The way it works is …
… chairs who think their events or organizations were especially praiseworthy nominate those events and organizations to the national ACS ChemLuminary Award committee. Self-nominations must make the case for the innovation and community service aspects of the nominated event or organization.
In summer, a shortlist of finalists for each award is announced; and the winner of each award is announced in conjunction with the fall national meeting.
The Saint Louis Section has a trophy case chock full of awards for outstanding section, and for a wide array of events, projects, and organizations under our umbrella. We’re proud enough of this record to post it here. This is the list of awards our Section has won since we seriously started keeping track in 1980.
| Year* | Garlands Garnered |
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| 1979 | Outstanding Performance, large section—H Burnham Tinker, Chair |
| 1980 | Outstanding Performance, large section—Lawrence Barton, Chair |
| 1983 | Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Charles Hobbs, Chair |
| 1986 | Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Phyllis Bennett, Chair |
| 1992 | Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Donna Friedman, Chair |
| Phoenix Award, NCW Best Event in a Museum or Library | |
| Special Recognition for Outstanding Public Relations Program | |
| 1993 | Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Sadiq Shah, Chair |
| 1994 | Certificate of Excellence, medium-large section—Hal Harris, Chair |
| 1995 | Certificate of Excellence, medium-large section—Jed White, Chair |
| 1996 | Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—A Greg Wall, Chair |
| 1997 | Phoenix Award, Most Creative National Chemistry Week activity, “Noble Neon” |
| Outstanding Younger Chemists Committee Event, for NCW events | |
| Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Robert M Friedman, Chair | |
| Most Creative Local Section Younger Chemists Committee event, for travel award program | |
| 1998 | ChemLuminary Award, Best International Chemistry Celebration Event—A Greg Wall, organizer |
| ChemLuminary Award, Outstanding Local Section Younger Chemists Committee | |
| 1999 | Certificate of Excellence, large section—Francis Botts, Chair |
| 2000 | Outstanding Performance, large section—Pauline Bellavance, Chair |
| “Activity or Program that Best Addresses the ACS Strategic Thrusts”, for Chemical Progress Month | |
| Certificate of Excellence, Most Innovative Use of Technology—Sue Dudek, committee chair | |
| 2001 | Certificate of Excellence, large section—Sue Dudek, Chair |
| “Commendable Award” Saint Louis University ACS Student Affliates |
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| 2002 | Outstanding Performance, large section—Lisa Balbes, Chair |
| Outstanding Kids & Chemistry Program Award | |
| Certificate of Excellence, Activity or Program in a Local Section Stimulating Membership Involvement | |
| Certificate of Excellence, Most Innovative Use of Technology | |
| 2003 | Outstanding Local Section Career Program, large section—Lisa Balbes, Career Program Coordinator |
| Certificate of Excellence, Outstanding High School Student Program | |
| Certificate of Excellence, Local Section/Division Interaction | |
| Certificate of Excellence, large section—Bijan Khazai, chair | |
| 2004 | Outstanding Local Section Career Program Award, large to very large section—Lisa Balbes, Career Program Coordinator |
| 2005 | Outstanding Performance, large section—Ted Gast, Chair |
| 2006 | Student Affiliate Interaction Award—Alexa Serfis, Chair |
| 2008 | Outstanding New Local Section Younger Chemists Committee—Arindam Roy, YCC Chair; Keith Stine, Section Liaison |
| 2010 | ACS Fellow elected: William H Buhro, Washington University |
| 2011 | Outstanding Local Section Career Program—Lisa Balbes, Career Program Coordinator |
| Outstanding Leadership Development Program—Alexa Serfis, Program Organizer | |
| ACS Fellows elected: Leah O’Brien, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville Lawrence Barton, University of Missouri–St Louis (emeritus) Donna Friedman, St Louis Community College–Florissant Valley |
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| 2012 | Outstanding local section Younger Chemists Committee—Natalie LaFranzo, YCC chair video clip of ChemLuminary presentation |
| Outstanding Performance, medium-large section—Eric Bruton, Chair video clip of ChemLuminary presentation |
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| 2013 | ACS Fellow elected: Keith Stine, University of Missouri–St Louis |
| 2014 | E Ann Nalley Award for service to the Division: Lean O’Brien, Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville |
| ChemLuminary Awards Career Programs—Lisa Balbes, Career Services coordinator Senior Chemist event—Sheryl Loux, organizer |
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*National ACS awards are conferred after the year for which the award was actually won. To disambiguate, we give here the year of the actual activity cited in the award, not the year in which the award was conferred. |
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