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Nominations Sought for 1993 ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards Nominations are being sought for the 1993 Division of Analytical Chemistry Awards in Chemical Instrumentation, Excellence in Teaching, Spectrochemical Analysis, and Electrochemistry. The awards will be presented at the 1993 fall ACS national meeting in Chicago. The Award in Chemical Instrumentation, sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company Foundation, is given to an individual who has advanced the field of chemical instrumentation and has achieved one or more of the following: • conceptualized and developed unique instrumentation that has made a significant impact on the field • demonstrated innovative use of instrumentation in chemical measurement • stimulated the use of instrumentation in chemical measurement by other researchers • published research papers or books that have influenced the use of chemical measurement The Award for Excellence in Teaching, cosponsored by the Division and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., recognizes a scientist who has enhanced the personal and professional development of analytical chemistry students in one or more of the following ways: • published an influential textbook for an analytical chemistry course • designed and implemented a successful new approach to teaching analytical chemistry • encouraged, through teaching or research mentorships, a significant number of students to become analytical chemists • developed and published innovative experiments • designed improved equipment for teaching labs • published widely quoted articles on teaching analytical chemistry The Awards in Spectrochemical Analysis (sponsored by Perkin-Elmer Corp.) and Electrochemistry (sponsored by EG&G Princeton Applied Research) are presented to individuals who have advanced the fields of spectrochemical analysis and optical spectrometry or the field of electrochemical analysis, respectively. Candidates for these awards must have achieved one or more of the following: • conceptualized and developed unique instrumentation that has a significant impact on the field • developed novel and important instrumentation or methods • elucidated fundamental events or processes involved in or important to the field • published research papers or books that have influenced the development of the field Each award consists of a $4000 honorarium, a plaque, and a travel allowance to the 1993 fall ACS national meeting. All nominees (except those for the Excellence in Teaching Award) must be members of the Division. The Excellence in Teaching Award is open to all teachers who have been full-time faculty members of U.S. or Canadian colleges or universities for at least five years at the time the award is presented.
Nominating documents should include a letter of recommendation, one or more seconding letters, and a brief biographical sketch emphasizing the candidate's accomplishments. Nomination materials, which should not exceed 12 pages of text, should be sent in one package by Sept. 1 to Charles L. Wilkins, Department of Chemistry, University of California—Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521-0403.
Nominees Sought for 1992 Statistics in Chemistry Award The Chemometrics Committee of the Section on Statistics in the Physical and Engineering Sciences of the American Statistical Association is soliciting nominations for the 1992 Statistics in Chemistry Award. This annual award recognizes outstanding collaborative endeavors between statisticians and chemists. In 1991 the award was for the best paper published in a peer-reviewed chemometrics, chemistry, or statistical journal. In 1992 the award will be for the best collaborative work between one or more statisticians and one or more chemists in the industrial or manufacturing setting. The award committee consists of three chemists and three statisticians. Nominees will be judged on the innovative use of statistics to solve a problem in chemistry. Each awardee will receive a certificate and an equal share of the $2000 prize. This year the award is funded by the Applied Statistics Department of Dow USA and will be presented at the 1992 American Statistical Association meeting in Boston. Work performed in the last two years will be considered, and anyone may submit a nomination. Because the award does not necessarily require a published paper, the nomination should include a detailed description of the work performed along with a letter describing its significance. Six copies of the nominating documents should be sent by May 15 to Robert Kasprzyk, Dow USA, Applied Statistics, 2020 Dow Center, Midland, MI 48674.
For Your Information Quality in R&D and the Innovation Process is a compilation of papers presented at the 1991 ACS Corporation Associates Annual Symposium. The booklet, published by the American Chemical Society, features the keynote address by H. William Lichtenberger, president and chief operating officer of Union Carbide. Presentations include an overall assessment of the quality process within a variety of companies in the chemical and allied industries. Authors also describe how companies manage technology, use quality to satisfy customers' needs, and build leadership positions for their companies in highly competitive global markets. To order, contact Brian Theil, American Chemical Society, Office of Corporation Associates, 1155 16th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20036, or call 202-872-6101. ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 64, NO. 6, MARCH 15, 1992 · 379 A
