KSU SAACS

Vice President: Lindsay Harris at our fundraiser

Our favorite speaker: Bob Ollis to talk to us about his new position at the US Army Crime Lab

Hi guys,
Dr. Thomas McElroy is hosting a science bowl on Saturday, January 27, 2007. The science bowl is a jeopardy-like regional science competition among local high schools. He’s looking for students to help supervise the numerous quiz sessions. The competition is from 9am-12pm but volunteers need to be in the science building’s atrium by 8am […]

October’s Adopt-a-Stream testing will be held Friday, October 13, 2006 @ 9:00am off Campus Loop Road in front of the Lutheran Church. As always all are invited.

I guess 9:00 am on Friday is a little too early for many of you guys but the rest of us had fun anyway. I’d like to give a special thanks to Cobb County Adopt-a-Stream coordinator Jennifer McCoy for giving us extra testing kits and prizes to give away. Hopefully I’ll see more of you […]

We are having our monthly Adopt-a-Stream testing Friday, September 15, 2006 @ 9:00am off Campus Loop Road in front of the Lutheran Church. All are welcomed, especially biology and biochemistry majors. We need a couple of you guys.

A few of our KSU SAACS members attended Celebrating Chemistry: Kids & Chemistry LIVE!, an ACS-sponsored event, at the Fernbank Museum in Atlanta, GA to perform chemistry demonstrations for groups of children to get them excited about science. They conducted hands-on chemistry activities from the 2005 National Chemistry Week Theme, The Joy of Toys, […]

Are you attending the ACS national meeting in Atlanta or just need some extra convincing to do so? Here is a GREAT guide to the event created by Courtney Phillips. Enjoy! If you haven’t already, you can register for the conference through this website.

The Chemistry of Chocolate SAACS fundraiser held on February 14 in the Clendenin Lobby was a huge success. The gross profits were almost $1,000. Custom-made t-shirts, ACS study guides, recipe books compiled by the chemistry department faculty members, and bags of chocolate were sold in celebration of Valentine’s Day. Thank you to […]

Today five members of SAACS visited the Cobb County Adopt-a-Stream site, a division of Georgia Environmental Protection, to become quality assurance/quality control certified in chemical testing for a local stream near the Kennesaw State University campus. While taking a tour of their laboratory facilities, we spoke with several staff members who had backgrounds in […]

I would like to thank everyone who participated in the cleanup effort at Wildcat Creek, a part of the Dunwoody Nature Center. We collected glass bottles, tennis balls, a bicycle tire, and a pipe, just to name a few things! It was such a perfect day to be outside. Here are some […]

Join SAACS for a river cleanup at Wildcat Creek! This cleanup is being hosted by the Dunwoody Nature Center. We will meet at 10am and the cleanup will last approximately two hours. If you decide to join us, please RSVP by email to the general KSU SAACS email address or to Gina […]

October 16-22, 2005
The Joy of Toys
Our chapter will be having a toy drive all week, and a wrap-up event on Friday to celebrate NCW, Mole Day (Oct. 23rd) and Halloween! More info coming soon!

Sunday, December 13, 1998, at Georgia Tech
KSU SAACS participated at the Georgia American Chemical Society Holiday Science Show. The event was sure to be a fun night of chemical demonstrations. Chemical demonstrations KSU students performed included:

Thermal Expansion of Gases
Invisible Painting
Preparation of Slime and Nylon
Chemiluminescent Clock Reactions
Iodine Clock Reaction set to music

Pictures

From left to right: Carissa […]