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WASHINGTON, June 24, 2014 â€� The American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø (ACS) today named 10 semifinalists in its Chemistry Champions contest. The contest aims to find and train promising science communicators â€� perhaps even find the Carl Sagan of chemistry. Undergraduate, graduate, and early career chemists and chemical engineers entered the contest by submitting 2-3 minute videos describing their work and why they wanted to be the Chemistry Champion. The semifinalists were selected by a panel of 11 judges from 27 video applicants. 

The 10 semifinalists and their video titles are:

Jennifer Apell, graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “�

Geoff Dubrow, graduate student at the University of Minnesota, “�

Tien Nguyen, Ph.D., recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “�

Jennifer Novotney, graduate student at Cornell University, “�

Tierra Range, undergraduate student at Centenary College of Louisiana, “�

Ashlee Robison, undergraduate student at Fort Lewis College, “�

Alexis Shusterman, graduate student at the University of California at Berkeley, “�

Shane Stone, undergraduate student at Syracuse University, “�

Krista Wilson, Ph.D., assistant professor at Wingate University, “�

Shannon Woodruff, graduate student at Southern Methodist University, “�

The semifinalists will be flown to the ACS National Meeting in San Francisco for closed-door competition on August 9. Five finalists will then be selected to present their research to a live public audience in San Francisco on Sunday, August 10. For more details about the contest, visit . All eligible videos entered in the Chemistry Champions contest are available via the YouTube playlist .

The American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress. With more than 161,000 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.