ChemLuminary Award
The WCC sponsors two awards for local sections each year to be presented at the ChemLuminary ceremony during the ACS Fall Meeting. The ACS ChemLuminary Awards recognize volunteer participants in ACS Local Sections and Divisions whose efforts have helped to achieve excellence.
2026 WCC ChemLuminary Awards
The ACS Annual ChemLuminary Awards ceremony was held at the McCormick Place Convention Center in Chicago, IL on Sunday, August 23, 2026 along with the ACS Board Open Meeting. The celebration began with a poster session, followed by opening remarks from ACS Board Chair Wayne Jones, Jr., special remarks by ACS President Rigoberto Hernandez, and a presentation by Ping Y. Furlan, the 2026 ACS Volunteer Service Award recipient. Thereafter, the awards were presented by ACS committee chairs to acknowledge the extraordinary work achieved by ACS members. WCC presented two awards: the Most Outstanding Local Section Women Chemists Committee Award was presented to the East Central Illinois section, and the Best Local Section Women Chemists Event/Activity Award was presented to the Indiana section. Congratulations to this year’s winners!
Nomination Deadline
February 15, 2027
How to Nominate
Your section can self-nominate for a WCC ChemLuminary Award when submitting the section’s annual report to the ACS national office. The reports are due by February 15 annually. Plenty of local sections engage in award-worthy activities, but if they don’t ‘blow their own horns.’ We encourage you to do so and WCC will recognize them!
Self nominations often include
- A description of the event
- How the award theme has been realized
- How many people attended
- Source of the funds
- What did and did not work
- Obstacles encountered and overcome
- Photographs
- Links to websites
In addition, there are two mandatory questions:
- What made your event/program outstanding? (Answers to this question may include information about the event attendance, feedback from participants, media attention, etc.)
- How does your event/program support the mission of the WCC?
Please include a photo of your activity if you have one. If you have already submitted your report via your local section annual report – great work! Please forward a copy of the report and a photo. We would like to feature some local section WCC events in an upcoming WCC newsletter.
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