Welcome to the Dayton Section of the American Chemical Society!

We are the local section of the American Chemical Society for chemists and other interested people working and living in the six-county Greater Dayton area. We organize and offer a range of outreach activities, as well as provide professional networking opportunities for professional chemists and students.

News - 2020 Wrap Up

• ACS Dayton Local Section is the recipient of a 2020 Chemluminary award - Outstanding Performance by Local Section Award (medium-small size category). Thanks to all the efforts by the 2019 Officers, especially Prof. Erick Vasquez, that culminated this recognition.
• Dr. John Kelly (Research Scientist at UES, Inc.) has been elected for chair-elect! His three year term as chair-elect, chair, and immediate past chair begins 2021. John will also fill the role as the Younger Chemist Chair. Welcome John and a warm farewell to Erick. The local section thanks Erick for his service and involvement in the Dayton Local Section. 
• The local section also welcomes back Prof. Justin Biffinger to the role of Treasurer for another term. 
• National Chemistry Week for 2020 was celebrated on October 24 with a virtual event hosted by the Centerville Library, highlighting this year’s theme – Sticking with Chemistry. Participants registered for the online event and picked up from the library a kit containing supplies so that they could participate at home with Melinda online. Approximately 20 families joined us to make “Stained Glass Glue” and talk about what makes things sticky. Feedback was very positive! Thanks go to our intrepid NCW Coordinator, Melinda Greer!

All news can be found on the news page and our Facebook page. Please like us to get our latest updates!

What We Do

As the local section of the American Chemical Society, we present a range of outreach activities to engage a range of students (including K-12 and university-level students) and the general public in chemistry as well as science in general. We also have a range of networking events, including talks and more informal meetings, to engage and enable our members to network and interact with each other.

As part of our mission and as enabled by some very generous donations in the past, we offer annually a range of different awards.

See the Activities page for further information.