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National Chemistry Week: Celebrate!

November 7-13 is National Chemistry Week 1999 and the theme is Celebrating Polymers!

You can learn more about polymers by reading further in this issue, where several articles have been gathered together. You can also search JCE Index ( http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/Journal/Search/index.html). A search on the keyword Polymer Chemistry has produced citations for thirty articles, all published between 1996 and the present, and all hot-linked to the actual articles so that getting to the information is just a couple of mouse clicks away.

But National Chemistry Week is about outreach, volunteers taking chemistry to the general public. There are many ways to do this (another search of JCE Index on the keyword Outreach reveals that 21 articles have been published between 1996 and the present, again all hot-linked), so there are the ideas of others to build on. Both ACS and the Journal stand ready to help you. Whether it is this month's Classroom Activity on page 1504A, "Hunting for Chemicals in Consumer Products" or video on our CD-ROMs to show chemistry in action or previously published Classroom Activities, there are materials. But you, the individual volunteer, are the spokesperson for chemistry, the catalyst!

U.S. Olympiad Team Brings Home the Gold

U.S. Olympiad team members (front row, from left) Timothy Jones, Wei Ho, Alexander Ho, and Lisa Carlivati. In the back row are mentors Larry Strawser (U.S. Air Force Academy) and Jesse Bernstein (Hawken School, Chagrin Falls, OH).uy

The 31st International Chemistry Olympiad was held in Bangkok, Thailand, and for the first time ever an American student has taken the top gold medal in the competition. Timothy Jones of New Concord, OH finished first in the overall competition. Wei Ho of New Berlin, WI, and Alexander Ho of Lincolnwood, IL, also won gold medals. Lisa Carlivati from Reston, VA, received a silver medal.

The team, sponsored by the American Chemical Society, achieved this best finish ever after eight days of rigorous competition against nearly 200 students from more than 50 countries. They competed in a five-hour laboratory practical and a rigorous five-hour theoretical exam. In addition to the competition, there were activities that allowed them to experience the culture of Bangkok.

The four members of the U.S. team were selected from about 10,000 high school students nationwide. In the initial phase of the competition 20 students were selected to compete for one of four spots on the team during a two-week chemistry training camp at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Regarding their future plans, Timothy Jones is entering California Institute of Technology. Wei Ho and Lisa Carlivati will attend Harvard University, and Alexander Ho will attend the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Awards

ACS Award Announcements

ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc.

• Slayton A. Evans, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation Inc.

` • Valerie J. Kuck, Lucent Technologies

ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, sponsored by Research Corp.

• George B. Kauffman, California State University, Fresno

James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching, sponsored by Albemarle Corp.

• Frank G. Cardulla, Niles North High School, Skokie, Illnois

George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, sponsored by Union Carbide Corp.

• Jerry A. Bell, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC

Priestley Medal

• Darleane C. Hoffman, University of California, Berkeley; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; and Seaborg Institute for Transactinum Science

ACS Award for Creative Research in Homogeneous or Heterogeneous Catalysis, sponsored by Shell Oil Foundation

• Gabor A. Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley

Nobel Laureate Signature Award for Graduate Education in Chemistry, sponsored by Mallinkrodt Baker Inc.,

• Alex Kandel (student), Pennsylvania State University

• Richard N. Zare (preceptor), Stanford University

Note: A complete list of the ACS 2000 National Award Winners appeared in the August 23, 1999, issue of C & E News.

ChemWeb Award Announcement

International Young Chemistry Writer of the Year Award, 1999, sponsored by Pharmacia and Upjohn

• Winner: Josh Gruber (freshman undergraduate), University of Pennsylvania: "Synthetic Superheroes"

• First runner up: Amy Morin (graduate student), University of Virginia: "DNA is Electrifying"

• Second runner up: Annabel Wood, University of Melbourne: "Small Science Reaps Big Rewards"

Dreyfus Foundation Award Announcements

Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry, 1999

For the awards in this program, the awardee's name appears first and is followed by names of any co-principal investigators marked with an asterisk (*)

• Paul Davidovits, Douglas R. Worsnop*, Chemistry Department, Boston College

• Robert C. Aller, Marine Sciences Research Center, State University of New York at Stony Brook

• Mark A. Altabet, Roger Francois*, David W. Murray*, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Center for Marine Science and Technology, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

• Gaboury Benoit, Menachem Elimelech*, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

• George Flynn, Nicholas Turro*, Peter Schlosser*, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

• Laura T. Iraci, David M. Golden*, Molecular Physics Laboratory, SRI International

• A. Russell Flegal, Kenneth W. Bruland*, Zhiwu Zhu*, Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California, Santa Cruz

• Philip M. Gschwend, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Mitchio Okumura, Janet G. Hering*, Paul O. Wennberg*, Department of Chemistry, California Institute of Technology

New Faculty Awards Program, 1999

• Justin Du Bois, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University

• Peidong Yang, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley

• Jonas C. Peters, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

• Fernando A. Escobedo, Department of Chemical Engineering, Cornell University

• J. Daniel Gezelter, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Notre Dame

• Hongkun Park, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University

• Dhandapani Venkataraman, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Ting Guo, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Davis

• Shannon S. Stahl, Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin­Madison

• Virginia W. Cornish, Department of Chemistry, Columbia University

• Neil L. Kelleher, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• C. David Sherrill, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology

• Michael A. Freitas, Department of Chemistry, The Ohio State University

Faculty Start-up Grants for Undergraduate Institutions, 1999

• Linda H. Doerrer, Department of Chemistry, Barnard College

• Jonathan M. Smith, Department of Chemistry, Gustavus Adolphus College

• Laura L. Furge, Department of Chemistry, Kalamazoo College

• Wei Chen, Department of Chemistry, Mount Holyoke College

• Dale J. Brugh, Department of Chemistry, Ohio Wesleyan University

• Frank L. Somer, Jr., Department of Chemistry, Saint John's University

• Michael R. Carrasco, Department of Chemistry, Santa Clara University

• John C. Poutsma, Department of Chemistry, The College of William & Mary

• Paul L. Edmiston, Department of Chemistry, The College of Wooster

• Liam M. Duffy, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

• Maria A. Gomez, Department of Chemistry, Vassar College

• Joseph C. Williamson, Department of Chemistry, Willamette University

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

16th BCCE Deadlines Approaching

Deadlines for proposals for symposia and workshops for the 16th BCCE, to be held July 30 through August 3, 2000, are fast approaching.

The Call for Papers has been mailed to all members of the ACS Division of Chemical Education. The information in the brochure may also be found on the BCCE website at http://www.umich.edu/~bcce. The conference organizers encourage all participants to examine the symposia and workshops that have already been proposed, and to submit their ideas for additional papers directly to the symposium organizers. Papers that do not fit into any of the symposia already on the Web should be sent to the 16th BCCE, preferably by using the application process on the Web or by communicating with Brian Coppola; email: bcoppola@umich.edu, phone: 734/764-7329.

Approaching deadlines are:

• Proposals for a symposium or a workshop: December 3, 1999

• Submission of abstracts for all papers, posters, demonstrations, and workshops: February 4, 2000

Proposal Deadlines

National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

• Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
  June 5, 2000 (anticipated)
• NSF Computer Science, Engineering, and Mathematics Scholarships Program (CSEMS)
  TBA
• Advanced Techological Education (ATE)
  Preliminary April 13, 2000 (anticipated)
  Formal Oct. 14, 1999, and Oct. 13, 2000 (anticipated)
• NSF Graduate Fellows in K-12 Education (GK-12)
  TBA (anticipated late spring 2000)
• Online DUE forms available at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/documents/general/forms/forms.htm
• NSF Documents Online available at http://www.nsf.gov/cgi-bin/pubsys/browser/odbrowse.pl

For further information about NSF DUE programs consult the DUE Web site, http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm. To contact the DUE Information Center, phone: 703/306-1666; email: undergrad@nsf.gov.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
  November 15, 1999, and November 15, 2000
• Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
  June 30, 2000
• New Faculty Awards Program: May 15, 2000
• Faculty Start-up Grants for Undergraduate Institutions: May 15, 2000
• Scholar/Fellow Program for Undergraduate Institutions: June 30, 2000
• Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences:
  Preliminary Proposals: June 15, 2000
  Complete Proposals: September 1, 2000
• Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry: March 1, 2000
• Senior Scientist Mentor: September 1, 2000

Further information may be obtained from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., 555 Madison Avenue, Suite 1305, New York, NY 10022; phone: 212/753-1760;
email: admin@dreyfus.org;
WWW:http://www.dreyfus.org/

Research Corporation

• Cottrell College Science Awards: May 15 and November 15
• Cottrell Scholars: First regular business day in September
• Partners in Science: December 1 (the final opportunity for this program is summer 1999)
• Research Opportunity Awards: May 1 and October 1
• Research Innovation Awards: May 1

Further information may be obtained from Research Corporation, 101 North Wilmot Road, Suite 250, Tucson, AZ 85711-3332; phone: 520/571-1111; fax: 520/571-1119; email: awards@rescorp.org; WWW:http://www.rescorp.org