NEWS
Arthur F. Findeis
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The JOURNAL regrets to report the death of Arthur F. Findeis of the National Science Foundation (NSF) on July 10. Findeis, better known as Fred, served as acting director of NSF's chemistry division before heading the division's office of special projects. He served on the Advisory Board of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY from 1974 to 1976.
Ross Receives Wiley Award P. Frank Ross, a veterinary analytical toxicologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, National Veterinary Services Laboratories, is the recipient of the 1992 Harvey W. Wiley Award. The annual award was established in 1956 in honor of Wiley, father of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act and a founder of AOAC International. It recognizes a scientist's role in protecting the consumer and ensuring environmental quality. Ross, who is being recognized for his contributions to the advancement of analytical science, received the award at the 106th AOAC International meeting in Cincinnati on Aug. 31. Ross was honored for his continuing devotion to fostering communication among diagnostic and analytical toxicologists. In 1980 he organized the Veterinary Analytical Toxicology Group within the American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians, a group that he continues to coordinate. His recent work focuses on the occurrence and analysis of fumonisin mycotoxins, carcinogenic compounds that occur in feeds and foods.
Undergraduates Receive ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY As the 1992-93 academic year begins, undergraduate students will receive ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY through two programs cosponsored by the JOURNAL that are designed to enhance their academic experience in the discipline. For the tenth year, the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) will help fund a program to provide copies of the JOURNAL to undergraduate students enrolled in instrumental analysis courses in the U.S. This year 1227 subscriptions will go to 352 academic institutions participating in the Enhancement Program for Students in Instrumental Analysis Courses. Issues of the JOURNAL (Sept. 1 through Dec. 15) are
provided to enrich course content and to encourage students to continue studying analytical chemistry at the graduate level. Professors participating in the program ensure that the issues are available to students in the laboratory; some of them also assign student projects based on material in ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. In addition, a guide describing how the publication can be used as a supplementary teaching tool is provided. The JOURNAL and the Division of Analytical Chemistry, through its Undergraduate Awards in Analytical Chemistry, will provide 391 undergraduate students with eight-month subscriptions (Oct. 1-May 15). Awardees are selected annually by chemistry faculty at U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities. The awards are designed to recognize outstanding scholastic achievement and to stimulate interest in analytical chemistry. Students will also receive the Division newsletter.
Nominations for the Bunsen-Kirchhoff Prize Nominations are requested for the Bunsen-Kirchhoff Prize for Analytical Spectroscopy, sponsored by the Deutscher Arbeitskreis fur Angewandte Spektroskopie (DASp), for ground-breaking research or outstanding lifetime achievements in the field of applied spectroscopy. The prize consists of a certificate and a cash award of DM 10,000, which will be shared if multiple winners are chosen. Nominations may be made by DASp members or by the candidates themselves. Nominating documents must include a letter of justification and/or an outline of the work proposed for the award as well as the candidate's curriculum vitae. Documents, which are due Nov. 30, should be sent to Ing. Bernhard Schrader, Institut fur Physikalische und Theoretische Chemie, Universitât Essen, Postfach 10 37 64, 4300 Essen 1, Germany.
For Your Information Two new databases are available from NIST. The NIST/ EPA gas-phase IR database contains more than 5300 primarily organic, FT absorption spectra; the updated version of the NIST/EPA/NIH MS (formerly NIST/EPA/ MSDC) database contains more than 62,000 EI spectra of organic and inorganic substances. Both databases are for use on PCs; the MS database is also available on magnetic tape. For the MS database, either the new version or an upgrade for previous versions can be purchased. Both databases can be searched by chemical name, formula, and CAS registry number. Spectra that resemble an unknown can be found in the IR database by searching for up to 10 absorption peaks. The MS database can also be searched by molecular weight and peaks at certain masses. Contact the Standard Data Reference Program, A320 Physics Bldg., NIST, Gaithersburg, MD 20899 (301-9752208; fax 301-926-0416).
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