Join other local section leaders for our monthly webinar series. Learn about ACS programs, resources and services designed to support you and your local section. Webinars include opportunities for live Q&A or small group breakout sessions for networking and collaboration.
Upcoming Webinar Topics
Trust In Science
During her Presidential year in 2023, Judith C. Giordan initiated a Trust in Science and Scientists initiative with workshops that are being expanded in 2024 to include grants for programming and efforts to showcase this important topic and meaningfully move the needle on Trust in Science and Scientists. Join Judy and your colleagues to learn more about this initiative and opportunities to develop new programming.
Date: Wednesday May 15, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.
Planning Successful Activities in Your Local Section
Date: Wednesday June 26, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.
Past Webinars
Involving Industry Members in Your Local Section
Join ACS Staff and Local Section leaders for a discussion on strategies for engaging local chemical industries. Learn from the successes and challenges faced by sections, discover industry-focused programming ideas, and explore funding availabilities.
Date: Wednesday Apr 17, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.
Social Media in Your Local Section
This webinar will provide an overview of social media and how Local Section Leaders like you can use these tools to connect with various audiences. Discover how to grow a successful and sustainable social media presence for yourself or your section and how ACS can help. You also will learn best practices for engagement, security, and accessibility and through concrete examples.
Date: Wednesday Mar 27, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
Get a charge out of Chemistry for Chemists Celebrate Earth Week 2024! Learn about the theme, observe activities you can use for your public outreach events, and engage with chemists from the field of electrochemistry.
Date: Wednesday Feb 21, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM ET.
Welcome New Local Section Leaders
Welcome new Local Section officers! An opportunity to connect and learn more about the upcoming Leadership Institute and tracks featured for local section officers.
Date: Wednesday Jan 17, 2024 | 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET.
Local Sections Annual Reporting Webinar
Members of the Committee on Local Section Activities and ACS Components Services staff will help guide and instruct new and existing Local Section Leaders on the step-by-step processes of submitting the Annual Report using Community Connections.
Date: Wednesday December 13, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET.
Robert’s Rules of Order for Effective Meetings
This webinar will provide practical advice on how to use Robert’s Rules of Order to conduct effective meetings. The content will include the basic procedures for making, discussing, and voting on motions, as well as ways in which the use of these rules will enhance the efficiency and fairness of your meetings, while also strengthening your role as a leader.
Date: Wednesday November 15, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM ET.
Advancing Inclusion to the Next Level with your Local Section
The American Chemical Society has long aspired to make the chemistry enterprise a place for everyone. Over the past several years, that aspiration has intensified with additional grants, the creation of new offices, and new efforts to support the addition of our newest ACS Strategic Plan goal. Learn about the various resources and guides that the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Respect has developed to assist with hosting inclusive events; working with partner organizations or underserved communities, and other activities that ACS Local Sections can take to help ACS advance and embrace inclusion in chemistry. Included in this session will be details on how to apply for Local Section DEIR grants and breakout sessions to brainstorm and share potential and successful activity ideas.
Date: Thursday October 19, 2023 | 1:00 - 2:00 PM ET.
