News from Journal House

The Journal's Publications/Software Catalog has been revised in time for the Spring ACS Meeting in San Diego and the NSTA national meeting. If you did not pick up a copy at either of these meetings, then contact us. The Catalog, now with a bright pink cover, is available on paper or online.

The Catalog lists and describes the materials we publish in addition to JCE. This includes videos, CD-ROMs, Web-ready and multimedia materials, and software--the Chemistry Comes Alive! series, ChemPages Laboratory, Advanced Chemistry Collection, Crystallography Collection, General Chemistry Multimedia Problems, General Chemistry Collection, and more.

Vist JCE at ChemEd 2001

If attending ChemEd 2001 is in your plans, make sure you stop by the Journal booth: #207. ChemEd 2001 will be held at York University, Toronto, Canada, July 29-August 2, 2001. It will bring together science educators, chemistry teachers, and their families in an informal setting. Further information about the conference can be found at www.science.yorku.ca/chemed2001.

Award Deadlines

International Young Chemistry Writer of the Year

ChemWeb.com announces the competition to find the International Young Chemistry Writer of 2001. The annual competition is open to younger chemists worldwide who can test their writing talents and have a chance to win cash or travel prizes. The competition is open to anyone aged 16-30. Entries must be topical, feature-style articles on a chemistry-related subject, and 1000-2000 words in length. The closing date is May 31, 2001. The winner will receive $2,500, have his or her article published in the alchemist, and receive free travel to the Fall 2001 ACS Meeting in Chicago. The two runners-up will each receive $1,000 and publication of their article in the alchemist. Full details and rules of the competition can be found at http://www.chemweb.com/youngwriter, where the winning articles from previous years can also be found. For further information contact Jenny Drey, Press Officer, ChemWeb, Inc.; phone and fax: +44 (0)20 7622 9301.

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

Chemistry Initiative Summer Workshops

The NSF Chemistry Initiative projects offer summer workshops for faculty who may be interested in adapting and adopting their materials and approaches. Some are supported through an NSF Multi-Initiative Dissemination Project (MIDP) grant, others are part of the NSF Chautauqua Short Course program. In each workshop, individuals will spend several days working intensively with one project.

• May 21-23, 2001: Peer-Led Team Learning: The Workshop Model. NSF Chautauqua workshop, NASA/JPL, Pasadena, CA
• June 7-10, 2001: ChemConnections and New Traditions. MIDP workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI
• June 14-16, 2001: Peer-Led Team Learning: The Workshop Model. NSF Chautauqua workshop, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
• June 28-30, 2001: ChemConnections: Promoting Active Learning in Real-World Contexts. NSF Chautauqua workshop, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
• June 28-July 1, 2001: Peer-Led Team Learning and Molecular Science. MIDP workshop, California State University, Fullerton, CA
• July 19-22, 2001: Molecular Science: Calibrated Peer Review. NSF Chautauqua workshop, Los Angeles, CA

Click here for general and registration information about Multi-Initiative Workshops; click here for information about NSF Chautauqua workshops.

For information about each of the individual Chemistry Initiative projects go to their World Wide Web sites:

ChemConnections (ChemLinks and MC²)

New Traditions

Molecular Science

Workshop Chemistry

NSF-Sponsored Workshops in the Chemical Sciences

With support of the National Science Foundation, a consortium of institutions will hold a series of intensive five-day workshops over the next three years. The workshops will be in the following areas: Chemical Education, Chemistry of Art, Chemometrics, Combinatorial Chemistry, Computational Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Forensic Science, Laser Technology, Metals in Biology, Molecular Genetics, Multidimensional Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Organometallic Chemistry, Photochemistry, and Polymer Chemistry. They will be conducted at the consortium institutions: Georgia State University, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Georgia, Emory University, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Williams College, James Madison University, Millersville University, University of California at Riverside, University of Illinois at Chicago, Utah State University, and Washington State University.

These workshops will include extensive hands-on experience for the participants. Materials that can be readily incorporated into participants' instructional activities will be provided. The goals of the workshops include the augmentation and development of participants' knowledge in selected areas; the integration of a broad range of chemical concepts and procedures into other fields; and exposure of participants to new and emerging fields derived from current research activity. The target audience is primarily faculty from undergraduate institutions as well as conservators and forensic, biomedical, and public health scientists with significant educational responsibilities.

Approximately 36 workshops will be held at the consortium institutions in the three-year period. The first, taking place in May or June 2001, will most likely be on Laser Technology and Forensic Science. Other than transportation to the institution, there will be no cost to the participants; the grant will cover per diem expenses.

Information regarding the workshops is available at http://chemistry.gsu.edu/links.html or by contacting Jerry C. Smith, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303; or Lawrence J. Kaplan, Department of Chemistry, Williams College, Williamstown, MA 01267.

Microscale Chemistry Workshops

The National Microscale Chemistry Center, located at Merrimack College in North Andover, MA, will offer several hands-on workshops in spring, summer, and fall 2001.

• Workshops for elementary school teachers assume no science background. They run from 8:30 a.m. on a Thursday to 2:00 p.m. Friday and will be held May 17-18 and October 18-19.
• A workshop for high school teachers runs from 5:30 p.m. on Friday until 2:00 p.m. on Sunday; it will be held October 12-14.
• Workshops for advanced placement high school/college/university/community college teachers run from 5:30 p.m. on a Friday until 2:00 p.m. on Sunday and will be held April 6-8 and November 9-11.
• Three topic-oriented workshops for high school/community college/college/university teachers will be held from 8:30 a.m. on Monday until 2:00 p.m. on Friday. Organic Chemistry: June 24-29; General/Inorganic Chemistry: July 8-13; Advanced General/Inorganic/Industrial Chemistry: July 22-27.

The workshops include all materials, housing, and all meals; there is a registration fee. Early registration is advised. For further information contact Mono M. Singh, Director, National Microscale Chemistry Center, Merrimack College, 315 Turnpike Street, North Andover, MA 01845; phone: 978/837-5137; fax: 978/837-5017.

Interdisciplinary Conference on Visual Communication

MIT will host the conference Image and MeaningEnvisioning and Communicating Science and Technology June 13-16, 2001. The conference will promote new collaborations among scientists, imaging experts, and science writers. It will encourage new ways of thinking to visually communicate science within the research community and to the public. The chair of the conference is Felice Frankel.

Speakers include Roger Penrose, Susan Sontag, E. O. Wilson, Alan Lightman, George Whitesides, Roald Hoffmann, Shinya Inoué, Don Ingber, Don Eigler, Jack Roberts, Art Olson, Michael Berry, and Harvey Lodish. For a complete conference program and registration information visit the conference Web site or contact Richard Freierman, Project Manager, Image and Meaning Initiative, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room E32-335, Cambridge, MA 02139; phone: 617/253-4565; fax: 617/258-8100. Funding and support of the conference have come from the National Science Foundation, Eastman Kodak Corp., American Chemical Society, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., Polaroid Corp., Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Lynch Family Foundation, Research Corp., and the Museum of Science.

Hydrogen Now!

Hydrogen Now! is a newly formed organization working to bring information to the public on the possibilities and realities of using hydrogen as a primary fuel of the future. It has announced several ways in which the public can learn about hydrogen.

The organization is sponsoring the World Congress for a Hydrogen Economy, which will serve as the International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE) 2001 meeting, to be held November 1-4, 2001 in Denver, Colorado. The Congress expects to bring together 1,000 scientists, industry leaders, and government officials from around the world. There will be a large display space at the Congress as well as the demonstration of working examples of hydrogen-powered cars. A part of the public information project will be Congress to Congress: a Drive to Survive spearheaded by actor Dennis Weaver in which hydrogen-powered vehicles of all kinds will be driven from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles.

For more information on how to learn about the hydrogen economy, click here or call 1-866/GO-H2-NOW.

NSF Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement Program Awards, FY2000

The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) of the National Science Foundation announces awards in chemistry made under the Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) Program for FY2000. Awards were made in two tracks. Those from the Educational Materials Development track (CCLI-EMD) are reported here; those from the Adaptation and Implementation track will be reported next month.

The CCLI-EMD track represents projects that are to develop innovative materials that incorporate effective educational practices to improve student learning in chemistry at the undergraduate level. The materials are expected to be appropriate for national dissemination and implementation. Three awards were made for proof of concept projects and four awards for full development projects; all are listed below.

CCLI Awards in Chemistry
Educational Materials Development (EMD) Track

• EnviroChemLibrary: Resources for Teaching and Learning in Science, Cindy Lee, Clemson University; DUE-9952315; $175,713
• Educating Teaching Assistants in New Models for Teaching and Learning, Angelica Stacy, University of California-Berkeley; DUE-9952376; $498,800
• An Interactive Web-Based Materials Characterization Project for Undergraduate Education in Analytical Chemistry, Jeanne Pemberton, University of Arizona; DUE-9980739; $75,000
• Strategies to Promote Active Learning in Chemistry Courses: Multi-Initiative Dissemination Workshops, John Moore, University of Wisconsin-Madison; DUE-9980852; $1,061,204
• Proof of Concept Proposal for Physical Chemistry in Practice--An Interactive Multimedia DVD Companion for the Physical Chemistry Course, Gabriela Weaver, University of Colorado at Denver; DUE-9980862; $67,493
• X-Ray Diffraction Analysis Throughout the Curriculum: A Powerful Tool for Understanding Molecular Structure and Bonding, Allen Hunter, Youngstown State University; DUE-9980921; $74,707
• Student Authoring of Three-Dimensional Illustrations in Undergraduate Biochemistry, Robert Bateman, University of Southern Mississippi; DUE-9980935; $445,240

Announcement of Future Awards

Awards for the FY2001 round of the CCLI competition (from proposals submitted to the June 5 and June 6, 2000, deadlines) are in the process of being completed. The next deadline for those interested in submitting proposals is June 5, 2001, for CCLI-A&I proposals and June 6, 2001, for CCLI-EMD and CCLI-National Dissemination proposals. Further information about the CCLI program is available through the Program Solicitation (NSF 01-58). Information about CCLI or other programs and activities supported by DUE can be found by contacting DUE; by telephone: 703/292-8666; or email. Current information about projects funded by DUE is available on the Project Information Resource System (PIRS). Mark Claire, Science Education Analyst in DUE, provided assistance in gathering the data found in this report.

Proposal Deadlines

National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

The following NSF deadlines have been established.

• National SMETE Digital Library (NSDL)
  Proposals, Collections, Services track: April 11, 2001
  Proposals, Core Integration track: June 6, 2001
• Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI)
  A&I track: June 5, 2001
  EMD and ND tracks: June 6, 2001
• Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
  Preliminary: April 26, 2001
  Formal: October 18, 2001
• Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics Scholarships (CSEMS)
  Formal: May 1, 2001
• NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (DTS)
  Letters of Intent (optional): March 30, 2001
  Formal: May 10, 2001

For further information about NSF DUE programs, consult the DUE Web site; phone 703/292-8670; or send email.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program: November 15, 2001
• Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program: June 29, 2001
• New Faculty Awards Program: May 15, 2001
• Faculty Start-Up Grants for Undergraduate Institutions: May 15, 2001
• Scholar/Fellow Program for Undergraduate Institutions: June 29, 2001
• Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences: Completed Proposals: September 1, 2001
• Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry: March 1, 2001
• Senior Scientist Mentor: September 1, 2001

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.

Research Corporation

• Cottrell College Science Awards: May 15 and November 15
• Cottrell Scholars: First regular business day in September
• 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.