recommendations for society policy relative to the reports have been transmitted to CCPA. The committee's Task Force on Independent Environmental Analytical Laboratories reported that it had transmitted to the 50 states its "In terim Summary Report on a Study of State Government Policies Related to Regulation of Environmental Laboratories and Analytical Chemists." The results of the complete survey will be referred to the council Committee on Professional Relations for its consideration. Based on committee action in New Orleans, the CEI/CCPA joint steering committee for the study on "Energy and the Environment—The Chemical Viewpoint" will meet with the study task force panel chairmen in July to review the preliminary report draft, to establish a definite time-schedule for completion of the study, and to consider alternatives for supplemental fund ing. Thurston E. Larson, Chairman Patent Matters & Related Legislation At its March meeting, the board reviewed seven resolutions regarding compensation for em ployed inventors that had been transmitted to it by the committee. The board approved the first three resolutions, pending the concurrence of the council. These approved resolutions en compass the following ideas: (1) general inten tion of ACS to promote the useful arts; (2) leg islation which would provide reasonable review of employment agreements; and (3) legislation which would prohibit employment agreements which obligate the grant of any rights to the employer in an invention that is first conceived by an employee after his/her termination. Based
on the board's recommendation that the eco nomic impact of Resolutions IV—VII should have further study, the committee has initiated action to organize a society task force to conduct such a study. The following ACS committees and di visions are being requested to nominate repre sentatives to participate on the task force: Committees on Corporation Associates, on Economic Status, on Professional Relations, on Public, Professional & Member Relations, on Women Chemists, and on Younger Chemists; and the Divisions of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry and of Professional Relations. The committee reviewed the results of the U.S. patent office/UOP Inc. Search Project, which was initiated at the request of the assistant secretary of Commerce for science and tech nology in 1974. The committee's recommen dations relevant to the results of the search project were transmitted to the U.S. patent office in March and follow-on discussions with the patent office are presently under way through the office of the executive director. As part of the society's public affairs sym posia effort, the committee voted to cosponsor with the ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry a symposium on the subject of patent reform, to be held at the March 1978 ACS meeting in Anaheim, Calif. Willard Marcy, Chairman
Your views on matters reported by committees will be welcomed by the respective chairmen. Letters sent in care of R. N. Hader, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, will be for warded promptly.
ACS organizes U.S./Egypt chemistry workshop As a result of the American Chemical Society's increasing interest in becoming more involved in promoting the interna tional exchange of science and technology, a select group of 18 U.S. chemists and chemical engineers will travel to Egypt late this fall to present a two-week work shop and to discuss long-range coopera tive research projects between chemists in the two countries. The workshop is the first bilateral project to be organized by the society's International Activities Committee (IAC). Initiated almost two years ago by Dr. Robert W. Parry when he was chairman of IAC, the workshop has continued to be developed by Parry and by Dr. Edgar L. Piret, who has been active in staff efforts to increase the society's international activities. The workshop will be admin istered by Gordon Bixler, manager of the new ACS staff Office of International Activities (C&EN, March 7, page 22). Egyptian assistance in negotiating and developing the project has been provided by Dr. Mohamed Kamel, president of Egypt's National Research Centre, which will cosponsor the workshop. Also assist ing has been Dr. A. Abou-el-Azm, presi dent of Egypt's Academy of Scientific Research & Technology and Dr. Ahmed M. Azzam, director of the cultural and educational bureau of Egypt's embassy in Washington, D.C. The workshop portion of the project is scheduled to begin Nov. 28 and continue
through Dec. 8 at the National Research Centre facilities in Cairo. Topics will in clude pesticide analyses and syntheses, mineral beneficiation and metallurgical waste processing, chemical modification of cotton, corrosion and metallurgical analyses, and utilization of fibrous raw materials. In teams of three or four members, the U.S. chemists will review for leading scientists at Egypt's NRC and from Egyptian universities and industrial companies the latest advances in each of the broad subjects, suggesting promising R&D approaches, and providing sources of information for the Egyptians to use to meet future R&D objectives. U.S. leaders for each of the subject areas teams are: Dr. Phillip C. Kearney (Department of Agriculture) for the pes ticide group; Dr. Milton W. Wadsworth (University of Utah) on mineral benefi ciation; Dr. Howard L. Gerhart (Carnegie Mellon Institute of Research) on corro sion; George L. Drake Jr. (USDA) for the cotton section; and Marvin 0 . Bagby (USDA) leading the fibrous materials group. Other members of the U.S. group are being selected. For the second phase of the program, U.S. and Egyptian scientists are to discuss specific research projects that might be conducted cooperatively in their respec tive laboratories. The nature and scope of these projects would be determined by the participants during the workshop in Egypt. Resulting projects would be ad
ministered by ACS for the U.S. side and NRC for the Egyptians. Funding for the workshops will be from a grant to NRC from the Agency for In ternational Development in Cairo. An award of 25,000 Egyptian pounds, or about $36,250, has been provided for transportation and living expenses for the U.S. delegation in Egypt, and to defray administrative expenses associated with the workshop. Meantime, IAC, now under the chair manship of Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, is con tinuing to explore other ways to increase international cooperation among chem ists, including providing scientific con sultants to improve chemical research and competence in developing countries, and establishing a foreign fellows program, π
CAS bulletin series adds 16 new topics Chemical Abstracts Service is adding 16 more topics to its CA Selects series of biweekly current-awareness bulletins. New topics available as of July 11 and subscription rates for 26 issues are: ca talysis (applied and physical aspects), $55; catalysis (organic reactions), $55; chemi cal hazards, $50; coal science and process chemistry, $50; corrosion, $55; electro chemical reactions, $50; electron and Auger spectroscopy, $50; chemical aspects of electron spin resonance, $50; gas chro matography, $50; gel permeation chro matography, $50; ion exchange, $50; chemical aspects of nuclear magnetic resonance, $55; paper and thin-layer chromatography, $50; radiation chemis try, $50; solvent extraction, $50; and physicochemical aspects of surface chemistry, $50. Each biweekly bulletin in the CA Se lects service contains the complete Chemical Abstracts abstracts and cita tions for current publications on a par ticular chemical or chemical engineering topic. Contents are selected by searching CAS's computer-readable information base with a special search profile devel oped for the topic. The service is designed to give individual scientists a convenient and affordable way to keep up with cur rent developments in specialized areas of chemical science and technology. Other topics currently offered in the CA Selects series are: organosilicon chemistry, $55; forensic chemistry, $50; photochemistry, $50; high-speed liquid chromatography, $50; mass spectrometry, $50; and psychobiochemistry, $55. A quantity discount of $5.00 per subscrip tion is offered for 25 to 49 subscriptions to any combination of topics delivered to the same address and a discount of $10 per subscription for 50 or more subscriptions to the same address. Additional information and compli mentary issues of any of the CA Selects publications may be obtained by writing the Marketing Department, Chemical Abstracts Service, P.O. Box 3012, Co lumbus, Ohio 43210. D July 11, 1977 C&EN
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