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Luis Colon

UB @ Buffalo

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Mary McCourt

D'Youville College

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Nancy Gleason

Canisius College

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Andrew Poss

Allied-Signal

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ELECTION 2000

UPCOMING EVENTS

EDUCATION NIGHT

MAY 2, 2000

SCHOELLKOPF AWARD

JUNE 6, 2000

EDITORIAL

At last the vernal equinox has passed, and we can look forward to the summer solstice. Nominations for the Distinguished High School Science Teacher of the Year Award have undergone review and evaluation for the Education Night dinner on May 2, 2000 in the West Wing of the Student Center. The nominees are very impressive in their qualifications, talent, hard work and dedication to nurturing their students. The judges had a difficult choice to make!

June brings the Schoellkopf award and the end of another season of WNY ACS dinner meetings. Election of officers for the local section are pending; see their biographies in this issue.

We will have two editions of the Double Bond this month; in the second issue we will have another election ballot for the upcoming terms for officers.

Any local member who wishes to contribute an article or item of interest please contact either the editor or assistant editor. Your suggestions are welcome! This is your section, so get involved!

LOCAL SECTION CAREER PROGRAM:

WE'RE LOOKING FOR YOU

Are you looking for a way to increase the participation of your local section members? DO you wonder what career assistance is available from national ACS? Your opportunity awaits. The Local Section Career program is here to help you bring these valuable career resources to your section. These coordinators assist local sections to provide ACS members with information and tools for the development, ennancement, and management of their careers. To date 110 local sections have developed and organized the following programs:

Your section can get started by identifying a local volunteer to become a coordinator. All new coordinators attend weekend workshops held in Washington, D. C. The workshop will provide information on all the career resources available from ACS.

DON'T WAIT- register a coordinator for your local section today! For more information, please contact Judith Jankowski, Career Services, 800-227-5658, ext. 6211 or

CHAIR ELECT

Dr. Mary McCourt received her Ph.D. in 1988 in theoretical/computational chemistry from SUNYAB. From there she had a post doc at RPCI with Dr. Robert Rein where she continued her computational studies but applied them to biological systems. In 1989, Dr. McCourt joined the staff of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute and in 1994 also became an assistant professor of Chemistry at D'Youville College and in 1999 she joined the Chemistry faculty at Niagara University. Dr. McCourt has also been secretary for the ACS for the past two years. Dr. McCourt's research interests include the study of the structural parameters responsible for the stabilization of multi-component solids as well as the theoretical development of methods for determining protein structures using electron diffraction data. Recently she started work on projects involving the computational modeling of drugs involved in breast cancer treatment. Dr. McCourt is married and has two children and resides in Snyder, New York. She and her husband are avid collectors of early American primitives and folk art.

VICE CHAIR

Dr. Curt Mancuso is currently Business Development Specialist at Life Technologies, a leading supplier to academic researchers and the biotechnology industry. From 1992-96 he scaled up synthetic organic processes for pharmaceutical active ingredients as a Senior development Chemist and interim Manager of Process Development at Hoechst Celanese in Rhode Island. From 1990-1992 Curt performed research on heterogeneous catalysts for the production of ethylene oxide as a Senior Chemist for Union Carbide in Charleston, West Virginia. Curt has actively participated in several ACS local sections, most recently as Member-at-Large for Niagara Falls.

TREASURER

Dr. Andrew Poss is a Senior Project Leader at Honeywell International. He is currently the Treasurer for the WNY-ACS and is a candidate for re-election. Dr. Poss received his B.S.(1978) and Ph.D. (1984) in organic chemistry from the University of Rochester. He next joined the faculty of SUNY at Buffalo as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry where he pursued research on the chemistry and utility of vitamin C organic synthesis. Since 1989 Andy has been employed at Allied-Signal, now Honeywell, where he is technical leader for the FluoroSolutions group. He is also a lecturer in organic chemistry for Millard Fillmore College

MEMBER-AT-LARGE NIAGARA FALLS

Dr. Marcy Marino has resided in Niagara County most of her life. A graduate of Lewiston-Porter Senior High School, she attended SUNY Oswego, earning both her BS and MS in Chemistry. She moved to Chicago and worked as the senior chemist for the W. E. Long Bakery Foods Laboratory, performing nutritional analysis on bakery products before returning to school and earning a Doctor of Chiropractic degree from New York Chiropractic College. She is currently the laboratory supervisor for the Department of Chemistry and Physics at Niagara University.

MEMBER-AT-LARGE BUFFALO

Dr. Randy Leising is a Senior Project Scientist in the R&D Department at Wilson Greatbatch Ltd., where he has worked since 1991. He received his Ph.D. degree in inorganic chemistry from the University at Buffalo in 1989 under the direction of Professor Ken Takeuchi, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow from 1989 to 1991 in the bioinorganic labs of Professor Larry Que at the University of Minnesota. He presently conducts basic and applied research related to advanced batteries. Randy is also serving as the Secretary of the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier.

COUNCILOR

Dr. Peter Schaber is Chairman and Professor of Chemistry at Canisius College. He received his B.S. at Canisius in 1975 and his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1980, working part of that time at N.C. State University with his research professor. His post-doctorate was spent at Argonne National Laboratory under the direction of Dr. J. J. Katz where his research involved the investigation of chlorophyll reactivity and special pair synthesis. He has been an ACS member since 1975, a WNY-ACS member from 1975-79 and again from 1983 to present. Peter has served as Chair of the Young Chemist's and was also Chairman of the WNY Section in 1989. He currently serves as councilor for the WNY Section.

ACS FELLOWSHIPS: A SABBATICAL OR CAREER CHANGE OPPORTUNITY

Calling all chemists-Senior Professionals and Graduate Students-to apply for one of the two American Chemical Society Congressional Fellowships and a Science Policy Fellowship, available in fall 2001. Work in 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

THE 1999 AMERICAN

CHEMICAL SOCIETY DIRECTORY OF

GRADUATE RESEARCH JUST RELEASED

The Directory provides a wealth of information on faculty and their research programs in chemistry, chemical engineering, biochemistry, medicinal/pharmaceutical chemistry, clinical chemistry, polymer chemistry, food science, forensic science, marine science, toxicology, materials science, and environmental science in the U.S. and Canada. It lists faculty member biographical information, area of specialization, titles of all papers published within the last two years, individual telephone numbers, and FAX numbers. It also contains listings for 694 academic programs, 12,365 faculty members, and 88,637 publication citations. Published in odd-numbered years by the ACS Committee on Professional Training, the 1999 edition of the Directory contains current faculty Information for the 1999-2000 academic year. If you would like more Information on how to order a copy of the Directory, call the ACS Office of Society Services at (800) 227-5558.

Also available is DGRweb 1999! DGRweb is an easy-to-use, searchable database that contains all the information found in the ACS Directory of Graduate Research (DGR). DGRweb 1999 is a great resource to quickly find who is doing what type of research in chemistry and related disciplines. For more information or to order this product, please go to the DGRweb 1999 homepage at http://pubs.acs.org/dgrweb. A subscription to the 1999 edition of DGRweb includes access to the complete 1997 database.

IN MEMORIAM

Howard Tieckelmann, a long-time member and past Chairman of the WNY-ACS Section, died Saturday, March 4 after a short illness.

He was 83 and a long-time resident of Amherst. Born and raised in Chicago, Tieckelmann graduated from Carthage College in Illinois in 1942 and moved to Buffalo to begin his graduate studies in chemistry at UB. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and then returned to Buffalo, where he received his doctorate in chemistry from UB in 1948.

Tieckelmann became a full professor in 1961 and was the Chemistry Department chairman in the early 1970s.

Howard was extremely active in and very supportive of the local Section. We have lost a close friend and colleague. Rest in peace.

R.E.A.C.T.

Will meet on May 20, 2000 from 9:00am to 12:00pm at Canisius College, Horan O'Donnell Science Building. The presenter, Debbie Lazarski, was chosen by NASA last summer to take part in their nationally acclaimed workshops. Debbie will share her experiences and many of the activities which she brought back. We look forward to learning a great deal about space and air flight as well as coming away with new activities for our students.

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

SENIOR CHEMISTS

CANDIDATES FOR OFFICERS OF THE

ACS WESTERN NEW YORK SECTION

FOR THE YEAR 2000

Chair-Elect	Dr. Mary McCourt Niagara University	{ }
Vice Chair	Dr. Curt Mancuso Life Technologies	{ }
Treasurer	Dr. Andrew Poss Honeywell	{ }
Councilor	Dr. Peter Schaber Canisius College	{ }
Member-at-Large Niagara Falls	Dr. Marcy Marino Niagara University	{ }
Member-at-Large Buffalo	Dr. Randy Leising Wilson Greatbatch	{ }

Double Bond - April 2000

April 2000

1st Issue of April

Officers and Staff: