Mansfield University Home PageScience Students & Faculty Celebrate National Chemistry Week
November 4, 2009
MANSFIELD, PA— Mansfield University students and faculty members Ruchi Tandon, Anthony Kiessling and Daniel George took part in the National Chemistry Week (NCW) celebration held in Painted Post, NY on October 24.
As the NCW Coordinator for the American Chemical Society (ACS)-Corning Section, Tandon planned several different experiments, and invited teams from MU, Corning Inc., Osram-Sylvania Global Tungsten Powders and Alfred State College to participate in the event. Nine MU science students took part.
In keeping with this year’s theme, “Chemistry-It’s Elemental,” numerous stations 
where set up where children of different ages got to work on some stimulating chemistry experiments. MU students conducted several interesting experiments for the school children.
NCW is a community-based annual event that unites American Chemical Society local sections, businesses, schools and individuals in communicating the importance of chemistry to our quality of life. This year’s NCW was October 18-24.
