American Chemical Society

The American Chemical Society (NUS Student Chapter), or NUS-ACSSC for short, was founded in 2014 by a group of chemistry undergraduates with two objectives: 

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• Seek to offer professional connections and insights to current undergraduates in the chemical sciences by organizing events such as mentorship programmes, industrial visits and talks with professionals. 
   

• -Promote chemistry and its related sciences as a choice of study for pre-university students through running outreach events such as workshops and lessons.

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The chapter is composed of the internal team (president, vice presidents, secretary/ treasurer), programmes, publicity and welfare teams. We organised events such as outreach workshops and industrial tours to offer career guidance and academic information to current Chemistry undergraduates and related majors through collaborations with other student communities and industry partners.

 

One example is the Forensic Science Workshop cum Competition in AY23/24 Semester 2 where the chapter collaborated with NTU Odyssey Research Program and the Health Sciences Authority to provide a comprehensive overview of forensic science through hands-on workshops to NTU and NUS undergraduates. In AY24/25 Semester 1, the chapter collaborates with Association Of Official Analytical Collaboration (AOAC) International to give free industrial tours to Abbott, Eurofins, CTC Analytics and Duke-NUS for undergraduates to appreciate the possible job or internship opportunities they can seek.

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Moving forward, we will continue to work with other student organisations such as the Chemical Sciences Society to organise more research and industry-related events for the students.