National Offices

  • Chair, National Awards Advisory Board, National ACS (November 2018-October 2021)
  • Director, District IV, ACS Board of Directors (2012-2019)
  • Hildebrandt Award Canvassing Committee, 2002-04.
  • See Committee and service work here!
Hernandez with the ACS BOD in 2016.

Lectures and Symposium at Regional and National Meetings of the ACS.

  1. Invited Lecture, Sustainable nanoparticles through spiral feedback between computation and experiment, Symposium on Experimental and Computational Analysis of the Nano-Bio Interface for Sustainable Nanotechnology, Pacifichem 2020, (Virtual) Honolulu, HI 12/16/21
  2. Invited Lecture, A Cuban Campesino in Chemistrys Academic Court, at CMA Symposium on “How to Foster Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Chemical Sciences: Lessons Learned and Taught from the Stories of Recipients of the Stanley C. Israel Award,” at SERMACS 2021, Birmingham, AL, 11/03/21.
  3. Co-Organized CMA Symposium on Reimagining Diversity & Equity in honor of Robert Lichter, ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA, Fall 2021.
  4. Invited Lecture, Microscale Models, Macroscale Impacts, United States National Chemistry Olympiad (USNCO) Study Camp, 6/3/21 by Lily Raines, Office of Science Outreach, American Chemical Society
  5. Invited Lecture, A day in my life: Advancing nanoparticle models, and making macroscale impacts, A Day in the Life Lecture, Undergraduate Programming Advisory Board Cosponsored by the ACS Society, Committee on Education, ACS Virtual Spring Meeting, 4/9/21
  6. Invited Lecture, Managing Diversity Equity and Inclusive Excellence, Division of Chemical Education, ACS Virtual Spring Meeting, 4/6/21
  7. Invited Lecture, Advancing inclusive excellence in academic chemistry departments from the top down through a discipline-based evidenced-based approach, Symposium on Assessing Chemistry Outreach, Division of Chemical Information (CINF), ACS Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, 4/2/19
  8. Invited Lecture, “Leadership & Inclusive Excellence in STEM: Impact of Teacher-Scholars on Diversity One top-down evidenced-based approach to inclusive excellence in chemistry departments,” Symposium on Leadership & Inclusive Excellence in STEM: Impact of Teacher-Scholars on Diversity One top-down evidenced-based approach to inclusive excellence in chemistry departments, Presidential Symposium in the Division of Professional Relations (PROF), ACS Spring Meeting, Orlando, FL, 3/31/19
  9. PANELIST AND INVITED LECTURES AT SERMACS 2018, AUGUST, GA IN DIVERSITY IN THE CHEMICAL ENTERPRISE SYMPOSIA
  10. Co-Organized CMA Symposium on Social and Chemical Science of Diversity Equity, Committee on Minority Affairs, ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, MA, Fall 2016.
  11. INVITED LECTURE AT PRESIDENTAIL SYMPOSIUM, “DEMOGRAPHICS OF RESEARCH-ACTIVE CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTS,”  ACS NATIONAL MEETING, SAN DIEGO, CA, SPRING 2016.
  12. INVITED LECTURE AT CHE SYMPOSIUM HONORING CATHERINE MIDDLECAMP, “DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS: MENTORS COME IN MANY SHAPES AND NOTES,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, DENVER, CO, SPRING 2015
  13. INVITED LECTURE AT CMA SYMPOSIUM, “ENCOURAGING DISADVANTAGED STUDENTS INTO CAREERS IN THE CHEMICAL SCIENCES: SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF RIGOBERTO HERNANDEZ,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, FALL 2014
  14. KEYNOTE SPEAKER, CMA LUNCHEON, ACS NATIONAL MEETING, DALLAS, TX, SPRING 2014
  15. INVITED LECTURE AT DIVERSITY & INCLUSION SYMPOSIUM, “TOP-DOWN APPROACH FOR DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENTS,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, FALL 2013
  16. ACS COMMISSION ON GRADUATE EDUCATION, INVITED PARTICIPANT, 2012
  17. INVITED LECTURE AT ACS PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM, “CHEMISTRY’S CHANGING FACE: INCREASED DIVERSITY CORRELATES WITH EXCELLENCE,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, SPRING 2011
  18. INVITED LECTURE AT ACS PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM, “DIVERSITY EQUITY IS A FIGURE OF MERIT,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, FALL 2010
  19. INVITED LECTURE AT ACS PRESIDENTIAL SYMPOSIUM, “INCREASING DIVERSITY IN THE ACADEMIC CHEMISTRY PIPELINE, A LIFE-CYCLE ANALYSIS,” ACS NATIONAL MEETING, FALL 2009  
  20. CONGRESSIONAL VISITS DAY, 2004
  21. BOARD COMMITTEE ON “MINORITIES IN ACADEME IMPLEMENTATION TEAM,” 2003-04
  22. SYMPOSIUM ON FEDERAL SCIENCE, EDUCATION AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY, SERMACS, ORGANIZER, 2003
  23. SYMPOSIUM ON NONEQUILIBRUM STATISTICAL MECHANICS FOR COMPLEX MATERIALS, SERMACS, ORGANIZER, 2003 
  24. PEER REVIEWER FOR ACS JOURNALS, 1996-PRESENT.