This is a great video about Mt. Saint Helens 30 years later.  Check it out below.

 

Here is the official White House video of last week's science fair. 

 

Green gasoline is plants in your tank, motor vehicle fuel made from corn, cornstalks, sugarcane, and other crops. It also is gasoline made with recipes that reduce the need for harsh, potentially toxic ingredients like hydrofluoric acid or sulfuric acid that are used at about 210 oil refineries  worldwide. Now scientists have found an answer to a half-century quest for a way to make gasoline in exactly that kind of greener, more environmentally-friendly way.
 
That advance highlights the second episode of a new video series, Prized Science: How the Science Behind ACS Awards Impacts Your Life, from the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society. Rich with high-definition graphics and animations, and commentary suitable for classroom use and other audiences of students and non-scientists, the videos are available without charge at the ...

This is really cool!

 

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

The ACS Scholars Program helps underrepresented minority students to pursue undergraduate degrees and careers in the chemical and engineering sciences. The program offers scholarships, mentoring and, when possible, internship opportunities for each participant.  I found the scholars' 15^th Anniversary profiles in C&EN especially inspiring.

 

This scholarship program is funded by donations through the ACS Development Office.  To find out how you can help I encourage you to go to http://www.acs.org/dreams or see the video below.

 

 

The Union of Concern Scientists (UCS) has launched a national advertising campaign designed to show the dedication and professionalism of those scientists studying climate change.  I think this is fantastic.  Hopefully this will help non-scientists better understand the science surrounding climate change.  Information on the UCS campaign can be found here and here.

Starting with the DC Meeting last fall, ACS has begun to record select presentations at national meetings and provide the content free on the web.  I think this is a great asset provided by ACS.  If you couldn't make the last meeting or couldn't decide which sessions to attend, now you can catch up.

 

DC is HERE

Salt Lake City is HERE

 

As an example, check out the Salt Lake City plenary session on green chemistry:

 

I wanted to flag a great series of posts from the C&Entral Science Blog, which is hosted by Chemical and Engineering News and is listed in our blog roll on the right.

 

The first is by Lauren Wolfe: "Polymers are Not Chemicals, CNN Says"

 

Snippet:

Polymers are not chemicals. Polymer scientists, all those years of chemistry classes you took are worthless. I’m sorry. I was informed of this factoid this morning while I was eating my breakfast and watching CNN’s coverage of the oil spill in the Gulf. ...