Chemists professional activities

Chapter 5 focused on professional activities. A majority of interviewees held memberships in professional scientific associations mostly ACS and NOBCChE. Although interviewees were divided with respect to the value of belonging only to ACS or NOBCChE or both, several industrial chemists believed that NOBCChE was a vital networking and support mechanism that allowed them to overcome their employment isolation. 

This book is organized in seven major chapters. The first chapter addresses the historical presence of African Americans in the chemistry community. The second chapter discusses the demographic characteristics of the responding chemists. The third focuses on the interviewees educational experiences. The fourth chapter discusses workforce-related issues. The fifth chapter discusses professional activities, while the sixth chapter focuses on racial attitudes. The final chapter discusses the implications of the findings for policy and research. 

Chemists have a professional responsibility to serve the public interest and welfare and to further knowledge of science. Chemists should actively be concerned with the health and welfare of coworkers, consumers, and the community. Public comments on scientific matters should be made with care and precision, without unsubstantiated exaggerated, or premature statements. 

Dr. Karabinos was a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Oil Chemists Society, the New York Academy of Sciences, and Sigma Xi. His academic and professional activities brought him many honors and awards. These included a Graduate Research Fellowship at The Ohio State University (1942-1944), the Chemist of the Year Award of the Joliet, Illinois, Section of the American Chemical Society (1960), and the Alumnus of the Year Award of St. Procopius College (1962). He was elected Vice Chairman, and then Chairman, of the Joliet Section of the American Chemical Society, and Chairman of the Chemistry Section of the Illinois Academy of Science. He served faithfully on several Committees of the Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry of the American Chemical Society. Indeed, Karabinos was organizing a symposium on Non-Food Uses of Carbohydrates for the Division at the time of his terminal illness. The Symposium was held on September 1,1977, at the Chicago Meeting of the Society. 

The national chemical bibliography certainly was useful for all NCV members, both sdentilic and professional, but it was not a professional activity in the strictest sense. That professional activities were also undertaken by the NCV, though, shows the example of a committee, installed in 1904, that should advise about the tarilfs for chemical investigations. In 1906 this committee published a list of tarilfs that chemists should ask for their work. The next year this list was officially accepted by the NCV. It stayed in force until 1915, when a new committee revised the list. 

Chemistry is the science of matter, its properties, and changes. In your classroom work in chemistry, you will learn a great deal of the information that has been gathered by scientists about matter. But, chemistry is not just information. It is also a process for finding out more about matter and its changes. Laboratory activities are the primary means that chemists use to learn more about matter. The activities in the Laboratory Manual require that you form and test hypotheses, measure and record data and observations, analyze those data, and draw conclusions based on those data and your knowledge of chemistry. These processes are the same as those used by professional chemists and all other scientists. 

The activities in the CBL Laboratory Manual require that you form and test hypotheses, measure and record data and observations, analyze those data, and draw conclusions based on those data and your knowledge of chemistry. These processes are the same as those used by professional chemists and all other scientists. 

Dexter was a member of several professional societies, including the American Chemical Society, the American Association of Biological Chemists, and the Association of Cereal Chemists. He participated actively in the programs of these societies. He was also an honorary member of the Japanese Society of Starch Science. 

Wherever possible in this book the references have been to works which are concerned with the activity of chemists and other professionals working in the chemical industry. 

Empowerment means that the students are able to network. One of the problems discussed earlier today in our breakout session was that black students, coming into some chemistry departments, did not know where to get old exams to study from. At LSUBR, both undergraduate and graduate organizations such as the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers and the Black Graduate Students Council provide a focus for information and activities. 

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