HISTORY
The American Chemical Society (NUS Student Chapter), or NUS ACSSC for short, was founded in 2014 by a group of chemistry undergraduates seeking a two-fold charge: To provide career guidance to fellow peers, as well as to promote chemistry as a choice of study to secondary and junior college students.
The founding executive committee comprised eight members, with one president, two vice-presidents, one secretary, one treasurer, two public relations officers and one programme director.
WHAT WE DO
NUS ACSSC Founders (From left): Amelia Loh (President), Megawati (Treasurer), Danielle Tan (Programmes Director), Tan Li Hong (Secretary), Kevin Lim (Vice-President), Albert Ong (PR Officer), Tan Yu Jia (PR Officer), Chris Fong (Vice-President)
We seek to offer career guidance to current Chemistry undergraduates by organizing events such as industrial visits, talks with professionals, and summer exchanges.
We also provide academic information to fellow peers through testimonials from club members on research and internship experiences, as well as reviews of interesting ACS papers.
We wish to promote Chemistry as a choice of study to secondary and JC students through running outreach events such as workshops and lessons.
OUR ORGANIZATION
Our chapter currently consists of three working subcommittees, together with the P-Cell (President, Vice President(s), Secretary, Treasurer):
Programmes
Programmes heads and executives conceptualise and execute events in one of three areas:
academic events such as enrichment (Chem Tools) and faculty engagements;
industry events covering site tours as well as on-campus chats with industry figures; and
workshops, making use of the Chemistry Department's laboratories under a 'Demonstration Interest Group'.
Publicity
The Publicity team manages all chapter socials and public relations. In addition, they engage in content creation to promote and share interesting aspects of Chemistry as applied in NUS and our lives.
Welfare
Welfare executives organize lighter gatherings while still retaining a chemistry link - such as mini-challenges, encouraging greater bonding among NUS ACSSC members while channeling their inner chemistry enthusiast.
This organization structure has been revised in 2025 to promote more autonomy within each subcommittee, allowing them to manage their own events and manpower, while receiving necessary support from the P-Cell.