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Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards Robert Osteryoung, Richard Ramette, Joel Harris, and John Wright are this year's winners of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry awards. The honorées will receive their awards at the fall 1991 ACS national meeting in New York City. Brief biographical sketches of the awardees follow. Robert Osteryoung of the State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo will be honored with the Award in Electrochemistry (sponsored by the Electrochemical Instruments Division of EG&G Princeton Applied Research). Osteryoung received a B.S. degree (1949) from Ohio University and an M.S. degree (1951) and a Ph.D. (1954) from the University of Illinois. He worked for several institutions, including Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Atomics International Division of what is now Rockwell International, and Colorado State University before joining the faculty at SUNY, Buffalo, in 1979. His research interests are in electroanalytical chemistry, with emphasis on pulse voltammetric methods, molten salt and nonaqueous chemistry and electrochemistry, and online use of computers in electrochemistry. Osteryoung is the Associate Editor for electroanalytical chemistry for ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. A past chairman of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, he is an alternate councilor for the Division. The recipient of the 1987 Reilley Award and the 1990 Schoellkopf Medal, he has also held numerous offices in the Electrochemical Society, to which he was appointed a fellow in 1990. Richard Ramette will receive the Award for Excellence in Teaching (cosponsored by the Division and E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.). Ramette received a B.A. degree from Wesleyan University in 1950 and a Ph.D from the University of Minnesota in 1954. He joined the faculty at Carleton College (MN) in 1954 and became the Laurence M. Gould Professor of Chemistry in 1971. During 1960-72 and 1981-83, he was chairman of the chemistry department. He was awarded emeritus status in 1990. Ramette's research has centered on thermodynamic studies of aqueous equilibria, principally with coulometry. From 1964 to 1988, he lectured at the National Science Foundation programs for high school teachers at Hope College (MI). In 1977 he was chairman of the ACS Division of Chemical Education, and for 11 years he was a science adviser for the Food and Drug Administration. A recipient of the 1966 Manufacturing Chemists Association Award for excellence in teaching college chemistry, Ramette also received the 1990 Sears—Roebuck Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership.
Joel Harris, professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, will receive the Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company Foundation. Harris received a B.S. degree from Duke University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1976. He joined the faculty at Utah in 1976 as an assistant professor and was promoted to full professor in 1985. Harris's research has focused on the application of lasers to analytical chemistry, in particular the development of photothermal spectroscopic methods for detecting weak optical absorption in liquids, and the measurement of chemical kinetics at liquid—solid interfaces. He has served on the Instrumentation Advisory Panel (1986-88) of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y and is the recipient of several university accolades, including a Teaching Award in Chemistry, a David P. Gardner Faculty Fellowship, and a Distinguished Research Award. J o h n Wright, Evan Helfaer Professor of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the recipient of the Award in Spectrochemical Analysis (sponsored by Perkin Elmer). He received a B.S. degree (1965) from Union College (NY) and a Ph.D. (1970) from Johns Hopkins University. Following postdoctoral work at Purdue University, Wright joined the faculty at Wisconsin in 1972 and initiated a research program directed toward the use of narrow linewidths of tunable lasers for achieving selectivity in chemical measurements. He has developed site-selective laser techniques and applied them to spectrochemical measurements of complex mixtures encountered in chemical analysis, biochemistry, and materials science. He has also developed a new family of selective spectroscopies based on nonlinear optical mixing.
New AC Staff Member Jane K. Baker recently joined the staff of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY as an Assistant Editor. Her responsibilities include handling peer-reviewed manuscripts and coordinating the REPORT, NEW PRODUCTS, and MEETINGS sections of the A pages. She was formerly employed by the Syracuse Research Corporation. After receiving her B.S. (1967, Purdue University) and M.S. (1969, Emory University) degrees, Baker taught chemistry, biology, and physical science at the high school and junior college levels. She received her Ph.D. (1987) from The American University after participating in an NSF program for women in science. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 63, NO. 11, JUNE 1, 1991 · 611 A
