Announcements

Photography Contest

March 17, 2022

The DFW local section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) is organizing a photography contest during the “ 2022 Chemists Celebrate Earth Week”. Please send ONE ORIGINAL picture to mihaela@utdallas.edu before April 18, 2022, for consideration in this science-art contest. Only one picture will be accepted per contestant. Different students from the same lab can individually submit. Both undergraduate and graduate students from schools in the DFW local section area (which includes schools from Dallas to Abilene) are eligible to participate. Please make sure you include your name, school, and what the submitted picture represents in the submission email.

Submitted pictures can be of colorful reactions in the lab, images (AFM, TEM, SEM), cell images, fluorescent compounds.

The winners will be announced during the 2022 Meeting in Miniature on April 23, 2022. The winning pictures will be posted on our ACS DFW webpage and the Facebook page of the local section.

We will select 3 pictures as winners. The first prize will be $200, the second prize $150, and the third prize $100.


New Sponsors

March 22, 2022

We are glad to announce that the UT Dallas Office of Graduate Education, Office of Research and Innovation, as well as the biology contract manufacturer, Bio-synthesis, and the analytical instrument manufacturer, Jasco, will be sponsoring the 2022 Meeting in Miniature!


New Sponsor

March 15, 2022

We are glad to announce that PeerJ will again be sponsoring an Outstanding Student Presentation Award! The winner will receive a cash prize as well as a free publication in a PeerJ journal, and will be featured on the PeerJ blog site. You can read about last year’s winner, here.


Call for Abstracts

March 1, 2022

We are now accepting abstract submissions from postdoctoral researchers, graduate and undergraduate students to give a 10-12 minute oral presentation! Visit our Submit an Abstract page to get started.