{"id":1848,"date":"2013-02-21T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2022-03-24T17:00:44","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T21:00:44","slug":"ks-chem-club-sieves-out-victorious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/ks-chem-club-sieves-out-victorious\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u2019s Chem Club Sieves Out Victorious"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1849\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/hemClub-Battle-winners.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1849 size-full\" src=\"\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/hemClub-Battle-winners.jpg\" alt=\"Lydia Manager, Mara Livezey, Joe Widmer, Amanda Bolles, Josh Abbott and Tibin John\" width=\"360\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/hemClub-Battle-winners.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/hemClub-Battle-winners-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/02\/hemClub-Battle-winners-335x300.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2013 Winners of the Battle of the Chemistry Clubs are (l-r): Lydia Manager \u201913, Mara Livezey \u201913, Joe Widmer \u201914, Amanda Bolles \u201914, Josh Abbott \u201913, and Tibin John \u201915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College\u2019s American Chemical Society (ACS) student group brought home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/chem\/\">chemistry department<\/a> the coveted \u2018Silver Sep Funnel\u2019 Trophy from Michigan State University this winter. The students pipette-ed, read spectra, analyzed, and even danced their way to victory, <em>and as the safest team<\/em> (\u201cwhich is the most important part for us,&#8221; says Regina Stevens-Truss, who shares co-advising duties for the group with fellow chemistry professor Jeff Bartz). The K ACS student group participated last year for the first time and placed sixth. This year, they won the overall competition, brought home best &#8220;safety dance,\u201d earned most artistic accolades for the \u201cbest scientific-themed hangman,\u201d and were also the \u201csafest working team\u201d based on OSHA standards.<\/p>\n<p>2013 was the sixth annual Battle of the Chemistry Clubs, an event that originally put into the pipette pit (so to speak) the University of Michigan-Flint against the University of Detroit Mercy. The field has since grown to 12 schools, with Kalamazoo College joining in 2012. Competition consists of several activities that test a team\u2019s knowledge and skill as it pertains to different chemistry concepts. All activities are team based (each with 4 or more students) and are scored and ranked based on time or accuracy. Morning prelims are followed by the afternoon\u2019s \u201cplayoffs mode,\u201d with only one team taking home the hardware.<\/p>\n<p>Josh Abbott was the only returning K \u201cletter winner\u201d from last year\u2019s sixth-place team. He vowed then that K would be well represented this year and wrote immediately after this winter\u2019s competition to Dr. Truss: \u201cI would just like to let you know we brought some hardware back for Dow.\u201d Sweet!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kalamazoo College\u2019s American Chemical Society (ACS) student group brought home to the chemistry department the coveted \u2018Silver Sep Funnel\u2019 Trophy from Michigan State University this winter. The students pipette-ed, read spectra, analyzed, and even danced their way to victory, and as the safest team (\u201cwhich is the most important part for us,&#8221; says Regina Stevens-Truss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[30,50,103,38],"post_formats":[],"class_list":["post-1848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-students","tag-awards","tag-chemistry","tag-student-organizations","tag-students"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\r\n<title>K\u2019s Chem Club Sieves Out Victorious - News and Events<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Kalamazoo College\u2019s American Chemical Society (ACS) student group brought home to the chemistry 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Battle of the Chemistry Clubs are (l-r): Lydia Manager \u201913, Mara Livezey \u201913, Joe Widmer \u201914, Amanda Bolles \u201914, Josh Abbott \u201913, and Tibin John \u201915<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kalamazoo College\u2019s American Chemical Society (ACS) student group brought home to the <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.kzoo.edu\/chem\/\">chemistry department<\/a> the coveted \u2018Silver Sep Funnel\u2019 Trophy from Michigan State University this winter. The students pipette-ed, read spectra, analyzed, and even danced their way to victory, <em>and as the safest team<\/em> (\u201cwhich is the most important part for us,&#8221; says Regina Stevens-Truss, who shares co-advising duties for the group with fellow chemistry professor Jeff Bartz). The K ACS student group participated last year for the first time and placed sixth. This year, they won the overall competition, brought home best &#8220;safety dance,\u201d earned most artistic accolades for the \u201cbest scientific-themed hangman,\u201d and were also the \u201csafest working team\u201d based on OSHA standards.<\/p>\n<p>2013 was the sixth annual Battle of the Chemistry Clubs, an event that originally put into the pipette pit (so to speak) the University of Michigan-Flint against the University of Detroit Mercy. The field has since grown to 12 schools, with Kalamazoo College joining in 2012. 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He vowed then that K would be well represented this year and wrote immediately after this winter\u2019s competition to Dr. Truss: \u201cI would just like to let you know we brought some hardware back for Dow.\u201d Sweet!<\/p>\n","comment_info":"No Comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9469,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/9469"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kzoo.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_formats?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}