February 2025-Joint NOBCChE-NESACS Meeting: Henry Hill Awards and Lecture

Join us on February 13th for a special joint monthly meeting hosted by the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society

4:30 pm - 5:30 pm Board Meeting - Conference Room: PHO 901

5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Networking and Social Hour - PHO 906

6:30 pm – 7:30 pm Dinner - PHO 906

7:30 pm – 7:45pm Henry Hill Award Presentation - PHO 906

7:45 pm - 9:00 pm Lecture - PHO 906

Henry Hill Lecture: Dr. Dorothy J. Phillips, the 2025 American Chemical Society (ACS) President

Title: My Journey to Leadership in Industry and the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Synopsis: Dorothy J. Phillips will speak about her professional and personal journeys, on moving forward even when she wasn’t sure of the outcome. She will discuss her 29-year industrial career at Waters Corporation in R&D and Marketing. Her career was filled with achievements and recognitions that she will highlight. She will also talk about the American Chemical Society and the diversifying of its leadership over the last 50 years, including the timeline for the progression of diverse leaders. She will discuss her leadership roles in ACS governance and on the Board of Directors. She will conclude with her initiatives during her 2025 presidential year.

Bio: Dr. Dorothy J. Phillips is the American Chemical Society (ACS) President 2025. She served three terms on the ACS Board of Directors, Director-at-Large, 2014- 2022. She holds a B.A. degree from Vanderbilt University in chemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati in biochemistry. Dr. Phillips began her industrial career at Dow Chemical Company in 1974 and continued it at Waters Corporation from 1984-2013. She retired as Director of Strategic Marketing with extensive business travel experience.

Among her honors are the Roland H. Hirsch Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry from the Division of Analytical Chemistry, 2023; The Percy L. Julian Award, from National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) 2022; the Vanderbilt University Dr. Dorothy J. Wingfield Phillips Endowed Chair, 2015 with investiture of Professor Renᾶ Robinson in the chair, 2023; Vanderbilt University Trailblazer, Class of 2019; American Chemical Society Fellow, Class of 2010; and Distinguished Alumni, University of Cincinnati, McMickens College of Arts and Sciences, 1995 and Center for Women Studies, 1993.

Dr. Phillips is a co-editor and a co-author of a chapter in Responsible Conduct in Chemistry Research and Practice: Global Perspectives (2018), an ACS symposium series book. Dr. Phillips is featured in African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era by Jeannette E. Brown (2018). She is the co-author of an editorial for the special virtual issue of Langmuir honoring the work of Dr. Bettye Washington Greene, (https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c03569). In addition, she is the author of a chapter in the virtual ACS Symposium Series book 1367, Building Your Best Chemistry Career (2020).

2023 Henry Hill Awardees: Jen Maclachlan, for Conspicuous Service to the Northeastern Section. Jen will be presented with her award in February 2025.

Jennifer L. Maclachlan, Managing Director at PID Analyzers, LLC

Bio: Maclachlan has been an active ACS member for 12 years and is the managing director at PID Analyzers LLC, a small, family-owned and -operated chemical instrument business in Sandwich, Massachusetts. In her home community of Cape Cod, she has distinguished herself by putting together many hands-on chemistry outreach events, demonstrating her strong networking, communication and team management skills.

In 2010, she organized the first Cape Cod Celebrates National Chemistry Week at a local YMCA. Assisted by her father Jack Driscoll, Ph.D., she engaged students in grades K-8 in chemistry-related hands-on activities. Encouraged and energized by this first public outreach effort, and working with colleagues from the Northeastern Section of ACS, Maclachlan put on dozens of events — to date, she has organized more than 30 science cafés. She has developed partnerships with many Southeastern Massachusetts

STEM education stakeholders, and via those partnerships, she has shared her enthusiasm for chemistry with thousands of area youth and their parents and caregivers. Maclachlan also has an active presence on social media, where she has established a strong personal brand and coaches others in doing the same. Her passion for career planning has made her a sought-after speaker at ACS meetings and by other organizations such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Materials Research Society.

Her service to ACS also includes chairing CPRC, the committee tasked with bringing chemistry to the public, sharing the excitement of science with non-scientists and helping other ACS units communicate effectively with their constituents. She currently serves as the co-chair of the Partnership Subcommittee for the ACS Committee on Chemical Safety and the public relations chair for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses.

Beyond her ACS membership, Maclachlan is an active member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), where she serves as immediate past chair of the Teen Workplace Health and Safety Committee, which she founded. She also assists with AIHA grassroots government affairs activities.

REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED FOR ENTRY TO THIS EVENT, including in-person reception, dinner, and virtual presentation. Dinner registration will end at noon, Thursday, February 6th. Registration for just awards and lecture (virtual or in person) will close on Wednesday February 12th.

Transportation to Granby Parking (closest lot to the Photonics Building):

From West:

Take the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90) East to Exit 18, Allston/Cambridge. Exit Left. Follow the signs to Cambridge to the first set of lights. Turn right at the lights; this is Soldiers Field Road/Storrow Drive. Exit at Kenmore Square. Follow Local Directions below.

From South:

Take I-93/Route 3 (Southeast Expressway) North to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Exit. Follow Local Directions below.

From North:

Take I-93 or Route 1 South to Boston. Exit onto Storrow Drive (Exit 26). Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Exit. Follow Local Directions below.

From the North Shore:

Take Route 1-A through the Sumner Tunnel. Follow signs onto the Expressway North. Take the Back Bay/Storrow Drive Exit, and follow signs onto Storrow Drive. Continue on Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Exit. Follow Local Directions below.

Local Directions from the Kenmore Square/Comm. Avenue Exit of Storrow Drive:

At the first set of traffic lights, turn right onto Beacon Street. The road forks, but keep to the left and follow it into Kenmore Square. Bear to your right and you will be on Commonwealth Ave. Go through the first set of lights and you will see a Burger King on your right. The entrance to the Granby Parking Lot is just past the Burger King. To get to the Photonics Building, cross to the other side of Commonwealth Ave. and walk 1 1/2 blocks west (which will be away from Kenmore Sq.). Take a left onto St. Mary's Street at the Radio Shack. The Photonics building is located at #8 St. Mary's and will be the first building on your left.

The dinner and presentation will begin in Room 906.

Parking is at attendee expense.

Public Transportation: Boston University is located along the MBTA Green line. From any downtown Green Line subway station, take the "B" train heading outbound toward Kenmore Square. (If you are coming from North Station, take any train to Park St. and change to the "B" line.) After Kenmore, the train will be above ground. Exit the train at the third stop above ground (BU Central). Cross over Commonwealth to the other side and walk up St. Mary's St (there is a Radio Shack on the corner). The Photonics building is located at #8 St. Mary's and will be the first building on your left.

The dinner and presentation will be in Room 906.

Registration or other questions? Please contact: Meg Greenslade, [email protected]

Can't attend in person? Register for the Zoom instead:

https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEof-yqqj4qE9XEy7AVmYaQhCNmIPZ8NjKz

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Host or Publisher NOBCChE and NESACS