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Division of Analytical Chemistry Announces Fellowship Winners The Fellowship Committee of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry has announced the 1986-87 winners of two $8500 full-year graduate fellowships and five $2500 summer fellowships. According to Margaret V. Merritt of Wellesley College, chairman of the committee, the purpose of the fellowship program is to encourage basic research in the field of analytical chemistry through the support of outstanding graduate students. Financial support for the 1986-87 awards has been provided by the Perkin-Elmer Corporation, the Procter & Gamble Company, the Dow Chemical Company, and the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP). Recipient of the full-year fellowship sponsored by Perkin-Elmer is Kurt L. Haller of Northwestern University,
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who has been working with Richard P. Van Duyne on spatially resolved surface laser spectroscopy. Haller has shown the technique of spatially resolved surface-enhanced Raman scattering to have a calculated mass detection limit of 105 molecules. Karen Sentell of the University of Florida has received the full-year fellowship sponsored by Procter & Gamble. She is investigating the structure and conformation of bonded-phase chromatography packings with the goal of achieving a better understanding of retention mechanisms in reversed-phase liquid chromatography. Her thesis work may reveal new information about the solubility of small molecules in interphases such as micelles, vesicles, and lipid bilayer membranes. Last year, Sentell was a recipi-
ent of one of the summer fellowship awards. This year four summer fellowships were sponsored by SACP: • Stephen L. Pentoney, Jr., of the University of California, Riverside, has interfaced a supercritical fluid chromatograph to a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer and is investigating the use of this system for environmental analyses. Pentoney is working under the direction of Peter R. Griffiths. • At the University of Rhode Island, Steven Donahue is developing techniques for processing data from chemical instrumentation. The algorithms he has developed have been used for multicomponent analysis in IR and UV-vis spectroscopy. Donahue's thesis adviser is Chris W. Brown.
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News • Gregory W. Nelson is exploring the use of fluorescence lifetimes to study interactions of cyclodextrins with selected fluorophores as part of his research under the direction of Isiah M. Warner at Emory University. • Carolyn Wechter is completing her thesis research under the direction of Janet Osteryoung at the State Unversity of New York at Buffalo. She is investigating the characteristics of glassy carbon electrodes modified by the deposition of thin metallic films and their use in anodic stripping voltammetry and flow injection analysis. Recipient of a fifth summer award, this one sponsored by Dow Chemical, is George H. Vickers of Indiana University. Working under the direction of Gary M. Hieftje, Vickers is pursuing studies aimed at understanding ion extraction in inductively coupled plasma/mass spectrometry. The following students received honorable mention: Jennifer Brodbelt of Purdue University; Roger J. Carlson of the University of Wisconsin, Madison; Joseph P. Dougherty of the University of Connecticut; Lawrence E. Fosdick of the University of Georgia; and Kevin McKenna of the University of Florida.
Fred Lytle Wins Chemical Instrumentation Award Winner of the 1986 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Award in Chemical Instrumentation is Fred E. Lytle, professor of chemistry at Purdue University and an Associate Editor of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y .
The Chemical Instrumentation Award is sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company and consists of a
provement of instrumentation for analytical chemistry. Lytle was cited for pioneering work in introducing the laser as a light source for analytical spectroscopy: "His greatest impact has been in the fields of time-resolved fluorescence, Raman, and two-photon spectroscopies. The instrumentation and methodology developed in these areas have established the state of the art in temporal resolution, sensitivity, and measurement strategy. His contributions in pulsed laser design, highspeed detection and signal processing, and nonlinear spectroscopy have played a significant role in bringing revolutionary measurement concepts into analytical practice." Lytle received a B.S. in chemistry from Juniata College in 1964 and earned a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968. He joined the faculty at Purdue University that same year and was promoted to associate professor in 1974 and professor in 1979. He was the head of the analytical chemistry division in Purdue's Department of Chemistry from 1979 to 1984. His research interests include the theory and application of absorption, fluorescence, and phosphorescence spectroscopy; time-resolved fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy; and two-photon spectroscopy. Lytle has received the Merck Company Faculty Development Award, he was voted outstanding teacher in the Purdue School of Science in 1979, and he won the Amoco Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1985. He was appointed an Associate Editor of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y in
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Coblentz Award to Joel Harris
plaque and a stipend of $4000. It will be presented at a symposium to be held at the spring 1987 ACS national meeting in Denver, Colo. The award was established to recognize and encourage significant achievements in the origination or im-
Joel M. Harris of the University of Utah has won the 1986 Coblentz Award. This award is sponsored by the Coblentz Society and is given each year to a young researcher who has made significant contributions to molecular spectroscopy. Harris received the award at the 41st Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy, held in June at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Harris did undergraduate research at Duke University on solute-solvent interactions in gas chromatography under the supervision of Charles H. Lochmuller. His graduate research under Fred E. Lytle at Purdue University on the development of laser-based instrumentation for time-resolved fluorimetry helped earn Harris a Ph.D. degree in 1976. In that same year,
Harris was appointed to an assistant professorship in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Utah, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1981 and to professor in 1985. He also holds an adjunct appointment in Utah's Department of Bioengineering. Harris's research activities have concentrated on the application of lasers to analytical spectroscopy, partic-
ularly in the areas of photothermal absorbance measurements, trace level chemical detection, and time-resolved fluorescence. In the latter area, he has initiated research on multiple-component data analysis and on the spectroscopy of the liquid-solid interface. Harris is a member of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY'S Instrumentation Advisory Panel and is an Alfred P. Sloan fellow.
Anachem Award to Henry Freiser Henry Freiser of the University of Arizona has been selected as the 1986 recipient of the Anachem Award for his "numerous and profound contributions to the field of analytical chemistry." The award will be presented, as part of a full-day symposium in his honor, at the 1986 national meeting of the Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies in St. Louis on Oct. 1. The Anachem Award has been presented annually by the Association of Analytical Chemists (Detroit, Mich.) since 1953. Previous recipients have included H. H. Willard, P. J. Elving, I. M. Kolthoff, A. A. BenedettiPichler, V. A. Fassel, J. J. Kirkland, J. D. Winefordner, G. M. Hieftje, and F. W. McLafferty. Freiser earned his B.S. degree from City College (New York) in 1941 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in 1942 and 1944, respectively, from Duke University. He was chairman of the Department of Physical and Analytical
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News Chemistry at North Dakota State University (1944-45) prior to spend ing a year as a research fellow at the Mellon Institute. He served on the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh from 1946-58 and has been at the Uni versity of Arizona since 1958.
His research activities have includ ed work on metal chelation, solvent extraction, the determination of fun damental constants, reaction kinetics, nonaqueous chemistry, novel ion-se lective electrodes, and innovative ap proaches to chromatography. He and his wife have raised three children: daughters Debbie and Manny, who are both artists, and son Ben, a professor of analytical chemistry at Purdue Uni versity.
ACIL Requests Uniform Accreditation Procedure The American Council of Indepen dent Laboratories Inc. (ACIL) has published a white paper appealing for a uniform national system of accredi tation for independent, for-profit lab oratories to replace the more than 100 accreditation programs currently op erating across the country. ACIL de fines laboratory accreditation as "veri fication by a competent, disinterested third party that a laboratory possesses the capability to provide accurate test data and that it can be relied upon in its day-to-day operations to maintain high standards of performance." In most states, laboratories testing the safety of drinking water are ac credited by state agencies, such as public health departments or environ mental resource departments, under the oversight of the U.S. Environmen tal Protection Agency (EPA). Under these programs, each laboratory must demonstrate proficiency on an annual basis by successfully analyzing sam ples supplied by EPA and by undergo ing periodic on-site inspections. Simi lar accreditation programs, but with different testing requirements, obtain
for laboratories that do wastewater, groundwater, and hazardous waste testing. ACIL contends that these sep arate state accreditation programs have created great difficulties for lab oratories, especially those operating in regional or national markets. The council argues that the plethora of state and federal accreditation pro grams is overly costly in terms of both money and time and that this ineffi ciency ultimately hurts the consumer of these services—the general public. "Because the goal is common and because the same testing laboratory community is the object of all pro grams, why cannot the many regula tors begin to work together rather than in isolation?" asks the white pa per. ACIL is urging EPA and state en vironmental officials to address them selves to the possibility of rationaliz ing the laboratory accreditation system. "The obvious goal," according to ACIL, "is a single, uniform, national accreditation program; a program technically sound, so as to satisfy the high standards appropriate for envi ronmental data, and flexible enough to meet the specific requirements of the various agencies and the different areas of environmental regulation." ACIL is recommending a "discipline" or "field-of-testing" approach, in which laboratories are accredited on the basis of their ability to perform testing in certain disciplines, such as analytical chemistry, as opposed to a "product/standard approach" that as sesses a laboratory's ability to perform tests on particular substrates. Copies of the ACIL white paper, en titled "Accreditation of Environmen tal Testing Laboratories: An Indepen dent Laboratory Perspective," are available free of charge from ACIL, 1725 Κ St. N.W., Washington D.C. 20006 (202-887-5872).
DOE Announces Small Business Awards The Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 101 proposals from small high-technology firms for funding un der its Small Business Innovation Re search (SBIR) program. Thirteen of the winning projects involve analytical chemistry. The proposals were chosen on the basis of technical merit from al most 700 applications. The purpose of the SBIR program (Anal. Chem. 1985,57,1130 A) is to increase the participation of small, in novative firms in areas of federally funded R&D. The 101 Phase-I awards announced by DOE will support at
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tempts by the winning companies to demonstrate the feasibility of their project proposals. After that, each will be eligible to compete for Phase-II funding, which involves grants of up to $500,000 for two years. Normally about half of the original contracts are continued into the second phase. The analytical-chemistry-related projects in this year's Phase-I con tracts are as follows: • ADA Technologies, Aurora, Colo., development of a total peroxy detec tor for flame and combustion mea surements • Catalytica Associates, Mountain View, Calif., development of reliable SO2 and NO* sensors and an integrat ed in-situ analyzer for combustion flue gas monitoring • Jonas Inc., Wilmington, Del., in-line monitoring of particulates in gas streams • OptiChem Technologies, Raleigh, N.C., dosimetry and monitoring of ar omatic amines • FWG Associates, Tullahoma, Tenn., electret for analysis of dry constitu ents of acid precipitation • QE Technology, Tampa, Fla., fre quency-stabilized dual-wavelength CO2 laser system for remote sensing of trace gases • Atom Science, Oak Ridge, Tenn., method of groundwater characteriza tion based on Kr-81 and Kr-85 atom counting, and isotopically selective single-atom counting of noble gases (two contracts) • EIC Laboratories, Norwood, Mass., remote fiber-optic surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of organic pollut ants in ground and surface water • Enzyme Technology Research Group, Durham, N.C., enzyme immo bilization on gold surfaces for determi nation of low levels of environmentally released compounds • Ohmicron Corporation, Pennington, N.J., differential microcalorimetric biosensor for enzymatic assays • ORD Inc., Nahant, Mass., portable readout device for fiber-optic sensors (optrodes) • Ionwerks, Houston, Tex., applica tion of direct recoil spectroscopy for surface analysis of Li, H, and D on fu sion materials DOE's fiscal year 1987 SBIR pro gram solicitation was issued in August 1986, with a due date for proposals of Nov. 3,1986. Copies of the solicitation may be obtained by writing to SBIR Program Manager, U.S. DOE, Wash ington, D.C. 20545. This year's National Science Foun dation SBIR awards were announced earlier, in the July 1986 issue of ANA LYTICAL CHEMISTRY (58,904 A).
