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Education Night: "125 Years of Chemistry in Chicago" with Josh Kurutz + Pre-dinner Education Speaker
September 25, 2020
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
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Education Night
Josh Kurutz, PhD
- Chicago ACS Historian -
NMR Facility Manager, University of Chicago
"125 Years of Chemistry in Chicago"
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TEACHERS! All K-12 educators can receive continuing education credits for attending our meetings. Get your CE form at the registration desk.
PRE-DINNER EVENT:
PolyWhat? Application of STEM Using Polymers
This year's National Chemistry Weeks Theme stems around the concepts of Polymers. This talk will help teachers get ready to celebrate the week with the many opportunities that the local section has to offer. After attending the talk you will be able to deepen your students' STEM experience by adding various polymer inquiry/engineering design challenges. Take “traditionally fun" polymer activities and turn them into NGSS investigations to create more critical thinkers in the classroom. Updates of the section’s plan will be discussed at the meeting.
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BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Josh Kurutz has been the Chicago Section’s Historian since the office’s creation in 2017 and works in the University of Chicago as the Manager of the Chemistry Department’s Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility. Having served as Section Chair in 2014, Secretary in 2010, Vice Chair in 2019 and 2020, he earned the Section’s Distinguished Service Award in 2019. He did his most intensive service managing the section’s web presence as co-chair of the Web/Communications-and-Technology Committee starting from 2011 through 2018, and continues to assist this work. Since 2014 he has been Chair of the Stieglitz Committee, which partners with the University of Chicago. Kurutz earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology, where his research advisor was Prof. John H. Richards. He earned his Ph.D. in Biophysics with then-Assistant Prof. Laura Kiessling, in partnership with Profs. Laura Lerner, Frank Weinhold, and John Markley. He held two postdocs at the University of Chicago, one in the Dept. of Medicine with Dr. Shaohua Xu, and one in Chemistry with then-Assistant Prof. Ka Yee C. Lee. He moved on to work as the Technical Director for UChicago’s Biomolecular NMR Facility, Senior Scientist for NMR at Northwestern University, founding Community Manager for Agilent Technologies’ NMR support community Spinsights, and founding Community Manager for the broader-focused Agilent Community. He helped start the Chicago Chapter of the Malta Conferences Foundation, which has ties to the ACS and Chicago Section. Kurutz has pursued a number of activities at the interface of science and art, occasionally making radio appearances to showcase the sounds molecules make in NMR spectrometers. He is currently partnering with Tiffany Lawson of Lawson Dance Theater on a ballet about the chemical elements, Elemental, which the pandemic postponed until July 2021. He lives in Des Plaines with his wife, Heather VanBladel, a Design and Production Manager, Maine West High School senior Rose; his daughter Ella is studying Industrial Design in the DAAP school at the University of Cincinnati.
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