The Early Career Chemistry Education Scholars (ECCES) are a committee dedicated to the recruitment and networking of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early faculty members (pre-tenure if on tenure track) in chemistry education research. This population is vital to the long-term goals of chemistry education research, and we hope will be the future leaders and contributors to DivCHED.
Since we last met, this committee organized the Graduate Student Research symposia hosting 16 graduate students to present their research at the ACS Spring meeting in Indianapolis.
Our committee is actively planning networking and professional development activities for Spring ACS 2024 in New Orleans and BCCE 2024 in Lexington, KY. These events include organizing our usual graduate student research symposia at both conferences and a networking social event at the BCCE. We are planning to expand our events to revive previously held events such as recruiting undergraduates to CER at ACS as well as professional development activities to support scholars entering the job market. Finally, our committee is considering how we will preserve historical committee knowledge and onboard new committee members as we experience a large turnover in our committee in the coming year. This will be discussed in Fall 2023 and into Spring 2024.