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This is the website for 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

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NERM 2016 will be held at the DoubleTree Hotel and Holiday Inn in Binghamton, NY on October 5-8, 2016. Abstracts are due by August 8, 2016, and early registration ends August 28, 2016. Online registration is open till October 5, 2016. The theme is "Chemistry at the Crossroads of Energy and Life" and the keynote speaker is Dr. Susan Band Horwitz from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

The following will be receiving awards:

  • Tracy L. Suggs, Vestal Senior High School (Northeast Region Award for Excellence in High School Teaching)
  • John (Jack) Driscoll (E. Ann Nalley Award)
  • The Green Chemistry Commitment: Beyond Benign, Inc and Local Colleges/Universities (Partners for Prosperity Award (P3) Award)
  • Mindy Levine, University of Rhode Island (Stanley C. Israel Regional Award)

NERM 2017 and NERM 2018 are not currently planned. The next NERM will be held in 2019, in Eastern New York, followed by NERM 2020 in Rochester, NY and NERM 2021 in Vermont (Green Mountain section).

NERM 2016

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

Recent past meetings

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

Tracy Suggs Amy Cannon of Beyond Benign Jack Driscoll Mindy Levine

Four regional ACS awards will be presented at NERM 2016:

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
Connecticut Valley
Cornell
Corning

Eastern New York
Green Mountain
Maine
Mid-Hudson
New Haven
Northern New York
Rhode Island
Rochester
Syracuse
Western Connecticut
Western New York

Officers

You may find information on this site by using the search bar, or by clicking through the categories.