ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

David Brown joined the full-time faculty in the Department of Chemistry at Southwestern College in 1996.  He received a B.A. in Chemistry from the Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, earned a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and undertook postdoctoral research at UC San Diego. David was awarded the Award for Incorporating Sustainability into Chemistry Education from the American Chemical Society Committee on Environmental Improvement for 2012 and the Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the American Chemical Society Western Region in 2007.

ABOUT THE LECTURE:

As an endeavor to celebrate the International Year of Chemistry 2011, David led a project in public science outreach, Project iLASER (investigations with Light And Sustainable Energy Resources), with a central theme of harnessing the sun as a source of sustainable energy to power the planet.  Project iLASER included an extensive road trip to work with children living along the 2,000 mile stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border from the Pacific Ocean bordering California to the Gulf of Mexico on the Texas border. He visited elementary schools and Boys & Girls Clubs in border cities, where Hispanic communities are concentrated. The project was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry and Informal Science Education program. For more information please see http://cen.acs.org/articles/89/i49/Solar-Road-Trip.html

Pfizer La Jolla, CB2-1110, 10770
Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-1150

Parking: All parking lots in the campus are open for visitors during the ACS
meeting time.

Direction to: 10770 Science Center Drive, San Diego, CA 92121-1150 From San
Diego international airport:
Follow signs to I-5 North
Proceed on I-5 North for Approx. 10 miles Exit I-5 at Genesee Avenue and
make a left at the stop light Make a right at the second stop light which
will be Scientific Center Drive.