ACS International Activities

254th National Meeting and Exposition - Washington, DC - August 20-24, 2017

Asia-Pacific International Chapters Conference - Jeju-do, South Korea - November 5-8, 2017

• ACS statement on the Presidential Executive Order: “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States” 
  • Arabic Translation of the Official ACS Statement on the 1/27 White House executive order

• Letter from ACS and 150 science organizations calling for White House to rescind executive order 
  • Arabic Translation of the Multisociety Letter on Immigration  

Global Innovation Imperative (Gii)
The whitepaper for Gii 2016 was recently completed. The program focused on green chemistry experiements with an emphasis on rural locations in Brazil. The whitepaper can be found here.

IAC Stopover Grants Available
The ACS Committee on International Activities (IAC) Stopover Grant application is currently open. Stopover Grants allow ACS members to make "stopover" visits during planned international travel during 2017.  Grants (up to US$500) are available through a peer-reviewed and competitive process to reimburse costs of local travel, accommodations, and incidentals for visits to work with existing and prospective scientific partners  (and their students) for the purposes of conducting lectures, training, and building research collaborations.  Application deadline for 2017 September 1. Click here to apply. For more information, contact Intlacts@acs.org (Note: If you are traveling prior to September 1, send us an email inquiring an early review of your application).

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To effectively contribute to the global chemistry community and to engage our international members, it is important for ACS to emphasize the importance of diversity and global inclusion. Ellene Contis, Chair of the ACS International Activities Committee, recently wrote a C&EN article about it. Read "Energizing global thinking as part of ACS’s diversity and inclusion efforts" here.