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HUNT IS 2006 ACS PRESIDENT-ELECT Rohm and Haas executive to emphasize education, collaboration, innovation
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ATHERINE T. HUNT, LEADER
of technology partnerships at Rohm and Haas, Spring House, Pa., is ACS president-elect for 2006. She will serve as ACS president in 2007 and as a member ofthe board ofdirectors from 2006 to 2008. Hunt received 18,637 votes; also running, George E. Heinze, chief operating officer and executive vice president for regulatory affairs and business development at RcK&dandTechnimed, Rockland, N.Y., received 7,376 votes. Approximately half of the votes for president-elect were cast using the Internet, which was available this year for the first time. The number of votes cast overall for president-elect (17% of eligible voters cast ballots) is an increase over last year's percentage (14%). In her candidate's statement (C&EN, Sept. 5, page 61), Hunt said she believes that "it's time for America to reignite its commitment to science and technolCHEMICALS
ogy—and ACS can lead the way." Also elected were two directorsat-large and two district directors; they will serve on the ACS Board from 2006 to 2008. The winners in the at-large elections, who are elected by voting members of the ACS Council, are
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McCarty
incumbentsJames D. Burke, Rohm and Haas (retired), and C. Gordon McCarty, adjunct professor at the University of South Carolina, Beaufort. Other candidates for these
seats on the board were Edwin A. Chandross, principal at MaterialsChemistry LLC, Murray Hill, NJ., and Frankie K. WoodBlack, director of consent decree coordination, ConocoPhillips, Houston. In District III, Madeleine M. Joullie, professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, will serve as director. Joullie received 2,497 votes; challenger Catherine C. Fenselau, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University ofMaryland, College Park, received 1,905 votes. In District VI, Bonnie A. Charpentier, vice president ofregulatory affairs and compliance at Genitope
Joullie
Charpentier
Corp., Palo Alto, Calif, received 2,031 votes; incumbent Stanley H. Pine, professor of chemistry, California State University, Los Angeles, received 1,741.-LINDA RABER
POLICY
Compromises Move REACH Closer To Reality he next-to-the-last chapter in the European Union's policy for the registration/evaluation, and authorization of chemicals, known as REACH, was concluded last week. Compromises between political parties ancl committees in the European Parliament enabled a Nov. 17 final vote approving REACH by407 to 155, with 41 abstentions. The bill heavily pares back the regulations originally proposed by the European Commission in October 2003 (C&EN, Nov. 14, page 42). Parliament's package now goes to the Council of Ministers, the main decision-
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making body of the EU. There, two subcouncils—competitiveness and environment—have been debating REACH for the past two months. However, the final Competitiveness Council's vote on the amended bill, originally set for Nov. 28-29, has been delayed, the U.K., which currently holds the presidency of the EU and which calls finalization of a REACH bill among its top priorities, agreed to postpone the vote to give the incoming government of Germany's new chancellor, Angela Merkel, time to study it. The measure will have a major impact oh the German chemical industry, the largest in Europe.
Unless the Competitiveness Council accepts all Parliament's amendments, a "second reading" will be needed, which could involve nearly a year's additional work. Greenpeace called the postponement "an outrage." U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair "caved in to pressure from Germany's Angela Merkel, who is seeking to protect the interests of Germany's large chemical companies," according to the activist group. U.K. officials hope to have final approval on REACH—which one minister says is "not perfect, but it's much, much better than what we have now"—by the end of the year.-PATRICIASHORT
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