Call for Nominations for 2009 CSW Officers/Councilors/Managers

The annual election of Officers, Councilors and Managers of the CSW will, in accordance with the Bylaws, be held by a mail ballot in November 2009.

The current President will become Past President, and the current President-Elect will become President. Councilors serve three-year terms, as indicated below. The term of the Secretary expires at the end of 2009. A Secretary will be elected for a two-year term. Managers serve two-year terms as indicated below. Three Councilors, three Alternate Councilors, and six Managers will be elected according to the number of votes cast for each candidate.

All CSW Members are now invited to submit nominations for President-Elect, Secretary, Councilors, and Managers. Self-nomination is acceptable. These nominations largely determine who will be candidates, since the CSW Bylaws state: "The candidates shall be selected in the descending order of the number of nominations received."

Nominating ballots should be submitted to the CSW Office for receipt by June 15, 2009. All CSW members are eligible for nomination. Incumbents are eligible for nomination to the same position (if the term expires) or any other position as Officer, Councilor or Manager.

Current Officers:

Managers, Through 2009:
Catherine C. Fenselau, UMD; Zory Glaser, JHU; Joshua Goldberg, Nath & Associates; Anne R. Leslie, EPA (Ret.); Elaine Shafrin, NRL (Ret.); Wayne R. Wolf, USDA.

Managers, Through 2010:
Tina Bahadori, ACC; Walter Benson, FDA (Ret.); Jennifer Breidenich, JHU; Daron Freedberg, FDA; Kenneth Kirk, NIH; Nicole Payne.

Councilors, Through 2009:
Robert P. Barron, FDA (Ret.); Elise Ann Brown, USDA (Ret.); Kim Morehouse, FDA.

Councilors, Through 2010:
Joseph M. Antonucci, NIST; Regina J. Cody, NASA; N. Bhushan Mandava, Consultant.

Councilors, Through 2011:
Douglas Raber, Greenpoint Science; Noel Turner, NRL (Ret.); James Zwolenik, NSF (Ret.).

Alternate Councilors: Through 2009:
Marilyn Jacox, NIST (Ret.); Two Vacancies.

Alternate Councilors: Through 2010:
Jerainne Johnson, NIST; Fred Metz, EPA (Ret.); John Ruth, USDA (Ret.).

Alternate Councilors: Through 2011:
Philip DeShong, UMD; Carol Henry, GWU; Jennifer Sample, JHU.

Joseph S. Francisco is ACS President-elect for 2009

Joseph S. Francisco, the William H. Moore Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Purdue University, has been named president-elect of the ACS.

Francisco will be president-elect in 2009 and take over as the society's president in 2010. He will be the second African-American, but the first from academia, named as president of the society, which was founded in 1876. The first African-American president was industrial chemistry leader Henry Hill in 1977.

Francisco will succeed 2009 president Thomas H. Lane, a director with the Dow Corning Corp. and a 1974 Purdue chemistry graduate. Francisco said the theme for his term will be bridging the gaps for the future of the chemical enterprise through partnerships that engage industry, academia and government. He said he plans to work to attract a broader pool of students into the chemical sciences to keep the enterprise healthy; prepare all members to be able to thrive in a global economy; and promote innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability in the chemical sciences. "I am honored to have been selected as president-elect and president by my colleagues worldwide," Francisco said. "This is the honor of my career. I will do my best to inspire more young people to look at the sciences as a worthy career field, but more importantly work to help the American Chemical Society create job opportunities for its members."

Francisco holds a dual appointment in chemistry and earth and atmospheric sciences and specializes in atmospheric chemistry. He has worked with chlorofluorocarbons, mapping the pathways of these and lesser-researched compounds to understand how they break down in the atmosphere. His recent work has focused on illuminating the role clouds play in the chemistry of the atmosphere.

Francisco, a native of Beaumont, Texas, earned his bachelor's degree in 1977 from the University of Texas and his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Cambridge University in England from 1983-85 and at MIT in 1985.

He also was president of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers from 2005-2007 and received the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award for Senior Scientists in 2001.

Other ACS national election results: director-at-large for the 2009-11 term (two positions): William F. Carroll Jr., vice president of Occidental Chemical, Dallas, TX, and former ACS president; and Marinda Wu, founder and president of Science is Fun!, in Orinda, CA. Pat N. Confalone, vice president of global R&D at DuPont Agriculture & Nutrition, and Bonnie A. Charpentier, vice president of regulatory affairs at Metabolex, Hayward, CA, were elected Directors for District III and District VI, respectively. Additionally, ACS members overwhelming voted to revise the qualifications required for membership and for affiliate status in the society. The student affiliate category of membership has been eliminated and full society membership (apart from holding national office) is now available to undergraduate students in chemistry and related sciences.
Photo and information on Dr. Francisco were obtained from the Purdue University News Office.

• Board Approves 2008 Budget (approved 11/26/2007)
  (Available in PDF format (15 Kb) for printing: 1 page)
  

  The Board of Managers adopted a budget for 2008 based on anticipated unrestricted income of $54,000 from CSW member dues, Section allotment from the ACS, and investment income. These funds will be augmented by expected income targeted to various activities - $17,000 from the ACS as partial reimbursement of travel expenses of Councilors to attend ACS national meetings; $4000 from ACS as partial reimbursement for Project SEED expenses; $11,000 from advertising income for the Capital Chemist; and $10,000 to cover food at monthly dinner meetings.

  Funds will be used to cover expenses for dinner meetings; publication of the Capital Chemist; office and communication expenses; and a wide variety of programs, including awards, education and community outreach.

  The budget shows a significant deficit of $7900, primarily due to the fact that income from advertisements in the Capital Chemist has been running below forecasts. If ad income does not increase, the Publications Committee may impose reductions in the number of Capital Chemist pages. Experience indicates that funds for several budgeted items will probably not be utilized, and the budget deficit is likely to be much lower than currently shown. Final accounts were not yet available for 2007, but indications are that there will be a substantial surplus, and CSW has adequate financial reserves to overcome a temporary deficit.

  
  
• 2007 Long Range Planning Committee Report (draft)   (PDF, 274 Kb)
  
  
• CSW Budget Information for 2007 (approved 11/27/2006)
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• CSW Budget Information for 2006 (Available in PDF format (50 Kb) for priniting)
  
  
• CSW 2006 Annual Report: Part I - Annual Report Questionnaire  (PDF format)
  
  
• CSW 2006 Annual Report: Part II - Annual Narrative Report  (PDF format)
  
  
• Annual Reports for all Local Sections (2006)

ACS Podcasting Science for Members and Public
Reprinted from Leading Together, - ACS Local Section Newsletter Fall 2007

ACS members now have the opportunity to share exciting, cutting-edge scientific discoveries with their children, local science teachers, museums, libraries, and others through a new podcast launched this summer by the ACS Office of Communications. The science podcast, unveiled in July, reports on the latest studies published in the ACS journals to a broad public audience at no charge. The podcast, Science Elements, is available via www.acs.org and on iTunes. It describes research reported in ACS's prestigious suite of 36 peer-reviewed scientific journals and Chemical & Engineering News, ACS's weekly news magazine. Those journals, published by the world's premier scientific society, contain about 30,000 scientific reports from scientists around the world every year. The reports include discoveries in medicine, health, nutrition, energy, the environment, and other fields that span the horizons of science, from astronomy to zoology.

Those discoveries improve people's lives, and Science Elements will make that information more widely available. The podcast draws on an Office of Communications product, PressPac, which initially was developed to assist science journalists in researching and reporting news.

The podcaster for Science Elements is Steve Showalter, a chemist at the U.S. Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM. Showalter's work at Sandia focuses on the design and development of new batteries. "As an active member of the ACS since 1987, I view these podcasts as part of a broader commitment to improving public understanding of chemistry," Showalter said. He also works toward that goal as a member of the ACS Committee on Public Relations and Communications and as a councilor for the ACS Central New Mexico Section.

Podcasting is an increasingly popular way of accessing news, information, and entertainment content from the Internet. The term was derived from Apple's "iPod," a portable digital audio and video player, and "broadcasting." Podcasts allow users to subscribe to a "feed" and receive new files automatically whenever they're posted to the Internet. New installments of Science Elements will be posted weekly and will be available at no charge. For more information, contact the Office of Communications, newsroom@acs.org

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