volunteers to provide additional creative ideas and/or help with delivering these events.

Westgate Mall, National Chemistry Week Activities
Date: Saturday October 30th
Time: 11 AM – 4 PM
Place: Westgate Mall, Spartanburg, in the Center Court.

An annual favorite delivered by the chemistry students at Spartanburg area schools. A variety of hands-on science activities will be available for families visiting the mall. Volunteers are needed to help with this annual event.

Asheville, National Chemistry Week Activities
Date: Saturday October 23rd
Time: 10 AM – 4 PM
Place: Health Adventure, Pack Square (Downtown Asheville) (click here)

The UNC Asheville Student Members will be leading the Saturday Science Day in a National Chemistry Week demonstration of hands-on experiments. Volunteers are requested for assistance with the experiments, safety, surveying participants, set up and break down. 1-2 hour shifts can be arranged during the day.

NCW School Event (and fund raiser)
Dates: Tuesday – October 26th
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. - could also use help before (set-up) and after (clean-up)
Place: Stone Academy of Communication Arts (115 Randall Street, Greenville, SC) (click here)

For the fourth straight year we will be providing an educational and entertaining opportunity at Stone Academy. This event is being held in conjunction with students and teachers from Wade Hampton High School as part of their Spirit Week. This event will also serve as a fund raiser for a local after school program (Frazee Dream Center). A series of hands-on activities will be provided in the gym (or classrooms) while a large demo show (provided by Roper Mountain Science Center?s Science on Wheels) will be provided in the cafeteria. Event will be open to the public and numerous volunteers are needed to staff this event.

Roper Mountain Science Center (RMSC) Event: 2nd Saturday fun at RMSC (click here)
Date:November 13th
Time: 9:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.
Place: Roper Mountain Science Center (402 Roper Mountain Road, Greenville, SC 29615)

WCACS will again be partnering with RMSC for their 2nd Saturday event to offer a variety of fun and educational hands-on science activities. Come join us for the fun as students explore chemistry concepts through a variety of both NCW themed and other familiar hands-on activities. Typically have over 1000 attendees for their 2nd Saturday programs. Volunteers are needed to help deliver the hands on activities that are being planned and perhaps help with the large demo show. We will offer at least 6 ongoing hands-on activities throughout the day. Volunteers can come for the whole day or select one of the following time slots: Early (9:00 a.m. -11:00 a.m.), Mid (10:30 – 12:30) or Late (12:00 – 2:00). In addition, we plan to also offer three 45 minute chemistry demo shows (on the hour at 10, 11 and 12) in the large auditorium (seats 200 +).

Bilingual (Spanish/English) Science Fun

We have 250 Spanish language Celebrating Chemistry pamphlets to distribute. If you have an idea about how to utilize these for an event or know of a group to which you could distribute these let us know.


If you would like to volunteer to assist with any of these events contact John Kaup or Laura Wright.

Dr. Sid Parrish - Chair 2010.
Dr. David Butcher - Chair-Elect 2011
Alice Claggett - Secretary 2010
Dr. Julia Brumaghim – Treasurer 2010
Mrs. Lucy Pryde Eubanks - Councilor 2009-11.
Dr. Royce S. Woosley – Councilor 2008-2010
Dr. George Heard - Alternate Councilor 2009-11.
Dr. John Kaup - Alternate Councilor 2008-10.

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Several of you requested a copy of Dr. Wagener's presentation from our July 2010 meeting. Dr. Wagener has graciously agreed and provided his presentation in .pdf format. Please click the link below to save it to your computer.

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Good news. Our local section submission for the K-2nd grade category level won second place in the national CCED poetry competition. Check back soon for more details!

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Our Webmaster, Dwayne Grassie, would welcome your "press releases" about activities that you believe would be of interest to our section. As he says so eloquently on our web site, "without active members reporting the activities of the section to me there would be no web site because there would be nothing to report." Dwayne can be reached at: MAG-IT@charter.net