Katherine's ACS Service

 

Dr. Katherine Lee was the 2015 Chair of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS) and the 2018 Chair of the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry (ORGN). In 2019, she joined the ACS Board of Directors as the District I Director. Katherine serves as a member of the Board Standing Committee on Strategic Planning (SPC), for which she chairs the Communications Subcommittee; the Board Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR), within which she chairs the Technology Subcommittee; and is a member of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Respect (DEIR) Board Working Group.

Service in ACS national offices: Ex Officio Councilor/Board of Directors, 2019 to present; District I Director, 2019 to present; Member, Committees of the Board/Professional and Member Relations (P&MR), 2019 to present; Member (Nonvoting) Standing Committees of the Board/Strategic Planning (SPC), 2020-present; Chair of SPC Communications Subcommittee, 2021; Member, Board Working Group on Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Respect (DEIR), 2020; Member, DEIR Workshop Design Committee, 2021; Member, Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs, 2017-18, 2014, Committee Associate, 2013.

Service in ACS offices:  Northeastern Section: Board of Publications, Chair, 2020 to present and Member, 2016 to present; Councilor, 2016-18; 2012-14; Immediate Past Chair, 2016; Chair, 2015; Chair-Elect, 2014; Chair, Nominating Committee, 2021, 2016; Program Chair, 2014; NESACS Process Chemistry Symposium Committee, 2014-18; Host Local Section Committee, Chair, 2010.  Organic Chemistry Division: Chair, 2018; Chair-Elect, 2017; Member-at-Large, 2011-16; Technical Achievements in Organic Chemistry Award Committee, Chair, 2015, 2013; Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Committee, Co-Chair, 2016, 2012-13.