Meeting of the NH Area of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

(advance registration by 10/17 at www.nesacs.org required for planning purposes)

Thursday, October 23, 2014 Dartmouth College

Hosted by Departments of Chemistry & Earth Sciences  

006 Steele Hall
39 North College St.

Hanover, New Hampshire 03755

Co-sponsored by the Green Mountain Section of the American Chemical Society

5:00 pm

Registration, light refreshments in the lobby of the Fairchild Physical Sciences Cente

6:00 pm, 006 Steele

Welcome:   Catherine E. Costello, Chair, NESACS, Boston University School of Medicine

                  Dale Mierke, Chair, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

                  Richard Milius, Green Mountain Section of the ACS

6:15 pm

Inaugural Meeting of the New Hampshire Area of the NESACS:

                  Jerry P. Jasinski, Keene State College, 2015 Chair Elect of the NESACS

6:25 pm

Introduction of Speaker by Richard Milius, Norwich University

6:30 pm

Speaker Seth H. Frisbie, Department of Chemistry, Norwich University

“Discovering the Largest Mass Poisoning in History: Arsenic, Manganese, Uranium, and Other Toxic Metals in the Drinking Water of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Ultimately the World”

7:00 pm

Introduction of Speaker by Dean Wilcox, Department of Chemistry, Dartmouth College

7:05 pm

Speaker Brian P. Jackson, Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College

“Arsenic in the US Food Supply”

7:30 pm

Reception in the lobby of the Fairchild Physical Sciences Center