American Chemical Society

Education and membership in 2024, acs provided formal and informal educational resources, instruction, and mentorship for elementary, secondary, undergraduate, and graduate students and educators. The american association of chemistry teachers (aact) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2024, ending the year with more than 7,300 members from 80 countries. Since its inception, aact has published over 1,100 resources written by teachers of chemistry, organized over 220 webinars and dozens more on-site workshops, and received over 10 million web visits. The us chemistry olympiad team won three gold and one silver medals at the 56th international chemistry olympiad. The impact of science outreach, including chemists celebrate earth week and national chemistry week, was enhanced by a website for outreach activities, chemistry festival grant awards, and two outreach summits. Working with the five scientific societies that established the inclusive graduate education network, the acs bridge project extended its reach in 2024 to include 45 chemical sciences departments, over 150 acs bridge fellows, and a collection of professional development activities focused on assisting those who receive doctoral degrees in chemical sciences. Over 95 students were financially supported to attend the 2024 acs spring/fall meetings. The second rapid fire symposium held during the acs fall meeting highlighted research achievements of eight bridge fellows. In partnership with eli lilly, 50 acs bridge fellows, graduate students, and posdoctoral scholars participated in the bridge career kickstarter workshop held at eli lilly headquarters in indianapolis, in. Furthermore, the bridge program extended its support to 25 students from hbcus by enabling their attendance at the acs green chemistry & engineering conference and 25 more to participate in the national organization for the professional advancement of black chemists and chemical engineers conference. Working with 70 coordinators and almost 400 mentors, acs project seed offered in-person and virtual summer research experiences to 371 high school students in 2024, along with a week-long virtual orientation focused on lab preparedness and professional development and weekly virtual seminars. For the 2023-2024 school year, acs awarded 51 project seed college scholarships to alumni entering their freshman year in college. The initiative on fostering a skilled technical workforce expanded engagement of an inclusive network of stakeholders critical to the recruitment and preparation of students and potential employees using science and engineering skills in their jobs but not holding a bachelor's degree. Visits to the chemical technical professionals' website, launched in 2023, increased 88 percent. Three community college projects each received ~$20k from the acs prepare ctp seed grant program pilot. A new discovery report "empowering chemical technical professionals" was released. Recognition, workshops, and grants were offered to students and educators. Electronic credentials were offered to over 1200 certified graduates of acs-approved programs. A discussion series focused on undergraduate education for chairs of chemistry departments continued in 2024. A yearlong virtual community of practice for community college professors completed its inaugural year in 2024. Participants learned how to incorporate active learning into their courses and authored teaching modules that will be available to chemistry educators. Acs hosted the 2nd lasting encounters between aspiring and distinguished scientists (leads) conference in 2024. This 3-day event, designed to prepare high-potential young professionals and students for successful and impactful careers that address global challenges was attended by 50 aspiring and over 20 distinguished scientists. The acs institute, an online portal to a collection of professionals and career development resources, has eight centers of learnng and more than 120 courses and workshops, eighteen of which were added in 2024. Acs chemistry careers, a job board and career center, was built. In 2024, 96 acs career consultants held 528 individual virtual career consultations and monthly virtual office hours for approximately 2100 attendee's total. Fifty of those 96 acs career consultants also held 633 individual in-person consultations at the 2024 spring and fall acs meetings. Acs continued to advance and cultivate chemical safety. In 2024, the pilot high school chemical safety grant program funded three of 30 applications; 571 new learners enrolled in the free online course on safe storage and management of chemicals in educational settings; and 1,267 new learners enrolled in the chemical safety and risk management foundational course. Green chemistry educational activities included: the dissemination and continued development of green and sustainable chemistry modules for undergraduate curricula; nine teaching/learning workshops; the 2024 summer school on green chemistry, attended by 71 students from north and south america; green chemistry student awards: redesign and launch of the green chemistry e-learning platform; launch of new virtual faculty mentoring networks; development of a new 3-hour systems thingking learning mini-course; and the dissemination of the green chemistry teaching and learning community with beyond benign. Acs continued the campaign for a sustainable future, hosting the "putting chemistry to work for clean water" summit, a virtual 3.5 hour event with over 450 participants. The 28th annual green chemistry & engineering conference was held for over 900 attendees from 57 countries. Two grant programs established in 2023 were continued, awarding 10 grants totaling $1,025,000. The green chemistry for sustainability platform, launched in 2023 to accelerate research, innovation, and commercialization of sustainable processes and products, was promoted. The hybrid spring 2024 and fall 2024 meetings had more than 13,853 and 11,549 registrants from 77 and 86 countries, with over 10,600 and 8,300 submitted abstracts, respectively. Acs hosted and supported a collection of 31 other events, conferences and meetings in 2024, attracting more than 8,000 attendees. This included six acs regional meetings and other events spearheaded by almost every acs staff division. Other acs events included colloquia, webinars, and workshops held in conjuction with other meetings and conferences, as well as independently. Over 150 of these were organized by acs publications, including 36 acs on campus events attended by 4,800 participants. In 2024, virtual acs science talks featured 38 speakers representing 11 different countries and attracted approximately 19,000 registrants from over 110 countries. In 2024, acs closed the year with over 230,000 individuals in its global membership community. Acs supported a range of communities in 2024, including 32 divisions, 213 branches (us local sections and international chemical science chapters), 36 acs graduate student organizations, ~1200 domestic acs student chapters, and 160 acs international student chapters. The 2024 acs leadership institute, a global summit, and 27 program chair meetings were held for over 200 acs volunteer leaders. In 2024, 72 people were recognized with 56 national awards at a ceremony with approximately 500 attendees, 22 acs committees presented 49 chemluminary awards at a ceremony with over 300 attendees, and 27 acs fellows were inducted. Industry member engagement grew through events including industry networking receptions, a summit for chief technology officers, a summit for pharma executives, and a host of local section and division events. Industry members were recognized by 9 national awards and 5 heroes of chemistry awards. The acs green chemistry institute industrial roundtables awarded $480,000 in research grants, distributing $400,000 of those funds in 2024. In 2024, acs sponsored and attended peer-society conferences for the national organization for the professional advancement of black chemists and chemical engineers (nobcche); the american indian science and engineering society (aises) conference; and the society for advancement of chicanos/hispanics & native americans in science (sacnas) conference.

Acs petroleum research fund the acs petroleum research fund is a permanently restricted endowment established to provide resources for advanced scientific education and fundamental research in the petroleum field, which may include any field of pure science which affords a basis for subsequent research directly connected with the petroleum field. In 2024, the acs prf funded 204 grants, totaling $21.1 million. The grants included 89 new directions grants; 66 doctoral new investigator grants; 20 undergraduate research grants; 20 undergraduate new investigator grants; and 9 undergraduate new investigator supplemental grants. The following types of grants are among those funded by the acs petroleum research fund: - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at phd-granting institutions. Research grants to academic institutions for regularly appointed faculty scientists and engineers to assist advanced scientific education and fundamental research. - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field at the undergraduate level. Research grants to academic institutions on behalf of faculty members in departments not offering a doctoral degree, to support their research with participation by undergraduates. - research grants for fundamental research in the petroleum field for new faculty. Starter grants to assist the research of young faculty members with a phd degree who are within their first three years of their first academic appointment as regular faculty members of colleges and universities in the united states.