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This is a website providing information on the Northeast Region of the American Chemical Society, which covers New England and upstate New York. Events within the region include the annual NERM conferences (the "Northeast Regional Meetings"; these are coordinated and overseen at the regional level by members of the regional board, as well as representatives from all of the local section. The local sections of the Northeast Region are listed below.

Regional meetings

The next general NERMs will be as follows:

• NERM 2019: Eastern New York
• NERM 2020: Rochester, NY
• NERM 2021: Vermont (Green Mountain section).
• NERM 2022: Boston, MA

Recent past meetings

NENM 2018

In June 2018, there was a specialist "Northeast Nanomaterials Meeting" (NENM 2018) in Lake Placid. There was no NERM in 2017.

NERM 2016

NERM 2016 took place in Binghamton, NY on October 5-8, 2016. The theme was "Chemistry at the Crossroads of Energy and Life" and the keynote speaker was Dr. Susan Band Horwitz from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Wayne Jones (general chair) is thanked by Laura Pence

Christof Grewer and Nik Dimitrov, program chairs for NERM 2016

Allison Campbell, ACS President-elect, spoke at the awards banquet

Samantha Matthews, graduate student at U-Buffalo, presents her work at NERM 2016

NERM 2015

The 2015 NERM was held in Ithaca, New York on June 10 - 13, 2015, hosted by the Cornell local section, and was a great success. Over 650 people attended, with over 50% being students. The plenary speaker was Prof. Esther Takeuchi (SUNY Stony Brook), presenting on "Battery Science: At the Confluence of Electrochemistry and Materials Science."

Regional awards in 2016

Four regional ACS awards were presented at NERM 2016:

• The ACS Division of Chemical Education Northeast Region Award for Excellence in High School Teaching is awarded to Tracy L. Suggs, Vestal Senior High School, NY.
• The E. Ann Nalley Regional Award for Volunteer Service to the American Chemical Society is awarded to Jack Driscoll.
• The The Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences is awarded to Mindy Levine, University of Rhode Island.
• The Marinda Wu Partners for Progress and Prosperity Award is awarded to The Green Chemistry Commitment: Beyond Benign, Inc and Local Colleges/Universities

Local sections

The Northeast Region of the ACS consists of the following Local Sections in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont:

Binghamton Central Massachusetts Central New York Connecticut Valley Cornell Corning Eastern New York Green Mountain Maine

Mid-Hudson New Haven Northeastern Northern New York Rhode Island Rochester Syracuse Western Connecticut Western New York

Officers

• Dr. Tony Noce, Chair
• Dr. Willem Leenstra, Vice Chair
• Dr. Alyssa Thomas, Secretary
• Dr. Wayne Jones, Treasurer

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