AASU Professor Elected Head of ACS Steering Committee

SAVANNAH, GA—December 11, 2003—Will Lynch, an associate professor of chemistry at Armstrong Atlantic State University, was elected to a three-year term as head of the Southeast Region Steering Committee of the American Chemical Society (ACS). The steering committee oversees the affairs of the southeast region of the ACS, including the annual meeting and over 1,000 presentations. Lynch will serve as the chair-elect in 2003-04, and will become chair in 2004-05.

Lynch has been a professor at Armstrong Atlantic for 10 years, and became an associate professor in 1998. He has worked with his colleagues on several papers in scientific journals. Lynch is very active within the ACS, and has worked within several committees and sections. Lynch received his Ph. D. in inorganic chemistry from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.