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Hirschfeld Award Winners Announced The first annual Tomas Hirschfeld Awards, announced at the 14th Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectros copy Societies (FACSS) meeting, honor the "memory of one of the most creative, prolific, and energetic members" of the analytical community. The awardees received letters of commendation and stipends covering their 1987 FACSS meeting expenses. Hirschfeld, a scientist at the Lawrence Livermore Na tional Laboratory (Livermore, Calif.), carried out research on reflection, Raman, fluorescence, and Fourier transform spectroscopy; microsensors; and remote fiber-optic moni toring. He published more than 300 papers and held more than 100 patents. In addition, he was the recipient of nu merous awards, including the IR-100 Award, which he re ceived an unprecedented five times. Selection of the award recipients was based on presenta tions of their work at the FACSS meeting, the level of cre ativity exhibited in their graduate research, and recommen dations from their senior research advisors and from two other scientists. The following students were selected by the FACSS awards committee from a large field of nominees. Jonathan Sweedler received a B.S. degree in chemistry with honors from the University of California, Davis, in 1983. During the summers from 1980 to 1982, he was awarded Associated Western Universities' Fellowships to work at the Lawrence Livermore Na tional Laboratory under Hirschfeld's direct supervision. In 1983 he joined the Ph.D. program in analytical chemistry at the University of Arizona, where he received the Faculty of Science Outstanding Graduate Student Fellowship for three years. Under the guidance of M. Bonner Denton, he has carried out research on the char acterization of new array detectors for optical spectroscopy and the development of new spectrographs that effectively utilize the capabilities and formats offered by these detec tors. He has also been a consultant to Photometries Ltd. Brad Tenge is a current Ph.D. candi date in analytical chemistry at the University of Washington, where he is working with David Honigs. For the past two years he has been a research assistant at the Center for Process An alytical Chemistry. His research inter ests include chemically modulated fi ber-optic switches, near- and mid-IR spectroscopy and data analysis, and novel approaches to sampling and chromatography. Tenge received the 1986 Instrument Society of America SIRCH Division Symposium for Innovation in Measurement Sci ence student paper award. He earned a B.S. degree in chemistry with honors from the University of Washington in 1984 and that same year received an American Institute of Chemists Student Award Certificate. Peter Wentzell graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1982 with a B.Sc. degree in chem istry with honors. A native Canadian, he performed his
undergraduate research under the direction of W. E. Jones and Louis Ramaley. Since 1982 he has been working on a Ph.D. degree at Michigan State University under the guid ance of Stanley Crouch. His research interests include chemometrics, specifically, digital filters, the Kalman filter, factor analysis, and computer modeling; reaction rate methods of analysis; chemical kinetics; flow methods of analysis; chromato graphic theory; and electronic instru mentation. Upon completion of his Ph.D. de gree he will begin postdoctoral work with Adrian Wade ι British Columbia.
Rowlen Receives FACSS Student Award Kathy Rowlen received the Student Award at the recent FACSS meeting. The award is given annually to an out standing student who has made an overall contribution to the field of an alytical chemistry. The awardee re ceived a plaque and a stipend covering her 1987 FACSS meeting expenses. Each of the six sponsoring organiza tions of the FACSS meeting (the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, the Society for Applied Spectroscopy, the Coblentz Society, the Association of An alytical Chemists, the Analysis Instrumentation Division of the Instrument Society of America, and the Chromatogra phy Forum of the Delaware Valley) submitted up to three nominations for the award. Nominees were either current graduate students or those who had received Ph.D. degrees during the previous academic year. Rowlen received her B.S. degree in chemistry from Grand Valley State College (Allendale, Mich.). She was se lected an Academic All American and an Argonne National Laboratory Fellow in 1983 and a Michigan Governing Board Outstanding Student in 1984. Rowlen is currently a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she is working with John Birks on whole-column de tection chromatography. Her work has been published in ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y {Anal. Chem. 1986, 58[4], 900).
Cunningham Joins ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY Donald Cunningham has joined the staff of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y as an associate editor. Previously he was a senior associate editor οι Plastics Engineering (published by the Society of Plastics Engineers) and a physical sciences editor of the Academic Amer ican Encyclopedia (published by Grolier, Inc.). Cunningham received a B.A. degree in chemistry from the University of Connecticut (1975) and an M.S. degree in organic chemistry from Central Connect icut State University (1984). He will be involved with the A-page section of ANALYTICAL C H E M I S T R Y .
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