Contacts:

Michael Bernstein
m_bernstein@acs.org
504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10)
202-872-6042

Michael Woods
m_woods@acs.org
504-670-4707 (New Orleans Press Center, April 5-10)
202-872-6293

The ACS Office of Public Affairs will provide a full range of media resources to assist in your coverage of the event, whether onsite or from your home base. There will be press releases on abstracts from 12,000 scientific papers and about 40 online press conferences.

News media covering the New Orleans meeting from their home bases can join news briefings and ask questions online via the ACS Press Center Chatroom. Click the Chatroom Schedule button for details.

Modern chemistry may be the most multi-disciplinary science, and the New Orleans meeting promises to include newsworthy topics spanning science's horizons from astronomy to zoology. Expect about 12,000 reports on those topics. The meeting has an anticipated attendance of about 14,000 scientists and others from around the world.

The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 163,000 members, ACS is the world’s largest scientific society and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio.

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