•The Winter quarter meeting of the Board of Directors will be held in Washington, DC, on December 1-3, 2016.

•Great visit to the Portland Local Section and Reed College on November 17th. I delivered the Local Section Dinner Seminar on “Diverse Chemistry Topics and the Diversity of Chemistry” on the night of the 17th, and a Chemistry Seminar at Reed on “Digitally Pulling Apart Proteins” at 4:15 PM in Biology 19.

•I attended SWRM in Galveston, TX, from November 10-13. I hosted the “Ice Cream Social with ACS Board of Directors,” and was pleased to hear many ideas for improving the ACS. I also delivered a research seminar on “Nonequilibrium dynamics in a solvent of stochastic hard collision (SHC) particles” in  the Symposium on Non-Equilibrium Processes in Chemistry, Physics & Biology

•Many thanks to District IV for placing their confidence in me and re-electing me to the Board of Directors! The results of this year’s elections were announced on October 31st in C&EN. A press release went out on November 10th.

•I attended SERMACS on October  24-26. I hosted the “Ice Cream Social with ACS Board of Directors,” and was pleased by the large number of students that attended and participated in the discussion.

•My presentation from April 25th, 2016 as part of the NSF Distinguished Lecture Series in Mathematical and Physical Sciences titled “Advancing Science Through Diversity,” is now available to watch online.

•I am running for reelection to the Board as the District IV Director. The voting window will run from September 30 to October 31. Check out my statement here (to appear in the September 11 issue of C&EN), and please vote!

•District IV Fall’16 Caucus slides available here: 16_08-District_IV_Caucus.pdf

•As of July 1, 2016, I have moved to Johns Hopkins University as the Gompf Family Professor. I will remain an active member of the Georgia Local Section of the ACS!

•The District IV Caucus will be held in Franklin 4 of the Marriott Downtown Hotel on August 21, 2016 as part of the ACS Fall Meeting in Philadelphia. Join m there!

•I was featured on the featured on the August 16 episode of KGOU Race Matters: “Chemist Rigoberto Hernandez Heads Organization That Works Toward Diversity In Science”

•I am happy to report that the District IV Councilors voted me as one of the two candidates for the upcoming October election to continue as the Director in the 2017-2019 term. The current draft (May 19, 2016) of the candidate statement that will appear in the September 12 issue of C&EN is available here.

•Great visit to South Florida! I spoke at a Section Meeting at the University of Miami on April 28, the end-of-the-year chemistry celebration at Barry University on April 29, and the 25th Anniversary of SoFlacs at Florida International University on April 30. I met amazing current and future chemists!

•My talk on “Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences” at NSF Headquarters on April 25th as part of the NSF MPS 2016 Distinguished Lecture Series will be available on the web soon!

•Many thanks to the NSF for approving my single-investigator grant on “Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics: Theory, Simulations and Applications”!!!  (NSF CHE 1565902)

•In late March 2016, I visited KSU and OU as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar as part of my last two visits. (Thanks to my wonderful hosts!) Check out my BlogPost on my entire experience.

•District IV Spring’16 Caucus slides available here: 16_03-District_IV_Caucus.pdf.

•Find me at the ACS Spring 2016 National Meeting in San Diego, CA: (A list of all of my group’s activities at the meeting is available here.)

★The Multiscales Chemistry Symposia co-organized by Sharon Hammes-Schiffer and my as part of the MPPG Theme on Computers in Chemistry. And make sure to visit us for “Cafe con Ordenadores” during the 10:00AM to 10:30AM coffee breaks on Sunday to Wednesday...

★My Talk on “Leadership training for teacher-scholars” in CHED in the Pier room of the Manchester Grand Hyatt San Diego at 8:35 AM on Sunday morning

★Open Board Meeting in Room 20D, San Diego Convention Center, noon to 1:00PM on Sunday, March 13th.

★District IV Caucus on Sunday, March 13th, at 6:00PM in the Indigo 204 A of the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel

★CMA lunch on Monday, March 14th

★My Talk on “Coarse-graining solvent structure using stochastic hard collision (SHC) dynamics” in Room 3 of the San Diego Convention Center at 1:30PM on Monday

★My Talk on “Demographics of research-active chemistry departments” in Room 2 of the San Diego Convention Center at 3:00PM on Monday

★WCC lunch on Tuesday, March 15th

★ACS Awards Dinner on Tuesday night, March 15th

★My Talk on “Emergent Structure of Patchy Coarse-Grained Nanoparticles” in the Bay Room of the Wyndham San Diego Bayfront at 1:00PM on Wednesday

★My Talk on “Obtaining exact transition state theory rates without perturbation theory” in Room 30A of the San Diego Convention Center, at 8:00AM on Thursday morning.

•In early March 2016, I visited Johns Hopkins University as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. (Thanks to my wonderful hosts!)

•Look for my upcoming Comment in the March 7th issue of C&EN describing the Academic Leadership Workshop we held at the end of January in Washington, DC. (Update: in Volume 94, issue 10, page 47; click here.)

•I was awarded the 2016 TREE Award by the Research Corporation.

•In February 2015, I visited The Colllege of St. Benedicts and St. Johns University, Willamette University, Bucknell Univerisity and Hamilton College as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar. (Thanks to my wonderful hosts!)