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1992 Board Members Appointed Seven new members have been selected to serve threeyear terms on ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY'S Advisory Board. Each January, membership on the board is rotated as new appointees replace those members whose terms have expired. Biographical sketches of the new members follow. Joel M. Harris, professor of chemistry at the University of Utah, received a B.S. degree from Duke University in 1972 and a Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1976. His research focuses on the application of lasers to analytical chemistry. He and his group have developed new experimental strategies in photothermal, time-resolved fluorescence, and Raman spectroscopy as well as methods to characterize structure and kinetics at liquid—solid interfaces. He served on ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY'S Instrumentation Advisory Panel from 1986 to 1988 and is the program chairman for this year's Summer Symposium on Analytical Chemistry. Franz Hillenkamp, professor of medical physics and biophysics at the medical school of the University of Munster, Germany, received his M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University in 1961 and his Diploma in communications in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physics from the Technical University, Munich, in 1966. Since 1982 he has held an appointment as a Visiting Professor at Harvard Medical School. Hillenkamp's research focuses on the application of lasers in the biological and medical sciences, including the use of laser desorption MS and optical spectroscopy for studying large biopolymers. Dennis C. Johnson, professor of chemistry at Iowa State University, received a B.A. degree from Bethel College (Minnesota) in 1963 and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in 1967. His research interests include development and application of pulsed amperometric/coulometric detection of polar aliphatic compounds at noble metal electrodes in LC; the analytical chemistry of alcohols, carbohydrates, amines, and sulfur compounds; electrocatalysis of anodic oxygen-transfer reactions at metal oxide electrodes; and the electrochemical incineration of chemical waste.
Richard A. Keller, a staff member in the Chemical and Laser Sciences Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory, received his B.S. degree from Allegheny College (Pennsylvania) and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. Keller's research concentrates on the development and characterization of laser-based techniques for the detection of trace species, including intracavity absorption, optogalvanic spectroscopy, flame-enhanced ionization, photon-burst MS, and single-molecule detection in solution. Géraldine Richmond, professor of chemistry and director of the Chemical Physics Institute at the University of Oregon, received her B.S. degree from Kansas State University in 1975 and her Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1980 under the direction of George Pimentel. Richmond's current research effort is directed toward optical characterization of the structure and dynamics at surfaces and interfaces, with an emphasis on surface nonlinear optics. Ralph Riggin, senior research scientist at Lilly Research Laboratories, received his B.S. degree from Pittsburg State University (Kansas) in 1972 and his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry from Purdue University in 1976. His research interests are primarily in the area of analytical biochemistry, including HPLC of proteins. His current research involves development and validation of assay methodology for the chemical, physical, and biological characterization of developmental pharmaceutical compounds. Charles L. Wilkins, professor of chemistry at the University of Cali fornia, Riverside, received his B.S. degree from Chapman College (California) in 1961 and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Oregon in 1966. His research is devoted to development of innovative approaches for the characterization of organic and biological compounds, including GC/IR/MS, laser desorption FT-MS, and SFC/MS. He is the 1992 president of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry and serves this year as the ex officio ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 64, NO. 1, JANUARY 1, 1992 · 17 A
NEWS member of the Board representing the Division. He served as a regular member of the Advisory Board from 1984 to 1986. Established in the 1940s to advise the JOURNAL'S Editors, the board meets formally once a year at ACS headquarters. The board members are a vital link between the editors and the analytical community, providing guidance and advice on editorial content and policy. Leaving the Advisory Board are Bernard J. Bulkin, BP Research Center; Renaat Gijbels, University of Antwerp; Thomas L. Isenhour, Kansas State University; J a m e s W. Jorgenson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; George S. Wilson, University of Kansas; Richard N. Zare, Stanford University; and ex officio member Sam Perone, San Jose State University. Continuing to serve are Michelle V. Buchanan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; M. Bonner Denton, University of Arizona; William S. Hancock, Genentech; Timothy Harris, Bell Laboratories; Philip D. LaFleur, Eastman Kodak Company; Alan G. Marshall, Ohio State University; John F. Rabolt, IBM Corporation; Debra R. Rolison, Naval Research Laboratory; Shigeru Terabe, Himeji Institute of Technology; and Michael Thompson, University of Toronto.
Small College Grants Small colleges with enrollments of 2500 students or less are invited to apply for the 1992 Pittsburgh Conference Memorial National College Grants Awards. These grants can be used for the purchase of scientific equipment, audio-visual or other teaching aids, and/or library materials, but they may not be used exclusively for research materials. Previous g r a n t recipients must wait three years before they are considered eligible again. The grants are supported by the Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry and Applied Spectroscopy, the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh, and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh. At least 10 schools will be selected to receive awards, which can be for as much as $3000. For more information, contact Ann E. Cibulas, Pittsburgh Conference-PCMBCG, 300 Penn Center Blvd., Suite 332, Pittsburgh, PA 15235 (412-825-3220; fax 412-825-3224). Applications must be submitted by March 6.
Hirschfeld Award Nominations Nominations are requested for the 1992 Tomas Hirschfeld Student Awards, which will be given for the most outstanding papers submitted by graduate students whose research is in an area related to analytical chemistry. Nominees must either be full-time graduate students or have received their advanced degrees since October 1991. Awardees will present a 20-minute talk at the 1992 Federation of Applied Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies meeting in Philadelphia in September. Travel expenses will be paid by FACSS. Students should submit the titles of their proposed papers, two letters of nomination (one of which should be from the supervising professor), any available reprints or preprints, and 250-word abstracts to FACSS National Office, P.O. Box 278, Manhattan, KS 66502. Additional information can be obtained from Ivan Glaze, American Cast Iron Pipe Co., P.O. Box 2727, Birmingham, AL 35202 (205-325-8979) or F. Monte Evens, 18 A · ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 64, NO. 1, JANUARY 1, 1992
Conoco, Inc., P.O. Box 1267, Ponca City, OK 74603 (405-767-3850). Deadline for submission of nominations is March 4.
Procter & Gamble Summer Jobs Again this year, Procter & Gamble will sponsor a Summer Analytical Research Program for college seniors majoring in chemistry. Students who enter this program will work full time for 10—12 weeks during the summer in an analytical research laboratory at one of Procter & Gamble's four Cincinnati-based corporate technical centers. Applicants m u s t be senior-year undergraduates who intend to work toward a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry. They must either be U.S. citizens or hold permanent resident visas. For more information, write Coordinator, Summer Analytical Research Program, The Procter & Gamble Co., Miami Valley Laboratories, Room 1D42, Cincinnati, OH 45247. Deadline is March 1.
For Your Information The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking project proposals for its 1993 P r e c i s i o n M e a s u r e m e n t Grants, which are awarded each year to U.S. scientists involved in determining values for fundamental constants, investigating related physical phenomena, or developing fundamental new measurement methods. The grants range from $30,000 to $40,000 for one year and may be renewed for up to two additional years. For further information, contact Barry N. Taylor, B160 Physics Bldg., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301-975-2762). Deadline for submission of proposals is Feb. 1. In commemoration of its 40th Jubilee, the «Japan Socie t y for A n a l y t i c a l C h e m i s t r y has granted h o n o r a r y m e m b e r s h i p to a limited number of distinguished foreign analytical chemists, including two American scientists. George H. Morrison of Cornell University, former Editor of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, and Bert L. Vallée of Harvard Medical School were honored at a ceremony last November at Keio University in Tokyo. E d g a r R. E l k i n s of the National Food Processors Association in Washington, DC, h a s been elected 1991—92 p r e s i d e n t of AOAC I n t e r n a t i o n a l (formerly the Association of Official Analytical Chemists). According to Elkins, who holds a B.S. degree from Tennessee State University, his priorities for the coming year include making the methods validation process more responsive to user needs. NIST has issued a n e w e d i t i o n of The International System of Units (SI). Special publication 330 incorporates the complete English-language translation of the 1991 edition of Le Système International d'Unités (SI), the définitive reference produced by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures. Included are full technical definitions of official SI units, historical notes on the development of present-day definitions, brief descriptions of the practical realization of the definitions of some important units, and special notes concerning U.S. metric usage. Single copies are available from Carolyn Stull, C210 Radiation Physics Bldg., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301-975-5607).
