The American Chemical Society's (ACS) Division of Computers and Chemistry (COMP) is pleased to announce the winners of the Chemical Computing Group Excellence Awards are for the Spring ACS Meeting to be held in San Diego, CA, from April 1-5, 2001.

In alphabetical order, the winners are:

Gregory W. Kauffman for the paper entitled "Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship Models for the Prediction of Selective Cyclooxygenase-2 Inhibition" Co-author of the paper is Peter C. Jurs. Mr. Kauffman is a graduate student in Peter Jurs' labs in the Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA.

Larry O. Lockwood, Jr. for the paper entitled "Comparison of Genetic Algorithm-Based Descriptor Selection Methods for QSAR". Co-authors of the paper are Mark J. Embrechts, Curt M. Breneman, and Kristin P. Bennett. Mr. Lockwood is a graduate student in Curt Breneman's labs in the Department of Chemistry, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

C. Matthew Sundling for his paper entitled "Advances in Electronic Property-encoded Molecular Shape Descriptors" Co-author of the paper is Curt M. Breneman. Mr. Sundling is a graduate student in Curt Breneman's labs in the Department of Chemistry, Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.

The CCG Excellence Awards have been created to stimulate graduate student participation in COMP Division activities (symposia and poster sessions) at ACS National Meetings. Winners will receive one-year licenses of CCG's MOE software for their research groups in addition to travel reimbursements. The Awards will each cover up to US $1,150 of the travel costs associated with attending an ACS National Meeting.

Awardees are chosen on the basis of the quality and significance of the research to be presented and the strength of the supporting materials.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the CCG Excellence Awards for the San Diego ACS Meeting!

March 2001