News from Journal House

Recent Releases, JCE Software
The following issues have been released by JCE Software and shipped to those who placed orders. Information on upcoming JCE Software issues can be found at JCE Online on the JCE Software Latest Releases page.

• MacMS: A Mass Spectrometer Simulator, a software program for Mac OS distributed on floppy disk, issue 9906. The authors are Stephen W. Bigger and Robert A. Craig. A description of the program can be found in J. Chem. Educ. 1999 , 76, 1464 or the JCE Software WWW site.

• Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 1, Special Issue 18, 2nd edition, one of a series of CD-ROMs for both Mac OS and Windows that show chemical reactions. The material was compiled by Jerrold J. Jacobsen and John W. Moore. A description of the CD can be found in J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 671 or the JCE Software WWW site.
• Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 2, Special Issue 21, 2nd edition, one of a series of CD-ROMs for both Mac OS and Windows that show chemical reactions. The material was compiled by Jerrold J. Jacobsen and John W. Moore. A description of the CD can be found in J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 671 or the JCE Software WWW site.

The updated versions of Chemistry Comes Alive! Volumes 1 and 2 now use state-of-the-art compression, thus yielding higher quality video with smaller file sizes and data rates better suited for WWW delivery. Note that video for Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 3, Periodic Table Live! 2nd edition, ChemPages Laboratory, and Multimedia General Chemistry Problems (a forthcoming publication), also use this new format.

Schoolzone Award to JCE Online
The Journal has recently been notified that JCE Online has been highly rated by Schoolzone's panel of 400 expert teachers.

JCE Online has been recognized as a good educational site: useful for teaching and learning and easy to navigate. Schoolzone attracts up to 16,000 users per day and is in weekly contact with every school in the UK.

Awards Announced

2000 Heller Award
The ACS Cleveland Section announces the recipient of the Irene C. Heller Award. The award, which consists of an honorarium of $1,000 and a framed certificate, recognizes an outstanding high school teacher in the section. It is named in honor of Irene Heller of North Olmsted High School in recognition of her contributions as an outstanding high school teacher and her service to the ACS local section.

• Judith Lachvayder, Parma Senior High School, Parma, OH

1999 and 2000 ACS Regional Awards in High School Chemistry
ACS has announced seven winners of their Regional Awards in High School Chemistry. Each of the winners has demonstrated excellence in teaching, an exceptional ability to challenge and inspire students, dedication to extracurricular work, and the willingness to keep up to date in the field. The award consists of two certificates (one for the winner and the other for display at the winner's school) and a cash prize of $1,000. The names of the seven winners and the ACS regional meeting at which they received the award are below.

• Mary C. Kochansky, Suitland High School, Forestville, MD: Middle Atlantic Region
• Linda Kay Ford, Seven Hills School, Cincinnati, OH: Central Region
• Erling Antony, Arrowhead High School, Hartland, WI: Great Lakes Region (1999 award)
• Steven E. Schultz, Pittsville High School, Pittsville, WI: Great Lakes Region (2000 award)
• Karen L. Spencer, C. M. Russell High School, Great Falls, MT: Northwest Region
• Elnore A. Grow, Horizon High School, Thornton, CO: Rocky Mountain Region
• James D. Cherry, Jr., Enrico Fermi High School, Ensfield, CT: Northeast Region

James Flack Norris Award
The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society announces the recipient of the 2000 James Flack Norris Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Teaching of Chemistry.

• Billy Joe Evans, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

2000 EAS Awards
The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) announces the winners of the 2000 EAS awards. The awards will be presented during the Symposium's annual meeting to be held October 29 through November 3, 2000, in Atlantic City, NJ.

EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry

• Isiah M. Warner, Louisiana State University

EAS Award for Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy

• Tony Davies, Norwich Near Infrared Consultancy, Norwich, UK

EAS Award for Achievements in Separation Science, sponsored by Waters Corp.

• Peter W. Carr, University of Minnesota

EAS Award for Achievements in Magnetic Resonance

• Hans W. Spiess, Max-Plank Institut für Polymer-forschung, Mainz, Germany

Galactic Industries Award for Achievements in Chemometrics

• Svante Wold, Umea University, Umea, Sweden

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

History of Chemistry Symposium
The Sixth History of Chemistry Symposium will be held on Saturday, November 11, 2000, from 8:45 a.m. until 4:15 p.m. at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. Speakers and their topics are William B. Jensen, "The Reichenback Affair: The Pseudo Science in the 19th Century"; Derek A. Davenport: "The Royal Institution of Great Britain from 1800-2000"; Peter Childs: "History of Chemicals from Seaweed: from Alkali to Iodine to Alginates"; Kathryn Steen: "U.S. Synthetic Organic Chemicals Industry in World War I and the 1920s"; John Smith: "History of Catalysis".

The symposium is open to all. The cost is $15 (students $5) and includes breakfast, lunch, and refreshments. Preregistration is strongly recommended. For further information contact Babu George, Department of Chemistry, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT; phone: 203/371-7793; email: georgeb@sacredheart.edu.

2YC₃ Conference Calendar
Upcoming conferences sponsored by 2YC₃, the Two-Year College Chemistry Consortium, an activity of the ACS Division of Chemical Education, are listed below.

• October 6-7, 2000: 153rd Conference (Eastern), Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY12180. Contact Ernest Siew (siewern@hvcc.edu) or Jim Zubrick (zubrijim@hvcc.edu), the program chairs.
• November 10-11, 2000: 154th Conference (Midwestern), Vincennes University, Vincennes, IN47591. Contact Tom Gruber, (TAGruber@aol.com), the program chair. The conference theme is Pedagogy and Practices in Chemistry Education.
• March 30-31, 2001: 155th Conference (Western), San Diego City College, San Diego, CA 92101. Contact James Burton (JamesB7850@aol.com).

NSTA Meetings Calendar
Upcoming meetings of the National Science Teachers Association, including those at both the regional and national levels, are listed below.

• October 5-7, 2000: Boise, ID (Northwestern Area)
• October 19-21, 2000: Milwaukee, WI (Midwestern Area)
• November 16-18, 2000: Baltimore, MD (Eastern Area)
• December 7-9, 2000: Phoenix, AZ (Southeastern Area)
• March 22-25, 2001: St. Louis, MO (2001 National Convention)

For details, see the NSTA Web site.

Free Software Demos
Advanced Chemistry Development Interactive Lab (ACD/I-Lab) is making available without charge several of the software packages it publishes. Free IUPAC naming of small molecules (50 atoms, maximum of 3 rings) containing C, H, N, O, P, S, F, Cl, Br, and I is available using the I-Lab program. To get details about activating an I-Lab account, a free two-week trial period for the I-Lab program, and ChemSketch freeware that now functions as a desktop portal to the I-Lab program go to the ACS/I-Lab WWW site. More details are in a recent article in Reactive Reports.

Chemical Innovation
The American Chemical Society has relaunched their magazine CHEMTECH as Chemical Innovation. The magazine will continue to be aimed at a wide variety of professionals in chemistry as well as readers in the academic, government, and legal communities. Michael J. Block is the editor of Chemical Innovation, but the publication's founding editor, Ben Luberoff, will continue to write a monthly column.

Materials Available
Inside Rain: Working with Precipitation Chemistry Data, is a new science activity book and package just released by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). The activities in Inside Rain guide high school students and teachers to answer environmental-chemistry questions using online databases of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP).

Inside Rain, developed by the NSTA with funding by the U.S. Geological Survey, is a package designed for use in chemistry, environmental science, life science, and Earth-science instruction of ninth- through twelfth-grade students. It has been designed to help science teachers and students analyze the wealth of online data available through NADP's impressive resources and includes laboratory exercises and classroom activities. Topics covered include precipitation chemistry, atmospheric deposition (the process by which dust and chemicals are released to the atmosphere and are deposited on Earth's surface), and the causes and effects of acid rain. The Internet-based activities complement the lab work and allow students to perform the same type of data analysis as NADP scientists. For instance, students use NADP data to examine the pH of rainfall in their region.

Inside Rain is the second book in NSTA's Teach With Databases series and is packaged with three supplementary publications: Teach With Databases: Database Basics; National Atmospheric Deposition Program 1997 Wet Deposition Map Report; and Inside Rain: A Look at the National Atmospheric Deposition Program. The publication is available as Stock # PB143X02 from the NSTA Science Store for $44.95. To order, visit the Science Store or call 1-800/722-6782 (U.S.) or 703/243-7100 (non-U.S.). For more information about the Inside Rain package, visit the Inside Rain Web site.

Proposal Deadlines

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