Six chemistry faculty members present at San Francisco conference; student wins $250 for poster

Six faculty members from the Western Washington University Department of Chemistry (Mark Bussell, Tim Clark, Steven Emory, John Gilbertson, Greg O'Neil and Jim Vyvyan) each presented a paper at the 239th American Chemical Society National Meeting held in San Francisco from March 21 to 25. In addition, one graduate student and 13 undergraduate research students from the Department of Chemistry presented a total of eight posters during the conference. WWU undergraduate student John Hayes received a $250 poster award for his poster presentation at the Colloid and Surface Chemistry Poster Session. Three posters were selected to receive awards from the 147 posters presented, and Hayes was the only undergraduate recipient of a poster award.