A Culinary Chemistry Celebration For Your Community!

Join thousands of students and early career chemists from around the world to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day. Food impacts major problems facing humanity—health, sustainability, global warming, poverty and inequality. Learn how the chemistry community can work to address these challenges through food science in this interactive online video event hosted by the American Chemical Society.

What to Expect from Your Event

• A live interactive video webcast hosted by Kerri Jansen, Assistant Editor at C&EN, featuring presentations and Q&A with experts in food chemistry.
• Professor Selina Wang of UC Davis and her research team’s study into the quality and purity of supermarket olive oil received worldwide attention and led to new olive oil standards for the state of California. She’ll discuss the emerging field of food forensics and how her lab is collaborating with agriculture in California to solve important challenges, like discovering valuable compounds in traditional food production waste streams to create new value-added products
• Dr. Daniela Barile of UC Davis will discuss her research into the chemical and biological components of milk. Through her work at the Milk Process Research Lab, she aims to identify and understand compounds in milk that affect health outcomes, generate new value-added products for agriculture, and could even form the basis of medicinal treatments for disease.
• Hank Green, host and founder of the YouTube channel SciShow, will break down some of the challenges and science behind efforts to mimic beef, fish, and other kinds of animal products to create plant-based meat alternatives. Dr. Ricardo San Martin, Research Director of UC Berkeley’s Alt.Meat X-Lab, will join our panel for the live Q&A to answer your plant-based meat chemistry questions!
• Be the first answer correctly our “Food Trivia” on Twitter with #ACSPIB to win a prize and get a shout out live on-air!
• Meet thousands of fellow students and professionals around the world on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by posting with the event hashtag #ACSPIB
• Unpack raffle prizes, handouts, and other ACS resources to share with your members*
• Take your event further with the ACSPIB “Expansion Pack,” including a cornucopia of juicy food articles from C&EN and yummy food short videos from ACS Reactions and Speaking of Chemistry.
• This event is aimed at college-level chemistry students and early career chemists, but it may be suitable for some high school groups and other communities. Email multimedia@acs.org with questions about program content.

*Final Box and Presentation Content Subject to Change.

ACS Program-in-a-Box is the easiest event you'll ever host because "it's all in the box."  With very little effort (acquire the space and gather the crowd), you can host an energetic science event that engages chemistry students and early career chemists.