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National Meeting Highlights
More than 8,000 research papers were presented at the ACS national meeting
in Anaheim, CA, March 28 to April 1, 2004. In addition, the largest ever
ACS exhibition on the West Coast was held, with nearly 500 booths. Just
over 13,000 scientists and exhibitors attended the meeting!
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general theme of the meeting, nanotechnology, was reflected in several
presidential sessions, sponsored by ACS President Charles P. Casey. Casey
sponsored events such as “Big Promise from Small Science: How Nanotechnology
Will change Our Lives,” “Commercial Applications of Nanotechnology,”
and “Working in Nanotechnology: What Does It Take?”
In governance actions, the ACS Council voted to raise dues for 2005 to
the fully escalated rate of $123. Also, at the Council meeting four candidates
for 2005 president-elect—Edward M. Eyring, University of Utah; F.
Sherwood Rowland, University of California, Irvine; Gary B. Schuster,
Georgia Institute of Technology; and Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State
University—were introduced and gave short presentations. The council
selected Rowland and Warner as candidates for 2005 president-elect. After
announcing the results of the council election, Committee on Nominations
& Elections Chair Valerie J. Kuck also announced that E. Ann Nalley,
Cameron University, had been certified as a petition candidate for 2005
president-elect.
At the ACS Awards Dinner, Elias J. Corey, Harvard University’s
Sheldon Emery Professor of Chemistry, was presented with the 2004 Priestley
Medal. Sandra C. Greer, a professor of chemistry and chemical engineering
at the University of Maryland, College Park, won the 2004 Francis P. Garvan-John
M. Olin Medal and Zaida C. Morales-Martinez was presented with the 2004
ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical
Sciences. Additionally Sonja Israel accepted the first Stanley C. Israel
Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences on behalf
of her late husband, Stanley C. Israel.
The Committee on Local Section Activities (LSAC) met during the meeting
and announced that five local sections are celebrating significant anniversaries
in 2004: Eastern North Carolina, Indiana-Kentucky Border & Santa Clara
Valley (50 years); Wichita (75 years); and the Georgia local section (100
years).
LSAC voted to discontinue the ChemLuminary Award for “Most Innovative
Use of Technology”. LSAC reviewed the 2004-06 ACS Strategic Plan
and is working to align the local section annual report form with the
plan. LSAC also engaged in discussions concerning the three areas for
proposed cooperative action with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
(AIChE). LSAC voted to support continued discussions with AIChE.
Martha Lester
Assistant Director,
Department of Local Section and Community Activities
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