Free Radicals & Phi Lambda Upsilon

We’ll be providing tie-dye supplies, markers, fabric scraps/sewing material, and more so you can outwardly indicate your flair for science. Bring your lab coat and nerdy ideas!

When: Tuesday, May 6th from 4:30 to 6:00

Where: Bagley 133 lab

Why: Because fashion and laboratory practice have been separate for too long

Update: The Student Resource Center in the HUB has agreed to let us borrow their button-maker for this event! We’ll have button-making hardware, but bring some sweet chemistry-related images — clippings from old journals, spectra, etc. are just some suggestions — to make your own buttons.

Beginning Monday, May 5th at 12:01 AM we will be accepting bids for 2008-2009 Free Radicals and Phi Lambda Upsilon officers! Please see the new Officer Elections page (on the menu to the right) for information on how to apply.

Both the chemistry fraternity and the Biology Club are participating in Relay for Life this year, so head on over to their pages on the RFL website to join or donate:

Life Sciences Superteam (includes Tri-Beta)
Alpha Chi Sigma

Next Wednesday, April 16th we’ll be screening a few episodes of Futurama in Bagley 261 at 5:00 PM.

Free pizza will be available, plus it’s your first chance of the quarter to pick up a new t-shirt if you missed out before. We’ll also be announcing details for the upcoming officer elections, so come network for votes!

Also, we dropped off another big box full of textbooks at the School of Social Work as part of our ongoing textbook drive to benefit the Royal University of Phnom Penh.  Thanks for your donations, and keep them coming!  Special thanks to the UW Libraries Gifts Program, who also separately donated a TON of math, physics, and chemistry textbooks to us for RUPP (seriously — they currently occupy a pallet in the basement of Suzzallo).

If you’ve ever taken honors o-chem with Professor Bart Kahr, you know that he likes to discuss the sundry and sordid characters of chemistry’s past. Like, a lot. Come hear his talk “The Lives of Malus and His Bicentennial Law” to find out what Napoleon and bubonic plague have to do with the polarization of light.

When: Monday, March 3rd at 4:30 PM
Where: Bagley 260 ROOM CHANGED TO CHEM LIBRARY 015
Why: Because chemistry history is way more interesting than you might think; also, there’s free pizza.

We will also have this year’s new t-shirts for sale at the meeting!

Interested in the chemistry of beer brewing? Come take a FREE tour of the U-Village’s Ram Brewery next Tuesday, February 19th. We’ll be meeting outside the restaurant at 5:15 PM (tour starts at 5:30). You don’t have to be 21 to see the brewery, but you do have to bring I.D. to drink. We’ll be staying for dinner afterwards, so bring some extra cash if you’d like to grab a bite to eat.

Everyone (and their friends!) are welcome, but please RSVP to radicals[at]u.washington.edu so we know to wait for you before starting the tour.

Additional information about the Ram Brewery can be found on their website: http://www.theram.com/wa-seattle.php.

Hello chemists and other science enthusiasts! Denny Middle School in White Center is looking for judges for their annual science fair. Due to a series of unfortunate events, they’re operating on very short notice — the event is Tuesday, February 12th. Judging will take place from 2:30 to 5:30 (or whenever finished). Denny Middle School is located at 8402 30th Ave SW.

I (Vanessa) did this last year and the kids at Denny are capable of some seriously impressive work. If you’re interested in participating, please contact Kristen Rohrbach at karohrbach [at] seattleschools.org.  If you’d like to try and arrange a carpool, please also email the chem club (that’s us, radicals [at] u.washington.edu) and we can try to set something up. At least one other member (me) will be going.

PS: Thank you to our panelists and those of you who attended last Tuesday’s “Panel of Profs” event! We’ll make sure to order more pizza for…that’s right…Panel of Profs II: Electric Boogaloo Biochemistry Edition.

Tuesday, February 5th @ 4:30 PM in Bagley 260

Trying to decide on a branch of chemistry? Wondering what a chemist actually does? Come to hear respected UW Chemistry professors in the fields of analytical, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry discuss the questions researchers in their fields are trying to answer as well as give overviews of their own work. Q&A session to follow. Whether you’re an underclassman wondering what the branches of traditional chemistry are all about or an upperclassman considering graduate school, this is your chance to find out more. Featuring Dr. David Ginger (physical chemistry), Dr. James Mayer (inorganic chemistry), Dr. Forrest Michael (organic chemistry), and Dr. Robert Synovec (analytical chemistry). This is a free food event!

PS: The Textbooks for Cambodia donation box in Bagley 109 was overflowing by the second week of the quarter! Keep them coming!

Hello Again Radicals and PLU Members!

To start off this new quarter we will be having a Cabinet Decorating event next Tuesday the 22nd. If you didn’t know already, one of those cabinets down on the first floor of the Chemistry Building belongs to us, but it hasn’t been redecorated for almost two years and is serious need of sprucing up. In an effort to update the space we are asking students to bring chemistry-related drawings, models, items, and photos of you and your friends engaged in chemistry events. We will be serving FREE food for this event, so bring your friends and exercise your creative side.

When: Tuesday, January 22nd at 4:30 PM
Where: Meeting in Bagley 260, then heading down to the first floor hallway of CHB
Who: Everyone!

PS: Check out the newly updated Upcoming Events page for more information on what’s coming up in the weeks ahead.  There’s also a new page dedicated to our Textbooks for Cambodia drive, which will be ongoing throughout the 2007-2008 school year.

Thanks to everyone who submitted designs and/or voted! We’ll get these printed ASAP.  The other designs were also awesome and will be reincarnated as buttons.

We’ll be announcing next quarter’s chem-tastic events in the near future, so check back soon.