News from Journal House

Periodic Table Live! 3rd Edition

Periodic Table Live! 3rd Edition (PTL!) has been released by JCE Software and shipped to those who have placed orders. More information about PTL! appears on the JCE Software Web site. See the abstract of PTL! as it appeared in the December 2002 issue of JCE.

Periodic Table Live! 3rd Edition (PTL!), Special Issue 30, is a CD-ROM for both Mac OS and Windows. PTL! provides a stimulating interactive journey through the periodic table suitable for students at all levels of chemistry, especially in high school, general, inorganic, and solid-state chemistry courses. New in the third edition is powerful, easy-to-use interactive graphing and sorting. All information has been updated for this edition. PTL! continues to include a wealth of information about the elements: descriptions and pictures, biographies of discoverers, videos of reactions, information about sources and uses, numerical values of macroscale and atomic-scale properties, and crystal structures.
To purchase this CD-ROM or for information about its use by a library or Wide Area Network (WAN) including the World Wide Web, contact JCE Software.

These screens from PTL! show the page for strontium (left) and the new graphing and sorting window (right).

JCE Buyers Guide

The February 2003 edition of the JCE Buyers Guide was shipped with the print issue of JCE. Broader coverage characterizes this publication: it now lists interfaced experiments, laboratory manuals, laboratory notebooks, models, reference books, and software in addition to books.

The print edition of the Buyers Guide appears twice each year—with the February and September issues of JCE—and is the most comprehensive listing of its kind. Access to the same information is always available on JCE Online. The online version has all the same information as in print, plus more—it is searchable, linked to textbook reviews and publisher's sites, and is current.

Awards

Santa Clara Valley Mosher Award

The ACS Santa Clara Valley section will present the 2002 Harry and Carol Mosher Award to

• C. Marvin Lang, University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point

The award will be presented on January 17, 2003, for his contributions to chemical education, the field of chemistry, and ACS. Lang has presented more than 800 chemical demonstration programs in the U.S. and abroad.

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

Ethics Course

Ethics Across the Curriculum: A Practical Workshop for Integrating Professional Ethics into Technical Courses will be offered June 24–July 1, 2003, at the Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions (CSEP) at Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The week-long workshop will consider how to integrate professional ethics into technical courses, with an emphasis on practice not theory, on what works in class and what doesn’t. Funding from the National Science Foundation will pay for many expenses but is contingent on financial support and a commitment on the part of the home institution. For more information, contact Michael Davis, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, IIT, HUB Mezzanine, Room 204, 3241 South Federal Street, Chicago, IL 60616-3793; phone: 773/288-8348; fax: 312/567-301, or go to this Web site. The deadline for completed applications is February 28, 2003.

Central European Journal of Chemistry

A Central European Journal of Chemistry (CESJ) has been established to enhance communication to the global scientific community of the best research done in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and other countries of this region. CESJ is published as an online-only journal, the first regular issue of which will appear in January 2003. Further information can be found at the journal’s Web page.

European History of Science Study Tour

The eighth biennial history of science study tour will be for two full weeks, October 5–19, 2003, in London and Paris. The tour will visit many places of scientific interest including the Science Museum, Old Royal Observatory, Royal Institution, National Maritime Museum, British Museum, and the Natural History Museum in London, with a day excursion to Down House (Darwin’s birthplace) and Canterbury. In Paris, we will visit the Arts et Mètiers Museum, the Pasteur Museum, and the Curie Institute, with day excursions to the International Stained Glass Institute at Chartres and to a working Camembert cheese farm in the Normandy countryside.

A tentative cost for the tour (excluding airfare and based on double occupancy) is $2250; this includes 24 meals and all transfers within the two countries, including travel by EuroStar from London to Paris. For more information, please contact Mary Virginia Orna, Department of Chemistry, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY 10805; 914/654-5302.

Photos from the Outreach Front!

CHED outreach was present at the recent SERMACS (Southeast Regional ACS) meeting that took place November 13–17, 2002, in Charleston, South Carolina. Education had a prominent place on the meeting program, including many offerings for high school teachers. Awards were presented as well. But let the photographs tell the story.

Zaida Morales-Martinez (Florida International University) received the 2002 Women Chemists Committee Award for Contributions to Diversity in the Southeast Region from Eli Pearce, ACS President.

Joey Hatcher Gaby, teacher at Tyner Academy of Math, Science & Technology, Chattanooga, TN, received the 2002 ACS Regional Award for Teaching High School Chemistry in the Southeast Region from Glenn Crosby (Washington State University and ACS District VI Director).

The College of Charleston, site of the 2002 SERMACS meeting.

Paul Jones (left) (University of North Texas and ACS District IV Director), Patrick Meier (center) (Medical University of South Carolina and General Chair), and Jack Breazeale (right) (College of Charleston and Co-Chair) celebrate the success of SERMACS 2002.