Chemistry Society
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Chemistry Society |
Well, it looks as if the ChemSoc is, if not
dead, lying on the floor twitching its legs. It's been over a year since I've
heard anything that makes me think that it might be a viable entity. So I'll be
removing some of the stuff from this website in the near future.
If there
are any OU chemistry students reading this who think that they can revive the
society then I'd suggest that getting together on the FirstClass conference
would be a good idea.
However, please bear in mind that running a society
requires a commitment to actually do something. You'll need a Chairperson
(fairly easy job - maybe a couple of hours a month), a Secretary (about 6
hours a month), a Treasurer (also 6 hours a month - but a lot of
responsibility), a Membership Secretary (about 12 hours a month) and
somebody to do the newsletter (15 hours a month - most of it nagging people
to contribute then having to write most of it yourself).
Unless you can
find a group of people willing to committ that sort of effort then it's
probably not worth trying.
What really isn't needed are people full
of great ideas for somebody else to do. The world is full of people like this -
and they're about as useful as a fishnet condom.
The Open University Chemistry Society is run by students, both past and present.
We organize several visits throughout the year, a revision weekend at York and
revision days held in Essex, Bristol and Glasgow. A full list of all our planned
events for the year can be found below in the diary.
The ChemSoc newsletter, Touchpaper, is sent to all OU chemistry students at
the start of the Year. Subsequent newsletters are sent to members every few
months. The last few issues are available below. They are in Adobe Acrobat format,
so you'll need version 5 of the Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded here...
| Introductory Issue (125 kB) | July 1997 (447 kB) |
| November 1997 (162 kB) | February 1998 (153 kB) |
| June 1998 (406 kB) | December 1998 (565 kB) |
| December 1999 (225 kB) | May 2000 (178 kB) |
| February 2001 (1.1 MB) | June 2001 (1.1 MB) |
| October 2001 (645 kB) | April 2002 (154 kB) |
| October 2002 (530 kB) | February 2003 (1.0 MB) |
| June 2003 (660 kB) | October 2003 (740kB) |
| February 2004 (540 kB) | June 2004 (788kB) |
| October 2004 (426kB) | February 2005 (1.3MB) |
Membership costs £5 a year or £10 for three years. Any OU student,
ex-student or staff member - or families of any of these - are eligible for
membership.
Any enquiries should be addressed to The
Membership Secretary
Direct links to Amazon for ordering OU set and recommended books.
Recently East Anglia Region went on a trip to Norwich to see what they do with
their water. Many thanks to Bob Matthews for a fun day and to Janet Smith for
organizing it. Click here 
to see what it was like.
Jointly organised by OUCS and Fusion (the OU Physics Society). Go to the Science Revision Weekend site for details.
email Pat Wilson for details
Here are links to some chemistry web sites....
Sheffield Chemistry Department. Home of WebElements,ChemPuter and ChemDex
ChemFinder - Searchable information on thousands of chemicals.
This page designed by Frank
Hollis
Last updated May 14th 2004.
