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Association Report: ACS Division of Chemical Education
Secretary’s Report, April 2000 by Jerry L. Sarquis
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The ACS Council met on Wednesday, March 29, 2000. Highlights of that meeting include the selection of candidates for ACS President-elect in 2001: Glenn Crosby (Washington State University) and Eli Pearce (Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY). There will be no ACS dues increase for 2001. Reservations for accommodations at the Fall 2000 ACS Meeting in Washington, DC will be available online for the first time. The online system will include a larger number of smaller and less expensive hotels. The theme of National Chemistry Week 2000 will be food chemistry, and a collection for food banks will be part of the NCW efforts. [Editor’s Note: special coverage related to National Chemistry Week will appear in the October issue of the Journal.] Specific information on safety for K–6 and 7–12 teachers will be available on the ACS Web site (http://www.acs.org). The information is intended for teachers and administrators at the pre-college level. The Committee on Economic and Professional Affairs, CEPA, has prepared a new kit of information for just-graduated students. CEPA is also revising the Academic Professional Guidelines; those wishing to review and comment on the working draft can access it from the ACS Web site (see above). Highlights, CHED Executive Committee Meeting The Executive Committee met on Saturday, March 25, 2000, from 8 a.m. until 1 p.m. Major actions taken were: •
Allene Johnson (Summit High School, Summit, NJ 07901;
[email protected]) will head the High School Committee and lead the effort to engage high school teachers with the Executive Committee and CHED.
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The Task Force on Regional ACS Meetings will work to bring CHED programming to ACS regional meetings. It is headed by John Kenney (Eastern New Mexico University,
[email protected]). The Web Page Task Force was given committee status and Craig Bowen (Clemson University, cwbowen@ clemson.edu) volunteered to chair the committee. The CHED Newsletter will be published in a new, larger size so that it is more economical to mail. The practice of publishing all of the abstracts for an ACS meeting, including those for the undergraduate Student Affiliate Poster presentations, will be continued. Jay Young (Chemical Consultant, 12916 Allerton Lane, Silver Spring, MD 20904;
[email protected]) will head a task force that will address the problem of disposal of chemicals in pre-college schools.
ACS Awards Presented at CHED Sessions Recipients of several ACS awards for 2000 presented their award addresses as part of the CHED program. These are described below and in the photographs. Jerry A. Bell, American Chemical Society: “Every Year Begins a Millennium”. George C. Pimentel Award in Chemical Education, sponsored by Union Carbide Corp. Frank G. Cardulla, Niles North High School, Skokie, Illinois: “Does Our Bucket Have a Hole in It? Education Reform Against All Odds”. James Bryant Conant Award in High School Chemistry Teaching, sponsored by Albemarle Corp. George B. Kauffman, California State University, Fresno: “Undergraduate Research: Thanks and Tributes to Students and Colleagues”. ACS Award for Research at an Undergraduate Institution, sponsored by Research Corp.
Photo by Morton Z. Hoffman
Photo by Nancy S. Gettys
Photo by Morton Z. Hoffman
Recipients of 2000 ACS Awards
Valerie J. Kuck (right) with Robert J. Lichter of Dreyfus Foundation.
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George B. Kauffman (left) shown with Harry Gray.
Slayton A. Evans, Jr. (center) poses with Robert J. Lichter (left) and Derek Tabor (right).
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Slayton A. Evans, Jr., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: “Decade of Designing Organo Phosphorusbased Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry”. ACS Award for Encouraging Disadvantaged Students into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc. Valerie J. Kuck, Lucent Technologies, Murray Hill, New Jersey: “Volunteering: An Opportunity to Affect Change”. ACS Award for Encouraging Women into Careers in the Chemical Sciences, sponsored by the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
Additional CHED Announcements Further news about the Division of Chemical Education, including the slate of candidates in the 2000 election, will appear in the July 2000 issue. Jerry L. Sarquis, Secretary of the Division of Chemical Education, is a member of the Department of Chemistry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056; email:
[email protected].
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Frank G. Cardulla (center) receives his award plaque from Charles R. Everly (right) as Attila E. Pavlath watches. Photo by Morton Z. Hoffman
Jerry A. Bell (left) poses with Jeanne Pimentel, wife of the late George Pimentel, and John Moore (right).
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Meeting! 11 Attendance was high—a preliminary count is 16,645. There were many young people participating, from the special public understanding programs for 3rd and 4th graders through undergraduate (about 1,600) and graduate students (about 2,400). 1. Coit Tower, San Francisco. 2. Princess Izevbua Imoukhede, MIT, CHED 350, Undergraduate Posters. 3. Sarah K. Shaub, Union University, CHED 348, Undergraduate Posters. 4. Group of students from Texas A&M University at the Successful Student Affiliates Chapters poster session at Sci-Mix. 5. Attendance at poster sessions was high. 6. Carver Kidvention, in action! 7. Doris Lewis, Suffolk University, accepting an award from Glenn Crosby at the Student Affiliates Awards Ceremony. 8. Jerry Bell presenting his Pimentel Award lecture. 9. Mary Good, Helen Free, and Valerie Kuck at the award ceremony honoring Kuck. 10. Ron Breslow, center, after he had given the Eminent Scientist Lecture in the undergraduate program; Etta Gravely (left, North Carolina A&T University) chaired the undergraduate program in San Francisco; and Melissa Shults (right, University of California, San Diego) introduced Breslow. 11. Participants in the symposium Strength in Numbers: Uniting the Fronts of Higher Education: from left, Dennis Jacobs (Notre Dame); Mary Nakhleh (Purdue); James Hovick (University of North Carolina-Charlotte); David Malik (IUPUI); Barbara Sawrey (University of California, San Diego); George Bodner (Purdue); Pat Hutchings (Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching); Lee Shulman (President, Carnegie Foundation); Brian Coppola (University of Michigan). 12. Overflow crowd at Student Affiliates Award Ceremony. Photos 1, 4, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12 are by Morton Z. Hoffman; photos 2, 3, 5, and 6 by Nancy S. Gettys; photo 8 by John W. Moore.
