Dr. Ingrid Montes, Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research of the College of Natural Sciences and professor of chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, San Juan, has been re-elected director-at-large of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society. She will begin her second three-year term on January 1, 2016.
Her many years of service to the ACS have included positions at the national and local levels, such as member of the ACS Committee on Education; chair of the Committee on Community Activities; editorial advisory board member for the Journal of Chemical Education and ChemMatters magazine; and chair, councilor and National Chemistry Week coordinator for the Puerto Rico Section of the ACS. As the founder of the new approved program "Festival Series," and her support to the implementation of webinars in Spanish, she has been an international networking facilitator.
Montes graduated from the University of Puerto Rico with a B.S. in 1980 and a Ph.D. in 1985. She has been on the faculty there since 1987.
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