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Supply and Demand of Analytical Chemists Allerton Group seeks ways to balance the expected shortfall in the supply of young analytical chemists Analytical chemists play an impor tant role in this nation's R&D effort, and are thus in high demand. But a group of concerned individuals that recently held two meetings in Illinois believes that the supply of young ana lytical chemists is not keeping up with this demand. The group, consisting of a cross sec tion of 10 university analytical chem istry professors and 10 industrial R&D representatives, first met at the Allerton Conference Center in Illinois on April 30 and May 1 of this year. The conferees concluded that the projected demand for analytical chemists would exceed the projected supply during the 1980s unless changes could be made that would increase the number of students entering graduate studies in analytical chemistry, and make aca demic careers more attractive. They developed a list of over 20 solutions aimed at making more effective use of present resources, improving the ef fectiveness of individuals at all levels within the profession, and strengthen ing the profession to make it more at tractive to newcomers and more ful filling for incumbents. At a second conference held July 16-17 at Indian Lakes, 111., these pro posals were distilled down to five core proposals that were considered most essential for improving the quality and quantity of analytical chemists: • young faculty development awards to attract more PhDs to university ca reers; • regional workshops in analytical chemistry targeted for undergraduate students and their professors; • more summer employment experi
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ences for undergraduate and graduate students in university laboratories; • providing additional departmental funds to attract beginning graduate students to analytical careers; and • upgrading analytical instrumenta tion in undergraduate instrumental analysis courses. Implementation plans for each of the five action areas are now being drafted, and will require that the orig inal 20-member group expand to in clude additional academic and indus trial representatives. The mechanism for funding the proposals has not yet been determined. In addition to the five proposals, conferees agreed that some programs now in place should be expanded, including the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry summer in tern program and industry-sponsored counterparts, the divisional fellowship program, and professional exchange programs. Representatives of the Allerton group recently presented a status re port on their activities to the Division of Analytical Chemistry at the New York ACS meeting. The group be lieves that proposals to increase the quality and quantity of PhD analyti cal chemists might also be applicable to the solution of manpower problems in other chemistry disciplines. For further information on the Al lerton group or its proposals, contact Timothy Nieman at the University of Illinois, Department of Chemistry, Urbana, 111. 61801, or T. J. Logan at the Procter & Gamble Company, Miami Valley Laboratories, P.O. Box 39175, Cincinnati, Ohio 45247. Stuart A. Borman
