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Plans are final for ACS workshop in India Plans are now final for another over seas chemistry workshop. Sponsored by the American Chemical Society and the Indian Chemical Society, it will be held in India. U.S. participants in the workship have been selected and have agreed to serve. It has been scheduled for Jan. 7-19, 1980. About 20 prominent Indian chem ists will take part in the project; the U.S. contingent will consist of eight chemists. ACS has received a grant of $36,000 from the National Science Foundation to cover its administra tive expenses for the workshop. The workshop is the second such project that ACS has conducted in a growing program to carry out science and technology exchange projects with chemists and their organizations in other countries. The first one was with Egypt's Academy of Scientific Research & Technology, and its major
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operating laboratory, the National Research Centre, in December 1977 (C&EN, Jan. 9, 1978, page 38). Purpose of the latest workshop is to give a small group of Indian and U.S. chemists an opportunity to discuss current research in both countries in three fields: natural products, organometallic, and solid-state chem istry. Proposals then will be prepared for research projects that can be conducted cooperatively by chemists in each of these fields. The proposals will be submitted by the two societies to appropriate Indian and U.S. gov ernment agencies to secure funds for conducting the recommended re search. The project for the U.S. is under the guidance of the ACS Committee on International Activities, chaired by Glenn Seaborg, Lawrence Berke ley Laboratory. Heading up the In dian side is Sukh Dev, president of the Indian Chemical Society. U.S. chemists participating as ex perts in the chemistry of natural products are Joseph Burckhalter, University of Michigan, and Henry Rapoport, University of California, Berkeley; in organometallic chemis try, Rowland Pettit, University of Texas, Austin, and Dietmar Seyferth, Massachusetts Institute of Technol ogy; and in solid-state chemistry, John Bockris, Texas A&M Universi ty, and Arthur Sleight of Du Pont's central research and development department. Principal investigator for the project is Cyril Ponnamperuma, University of Maryland. Also partic ipating will be Robert Brasted, Uni versity of Minnesota. Brasted has had extensive experience in exchange projects with chemists and their or ganizations in India, and will assist in the project's overall planning and coordination. A subcommittee com prised of Ponnamperuma (as chair man), Brasted, and William J. Bailey, University of Maryland, is responsi ble for the day-to-day guidance of the project. The workshop will be initiated in Delhi on Jan. 7, 8, and 9, at which time the participants will discuss important research in India and the U.S. in the three fields, and consider what lines of research might be pur sued cooperatively. Then the group
will divide into three teams and from Jan. 10 through 16 each team will visit those facilities in India where the most significant research in these fields is being conducted. The work shop will reconvene for the final three days, Jan. 17-19, in Delhi. During this period, participants will prepare the proposals for submission to funding agencies. •
ACS starts project for physically handicapped The American Chemical Society has begun a program to help the physi cally handicapped. And society offi cials expect this commitment to grow. As part of this involvement, the ACS Board of Directors has estab lished a Committee on the Handi capped. The committee, headed by Thomas J. Kucera of Apeco Corp., Elk Grove Village, 111., consists en tirely of handicapped chemists. Its purpose is to consider the problems of the physically handicapped in edu cation, employment, and ACS ac tivities, and to recommend ap proaches for dealing with these problems. One of the first assignments of the committee is to serve as an advisory board for a National Science Foun dation-supported ACS project to develop guidelines for teaching chemistry to handicapped students. The idea for this project came from the experimental Education Com mission. The commission acted in recognition of the great need that exists for practical, valid information on how to teach chemistry, both in lecture and the laboratory, to persons with physical handicaps. The goal of the project is to make it easier for handicapped persons to enter careers in chemistry by devel oping and distributing to chemistry teachers a practical guide on teaching chemistry to the handicapped, and by sensitizing teachers to the special problems of such students. To achieve this goal, ACS will conduct a two-day workshop in April 1980. About 25 chemical educators and handicapped chemists, headed by James H. Hazdra of Illinois Ben-
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edictine College, Lisle, will m e e t to consider ways of dealing with t h e p r o b l e m s of teaching h a n d i c a p p e d s t u d e n t s . Following t h e workshop, work will begin on producing a m a n ual on t h e subject. Participants in the workshop are to be selected by t h e C o m m i t t e e on t h e
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Awards Ralph N. Adams, professor of chemistry, University of Kansas, and professor of neurobiology at the Menninger School of Psychiatry, will receive the 35th Midwest Award during the Midwest Regional Meeting in St. Louis, Nov. 8-9. The $1000 award is sponsored by the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation and administered by the ACS St. Louis Section. In receiving the award, Adams will be honored for his distinguished contributions to electroanalytical chemistry and education. Adams' early research work centered on trying to bring some order to the understanding of organic electrode processes. He was one of the first to develop techniques to exploit ESR for the in-situ examination of free radicals and radical ions produced electrolytically. His group provided the first example of a completely elucidated electrode process: the oxidation of dimethylaniline. This led to a generalization of the mechanistic pathways for the oxidation of aromatic amines and hydroxyl compounds. More recently, Adams has explored the unchartered area of neuropharmacology and neurophysiology using electrochemical methods. He was the first to obtain a voltammetric current-potential response from a micro-electrode imbedded in a living brain. His current work in mapping the distribution of electro-active substances, such as dopamine and ascorbic acid in the brain, promises to be a major contribution. Daniel E. Koshland Jr., professor of biochemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, will receive the 14th Annual Pauling Award, sponsored by the ACS Puget Sound and Oregon Sections. Koshland is an authority on enzyme and protein structure. He has contributed more than 250 articles involving the concepts of single and double displacement reactions of enzymes, the induced fit theory, the role of conformational changes in enzyme regulation, the elucidation of the catalytic power of enzymes, and the cooperative effect and studies in neurobiology. Since joining ACS in 1941, Koshland has been an active member serving in various capacities. He was chairman of the Division of Biological Chemistry in 1968. He has served on the advisory board of Biochemistry, and currently serves on Accounts of Chemical Research. He also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Biology and on Bioor-
ganic Chemistry. Koshland is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and is chairman of the Academy Forum, a committee of NAS which helps develop policy on issues posing dilemmas at the interface between science and societal problems. He has been president of the American Society of Biological Chemists, and chairman of its public policy committee. Francis J. Castellino, chairman and professor, department of chemistry, University of Notre Dame, will receive the Akron Section Award of the ACS Akron Section. In receiving the award Castellino will be recognized for his outstanding achievements and contributions to biochemistry and to the chemistry of blood clotting systems. David Dollimore of the University of Salford, U.K., has received the 1979 Mettler Award in Thermal Analysis. The award is given to acknowledge and encourage work in dynamic thermal analysis. Dollimore has authored more than 160 research papers, the majority of which dealt with the problems arising from the thermal decomposition of solids. Barbara Jacak, chemistry senior at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the Charles D. Coryell Award in Nuclear Chemistry, sponsored by the ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology. The annual $500 award is given to an undergraduate student for outstanding research in nuclear chemistry. Jacak's project involved the identification of large-residue reaction products produced in the proton bombardment of uranium.
Call for nominations Nominations are invited for the third ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Award to be presented at the 1980 biennial symposium. The $1000 award recognizes outstanding research and leadership in polymer science, and the nominee must be a member or affiliate of the ACS Polymer Division. Nominations containing a 200- to 300-word synopsis of the accomplishments, supporting data, and any additional letters of recommendation should be sent not later than Dec. 1 to J. Lai, Chairman, Awards Committee, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., 142 Goodyear Blvd., Akron, Ohio 44316.
