ACS Board of Directors’ actions and discussions from August executive session

The American Chemical Society Board of Directors met in an executive session Aug. 16 and 17, before the official start of the ACS Fall 2024 meeting in Denver. The board took several actions and discussed a number of items of strategic importance. These actions are separate from the ACS Council actions that were voted on by the council on the morning of Aug. 21. Detailed information on both meetings is available online . Actions taken by the ACS Board The Arthur C. Cope Fund will now support a 2-year postdoctoral fellowship program for PhD candidates or postdoctoral researchers within their first 2 years of pursuing postdoctoral research in organic chemistry. Looking to future national ACS meetings, the board decided to move the ACS Spring 2028 meeting from March 5–8 in San Diego to March 19–23 in Houston and the ACS Fall 2029 meeting from Boston to Los Angeles, Aug. 19–23.