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Hirschfeld Fellowship and Award A university fellowship competition at the University of Washington's Center for Process Analytical Chemistry (CPAC) and an annual award program sponsored by Technicon Industrial Systems have been established to honor the late Tomas Hirschfeld of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. CPAC's new Hirschfeld/CPAC Fellowship involves a competition t h a t is intended to attract outstanding students to the study of process analytical chemistry at the university. T h e fellowship will provide a two-year stipend t h a t will permit the competition winner to work in an interdisciplinary, industrially oriented research environment, to attend conferences, and to make short- and long-term visits to sponsoring companies. According to CPAC, "Hirschfeld's unique insights, enthusiastic lectures, and creative inventions will continue to inspire scientists and students here and abroad for a long time to come." For more information and fellowship applications, contact Deborah Illman, CPAC, Dept. of Chemistry, Mail Stop BG-10, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195 (206-545-2326). In addition, the first in Technicon's new series of Tomas B. Hirschfeld Awards will be presented to a deserving graduate student working in the field of near-infrared analysis (NIRA) at a 1987 Pittsburgh Conference symposium honoring Hirschfeld. According to Technicon, "NIRA was of particular interest to Dr. Hirschfeld, and he contributed substantially to this field. His interaction with students was quite remarkable. Despite his great depth of knowledge, he never intimidated those who came to him with questions. Indeed, he could spark interest by tossing out so many new ideas in a single conversation that a student's problem would become one of selection rather than compilation. It is appropriate, then, t h a t his many thoughts on NIRA be perpetuated in an annual award to a graduate student involved with research in this area of spectroscopy." Additional information on the award is available from Donald A. Burns, Technicon Instruments Corp., 511 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown, N.Y. 10591.
EAS Award Nominations Nominations are sought for the 1988 Eastern Analytical Symposium Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry. T h e award, consisting of a plaque and a $1000 stipend, will be presented at a special EAS symposium October 3-8, 1988, in New York. Established in 1986, the award recognizes an individual who has helped shape the field of analytical chemistry. The 1986 winner was George H. Morrison, Editor of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y .
A nominating letter, including the nominee's specific accomplishments and a biographical sketch, should be submitted by July 1, 1987, to Robert Weinberger, EAS Awards Committee, Kratos Division of ABI Analytical, 170 Williams Dr., Ramsey, N.J. 07446.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) announced on January 8 that it is closing down its IBM Instruments subsidiary (Danbury, Conn.). In conjunction with the closing, IBM also has sold its interests in Bruker and Spectrospin, which manufactured some of the instruments sold under the IBM Instruments label. Bruker will continue to market and distribute its own products. New orders for IBM Instruments' products will be accepted through April 13, based on availability. IBM will honor existing warranty obligations and maintenance agreements. IBM's National Service Division will assume responsibility for service, supplies, and parts, which will be available for a minimum of five years. All IBM Instruments employees will be offered other positions within the company. Nicolet Instrument Corp. and Digital Equipment Corp. recently signed an agreement involving cooperative marketing of Digital computers and software and Nicolet analytical instruments. The agreement will enhance the integration of Nicolet instruments, including F T - I R and F T - M S spectrometers, with Digital's computing, communications, and information management systems. A new National Bureau of Standards report on quality assurance (QA) contains abstracts of 160 papers selected as source materials for starting new QA programs and improving existing ones, and as general guides in producing reliable analytical chemistry measurements. T h e report was assembled by John K. Taylor, who recently retired after 57 years at NBS. "A Collection of Abstracts of Selected Publications Related to Quality Assurance of Chemical Measurements" (publication NBSIR 86-3352, order by P B # 87-106423) is available for $11.95 prepaid from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Va. 22161. A more rapid, more accurate, and less expensive technique for measuring uranium concentrations, particularly in urine bioassays, is the subject of a U.S. patent (no. 4,599,512) t h a t has been awarded to Bruce A. Bushaw of Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories and assigned to the U.S. Department of Energy. A device based on the technique is being manufactured and marketed under the brand name Kinetic Phosphorescence Analyzer by Chemchek Instruments of Richland, Wash. T h e technique involves absorption of laser light and subsequent wavelengthshifted emission by uranium species present in a sample. The National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards has published "Evaluation of the Linearity of Quantitative Analytical Methods; Proposed Guideline" (document EP6-P). The purpose of the guideline is to provide analytical chemists with a procedure for evaluating whether an instrument or method meets the manufacturer's linearity specifications. The document is available for $15 ($20 overseas) prepaid from NCCLS, 771 E. Lancaster Ave., Villanova, Pa. 19085 (215-525-2435).
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 59, NO. 4, FEBRUARY 15, 1987 · 315 A
