I had a great visit to Holy Cross 4 months ago!
Belated thanks to @drdre4000.bsky.social and all!

Professor Rigoberto Hernandez giving a lecture to the chemistry and biochemistry majors at American University

Got to listen to a great talk from @everywherechem.bsky.social today at AU

Many thanks to Dr. Rigoberto Hernandez @everywherechem.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social Prof. and @acs.org President-Elect for presenting at our faculty seminar series today!

Rigoberto Hernandez wants to foster a sense of togetherness The 2026 ACS president will spend the society's 150th anniversary focusing on growing ACS's platform and engaging its members

In Rigoberto Hernandez’s presidential year, he will focus on raising ACS’s impact globally, fostering belonging in the society, and advancing an ACS membership-for-life concept. cen.acs.org/acs-news/Rig... #chemsky 🧪 @everywherechem.bsky.social

Collage: Poster of talks at Holy Cross on October 2 and 3; photos of people on the campus.

Looking forward to to the second day of my visit to @holy_cross ...
Join me at my seminar today at 2:00PM!

@drdre4000.bsky.social

Comment: The value of and passion for chemistry Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN): Keeping you up to date with the chemistry news that matters most. Published by the American Chemical Society.

“thinking like a scientist also requires us to feel like a scientist [...] How do we broaden the ability to feel like a scientist when sharing the value of and passion for science with the public or other communities?"

@cenmag @AmerChemSociety #POTACS

cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...

Head shot of a man sitting on a plane.

Now on my annual pilgrimage to Tucson.
I’m looking forward to catching up with the Research Corporation for Science Advancement #CottrellScholar community.

If you see me, let’s take a selfie, and post on your preferred social(s).
In the end, I’ll report which one won the count!

18 people standing in front of a building.

We just finished our 13th Telluride Science biennial workshop on Chemical Dynamics in Complex Environments (Chem-DiCE).
Hard to believe that we started 25 years ago!

Many thanks to all the participants. Everyone was engaged. The science was awesome. And, I learned a lot.

Great to collaborate with the Giraldo Lab and our CSN (@sustainablenano.bsky.social) team!

Semiclassical transition state theory through the lens of the restricted partition function The wide adoption of transition state theory in resolving the rates of molecular processes relies on the simplification from reducing the formal and numerical e

After 32 years, I finally had a chance to return to advancing Semiclassical Transition State Theory (SCTST). Check out our paper, just published in @JChemPhys (with Alex Popov!)

@doescience #BESfunded
doi.org/10.1063/5.02...

Man standing at stage in front of screen.

Listening to Morten Medal at #MARM
He says that Chemistry is Everything, and I’m hoping that he would agree that it is Everywhere, too!

@acs.org

A group of 7 people at a restaurant.

A selfie of seven people at a restaurant

Choose number 1 or 2. Which do you think better represents my evening?

Two men staring at camera.

Lucky to run into Pratyush Tiwary at today’s HPC Symposium at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social and JHU Engineering.
Always great to ride on potential energy landscapes with him.

Man at a podium

Man and woman sitting in a large convention center room.

And, soon @francesarnold.bsky.social will be speaking…

Join me now at the board meeting about to hear from Frances Arnold, 2025 Priestley Medalist…

Thanks, @saralea.bsky.social ! We all need to do our part!
I’m looking forward to meeting with congressional staffs in June, and am open to other venues to advocate for science.

Comment: Science advocacy is hard. If not you, who? Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds

🔹 ACS president-elect Rigoberto Hernandez, @everywherechem.bsky.social, discusses science advocacy in his most recent Comment (an always important topic, but even more important today): cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...

and here is the actual article... cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...

Comment: Science advocacy is hard. If not you, who? Serving the chemical, life science, and laboratory worlds

Here are the actual links to the articles on C&EN...

My comment at cen.acs.org/acs-news/com...

And @saralea.bsky.social ’s article at cen.acs.org/acs-news/New...

Apologies for the cut & paste flub!

Congratulations!

. @chemjobber.bsky.social @jkurutz.bsky.social

Also check out the article by @saralea.bsky.social on the recent OSTP Panel supporting Sustainable Chemistry at cen.acs.org/acs-news/New...

Please contact your state and federal representatives... and let them know why NSF, NIH, DOE and DOD external research agencies (and those not listed here) need to continue to support scientific research.

Our science infrastructure needs your help so that we can continue to drive the innovation and translation that can help you and everyone around you be better tomorrow.

@acs.org #POTACS

Also, check out, the Council note by Wayne Jones, Board Chair, who chose to highlight the new ACS Strategic Plan launched on January 1, and described in the ACS Comment a few weeks ago by Will Lynch.

Everyone in the succession plays a role. I chose to pursue the need to have us all make the case to our representatives. It’s in line with my ACS_First platform to have all of our members represent us to the world.
More on this in my Comment in tomorrow’s C&EN 3/17 issue & in my Council remarks.

Unflavored soda, stirred but not shaken, please, for me.

For #LongCovidAwarenessDay, C&EN looks at how the virus has transformed science and imagines what the next 5 years of COVID-19 might look like: cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic...

Great shot… are you teasing a new video?!

Let’s all celebrate chemistry #OutsideTheLab… Mike Ferguson does trivia, I enjoy taking peloton yoga and bike classes… What’s yours?