ACS NEWS
Local Section, Division Funding Petition Approved
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N JUNE 23, THE ACS CONSTITUTION-
al changes required to implement the Petition for Local Section & Division Funding were ratified by a vote of the ACS membership. The vote was 20,430 for the changes and 3,197 against. The petition, now fully approved, elim inates dollar amounts for local section and division allotments from the society's by laws and distributes 20% of the ACS mem ber dues collected to local sections and divisions. By 2007, the cost of this action will be $9.00 per member per year. This funding will come from a combination of a pro gressive temporary assessment and cost sav ings/increased revenues in society opera tions. Temporary assessments of $2.00 per member in 2004, $4.00 in 2005, $6.00 in 2006, and $8.00 in 2007 will be levied. More information on the petition, in cluding the constitution articles affected, is available in C&EN (Feb. 24, page 42).
Slates Finalized For Fall Elections
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ILLIAM F. CARROLL JR., VICE PRES-
ident of chlorovinyl issues at Oc cidental Chemical Corp., and Michael E. Strem, president, Strem Chem icals, Newburyport, Mass., will vie for the office of 2004 ACS president-elect in this fall's elections. The person elected will serve a three-year term (2004-06) as a member of the presidential succession. There were no petition candidates. For a position on the ACS Board of Di rectors for District I, there will be three candidates. They are Ronald D. Archer, pro fessor of chemistry at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Anne Τ O'Brien (incumbent), Wyeth Ayerst Research (re tired); and DorothyJ. Phillips, director, New Business Development, Waters Corp., Milford, Mass. For District V, the candidates for direc tor areJudith L. Benham, business director, 3M Industrial Services & Solutions Divi sion, St. Paul, Minn., and E. Ann Nalley (in cumbent), professor of chemistry Cameron University, Lawton, Okla. On or before Oct. 10, ballots will be mailed to all ACS members residing in Dis tricts I and V for election of their directors. The term of those elected will be 2004-06. HTTP://WWW.CEN-ONLINE.ORG
Candidates' statements are scheduled to appear in C&EN's Sept. 15 issue. The candidates for two seats on the board as directors-at-large for 2 0 0 4 - 0 6 are Dennis Chamot (incumbent), associate executive director at the National Re search Council, Washington, D C ; Nancy B.Jackson, technical manager, Sandia Na tional Laboratories, Albuquerque; Peter C. Jurs, professor of chemistry, Pennsylva nia State University; and James P. Shoffner (incumbent), retired adjunct profes sor of science, Columbia College, Chicago. Ballots will be mailed to all voting coun cilors on or before Oct. 10.
Grubbs Named 2003 Pauling Medalist
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HE ACS OREGON, PORTLAND, AND
Puget Sound Sections have named Robert H. Grubbs, Victor & Eliza beth Atkins Professor of Chemistry at Cal ifornia Institute of Technology the recipi ent of the 2003 Linus Pauling Award. The award recognizes outstanding achieve ment in chemistry comparable to that of its namesake and first winner, Linus Pauling, a Pacific Northwest native and 1954 Nobel Laureate in chemistry A native of Possum Trot, Ky, Grubbs re ceived B.S. (1963) and M.S. (1965) degrees from the University of Florida. He earned his Ph.D. from Co lumbia University in 1968 with Ronald Breslow and was then an N I H postdoctor al fellow with James Ρ Collman at Stanford. In 1969, he joined the chemistry faculty at Michigan State University, and he moved to Caltech in 1978. By combining fundamental work in organometallic and catalytic chemistry with an appreciation of the needs of syn thetic chemistry, Grubbs has had a major impact in the fields of both organic and polymer chemistry Several years ago, his group discovered a new class of olefin metathesis catalysts based on ruthenium alkylidenes that show unprecedented tol erance toward polar functional groups and that opened the way for the synthesis of a wide variety of functionalized polymers. Grubbs's other awards have included the ACS Award in Organometallic Chemistry (1988), the ACS Award in Polymer Chem istry (1995), the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (2000), the ACS Herman F.
Mark Polymer Chemistry Award (2000), the ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Cre ative Research in Synthetic Methods (2001), the ACS Arthur C. Cope Award (2002), and the ACS Award for Creative Research in Homogeneous or Heteroge neous Catalysis (2003). A symposium honoring Grubbs will be held at the University of Oregon, Eugene, on Nov 1. For more information, visit the Pauling website at http://wwwuoregon.edu/ -chem/pauling.html or contact Michael Ha ley 2003 symposium chairman (haley@ ore gon.uoregon.edu).
ACS-PRF Proposal Submission Open
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HE ACS PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND
is currently accepting research pro posals (Types AC, B, and G) for con sideration at the winter 2004 PRF advi sory board meeting, which will be held in early February. Proposals should be re ceived in the ACS-PRF office at least five months prior to the meeting to ensure con sideration at the winter meeting. Earlier submission is encouraged. At itsJune 2003 meeting, the ACS Board Committee on Grants & Awards approved a recommendation of the PRF advisory board that principal investigators be al lowed to have only one Type AC grant ap plication considered in a 12-month period. The result of this regulation is that a prin cipal investigator who has a Type AC pro posal denied may not have another Type AC proposal considered by the PRF advi sory board until the advisory board meet ing one year after the meeting at which the denied proposal was initially considered. Type SE proposals (speaker travel) are being accepted for consideration at the October 2003 PRF advisory board meet ing. These proposals should be submitted no later than Sept. 19. Type H proposals, for ACS-PRF Sum mer Schools grants, will be considered next at the October meeting. Type H propos als must be received in the ACS-PRF of fice by Aug. 29. Proposals for the second round of the ACS-PRF Undergraduate Faculty Sab batical grant program (for 2004-05) will be considered at the October meeting. Ap plications are due in the ACS-PRF office by Sept. 5. Applications for the next round of Al ternative Energy Postdoctoral Fellowships will be due in the ACS-PRF office in early December for consideration at the winter PRF advisory board meeting. C&EN
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