Larson heads committee
ACS NEWS
Dr.
Frasch Foundation grants continued ACS has recommended to the trustee of the Herman Frasch Foundation that each of the 14 grants listed in the table below be continued for a third year, starting July 1, 1969, in amounts already approved. The recommendations were transmitted by the Board Committee on Grants and Fellowships, acting for the Board, on advice of the ACS Committee on Frasch Foundation Awards. The action was ratified at the Board meeting in New York. The grants were first made for four- and five-year terms, beginning on July 1, 1967, subject to annual review and approval of progress.
Thurston
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Larson, assistant chief of the Illinois State Water Survey and professor of sanitary engineering at the University of Illinois, has been appointed first chairman of the Society's joint Larson Board - Council Committee on Environmental Improvement. Also named to the committee by ACS President Wallace R. Brode and Board Chairman Milton Harris were: Dr. Lloyd M. Cooke of Union Carbide Corp., Chicago, who is a member of the ACS Board of Directors; Dr. W. Lawrence Faith of San Marino, Calif.; Dr. E. Paul Lichtenstein of
Recommended Herman Frasch Foundation awards for research in agricultural chemistry for one year starting July 1, 1969 INSTITUTION
SUBJECT
Richard C. Staples
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc.
Aubrey W. Naylor
Duke U
Robert L. Metcalf
U of Illinois
A Comparison of Protein Synthesis in Uredospores and Mycelia of Bean Rust Fungus Biochemistry of Naturally Induced Growth Modulation in Plants Development of Laboratory Method for Evaluation of Pesticide Biodegradability and Ecological Magnification Isolation and Characterization of Clay-Organic Matter Complexes in Soils Structure of Fungal Cell Wall Polysaccharides Biochemical and Genetic Control of Sex Expression in Cucumis melo and Cucumis sativus Biochemical Aspects of Graft Failure in Higher Plants Mineral Elements in Animal Nutrition Biochemical Control Mechanisms Effects of 2,4-D on Plant Protein and Nucleic Acid Biosynthesis Nucleoside DiphosphateSugar 4-Epimerases of Higher Plants The Chemistry of the Constituents of Poisonous Range Plants Biochemistry of Plant Proteins and Disease The Biochemistry of Plant Reproduction
INVESTIGATOR
John M. Bremner
Iowa State U
John H. Nordin
U of Massachusetts
Harold N. Sell
Michigan State U
Daniel F. Millikan and James A. Ross
U of Missouri
Gennard Matrone
North Carolina State U
J. F. Snell
Ohio State U
Roy 0. Morris
Oregon State U
David S. Feingold
U of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Bennie J. Camp
Texas A&M U
Mark A. Stahmann
U of Wisconsin
Arthur W. Galston
Yale U
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University of Wisconsin; Dr. James P. Lodge, Jr., of the National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, Colo.; Dr. Daniel MacDougall of Chemagro Corp., Kansas City, Mo.; Dr. James J. Morgan of California Institute of Technology, who is editor of the ACS monthly Environmental Science and Technology; Dr. Charles E. Moser of Texaco, Inc., Beacon, N.Y.; and J. Fred Wilkes of W. R. Grace and Co., Chicago. Dr. Cooke is chairman of the subcommittee on environmental improvement of the ACS Committee on Chemistry and Public Affairs. The subcommittee earlier this month released the report "Cleaning Our Environment—The Chemical Basis for Action." Dr. Larson was general chairman of the task force that produced the report. ACS staff assistance to the Committee on Environmental Improvement will be provided by Dr. Stephen T. Quigley, director of the Office of Chemistry and Public Affairs. The new committee will be responsible for advising the Board of Directors and the Council on policies and programs appropriate for ACS that relate to environmental improvement. It will work closely with the ACS divisions, publications, and other committees concerned with similar or related matters, assisting in every way possible to coordinate the programs of these various units of the Society.
Appointments President Wallace R. Brode has appointed the following to represent the Society at special functions: Rev. Clarence C. Schubert, S.J., chairman of the Syracuse Section, at the inauguration of Thomas A. Bartlett as president of Colgate University, Sept. 25, Hamilton, N.Y., and at the inauguration of W. Stewart Tosh as president of Mohawk Valley Community College, Oct. 17, Utica, N.Y. Dr. Edward O. Haenni, chairman of the Washington Section, at the inauguration of Robert John Henle as president of Georgetown University, Oct. 7, Washington, D.C. Ferd R. Wetsel, chairman of the Columbus Section, at the inauguration of Joel Pritchard Smith as president of Denison University, Oct. 10, Granville, Ohio. Dr. Speros P. Nemphos, chairman of the Connecticut Valley Section, at the inauguration of David Bicknell Truman as president of Mount Holyoke College, Oct. 18, South Hadley, Mass. Dr. Herbert K. Livingston, chairman of the Detroit Section, at the 50th anniversary of General Motors Institute, Oct. 22, Flint, Mich.
