National Chemistry Week: Interviews with Women Chemists for Kids

From October 19-25th the American Chemical Society celebrates National Chemistry Week. This year's theme is "Having a Ball With Chemistry", and the official site links to chemistry-related activities and games for kids.

As part of the ACS's outreach to kids, they have a series of interviews with chemists done by "Meg A. Mole, Future Chemist" (a stuffed safety glasses-wearing girl mole). The women interviewed:

• Dr. Dianne Gates-Anderson, environmental process engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (pdf)
• Ms. Amy Wylie, Senior Research and Development Specialist at Bayer Medical Science (pdf)
• Dr. Helen Free, Diagnostics Division, Bayer HealthCare (pdf)
• Ms. Pamela Helms, The Caldera Company (pdf)
• Dr. Anita Meiklejohn, patent attorney at Fish and Richardson, P.C. (pdf)
  
• Dr. Beronda Montgomery-Kaguri, plant biochemist, Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology at Michigan State University (pdf)
• Dr. Martha Williams, chemist at NASA Kennedy Space Center (pdf)
  

I'm not sure why the chemists were asked about their favorite food and color, but I suppose that kids would find details like that interesting. The interviews are also available in Spanish.

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Tags: National Chemistry Week, women in chemistry