Past Events (2006-2007)
Spring 2007
Some of the other activities that ACS-SA held during the spring semester included:
-Selling test tubes full of candy as a fundraiser around Valentine's Day
-Running a table at Purdue SpringFest which had hands-on demos such as liquid nitrogen, smart ball vs. stupid ball, ferrofluid, and balloons filled with different gases, as well as additional sales of the test tube candy
-Creating a poster for the ACS National Conference in Chicago
-Touring the particle accelerator
-Cook-out and elections for next year's officiers
Callout
Thursday, Feb 8th
At the callout we discussed upcoming events and activities, prepared for our Valentine's Day fundraiser, and CJ demoed bubbles floating on CO2 gas.

CJ CJ and Bubbles Bubbles Callout
Monday, Nov. 13
CL50 Rm 125, 7:30
Carol Johnson presented the Environmental Chemistry research she did while in Germany in the summer of 2005, as well as talking a little in general about doing research internships abroad.
Monday Oct. 30
CL50 Rm 125, 7:30
Andrew Buesking presented “Drug and Gene Delivery via pH-sensitive Lipids,” covering drug and gene delivery systems
Callout
Monday Oct. 16
CL50 Rm 125, 7-8pm
Freshman CJ Gulbronson gave a short presentation of the research he did last summer at the University of Minnestota.
National Chemistry Week
Monday Oct. 23- Friday Oct. 27
During National Chemistry Week, over 100 volunteers including members of our club went out to area elementary schools to teach kids about chemistry. This year's theme was "Your Home-It's All Built on Chemistry." Going with this theme we taught kids in grades K-6 about polymers: what they're made of, how they form, and their properties. They made links of polymer chains by hooking arms and then got to make salt dough to observe what happens as polymers form. The kids, the teachers and we all had a great time! Check out a few pictures below of Carol with her graduate student partner in a 3rd grade classroom at Klondike Elementary.
With Kids With Kids With Kids With Kids
Small Chemical Business in the Purdue Research Park
Tuesday September 19, 2006
Three of our members attended this symposium at the Purdue Research Park (not to be confused with Discovery Park, a part of Purdue's campus) which highlighted some of the chemical/biochemical start-ups located there. First there was a poster session where we marveled at the amazing 3-D animations of Seyet (pronounced see-it) which showed the steps of the “smart-drug” developed by Endocyte targeting over-expressed folate receptors on cancer cells, and Quadraspec’s Bio-CD which can be used to collect millions of data points in minutes. After the poster session and refreshments, each company gave a short presentation of what they do and their plans for the future. The event was very interesting, and it was great to see another side of what you could do with a chemistry degree. The companies that are located there (over 140, and not just biochemical ones) are given a boost by Purdue and its resources, as well as working together to help each other grow until they are large enough to go off on their own, allowing new ones to start up. We are very lucky to have such a successful entrepreneurial hot-spot only a few minutes away.
Companies represented:
  • Bioanalytical Systems, “offers an array of lab services,” scientific instruments
  • Chao Center, combines “state of the art pharmaceutical manufacturing with an invaluable experience for Purdue pharmacy students”
  • Cook Biotech, develops “breakthrough tissue-engineering technology”
  • Endocyte, develops “’smart drugs’ for the treatment of cancer and autoimmune diseases”
  • Griffin Analytical Technologies, known for the its mini mass spectrometers
  • Life Plus, “a biotech business bridge between East and West”
  • Quadraspec, developed the “Bio-CD” for high-performance assays
  • Seyet, creates animations of microscopic phenomenon for companies and researchers
  • SSCI, helps “pharmaceutical companies make better drugs more quickly.”