News Fitzgerald, and Paul Poelma (Food and Drug Administration); T. Powell Gaines (University of Georgia); Howard Moore (Ohio Department of Agriculture, retired); and Nisu Sen (Health and Welfare Canada). Nominations for 1987 fellowships should be sent to the AOAC by March 1,1987. Sandra Ross, a microbiology student at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is 1986 winner of a two-year $1000 AOAC scholarship. Ross has been working as a full-time laboratory technician for the past six years to support her college education. Each year AOAC awards a two-year scholarship to a college sophomore who is studying a subject important to public health and agriculture.
Instrumental Analysis Enhancement Program Funded for 1986-87 The 1986-87 academic year is the fourth year that the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) is sponsoring a program to provide
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undergraduate students enrolled in instrumental analysis courses in U.S.
colleges and universities. This year, 1001 subscriptions will go to 390 academic institutions participating in the program, which is referred to as the Enhancement Program for Students in Instrumental Analysis Courses. The program supplies copies of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY for student use in undergraduate instrumentation courses. The subscriptions are intended to enrich course content and to encourage more students to continue the study of analytical chemistry at the graduate level. Professors participating in the program ensure that the issues are available to students in the laboratory, and some of them assign student projects based on material in the JOURNAL.
The program begins each September and continues through February. In addition to copies of the JOURNAL, a guide is provided that contains suggestions for its use as a supplemental teaching tool. The program originated at the Allerton Conference in 1981. In its first year (1982), funding was supplied by the ACS Corporation Associates. SACP, one of the sponsors of the Pittsburgh Conference, has funded the program since 1983.
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Figure 4 in last month's INSTRUMENTATION (Zander, Andrew T. Anal. Chem. 1986, 55, 1139-49 A) is the property of and was published with the permission of Mark Selby (who drew the figure) and Gary M. Hieftje.
For Your Information Millipore Corporation has acquired Dynamic Solutions Corporation, a Ventura, Calif., firm that specializes in software development for analytical laboratory data systems. Millipore paid for the purchase with approximately 145,000 shares of its common stock, representing a market value of about $4.5 million at the time of the acquisition. Dynamic Solutions will function as a wholly owned subsidiary managed through Millipore's Waters Chromatography Division. David Strand, president of Dynamic Solutions, will report to Chane Graziano, president of Waters. Bruker Instruments Inc. has announced the establishment of the Bruker Magnetic Resonance Cen-
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News ter a t Harvard University and the company's donation to the center of a Broker AM 250 high-field NMR spec trometer, valued at approximately $250,000. At recent dedication cere monies for the center, Donald Ciappenelli, director of chemical laborato ries at Harvard, said that "use of the Bruker Magnetic Resonance Center will reflect our hands-on approach to teaching.... The next generation of Harvard Ph.D.s will have experience with instruments at the leading edge of NMR technology."
Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) has acquired the rights to Labsam, a laboratory information management system, and Labsam Med, a version of Labsam tailored to the needs of the medical community, from Friedrich and Company of Leinfelden, F.R.G. In addition to the transfer of product rights, key research and development personnel from Friedrich will join HP, including Johann D. Mollnar, who managed the development of Labsam. A team in Europe will have primary responsibility for product enhance-
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Edward Yeung has been named program director of the Ames Lab oratory Environmental Sciences program. Yeung succeeds Velmer Fassel, the program's director from its inception in 1975. Yeung, who was born in Hong Kong, came to the Unit ed States in 1965 to attend Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1968. He then earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley and joined the Ames Laboratory staff in 1972.
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l l t h International Symposium on Column Liquid Chromatography, HPLC '87 Amsterdam, the Netherlands. June 28-July 3, 1987. The symposium will cover all aspects of modern col umn LC ranging from theory and fun damental aspects to instrumental de velopments and applications. Authors desiring to present papers or posters should submit a title and 100-word ab-
