Current Year Meetings

2024 - 2025 Schedule

SVS meetings are typically held in the evening on the second Wednesday of the month at rotating locations around the section. Any meeting that is moved from this standard date is indicated in red. Information is added and edited monthly, so check the site often!

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  1. 18 September 2024 - 7:00 pm at Bucknell University Third Wednesday in September: The meeting will feature Dr. Kara L. Bren from the Department of Chemistry, University of Rochester. The title of the evening's talk will be "Bioinorganic systems for artificial photosynthesis." The lecture will be preceded by a dinner at 6:00 p.m. Get details.

  2. 16 October 2024 - 7:00 pm at Wilkes University Third Wednesday in October: The Catherine Bone Lecture will feature Dr. Nancy Levinger, Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University, who will present a talk titled "Save the Plants! Visualizing Cryoprotectant Permeation and Location Confined in Plant Cells and Tissues" The lecture will be preceded by a reception and dinner at 5:00 p.m. Get details.

  3. 13 November 2024 - 7:00 pm at Lycoming College: The meeting will feature Julien Panetier, The State University of New York at Binghamton, who will present a lecture entitled "Understanding the Electronic Structure and Reactivity of Carbon Monoxide Dehydrogenase Model Systems for CO2 Reduction." The lecture will be preceded by a dinner at 5:00 p.m. Get details.

January 2025 - [Executive Board Meeting]

  1. February 2025 -

  2. March 2025

  3. April 2025

  4. May 2025 - Annual Awards Banquet at the Pine Barn Inn in Danville: With the presentation of various local section awards, the Annual Awards Banquet recognizes both aspiring and accomplished chemistry professionals in the area who have helped to promote chemistry, the chemical professions, and the section.


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Bloomsburg University Bucknell University King's College Lycoming College Marywood University Misericordia University Penn State Hazleton Penn State Scranton Penn State Wilkes-Barre Susquehanna University University of Scranton Wilkes University

About

The Susquehanna Valley Section of the American Chemical Society began in 1958 and serves eight counties in PA:

Lycoming
Union
Snyder
Northumberland
Montour
Columbia
Luzerne
Lacawanna
 
The section provides services for the chemistry professionals, undergraduate chemistry students, and high school students of the area.

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