The National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS) is the premier event sponsored by the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry to highlight recent advances in organic chemistry. The next NOS has been postponed due to COVID. It will be held Sunday, June 26 to Thursday June 30, 2022 at the University of California, San Diego in La …
The Leete Award recognizes outstanding contributions to teaching and research in Organic Chemistry. Nominees must be members of the Organic Division of the American Chemical Society who have made outstanding contributions to both teaching and research. Teaching should be considered in the broadest sense, including professional chemists, the dissemination of information about chemistry to prospective chemists, …
Our next Virtual Symposium will Feature Michael Willis (Oxford University) and Ryan Shenvi (Scripps Research, La Jolla)
Call for Nominations for the 2021 SURF Fellowships – Applications for the 2021 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships (SURF) ($5,000) are now being accepted. The Division of Organic Chemistry annually awards SURF Fellowships to outstanding undergraduate organic chemistry students. These competitive fellowships are awarded on the merits of students’ research proposals, academic records, faculty recommendations and …
We are going to make a decision by late March if the 2021 NOS will be live or be postponed to 2022. Please stay tuned for the announcement in March.
Purpose: The American Chemical Society’s Division of Organic Chemistry is once again sponsoring an award program called the Undergraduate Award in Organic Chemistry, which is intended to recognize senior students who display a significant aptitude for organic chemistry and to encourage further interest in the field. Chemistry departments are invited to select a top graduating …
The third annual Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry Conference (#EWOC2021) on June 24-25, 2021 will again utilize a virtual format this year (due to the uncertainty surrounding the COVID-19 situation) so as to safely continue our mission of empowerment along with promoting networking, community, and amazing science! For more info, see the EWOC website.
Nominations for the Young Investigator’s Symposium are due February 20, 2021. The Division is now accepting nominations for speakers at the Young Investigator’s Symposium to be held at the Fall 2021 ACS meeting. Appropriate candidates will be independent investigators who are no more than 10 years from graduate school or post-doctoral appointment, be a current researcher in …
We are seeking nominations of organic Assistant Professors for the Academic Young Investigator’s Symposium to be held in the Division of Organic Chemistry at the Fall 2021 ACS meeting. Junior faculty who are entering their fifth or sixth years and who have not yet been considered for tenure are eligible for this year’s symposium. The …
We are now able to release the video of the lecture by Dr. Cristina Nevado (University of Zürich) which was given at the 2019 National Organic Chemistry Symposium (NOS). The title of her talk is “Solving Mechanistic puzzles in Metal-catalyzed Reactions” Note: in 2020, the Organic Division’s Executive Committee is releasing all the video content …
