Double Bond - January 2000

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January 2000

Officers and Staff:

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No Meeting in January

Please Join us for our

February Meeting

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Editorial

Happy New Year to all WNY ACS Members! I hope the Y2K bug didn't bite you too badly. The December meeting was a resounding success. Dr. Bieron's presentation of material from his newly published “Classic Buffalo” book was thoroughly engrossing, and he made numerous sales of autographed copies. I bought three, two as gifts for others, one for me! If you are interested in the book, please contact Patty Shelley.

The beginning of a new year, new century, new millennium (unless you agree with Arthur C. Clarke, then that starts next year!) is a time to put together the pieces of our past hard work and share the results with our colleagues. This issue contains many “Calls for Papers” for upcoming ACS regional meetings, as well as requests for award nominations. At this time the Double Bond would like to extend the invitation to its readers to contribute brief articles that may be of interest to other members. Please submit by E-Mail to me (ZoeWolf@Whitesparrow.com) at least a month in advance.

If you would prefer to receive the Double Bond by hard copy rather than E-Mail or checking the website, please let Patty Shelley know.

The February meeting will be a workshop focusing on resume preparation, job searching, and career development, on Saturday, February 19. The March meeting will be in conjunction with the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier, on Thursday, March 23 (spring, already!). See inside for details. We hope to see you all there.

Editor

Joanna Christopher

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER

York at Oswego. At the national level, he was a member of the ACS project SEED (1986 - 1995) and the Committee on Professional Relations (1986 - 1994) where he chaired the subcommittee on Professional and Career Assistance (1991 - 1994). He has been an ACS Career Consultant since 1990. Currently he reviews resumes and offers career assistance at ACS National Meetings.

He received his B.S. from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland and pursued graduate studies in Analytical and Physical Chemistry at the University of Minnesota and at Michigan State University. He taught at St. Thomas College in St. Paul, Minnesota and had some brief industrial experience with DuPont. He has been at SUNY Oswego since 1964. He has also been active in his local ACS section, serving the Syracuse Section as Chairman (1974) and Councilor (1985 - 1994). He received the Syracuse Section Award in 1990.

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ABOUT THE TOPIC

Workshop Abstract

Workshop #1: “Conducting an Effective Job Search”

This presentation covers the major components of job searching: personal assessment, targeting the market (networking and resumes), and interviewing.

ACS Career Services publications will be available at no cost.

Workshop #2: “Individual Resume Review”

An opportunity to have your resume reviewed by an ACS Career Services Consultant The resume review will be held from 1:00 to 4:30 PM. Individual appointments are approximately 25 minutes. Bring a copy of you resume. A sign-up sheet will be available in the Natural Sciences Complex Lobby beginning at 8:15 AM on the day of the seminar.

Directions to UB, Natural Sciences Complex

From the I-90, take Exit 50 to the I-290 and exit at Millersport Highway North. Head North on Millersport Highway and take the Flint Road (SUNY - Buffalo) exit. Follow the ramp to the light and take a right onto Flint Rd. At the stop sign, take a left onto Augspurger Rd. At the stop sign, turn right onto Hadley Rd. Cooke lots A &B are on your right. You can park there free of charge. The Natural Sciences Complex is the light tan building with the green windows. From the Cooke lots you will enter the building through the main Lobby.

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In Memoriam

Raymond R. Hindersinn, a long time member of the Western New York American Chemical Society, died
Nov. 21, 1999.

After finishing his education, Mr. Hindersinn moved to Niagara Falls in 1955 and began working for Hooker Chemical Co., where he worked until 1981. He retired as a senior scientist polymer research chemist, during which time he worked and supervised in the field of electrochemicals, polymer research, polyurethane foams, polymer applications and valuations. After his retirement, he served as technical consultant for 12 years until 1993, traveling throughout the United States and abroad.

In 1982, he received the Jacob F. Schoellkopf Medal from the American Chemical Society, Western New York Section, in recognition of his work in fire retardant chemistry and his expertise in the area of plastics technology. His technological contributions include 50 U.S. and 107 foreign patents.



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R.E.A.C.T.


Next meeting date: January 29, 2000

Site: Horan O'Donnell Science Building, Room 015

Delores Miller, Stanys Chemistry DAL will present various activities that involve teaching chemistry and physics topics using toys and food! This workshop is sure to please.

If you are planning to attend, you must call Karen Arnold @ 884-5894 to reserve your spot.

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Award Nomination Deadline

This is a reminder that nominations for the ACS Regional Award in High School Chemistry Teaching are due. For more information or a nomination form, contact Cheryl Brown, Program Manager, 800/227-5558 ext. 6022 or e-mail: c_brown@acs.org.

This is your chance to recognize that special high school teacher that has dedicated themself to introducing and inspiring students to a career in chemistry.



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ACS Fellowships:

A Sabbatical or Career Change Opportunity:

Calling all Chemists

Senior Professionals and Graduate Students are requested to apply for one of the two American Chemical Society Congressional Fellowships and a Science Policy Fellowship. Work in the Congress or ACS using your scientific and technical expertise. Gain first-hand knowledge of the government and contribute to decision-making. For a brochure contact: ACS Office of Society Services, 1155 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: 1-800-227-5558, E-mail: help@acs.org; Information on the Internet: http://www.acs.org/government

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Budget Tips

WITH NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET CYCLE LOOMING, smart managers can plan now to make the most of their meeting dollar. Based on her perspective in managing conferences at nonprofit rates for corporate, government and academic groups, General Manager Anne Johnson offers Belmont Conference Center's bottom-line tips for meeting budgets. Get first hand advice on how 1) to justify a face-to-face meeting in a virtual world; 2) off-site meetings can help you stay on budget; and 3) the role of dedicated conference site coordinators ensures meeting success. (To arrange interviews and get details on these and other budget planning tips, contact Kathleen Milanich at 202-872-4493.)

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ACS Spring 2000 Regional Meetings Call for Papers

The five ACS regional meetings scheduled for spring, 2000 have issued calls for papers. All persons interested in submitting papers in any field of chemistry to any or all of the meetings listed below are urged to do so. Abstracts should be submitted to each meeting according to its specific instructions found below. If the standard ACS abstract form is needed, it may be accessed at http://www.acs.org/meetings/abstract/abinfo.html or by calling the ACS Office of Society Services at 1-800-277-5558. Graduate students and research associates are urged to participate. For further information on regional meetings please call the ACS Office of Regional Meetings at 1-800-227-5558, ext. 6129.

The 33rd Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting (MARM) will be held at the Clayton Hall Conference Center at the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware, May 15-17, 2000. The programming theme for this meeting will be “Accelerating Drug Discovery and Development” with a plenary session featuring lectures by Paul Anderson (DuPont Pharmaceuticals), Jan Lundberg (AstraZeneca), and Chris Cimarusti (Bristol-Myers Squibb). Symposia and general sessions are planned for the following areas of chemistry: organic medicinal, bioscience, analytical, inorganic, physical, polymer, agrochemical, and computational. A full listing of symposia along with invited speakers appears on our website at http://www.dca.net/mann2000/. Abstracts on a standard ACS form should be submitted to the Program Chair, MARM 2000, Dr. David K. Lloyd, DuPont Pharmaceuticals Co., PO Box 80353, Wilmington, DE 19880-0353, by February 18, with preference for oral or poster presentation indicated along with instructions in the event that preference cannot be accommodated.

The 32nd Central Regional Meeting, hosted by the Cincinnati Section, will be held at the Northern Kentucky Convention Center in Covington, Kentucky (the southern side of Cincinnati), May 16-19. The meeting will feature 48 planned symposia, as well as several general lecture and poster sessions (including one for undergraduate posters) for which contributions are solicited. The Central Region will present four industrial innovation awards (in the areas of polymers, pharmaceuticals, environmental chemistry, and chemical engineering) and one high school chemistry teaching award at a special awards symposium and luncheon.The topics covered in the planned symposia include chemical sensors, chemistry and the law, chemistry you can drink: beer demystified, computer modeling of polymers and liquid crystals, dendritic and hyperbranched macromolecules, diversity: the catalyst for success, free radicals in biological systems, green processes, high school chemistry teaching, new materials, NMR studies in structural biology, organic synthesis and new synthetic methodology, pharmaceutical analysis, structure based drug design, theoretical chemistry of solids and fluids, and zeolites and catalysis. Abstracts are due January 31. Electronic submission is preferred using the form and following the instruction posted on the meeting's Web site: http://www.cmacs2000.org. Abstracts should be sent to the meeting administrator, Karen Grandz, phone (513) 622-4655, e-mail granitz.k@pg.com. If necessary, a hard copy of the completed abstract form may be sent to Ms. Granitz at Procter & Gamble Health Care Research Center, Room CF3-2E3, Mailbox #31, 8700 Mason-Montgomery Road, Mason, OH 45040.

The 29th Northeast ACS Regional Meeting, hosted by the Connecticut Valley Section will be held at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, June 18-21, 2000. The meeting will feature a number of topical symposia, general sessions, an undergraduate research poster session, and a graduate student employment workshop. Symposia are planned on drug design and synthesis, bioelectrochemistry, teaching chemistry with molecular modeling, nanoscale materials and devices, computational quantum chemistry, spectroscopy of ions, radicals, complexes and multi-conformational molecules, bio-organic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, synthetic organic chemistry, advances in materials chemistry, inorganic polymers, minority graduate student recruiting and retention in the sciences, and chemical education. Both oral and poster submissions will be accepted. Abstracts are due (preferably as Microsoft Word attachments to an e-mail message) by March 15, 2000 to Albert J. Fry, Department of Chemistry, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 06459; phone (860) 685-2622; fax (860) 685-2211; email: afry@wesleyan.edu; Intenet web site for the meeting: http://vm.uconn.edu/~NERM2000/.

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Nominations Requested for the National Inventors

Hall of Fame

All ACS members are invited by the Society's Committee on Patents and Related Matters(CP&RM) to make suggestions to the Committee on possible candidates for induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. The inventor is not required to be a U.S. citizen, but the invention upon which the nomination is based must be covered by a U.S. patent. The invention must have contributed greatly to the national welfare and significantly promoted progress in science and the useful arts. Nomination documents can be obtained via the Internet at http:lfinvent.org/book/nomination.html, by email ay d_fillinich@acs.org, or write to Debbie Fillinich, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036. Nominations for the year 2000 will be accepted until February 1, 2000.

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Suggest Nominees for the National Medal of Technology

All ACS members are invited by the Committee on Patents and Related Matters (CP&RM) to suggest possible candidates for nomination for the National Technology Medal. Funded by the United States Department of Commerce and established by the Stevenson-Wydler Innovation Act of 1980, the medal is awarded annually by the President along with the National Medal of Science. The National Medal of Technology may be awarded to individuals, groups, companies, or institutions within the United States for outstanding contributions to technology or for the promotion of the technological workforce. For further information and nomination materials search http://www.ta.doc.gov/medal, email d_fillinich@acs.org, or write to Debbie Fillinich, American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, NW, Washington, DC, 20036. Nomination documents can be sent to the CP&RM staff liaison, Debbie Fillinich, at the above address by February 1, 2000. CP&RM will consider nominations for the 2000 award during the March 2000 ACS national meeting in San Francisco, CA.

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Senior Chemists

If you would be interested in serving as a co-chairman of the

Senior Chemists please contact

Dr. Joseph F. Bieron @ 888-2357

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The March meeting of the WNY ACS will be in participation with the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier.

Please contact Patty Shelley at Canisius College, Chemistry Department, 716-888-2340 by March 15, 2000. You may send a check made out to WNY ACS by the 15th or you may pay at the door.

We hope to see you there.

The Technical Societies Council

of the Niagara Frontier

3200 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo, NY 14217

(716) 873-4455

Date: March 23, 2000

Featured Speaker: Hon. Anthony Masiello, Mayor of Buffalo

Topic: City of Buffalo:

An Environmental Perspective

Time: 5:30 - 6:30 Cocktail Hour.
Dinner @ 6:30 pm

Location: Rich Renaissance Atrium
(One West Ferry St., Buffalo)

Cost: $25/person (Includes dinner
choices of prime rib, salmon or chicken portofino;
(two complimentary cocktails)

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Mentors Needed

Mentors are sought to help entrants in the 1999 Internet Science and Technology Fair.

The University of Central Florida, in coordination with the National Medal of Technology Program, is host for a virtual science fair that will expand opportunities for students to participate nationally in real world science projects. The “Internet Science and Technology Fair” (ISTF) will enable teams of students and their teachers to explore Internet Information resources, collaborate via email with scientists and engineers, and based on their findings, to develop “Project Homepages”.

Their projects focus on National Critical Technologies vital to our nation's economy and security. The NCT categories include technical applications in energy, environment, information and communication, health, manufacturing, materials and transportation.

Technical advisors correspond with student teams once or twice a week via e-mail regarding the development of their project homepages. This correspondence may include questions about sites were teams can locate useful information on the Internet or requests for suggestions on whether the team is technically focused and working in the right direction. Your assistance is an investment in recruiting future professionals, which in turn would work to keep our nation a “technology user and leader.” Please visit our website at: http:/fistf.ucf.edu/How/Step_by_Step_=Guide/Technical_Advisor/ for additional details about participating as a technical advisor.

Here is a concept paper from a team that needs a technical advisor.

Team 99052: The conversion of animal waste to energy would affect the future of science, education, society and the environment. The farming industry would benefit by selling their animal litter to waste conversion plants that would convert the waste into fuel by placing it on large screens and allowing fans to dry the waste. This would convert it to a burnable fuel for power plants. This processing of the animal litter to a fuel and then to energy would require the building of waste conversion plants which would provide more employment opportunities, a reduction of possible water contamination, and a cheap fuel source, which in turn would lower energy cost. All of these factors would lead to an overall improvement of the environment.

Mentors are needed to assist students by responding to their e-mails and providing technical guidance for the next three months. They will ultimately create a Project Homepage that will be judged from February through March. The Intenet Science and Technology Fair is housed in the Office of Special Projects within the College of Engineering at the University of Central Florida. The e-mail address that interested parties would contact is: bfurino@mail.ucf.edu

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ACS Scholars Program

The application period for the ACS Scholars Program for the 2000-2001 academic year has begun, and the application package is available on the web at

www.acs.org/minorityaffairs/scholars.html

or through this office.

Postmark deadline for submission - February 15, 2000.

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Thank You NCW Volunteers

The Office of Community Activities would like to thank the 1999 National Chemistry Week Coordinators for a tremendously successful National Chemistry Week celebration held November 7-13, 1999.

We appreciate your enthusiastic efforts and valuable contributions that were displayed within your local sections.

The Office of Community Activities looks forward to working with you throughout the remainder of the year and in planning for an even larger National Chemistry Week celebration in 2000!

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Your Source for ACS Membership Information

The Council Committee on Membership Affairs (MAC) is responsible for coordinating Society membership activities. To provide ACS members with a single place where they can find information about ACS membership and its benefits, the Committee has established a web site at http://membership.acs.org/WMAC/. There you will find information about MAC activities and issues, work in progress, a committee roster (including contact information), and a “Talkback to MAC!” page, where you can provide direct feedback to MAC concerning membership issues that are under consideration or that ought to be under consideration. MAC welcomes your comments!

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