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| Chair Mary McCourt Niagara University 286-8257 |
Chair-Elect Curt Mancuso Life Technologies 774-6618 cmancuso@lifetech.com |
| Vice-Chair | Acting Secretary Mary O'Sullivan Canisius College 888-2352 osulliv1@canisius.edu |
| Treasurer Andrew Poss Allied-Signal 827-6268 |
Double Bond Staff:
Editor and Publisher Business Manager Joanna Christopher West Valley Nuclear Services ZoeWolf@Whitesparrow.com |
| Assistant Editor Patty Shelley Canisius College 888-2341 FAX 888-3112 shelleyp@canisius.edu |
| Topic: | WNY Consolidation Initiatives: A Progress Report |
| Speaker: | Joel Giambra, Erie County Executive |
| Date: | Thursday, March 22, 2001 |
| Place: | Harry's Harbour Place 2192 Niagara St – Buffalo |
| Dinner: | 5:30 – 6:30 Cocktail Hour. Dinner @ 6:30 pm $25/person (Includes three dinner choices and complimentary wine with dinner) 7:00 PM |
| Reservations: | Please call Patrick Martin at 856-0599 and tell him you are a member of the WNYACS |
The January meeting of the local section of the ACS was a great success. Our guest speaker, Albert Einstein (a.k.a. Ron Palmer), held the audience spellbound as he spoke of his dilemma; was he good, or was he evil? What if he had known that Germany would never develop an atomic weapon? What if they had and the United States had not? He spoke of his friendship with Marie Curie and her insistence that her precious radium could do nothing but good. It didn't cause cancer (“radium jaw”); it cured it! He spoke of his seemingly incongruous friendship with Fritz Haber, the inventor of Zyklon B, who, although Jewish, thought that Hitler would spare him because of his years of loyal service. Ron was totally in character, complete with long, somewhat disheveled (purposely!) hair and German accent. Thanks to all those members and spouses who braved the January snows to attend! The November 2000 meeting featured Dr. Robert Baier, Director of the Industry University Center for Biosurfaces, or IUCB, speaking about Disinfecting Air with Titanium Dioxide. Dr. Baier graphically described the multiplicity of microorganisms that live, breed, and wait in dormancy for an appropriate host within the ventilation systems of buildings. It almost made me want to hold my breath! He described experiments performed in the atmospheric chamber at the Ashford complex using controlled relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, and solar illumination. A bioaerosol generator was used to distribute respirable droplets containing microbes into the chamber at a controlled rate, then a smog was formed. When titanium dioxide was aerosolized into the chamber and UVA was applied, the microbes were killed and the smog-forming potential was diminished. This could have important applications in decontamination of areas subjected to biological warfare agents. The Ashford Facility is entirely owned by Western New Yorkers, through the consortium made up of SUNYAB, Veridian (CUBRC), and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute. It can be used for a variety of complex atmospheric experiments. Thanks to Dr. Baier for his fascinating description of some of his work on the night before his trip to Sweden. I know he only scratched the surface, yet I couldn't take notes fast enough!
The February meeting was career day at UB on Saturday, February 3. The next meeting will be a joint meeting with the Technical Societies Council of the Niagara Frontier, on Thursday, March 22, 2001.
Editor
Joanna Christopher
This notice is a friendly reminder that planning for the Technical Society Council (TSC) 2001 Joint Meeting for the benefit of all member societies is well under way. The meeting is an excellent opportunity for your members to be exposed to, and interact with, a wide variety of individuals sharing common technical interests and issues. Our 2000 meeting attracted over 130 individuals from 12 different societies – help us to build on that success and consider participation of your society in this event!
Planning for the meeting is well under way details are set: check the top section of this publication.
Contact Karen Arnold @ 883-0716
Next meeting scheduled for Saturday March 31, 2001
at
Canisius College, Horan-O'Donnell, Rm 015
The Women Chemists Committee of the American Chemical Society has established an award designed to recognize a woman from a two-year or four-year institution for her efforts in overcoming hardship to achieve success in chemistry. The award consists of a plaque, a monetary award of $250, and up to $500 in travel expenses to the fall ACS national meeting. The recipient will be recognized at the WCC Luncheon on Tuesday afternoon at that meeting.
Criteria:
Awardee must be a woman currently enrolled in a two-year chemistry-related program or pursuing a major or minor in a four-year chemistry program in a school not granting a doctoral in chemistry. The awardee must have completed one semester of college level chemistry.
Applicants must demonstrate that they have overcome hardships (economic, personal, or academic) in pursuit of their education in order to be considered for the award.
The jury will consider 4 categories: improvement, initiative, successes, and grades from the previous two semesters (not cumulative grade point average).
Award Administration:
Nominees must submit a letter requesting the award, one letter of recommendation, and school transcripts. The request should contain nominee name, address, telephone number, and email address as well as explain the hardships the student has overcome and her current successes.
Submissions should be sent to: Women Chemists Committee, American Chemical Society, 1155 16th Street, NW, Washington DC 20036.
Nominations must be received by May 1, 2001. The award will be presented at the fall ACS National Meeting in Chicago, IL, at the Women Chemists Luncheon on Tuesday, August 28, 2001.
Publication Date (1st Friday) Deadline (1st of
Prev.Month)
June 1, 2001 Summer Edition July 27, 2001 |
May 1, 2001 June 29, 2001 |
A day long seminar featuring practical environmental compliance strategies from industry, new program initiatives from regulators, and technical updates by environmental professionals.
Mark your Calendar for:
April 4, 2001
Grand Island Holiday Inn
More information/registration material to follow. Look
for further information in your mail or call Patrick T. Martin at
(716) 856-0599
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Ronald Coan – Executive Director Erie County Industrial
Development Agency
Scheduled Speakers include:
John Higgins, NYSDEC Director, Bureau of Stationary Sources
Richard Stanton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Environmental
Affairs, City of Buffalo
Limited Exhibition Space/ Sponsor Opportunities Remain
Contact Al Carlacci at 851-7130 for Exhibitor Information
Conceived with a deep sense of history, the American Chemical Society has made each 25-year period an occasion for commemoration, dedication, and celebration. The next milestone is here — the 125th anniversary of the Society in 2001. The Secretary of the Society has begun the coordination of a Society-wide celebration that will provide our members the opportunity to express continued pride in their Society and its many accomplishments. It is an opportunity to demonstrate to the general public the long-standing importance of the chemical sciences to the quality of life and the central role of the ACS in the advancement of the chemical sciences. Several projects have been planned, and will involve the Society at all levels — local section, divisional, and regional meeting activities; presidential events at national meetings; special features in ACS publications; a history book; traveling and on-line exhibits; and other membership activities. For more information: ACS 125th Anniversary, Room O-1009, 1155 16th St. NW, Washington, DC 20036. Phone: (800) 227-5558, extension 6070 ; fax: (202) 872-6338; e-mail: 125@acs.org
The 34th Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society will be held May 30-June 1, 2001 at the University Union, Towson University, Baltimore County, Maryland.
Major Symposia are: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy I & II: Applications in Biochemistry (Michael Summers, Organizer), Mass Spectrometry: I Environmental and Bioagent Analysis & II Biological Research and Medical Diagnostics (Robert Cotter, Organizer), Lead Poisoning: A Technical and Societal Challenge (Trevor Delves, Plenary Lecturer).
Other sessions will feature invited and contributed presentations in: medicinal chemistry, chemical education, patents, diversity, environmental sensing, biochemistry, flavor research, nanofunctional materials, chemical defense, consumer chemistry, forensic chemistry, analytical chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, chemical catalysis, combinatorial chemistry, physical chemistry, and polymer chemistry.
For more information on the MARM 2001 program and details on submitting an abstract for an oral or poster presentation visit the MARM 2001 website:
http://www.towson.edu/chemistry/marm2001/
The American Chemical Society Scholars Program is now accepting applications for the 2001-2002 academic year. The deadline is February 15, 2002. For application packages and more information call 1-800-227-5558, ext. 6250, or e-mail to scholars@acs.org.
Mentors Needed: The American Chemical Society Scholars Program provides more than a stipend check to those students selected to receive the scholarship. We work to identify mentors for each of the students in the program. The program currently includes 284 students, attending 160 different colleges and universities and will expand to 350 students for the 2001-2002 academic year. If you are interested in becoming a mentor for one of our students, please contact the ACS Scholars Program, Department of Diversity Programs, 1155 16th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or telephone toll-free 1-800-227-5558, ext. 6250, or send an e-mail message to scholars@acs.org.
Through a training session held by the national ACS in late April, our local section has gained some resources regarding career beginnings (for our recent graduates), career development, and career transition. National ACS has provided us with literature on resume building, targeting the job market, and interviewing, as well as several web sites which frequently post scientific employment opportunities. They also have developed several programs which could be of interest to our section, including:
• Employment Outlook, Marketability, and Job Security
• Nine Steps for Career Success
• Strategies for Job & Career Transitions
• Employment in Small Chemical Companies
• Global Employment
• Employment for Foreign-Born Chemists
• Electronic Job Searching
• “Tell it Well” and “Write it Well”,
two seminars on
effective technical communication
If you have interest in any of the above mentioned literature please contact me. Also, if you have suggestions regarding the type of programming that you would find beneficial, please let me know! We would like to provide programs that are helpful and informative to our members.
Contact Kim Reynolds e-mail: kjr@acsu.buffa1o.edu
or Patty at Canisius, phone: 888-2340 or
e-mail shelleyp@canisius.edu
Electronic Information
If you are sometimes confused by the increasing number of choices for electronic information services, there's help on the CAS web site!
Directly accessible at http://www.cas.org/products/finder/index.html, the Product Finder presents a few simple choices to specify your occupations and interest in information. Then just click a button to see a listing of CAS or STN International services that may fit your information needs. You can try out the Product Finder at no charge.
The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) and the ACS Division of Organic Chemistry are jointly sponsoring a symposium at the ACS Spring National Meeting in San Diego, CA, that will highlight significant research by female synthetic organic chemists. The overall theme of the symposium will focus on women chemists' contributions to the field of organic synthesis. The session is in direct response to a series of letters to the editor of Chemical & Engineering News and other sources expressing concern that very few women are doing organic synthesis. The symposium will showcase the work of academic, government, and industrial women chemists and their contributions in the field. Speakers range from established scientists to newcomers.
Other WCC sponsored events include symposia, “A Vision of the Future”, highlighting personal views of the future, what changes can be expected, and how one might make the changes happen. Featured speakers include ACS President Daryle Busch and past ACS presidents Paul H. L. Walter and Helen Free. The ACS Younger Chemists Committee is a co-sponsor of this event; “Women in the Chemical Workforce”, which will focus on the current status of, and barriers faced by, women chemists working in industry, academia, and government; the session will also discuss possible recourse they can take; and “Innovative Approaches to Encouraging Women in the Chemical Sciences”; an award symposium honoring Christina Bodurow, the 2001 recipient of the ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences.
Additional symposia cosponsored by WCC are “ChemCensus 2000: Chemists in the New Millennium”; and “Chemistry Career Changes – Planned and Unplanned”.
These WCC activities are in addition to the Women in Industry Breakfast and the Women Chemists Luncheon. The keynote speaker for the luncheon is Susan Taylor, recipient of the 2001 Garvan-Olin Medal. Times and locations of all scheduled events for the San Diego National Meeting will be published in the final program on March 5, 2001.
If you would be interested in serving as a co-chairman of the
Senior Chemists please contact
Dr. Joseph F. Bieron @ 888-2357
http://www.acs.org/ncw/
1-800-227-5558, ext. 6097
The Salutes to Excellence, a program of the ACS Office of Community Activities, offers your local section a chance to honor people, places, and products of chemistry that have made an impact in your area. The program offers local sections a special way of saying “thank you” from ACS to local industries, colleges and universities, and individuals for their contributions to the profession.
By bringing this program to your section, you have the
opportunity to:
¤ Build awareness of the
importance and relevance of chemistry in your community;
¤ Engage every aspect of the
chemical community - industry, academia, government;
¤ Attract new members and
new volunteers;
¤ Provide media opportunity
for ACS sponsors and honorees.
It's simple to participate:
¤ Choose a person, place, or
product to honor. You may choose any achievement that
you wish but the
special focus through 2001 is Chemical Engineering.
¤ Contact the Office of
Community Activities to share your plans.
¤ Plan your celebration that
will include the presentation of a plaque furnished by ACS!
Contact the Office of Community Activities now for more information, www.acs.org/oca or call 1-800-227-5558 ext. 6078 or email oca@acs.org
For further information, contact: |
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The Eastern Analytical Symposium announces the winners of the 2001 EAS awards. The awards will be presented during our annual meeting to be held September 30 through October 4, 2001 at the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Eastern Analytical Symposium Award
for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical
Chemistry
Milos Novotny
University of Indiana
Eastern Analytical Symposium Award
for Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy
Yukihiro Ozaki
University of Kwansei Gakun
Japan
Eastern Analytical Symposium Award
for Achievements in Separation Science
Sponsored by Waters Corporation
Georges Guiochon
University of Tennessee
Eastern Analytical Symposium Award
for Achievements in Magnetic Resonance
Ray Freeman
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, England
Galactic Industries Award
for Achievements in Chemometrics, Presented by EAS
Barry Wise
Eigenvector Inc.
Reston, WA
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
AMERICAN MICROCHEMICAL SOC
CHROMATOGRAPHY FORUM
of the
DELAWARE VALLEY
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
New York Section - North Jersey Section
SOCIETY FOR APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY
Delaware Valley Section - New York Section - New England Section
NEW YORK MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY
DIVISION ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
of the
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
The Career Counseling Workshop held on February 3 at the University at Buffalo was once again a successful event. Its coordinators, Jennifer Herrmann, Glamarie Burgos and Kimberly Reynolds would like to thank the sponsors of this event; the ACS of Western New York, and the University at Buffalo organizations, Graduate Student Association and Graduate Chemistry Club. The Morning Session given by Drs. Ray O'Donnell and Richard Bretz was attended by 40 people. This session was very informative for those preparing for career changes. For the first time the Workshop included a discussion panel entitled “The Hiring Process: Views for Industry and Academia,” which was attended by 30 people. The panel included Drs. Jim Atwood from the University at Buffalo, Mary Schreiner from Niagara University, and Cindi Hoover from Praxair. The activity concluded with 20 people having their resumes reviewed by Drs. O'Donnell and Bretz. We would like to extend our thanks to the two speakers and the three panel members for contributing their time and insights. The discussions were very useful both to the students and the chemical professionals in attendance. Thanks again to the sponsors, the presenters and the attendees.
ACS Northeastern Section, will be held in the Memorial Union Building at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, June 24-27, 2001. The meeting will feature general sessions and topical symposia, and several workshops are being planned. Symposia topics include: advances in polymer composites, delivery systems and analytical techniques; advances in synthetic organic chemistry; change in chemistry education; clusters — from molecules to nanomaterials; developments in mass spectrometry, (a) proteomics and glycomics, (b) instrumentation; functional glycomics; molecular magnetic systems; oligosaccharide synthesis; reactive and unusual organic molecules; reversible molecular interactions; symposium in honor of Robert E. Lyle; ultrafast dynamics. Both oral and poster submissions will be accepted. Abstracts are due by March 1, 2001. Information on abstract submission by e-mail or on the web can be found on the web site at http://www.unh.edu/chemistry/NERM. Alternatively, abstracts may be submitted on standard ACS forms to NERM 2001, Department of Chemistry, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824. For further information, contact Howard Mayne, (603) 862-1550, email: howard.mayne@unh.edu.
Contact Patty at Canisius College
716-888-2340 or via email at shelleyp@canisius.edu
Canisius College Press
Phone: 716-888-3254
FAX: 716-888-3112
E-Mail bieron@canisius.edu
Website: www.canisius.edu/historyproject
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