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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 |
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| Assistant Editor Patty Shelley Canisius College 888-2341 FAX 888-3112 shelleyp@canisius.edu |
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
If you would like to attend please 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
The third annual joint meeting of the Niagara Frontier Technical Societies Council (TSC) was held at Harry's Harbor Place on March 22, 2001. There were over 200 people in attendance, compared to about 140 last year and 90 in 1999. The first item on the menu was alphabet soup, including NACE, ITE, BAPG, AWMA (thank you for the open bar!), ABCD, ACS, ASCE, SWE, ASME, AIChE, etc. (you get the picture!). Patrick Martin, the president of NFTSC, welcomed the attendees representing 18 of the 24 member societies. Representatives from several groups spoke briefly about the various scholarships, meetings, field trips, and mentoring programs they sponsor. Some websites to check out are: AWMANFS.org, BAPG.org, ITE.org (best website, updated daily). My favorite quote of the evening was shared by the ASME representative, “Man discovered dirt before he discovered steam.” This probably referred to farming vs. the industrial revolution, but at this point the guests were drowning out the speakers. It was a wonderful evening for seeing former co-workers from long-distant career stepping stones, such as sampling storm sewers and lagoons in rain, freezing rain, and snow at 7 AM, or conducting studies of the fog water budget; good character-building experiences!
Deputy Commissioner Carl Calabrese stood in for Joel Giambra as the featured speaker. He started off by describing the gap between himself and the attendees (tecchies) as being bridged by several species of dogs, meaning, he is not technically or mechanically inclined to any great degree. In his experience on the Tonawanda town board, everything went through two departments: Law and Engineering. He described regionalism Giambra-style as consisting of Collaboration, Cooperation, Shared Services, and “No Handout - No Bailout”. Bigger government is not necessarily better government. Erie County in 2001 consists of a layered government, which is different from a decentralized government. The example of several highway barns (city, town, county, state) in Hamburg within a few miles of one another was cited, and how much more cost-effective it would be to combine those services. The human cost of this layered government during the past decade was estimated at 77,000 new jobs! Carl quoted Ronald Reagan via Joel Giambra in stating that the translation for “status quo” is “all screwed up!” Some easy candidates for shared services are garbage pickup, back office administration, water delivery, sewage treatment, and school district support (personnel, transportation, food service, athletic department). Let's look for opportunities for success and still respect local autonomy and “Home Rule”. Big savings can also result from the City of Buffalo contracting services from Erie County instead of duplicating the positions. The fundamental mistake of government as stated in the book “Reinventing Government” is trying to row and steer at the same time. A new concept is like a pickle, it has to soak in the brine for a long time before it is ready! The Buffalo Niagara Partnership Study resulted in 17 recommendations for shared services resulting in a savings of $48 million! With our strong advantages including the Canadian border, the Buffalo waterfront, Roswell Cancer Research Center, and our proximity to Niagara Falls it is conceivable with cooperation and regional thinking Buffalo could be the next #1 most livable city in the USA! Then we'd be greeting more people arriving at the airport than we sadly say goodbye to as they move away to get a job!
Editor
Joanna Christopher
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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/
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.
Contact Karen Arnold @ 883-0716
Next meeting scheduled for Saturday March 31, 2001
at
Canisius College, Horan-O'Donnell, Rm 015
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
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 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
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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