Wasiu Lawal (2010-2012)
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Wasiu Adedapo Lawal was born August 26 1979 in Washington, DC to Nigerian parents.
Waisu received his BS chemistry degree from Lagos State University. He was elected to two different positions with the school's association of science students (parliamentary clerk and speaker) and chaired a number of committees. Waisu is currently working on two masters degrees-in Chemistry at the University of Houston-Clear Lake as well as Chemical Technology and Management degrees from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow Scotland)
Waisu was the recipient of Younger Chemist Committee (YCC) youth leadership award (runner up) when he attended the January, 2007 ACS leadership conference held in Baltimore, Md. He currently serves as chair of the YCC for the ACS Greater Houston Section.
Waisu also serves as an Affiliate of the Royal Society of Chemistry(UK).
Mark Vreeke (2011-2013)
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Dolores Aquino (2009-2011)
email: dcaquino2246@yahoo.com
Dolores C. Aquino, PHD, is Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at San Jacinto College Central, where she has been employed since 1993. She received a B.S. in Chemistry from the Illinois Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. Her employment record also includes industrial experience as a Research Chemist with Exxon Research and Engineering Company.
In ACS, Dolores has been actively involved in the Greater Houston Section (ACS-GHS) since 1994. She is currently serving Section as Alternate Councilor (2007-20011). She has been serving on the ACS-GHS Executive Committee since 2003; including serving as Section Chair in 2005. She was Chair of the High School Scholarship Exam writing subcommittee 2003-2004. She has been actively involved in the annual ACS-GHS Summer Social, National Chemistry Week and Educational Rainbow Challenge programs and the Education Committee for the section.
Dolores is currently working on an ACS national task force that is working to improve education at Two Year Colleges. She previously served on the national task force that wrote the 2009 revision of the ACS “Guidelines for Chemistry in the Two-Year College”. She has served on a writing committee of the ACS Division of Chemical Education Examinations Institute. She served the ACS Division of Chemical Education for eleven years on the Executive Committee of the Two-Year College Chemistry Consortium (2YC3) as Past Chair/Future Sites Coordinat (2007 - 2009), 2YC3 Chair (2006) and Membership Chair (1999-2004).
Joe Hightower (2011)
email: jhigh@rice.edu
With a PhD from Johns Hopkins University, Joe W. Hightower has been a Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at Rice University since 1967 and a Councilor representing the ACS Greater Houston Section since 1975.
During those 28 years he has served the maximum 6 years on all three Elected Council Committees:
Policy
Nominations/Elections
Committee on Committees.
In 1996 he was General Chair of the successful SW Regional ACS Meeting in Houston.
Several national and local awards have come his way:
National ACS Award in Petroleum Chemistry ('73),
Local Section Award ('78)
Texas Institute of Chemists Honor Scroll ('86)
Jefferson Prize for Public Service in Houston ('82)
Leadership in Volunteerism in Houston ('92)
National Distinguished Alumnus Award from Alpha Chi National Honor Society ('97).
In addition to teaching and research at Rice, Dr. Hightower has served terms as Department Chair, Director of Sponsored Research, Member of the Faculty Council, and Secretary of the Rice Faculty. Author of more than 60 technical publications, he has organized and/or taught in more than 100 Industrial Short Courses in his research specialty of catalysis in the US and several foreign countries.
As co-founder and Trustee, for 34 years he has been president of the Hospitality Apartments, an all-Volunteer benevolent ministry that provides free housing and caring friendship for families in need who have come to Houston for treatment in the Texas Medical Center hospitals. That's where he spends a large part of his time in retirement.
James Francis
email: jnfranc@yahoo.com
Jim Francis received his B.S. from U.C. Berkeley, his M.S. from MIT and his Ph.D. from the University of California at Riverside .After post-docs at Northwestern and Texas A&M; he worked for Union Carbide for 5 years in New York, where he was chairman of the Education Committee for the local section.
He moved to Houston to start work for Exxon, for whom he worked for 22 years at various locations in both Houston and New Jersey. Ten years ago he began moving to computer and network support as the Products Research division shrank, and his full-time employment is now computer-related. He is still active in the American Society for Testing and Materials Committee D-2 (petroleum products), developing test methods for section 7D (wax-related viscosity), of which he was chairman for two years.
Valerie Moore – (2011-2013)
email: Valerie.C.Moore@gmail.com
Valerie C. Moore, Ph.D., is a scientific advisor in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and is based in the Firm’s Houston office.
Valerie is experienced in the areas of nanotechnology, materials engineering, supramolecular science, analytical methods, surface science, chemistry and biotechnology. Prior to joining McDermott, Valerie worked in research and administration for Rice University, in the Texas Medical Center and with NASA Johnson Space Center.
Valerie is a member of or affiliated with the Greater Houston Section of the American Chemical Society, Rice University’s Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Phi Lambda Upsilon Chemistry Honor Society, and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship.
Valerie received her Ph.D. in chemistry, with a physical-organic chemistry and nanotechnology focus, and M.A. in chemistry from Rice University. Her graduate mentor was Nobel Laureate Richard E. Smalley. While studying at Rice, she received the John Margrave Outstanding Thesis Award for her thesis, “Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Suspension in Aqueous/Surfactant Media and Chirality Controlled Synthesis on Surfaces.” She was also awarded a Welch Fellowship in 2001. She received her B.S. in chemistry, with a minor in mathematics, from Centenary College of Louisiana.