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Committee Reports, October 2006 Executive Committee Report Donald Wink, Secretary The Executive Committee met at the San Francisco ACS National Meeting. Two important items that were discussed were the regional high school teacher awards and plans for developing a strategic plan. Others were approving the recommendation of the BCCE committee to have the 2010 conference at the University of North Texas in Denton, TX, and endorsing the new SOCED statement on scholarship and recommending its adoption by the ACS Board.

Regional High School Teacher Awards The Executive Committee heard a report on the continued progress of the Regional Awards for Excellence in High School Teaching. The ACS regions are now informed about procedures to identify candidates and to make the awards, under the leadership of the Division’s Regional Meetings Committee with Morton Hoffman as its Chair; details appear on p 24. Anyone interested in supporting the endowment can obtain information from the Division Web site, at http://www.divched.org/DivCHED/awards/TEE2006.pdf (accessed Nov 2006). Division Strategic Plan At the Fall 2005 ACS Meeting, the Committee heard from Dale Gaddy of ACS, who is supporting ACS Divisions and Sections that choose to engage in a structured development of a strategic plan. The process is to provide the leadership of a Division with the tools to ascertain the current status of its operations, discuss future plans with the ACS Strategic Plan as a backdrop and point of alignment, and then to produce a forward-looking plan. The Committee agreed Results, ACS Division of Chemical Education 2006 Election of Officers

Chair-Elect (Chair in 2008)

• Tom Greenbowe, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; [email protected]

Councilor (2007–2009)

• Mickey Sarquis, Miami University at Middletown, Middletown, OH; [email protected]

Alternate Councilor (2007–2009)

• Jennifer Lewis, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; [email protected]

• Gabriela Weaver, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; [email protected]

Information about membership in the Division of Chemical Education may be obtained from the Secretary, whose address is listed on the Information Page on p 32.

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to proceed with developing a strategic plan and voted to have the chair establish a task force to develop a detailed plan for review at the Chicago meeting in Spring 2007. The nature of this plan will be an important item for the Executive Committee at that meeting, which Division members are urged to attend. This is currently expected to be at the usual time of 8 a.m. on Saturday, March 24, just preceding the beginning of the ACS meeting.

Division Boards The Executive Committee appointed the following individuals to terms on Division boards. Board of Publication: John Gelder and Barbara Sawrey Board of Trustees, Exams Institute: Stacey Lowery Bretz and Laura Slocum

Chemical Education Digital Library New NSDL Pathways Grant to JCE Collaboration As of October 1, the Journal of Chemical Education, the leader in a collaborative project, received an NSF grant of $2.25 million over three years to provide “broad access to a rich, reliable, and authoritative collection of interactive learning and teaching resources and associated services in a digital environment” and to “encourage and sustain continual improvements in the quality of STEM education for all students, and serve as a resource for lifelong learning”.

Collaborators The collaborators on this project are: • JCE, the world’s premiere chemistry education journal, which will act as the overall organizer of the project. It will contribute the resources of the JCE Digital Library—ChemInfo, DigiDemos, Featured Molecules, LivTexts, LrnCom, QBank, SymMath, and WebWare. Personnel are John Moore and Jon Holmes. • American Chemical Society’s Education Division, a part of the world’s largest scientific professional society. It will contribute an extensive collection of online resources, under the leadership of Mary Kirchhoff. • The ChemCollective, with innovative resources for online laboratories and simulations; leader is David Yaron of Carnegie-Mellon University. • Additional collaborators include Theresa Zielinski of Monmouth University in physical chemistry; Frank Settle of Washington and Lee University, who has a major Web site on nuclear chemistry; Grace Baysinger, head librarian, chemistry and chemical engineering, Stanford University, a member of an international consortium of digital libraries in chemistry.

Materials The ChemEd Digital Library will greatly expand its existing collections by adding new materials and assigning key-

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Volunteers Needed, Sabbatical and Shorter Funding The ChemEd Digital Library has funding to support individuals who will initiate communities to create, evaluate, adapt, and use the content of the digital library. If you are interested in participating and serving as a nucleus for the many communities we plan to develop and the outreach programs we plan to carry out, get in touch with John Moore, [email protected]. Examinations Institute Tom Holme The Board of Trustees met at the recent ACS meeting where they received the biennial audit of the Exams Institute finances; the audit, conducted by William and Coleman, LLC, showed that the Institute was on sound financial ground. In a busy meeting, the Board also updated the Operations Manual.

New Diagnostic Exam The Institute built a Wiki (an online workspace) for committees as reported at the San Francisco meeting. The new committee that is working on the Diagnostic of Undergraduate Chemistry Knowledge (DUCK) exam was the key driving factor for this development. This exam is being designed for use at the end of a four-year undergraduate curriculum and will group questions along with scenarios that include experimental data for students to interpret. Trial testing of this exam is expected to begin in the spring of 2007. Electronic Delivery Finally, the plans for developing electronic delivery mechanisms for ACS Exams were discussed. Negotiations continue with the software development team at University of Massachusetts–Amherst that built the platform for the OWL system that is used by tens of thousands of students each semester. The first level of implementation will be for Physical Chemistry, and it will be designed to allow instructors the flexibility afforded by the Combined Semester exam in an electronic format. Thus, topics can be grouped according to how they are covered within the semester format at a given school, such as pairing kinetics with quantum mechanics or statistical mechanics with thermodynamics. Pilot level, electronic delivery of this exam is expected in the Spring 2007 semester as well. Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) George S. Kriz, Chair

BCCE Committee The BCCE Committee selects the sites for the Biennial Conferences on Chemical Education and provides support and communication among those who have led previous BCCE conferences and those developing future conferences. The committee continues to develop ways to improve overwww.JCE.DivCHED.org

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words to all resources. The project will also consolidate existing digital assets to correspond with textbook tables of contents—a powerful tool for organizing and finding content.

Loretta Jones (University of Nor ther n Colorado), the 2006 Chair of DivCHED, at the ChemLuminary Awards poster session.

all support and guidance for the currently identified BCCE locations as well as for those who might consider hosting a BCCE conference in the future. The duties of the committee involve discussions, not only of possible host sites, but also of the overall structure and nature of the BCCE conferences themselves. The committee strives to maintain the high quality of past BCCE conferences and their service to the entire chemical education community, while making certain that the conferences are responsive to the many changes that are occurring in technology, the economy, and travel patterns.

BCCE 2006 The 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) was held at Purdue University, from July 30 through August 3, 2006. The General Chair for the conference was Bill Robinson (Purdue), and the Program Co-Chairs were Mickey Sarquis (Miami University of Ohio) and Arlene Russell (UCLA). Preliminary results indicate that there were approximately 1100 registrants, 850 papers, 44 workshops, and 62 exhibition booths; it was a success! BCCE 2008 The 20th BCCE will be held in 2008 at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. The General Chair is Steven Wietstock (University of Notre Dame), and the Program CoChairs are Cathrine Reck (Indiana University) and Regina Zibuck (Wayne State University). The planned dates for the 20th BCCE are July 26 through July 31, 2008. BCCE 2010 The BCCE Committee considered a proposal from the University of North Texas (UNT) to host the 2010 BCCE. The committee forwarded a recommendation to award the 2010 site to UNT to the CHED Executive Committee, and this recommendation was approved at the Committee’s September 2006 meeting. The General Chair for the Conference is Diana Mason (UNT); Co-Program Chairs are Amina El-Ashmawy (Collin County Community College) and Maureen Scharberg (San Jose State University). The conference dates have not yet been determined. BCCE 2012 and Beyond The BCCE Committee is currently examining proposals to host the 2012 and 2014 conferences. Groups who are interested in learning more about hosting a BCCE should contact George Kriz ([email protected]).


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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education CHED Outstanding Service Award Anna Wilson

Jane L. Crosby Jane has served ACS and the Division of Chemical Education as a member volunteer in many capacities for more than 35 years. These include as administrator for several educational programs for high school teachers at Washington State University and as mentor of the WSU Student Affiliates Chapter. Jane managed programming for ACS regional and national meetings to help the Division get its excellent system started. She managed Operation Progress workshops at Biennial Conferences and their symposia at regional and national ACS meetings. She created and was the first editor of the DivCHED Newsletter. She currently serves as coordinator and editor of the solicitation effort for the DivCHED/ ACS Teaching Excellence Endowment. Donald E. Jones Don has served the Division in many roles for more than 25 years. He has been a member of many committees and chair of the Chemistry Consultants Service. He served as DivCHED chair in 1993, and was a member and chair of the Board of Trustees for the ACS Examinations Institute from 1992–2002. He also was chair or co-chair for two exams subcommittees. He has participated in many activities related to education for MARM and the Maryland Section of ACS from 1972 until the present, serving terms as chair, councilor, and consultant. Don has given many presentations at local, regional, and national ACS meetings, and has written many articles for high school, college, and public readers. He was chairman of the editorial review board for the second edition of Chemistry in the Community (ChemCom).

Call for Nominations, 2007 Award The Recognition Committee of the Division of Chemical Education, Inc. is charged with conducting a yearly solicitation of nominees for the CHED “Outstanding Service Award” that is presented at the Fall ACS National meeting during the CHED Banquet. This call for nominations will allow all CHED members to submit nominees. To review the history: Gifts in recognition of service were given to Mary Virginia Orna and Betty Moore in 1998. After

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2006 Winners The Division of Chemical Education, Inc. selected two Division members for the 2006 CHED Outstanding Service Award: Jane L. Crosby and Donald E. Jones. Each was presented with a certificate and a glass apple at the Division banquet on September 9 at the Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco. The guidelines for this award are that the awardees be members of and have contributed outstanding service to CHED. Individuals who currently hold office or chair a committee in CHED are not eligible for this award until their term of office has expired. The award is presented at the Fall National ACS Meeting during the CHED banquet.

The 2006 recipients of the CHED Outstanding Service Award: Don Jones (left) and Jane L. Crosby (right).

this the Recognition Committee was set up with the specific task of determining nominees and recipients of the award; the recipients were: 2002

Lucy Eubanks and Dwaine Eubanks

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Joe Lagowski and Glenn Crosby

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Derek Davenport and Tamar (Uni) Susskind

2005

Ken Kolb and Doris Kolb

2006

Jane Crosby and Don Jones

The guidelines for this award are that the awardees be members of CHED and have contributed outstanding service to CHED. Individuals who currently hold office or chair a committee in CHED are not eligible for this award until their term of office has expired. Because there are so many members of CHED who deserve recognition who are close to retirement or have recently retired, we have received permission from the Executive Committee to make two awards each year for five years. We are in the fifth year of this fiveyear agreement and as a result, we will make two awards for outstanding service at the fall 2007 meeting. The award will consist of a token of appreciation plus two tickets to the CHED banquet on Saturday evening. Help the committee in this first phase of our work by submitting up to two names of worthy individuals for this award. Please include a list of activities including dates for which these individuals should be honored. Efforts on behalf of the division are to be the main focus and should be given in some detail. Please send your suggestions to me by email no later than February 15 ([email protected]). After this date the committee will confer to determine the recipient. Public announcement of the awardees will be made by May 1 to give them time to plan for the meeting in Boston. Names placed in nomination and not selected will be held and may be resubmitted for three more years. The nominator will be notified of the person’s status and allowed to update the information for the next year should they wish to do so.


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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education Conference Happenings Endless lectures and posters abound Perhaps this reaction will astound? Exhibits, meetings, strangers galore Quantum theories…oh sigh…what a bore. With colleagues of mine waxing profound Reminiscing at lunch—not too profound. Pasquale Di Raddo, May 2005

ACS Council Report Jerry Sarquis, Councilor The ACS membership dues for 2007 will be $132. At the Fall 2006 ACS National Meeting registration was 15,603 registrants; this includes 9,373 regular attendees, 3,350 students, 510 guests, 504 exhibit only, and 1,666 exhibitors. The Committee on Meetings and Expositions recommended to the Board of Directors that there be no increase in national meeting registration fees for 2007. A preview of ideas for the restructuring of the ACS Web site was available at http://www.myacsweb.org/sf2006/ index.html for two months after the end of the San Francisco meeting. Members were invited to submit ideas for the redesign to [email protected]. The Society Committee on Education, SOCED, will submit a position statement on scholarship in teaching to the Board of Directors. The Membership Affairs Committee is actively exploring new ways to involve younger chemists in the Society. One item under consideration is making Student Affiliates full voting members of the Society. The Council received three petitions for consideration: Petition on Election Procedures 2006; Petition on Multi-Year Dues; Petition on Rules for Nominating Members of Nominations and Elections for National Offices. A brief discussion ensued on the third of these. Action is expected on these petitions at the 2007 Spring National meeting in Chicago. Council elected H. N. Cheng, Milagros Delgado, Neil D. Jespersen, Les W. McQuire, and Charles F. Rowell to the Committee on Committees; Martha L. Casey, M. Elizabeth Derrick, Thomas R. Gilbert, and Joe W. Hightower to the Council Policy Committe; and Merle I. Eiss, Barbara A. Sawrey, Sharon P. Shoemaker, Herbert B. Silber, and Ellen B. Stechel to the Committee on Nominations and Elections. All those elected will serve 2007–2009 terms. CHED Regional Awards for Excellence in High School Teaching, Morton Hoffman With the endowment to support the CHED Regional Award now within 90% of its goal of $300,000 (including $100,000 in matching funds from CHED), the income on the investment will provide an award each year in perpetuity to a high school teacher in each of the ten ACS Regions.

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Awards will be made starting with the 2007 regional meetings. Supporters have made donations in amounts between $10 and $10,000. This demonstrates to the nation-wide high school teacher community that there is a large, influential group of scientists and engineers that appreciates excellence in science teaching. Supporters wish to identify and reward those teachers who excel in that demanding and crucial profession. Contributions to the fund, which are tax-deductible, are still needed and are being accepted; more information is at http://www.divched.org/DivCHED/awards/TEE2006.pdf (accessed Nov 2006). The Award Program will provide the Regional winner with a $1,000 check from CHED and a Salute to Excellence plaque from ACS. To participate in the Program, an ACS Region will be required to satisfy the following conditions: 1. include at least one CHED representative on its Selection Committee; 2. agree to forward the credentials of the ACS Regional winner as its nominee for the (national) ACS James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching; 3. choose its awardee from a field of at least three completed nominations.

The ACS Regions have been invited to participate in this program via a letter and accompanying packet (with program details, guidelines for the Region Board and the Local Sections in the Region, information to publicize the award and encourage nominations, a suggested timeline for the selection awardees, nomination and recommendation forms, and a scoring rubric) that was sent to their chairs and secretaries. To be eligible for the Award, the nominee must be actively engaged in the teaching of chemistry or a chemical science in a high school (grades 9–12) on at least a half-time basis. In addition, the nominator should clearly demonstrate as many of the following attributes as possible: • The quality of the nominee’s teaching; unusually effective methods of presentation should be emphasized • The nominee’s ability to challenge and inspire students • Extracurricular work in chemistry or a chemical science by the nominee, including science fairs, science clubs, and activities that stimulate the interest of young people in chemistry and related sciences • A willingness to keep up-to-date in the field, as evidenced by the pursuit of a higher degree in chemistry or a chemical science, enrollment in refresher courses and summer institutes, regular attendance at scientific meetings, membership in professional organizations, and other means of self-improvement • Evidence of leadership and/or active involvement within the profession

The CHED Executive Committee assigned oversight responsibility for the implementation of the Award Program to the Regional Meetings Committee, whose members are available to serve as the CHED representative on the selection committees.


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Photos from San Francisco: CHED Events

Members of the Student Affiliate Chapter at Santa Clara University at Sci-Mix: (left to right) Janet Olsen, Terr y Tran, Meissam Movassat.

Don Wink (left, University of Illinois at Chicago), CHED Secretary and Susan Greer (right, Purdue University), CHED Office Manager, at their poster describing the CHED Secretary’s office.

CHED Outreach Report: ACS Regional Meetings Morton Z. Hoffman The Division of Chemical Education (CHED) was represented at the four ACS regional meetings in May and June 2006 by members of the Regional Meetings Committee. They staffed the CHED table at which materials from the Outreach Office about the Division, the Journal, and the Exams Institute were displayed and participated in the meetings: Morton Hoffman (Boston University): Central (CRM); Paul Charlesworth (Michigan Technological University): Great Lakes (GLRM); Allene Johnson (high school teacher, retired): Middle Atlantic (MARM); Richard Hermens (Eastern Oregon University): Northwest (NORM). CHED also provided $500 to each of the meetings in support of their chemical education programming. This article is adapted from the representatives’ post-meeting reports.

Central Regional Meeting: Morton Z. Hoffman The combined CRM and 39th Silicon Symposium drew an attendance of more than 800 to explore the theme, Diverse Interactions: The Elements of Success. A full-day chemical education symposium featured talks from college/university and high school speakers; a workshop on “Bringing Science to Life in the Classroom” for K–12 teachers was offered to assist them in incorporating safe chemical demonstrations in their classroom, and a half-day workshop, “Science Literacy and Educational Outreach”, described the resources that are available to local teachers. The Central Michigan University Student Affiliates chapter hosted

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Participants in the symposium, Chemical Education and Chemical Safety Issues in the Aftermath of Disasters: (left to right) Neal Langerman (Advanced Chemical Safety), Harry Elston (Midwest Chemical Safety), Russell Schmehl (Tulane University), Frankie Wood-Black (ConocoPhillips), Stella Allen (New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School), Teresa Birdwhistell (Xavier University of Louisiana), Kurt Birdwhistell (Loyola University), Richard Lumpkin (Lamar University), Matthew Tarr (University of New Orleans), Morton Hoffman (Boston University).

the undergraduate program around the theme, Nanotechnology: It’s a Small, Small World. In addition, Jean-Michel Cousteau, the plenary lecturer of the meeting, made a presentation to the students at the Frankenmuth (MI) High School. The ACS Science Education and Awards Banquet featured presentations by Ann Nalley (ACS President), Bill Carroll (ACS Immediate Past President), and Diane Grob Schmidt (District II Director), and the recognition of national, regional, and local awardees. The 2006 Central Region High School Teacher of the Year Awards were presented to Leslie McSparrin of Sharpsville (PA) Area High School for 2005 and Pamela Thompson of Arthur Hill High School (Saginaw, MI). The Midland Section also presented local awards for outstanding achievement in elementary and middle-level science education, high school and college chemistry teaching, and science education volunteerism.

Great Lakes Regional Meeting: Paul Charlesworth The benefits of malts, hops, and how each yeast can produce different esters detectable by the human palate set the scene for GLRM, which was hosted by the Milwaukee Local Section. The meeting attracted almost 400 presentations and more than 700 attendees. It featured a full-day program for high school teachers that included presentations on demonstrations, POGIL, products and programs from the ACS Education Division, and assessment tools from the Exams Institute; workshops on JCE Classroom Activities and teaching with toys; and a keynote presentation by Lee Marek (Uni-


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Association Reports: ACS Division of Chemical Education versity of Illinois at Chicago). Several chemical education symposia were also scheduled at the meeting: “NSF Catalyzed Innovations in Chemistry Curriculum Development”, “Green Chemistry,” contributed oral papers, and an undergraduate research program that included a poster session with 31 presentations. At the awards luncheon, Dana Krejcarek of Kohler (WI) High School received the Great Lakes Regional High School Teacher Award. Dana uses constructivist models to provide an atmosphere that allows students to design and direct their own activities, thereby promoting their discovery that science investigations are open-ended processes. Tom Holme (University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee) received the Great Lakes Regional Award for Volunteer Service to the ACS for his contributions to the goals and objectives of the Society.

Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting: Allene Johnson The aroma of chocolate was in the air at MARM. Hosted by the Southeastern Pennsylvania and Susquehanna Valley Local Sections, the meeting in Hershey attracted about 1,000 attendees and 600 presentations. A plenary lecture, “Food for the Gods”, by Sally and Howard Peters (ACS Director-atLarge) discussed the history and biochemistry of chocolate. The first day of the meeting was designated Science Education and Career Day, with programming that focused on the needs of students, their parents, and their teachers from throughout the region. There were workshops on POGIL and forensic chemistry for high school teachers; symposia on what works well in the classroom/laboratory and chemical education research; and a poster session on successful Student Affiliate chapters, at which Ann Nalley (ACS President) officially opened the meeting. On subsequent days there were symposia on education research, computers, forensic science, NMR in the undergraduate curriculum, and Joseph Priestley, who in the person of Ronald Blatchley (retired high school teacher) made appearances throughout the meeting. The Delaware Valley Chromatography Forum on Student Awards was also part of the education program. At the awards session, the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences was presented to retired high school teacher Allene Johnson by Israel’s widow. President Nalley presented several awards: E. Emmet Reid Award, recognizing excellence in teaching at a small college in the MARM region: Theresa Julia Zielinski, Monmouth College High School Teacher Award: Karen Galley, West Windsor– Plainsboro South High School, Princeton Junction, NJ; Galley is also president of the New Jersey Science Teachers Assn. Susquehanna Valley Local Section Joseph Priestley Service Award: Ronald Blatchley

The two host sections also presented their outstanding high school teacher awards.

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Northwest Regional Meeting: Richard Hermens NORM was held in Reno, the “Biggest Little City in the World”and hosted by the Sierra Nevada Local Section and the Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno; there were about 250 presentations and 400 registrants. Chemical education programming began with a half-day symposium on the future of general chemistry texts in the Internet age organized by Cinzia Muzzi (De Anza College) at which the authors of well-known textbooks offered views of the future of their medium. There was a full-day symposium sponsored by CHED on “Innovations in Chemistry Education;” one innovation was the inclusion of two physics teachers in order to gain the perspectives of that discipline. A half-day general session of papers filled out the chemical education program, which drew audiences of upward of 50 with many standees. At the awards banquet, ACS President Ann Nalley presented the Northwest Regional Volunteer Service Award to Jane Crosby for her more than 35 years of dedicated activities at Washington State University, the Northwest Region, and the ACS and CHED, most recently as manager of the Regional High School Teacher Award Endowment. Among the other honorees were Glen Fryxell (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Northwest Regional Industrial Innovation Award, and Jack Norton (Columbia University), Sierra Nevada Distinguished Chemist Award. Saluting 2006 Outreach Volumteers Betty Moore The CHED Outreach Office salutes the 57 volunteers who participated in outreach efforts in 2006 through the CHED Outreach Office. These efforts connect teachers and students with chemistry content and with the larger chemical education community. It is easy to become an Outreach Ambassador. When you take part in this very successful outreach program, you help teachers and students in your area by connecting them with what is happening in chemical education: we can provide JCE, CHED, and the Examinations Institute materials for workshops, conferences, award nights, seminars, education courses, etc. We can provide some guidance (and some goals) for conducting your outreach program, too. Materials are normally sent without cost. To participate or to learn more, contact the CHED Outreach Office at [email protected]; 800-9915534 (U.S.) or 608/262-5153. Please contact us at least three weeks before you need materials. Lois Ablin, Dharshi Bopegedera, Sarah Brennan, Linda Buchholz, Paul Charlesworth, Pawel Ciesla, Jim Cortez, Glenn Crosby, Jane Crosby, Julie Cunningham, Kim-


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Photos from San Francisco: Other Events

photo: Peter Cutts, ACS

photo: Chemical Heritage Foundation

The Second Annual Chemist–Composers Concert, sponsored by the Division of History of Chemistry and the Chemical Heritage Foundation, took place at the San Francisco ACS Meeting. Performers were Victoria Bragin (piano soloist and former professor of chemistry) and the Caltech Chamber Music Ensemble (all of whom are chemistry/biochemistry students). Bragin presented a premier performance of “Deep”, a new work by Elaine Bearer (a neuroscientist at Brown University). Shown left to right: Bearer, Bragin, Christina Vizcarra, June Wicks, Shelley Chang, Victor Kam, and John Keith. Jeffrey Seeman, concert organizer, reports that a third concert is being planned for the Boston ACS Meeting, Fall 2007.

Donald Showalter (University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point) received the Helen M. Free Award for Public Outreach from Cheryl Martin, at left (Chair, Committee on Public Relations and Communications) and Helen Free (ACS Past President) at the 10th Annual ChemLuminary Awards. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of public outreach by a member of ACS. Showalter was recognized for a lifetime of conveying the excitement, beauty, complex nature, and fun of chemistry to any audience.

berly Destefani, Kelly Deters, Marian DeWane, Boyd

Diana Mason, Clyde Metz, Malgorzata Nodzynska,

Earl, Linda Fanis, Cheryl Frech, Dick Gaglione, Hal

Diane Nutbrown, Rachel Pace, Marsha Phillips,

Harris, Mary Harris, Leonard Hausold, Sharon Hawi,

Donovan Porterfield, Ponnadurai Ramasami, Paul

Al Hazari, Rosa Hemphill, Richard Hermens, Larry

Rillema, Larry Sacks, Hala Schepmann, Laura Slocum,

Hockenberry, Morton Hoffman, Thomas Holme, Jane

Leah Solla, Ruth Tanner, Terri Taylor, Eric Todd, John

Horwitz, Erica Jacobsen, Allene Johnson, Wayne Jones,

Varine, Eric Voss, Kathy Warner, Carol White, Donald

John Kotz, Siva Kumari, Ellen Loehman, Lee Marek,

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