news PEOPLE New Advisory Board and A-Page Advisory Panel members appointed Advisory Board Three new members from government, academia, and industry have been selected to serve three-year terms on Analytical Chemistry’s Editorial Advisory Board. Each January, membership is rotated as new appointees replace members whose terms have expired. The chair of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry serves a oneyear term as ex officio representative of the Division. Established in the 1940s to advise the Journal’s editors, the board meets formally once a year at ACS headquarters. The board members are a vital link between the editors and the analytical chemistry community, providing guidance and advice on editorial content and policy. Totaro Imasaka, professor at Kyushu University (Japan), received his B.S. degree and Ph.D. from Kyushu University. Imasaka’s research interests include stimulated Raman scattering/four-wave Raman mixing, supersonic jet spectrometry, diode laser spectrometry, optical chromatography/optical funnel, and optical chemical sensors. Janusz Pawliszyn, professor at the University of Waterloo (Canada), obtained his M.Sc. degree from the Technical University of Gdansk (Poland) and his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University. His research interests include designing automated instrumentation for separating and identifying analytes in complex samples, alternatives to solvent extraction, computational and modeling techniques, and imaging techniques for microcolumn chromatography and CE.
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William B. Whitten, senior research scientist in the laser spectroscopy and microinstrumentation group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, received his A.B. degree from Gettysburg College and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University. His research interests are microinstrumentation for gas-phase analysis and the laser ablation MS of airborne particles. Theodore R. Williams, professor at the College of Wooster, received his B.A. degree from Howard University, his M.S. degree from Pennsylvania State University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. His research interests include characterizing biological tissues in normal and diseased states, particularly determining trace metals and water content in eye tissues. Williams is the ex officio member representing the Division.
Sciences. He is also the director of the Information Science and Scientometrics Research Unit of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include separations, radioanalytical and nuclear chemistry, fullerenes, information science, and the working mechanism of basic research. Sylvia Daunert, associate professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Kentucky and an associate member of the Center of Membrane Sciences, received her Pharm.D. degree and her Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona (Spain) and her M.S. degree from the University of Michigan. Her research interests include designing new assays and biosensors based on genetically engineered proteins and cells and sensing arrays for detecting molecules in small volumes and microfluidic platforms.
In addition to the Editorial Advisory Board, Analytical Chemistry has selected seven new members to serve three-year terms on its A-page Advisory Panel. This year, the panel will meet at the Pittsburgh Conference and Analytica (Germany) to provide feedback on the A-page editorial content and to propose appropriate topics and authors for feature articles.
Francesco Dondi, professor and director of separation sciences at the University of Ferrara (Italy), received his M.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of Ferrara. His research interests include the theory of linear and nonlinear chromatography, chemometrics of separations, and fieldflow fractionation techniques for macromolecule and particle characterization.
Tibor Braun, professor at the Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry at Eötvös University (Hungary), received his Ph.D. and D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of
John Fetzer, senior research chemist at Chevron Research and Technology, received his B.S. degree from the University of Arkansas and his Ph.D. from the
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news GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY Toward universal measurements University of Georgia. His research interests include UV absorbance and fluorescence spectroscopies, LC, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with 24 or more ring carbons. Kimberley Prather, associate professor at the University of California–Riverside, received her B.S. degree and Ph.D. from the University of California–Davis. Prather’s research focuses on aerosol time-of-flight MS, which provides the size and chemical composition of individual aerosol particles in real time.
International laboratory accreditation could get a step easier now that the United States and 37 other nations have signed a pact, agreeing to assess national measurement standards for accuracy and reliability. The October agreement, which came in an effort to reduce global trade burdens arising from technical and regulatory differences, establishes a system for making key comparisons among chief measurement organizations in the 38 signing nations. It calls for mutual recognition of measurement standards and certificates issued by national metrology institutes (NMIs). Ten remaining nations responsible for the international system of measurement units are expected to sign later. Results of the international comparisons will be Internet-accessible, and any NMI that is a member of one of the world’s six regional metrology organizations can post its measurement
Zbigniew Stojek, professor at the University of Warsaw (Poland), received his Ph.D. from the University of Warsaw. Stojek’s research interests include electro-analytical chemistry, host–guest interactions, and mathematical modeling of diffusion coupled to migration. Douglas Westerlund, professor of analytical pharmaceutical chemistry at Uppsala University (Sweden), received his Ph.D. from Uppsala University. His research interests include chromatography, CE, capillary electrochromatography, hyphenating these techniques to MS, and applying them to the pharmaceutical and biomedical fields.
capabilities in the database, subject to review. NIST has agreed to further develop and maintain the database.
the 219th National Meeting in San Francisco in the spring. Ad Bax, chief of the biophysical NMR spectroscopy section at the National Institutes of Health, will receive the E. Bright Wilson Award in Spectroscopy, sponsored by Rohm and Haas. The award recognizes fundamental and applied contributions in all fields of spectroscopy. Bax is known for his work in three- and four-dimensional NMR methods on 13 C, 15N, and 2H labeled proteins as well as his approaches to data collection and analyzing dipolar couplings.
2000 ACS awards Several scientists in the analytical chemistry community will receive 2000 American Chemical Society awards at
Charles W. Gehrke, professor emeritus of biochemistry at the University of Missouri–Columbia, will receive the
ACS Award in Chromatography, sponsored by Supelco. The award recognizes specific achievements in the field of chromatography. Gehrke is known for his work with lunar rock samples and for developing high-resolution GC and LC methods for amino acids, purines, pyrimidines, and major and modified nucleosides in RNA and DNA. E. Philip Horwitz, a senior consulting scientist at Eichrom Industries, will receive the ACS Award in Separations Science and Technology, sponsored by IBC Advanced Technologies and Millipore. The award
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