▸ ACS-Hach Professional Development Grants available Applications are being accepted for the ACS-Hach Professional Development Grant. The up to $1,500 award supports professional development experiences for secondary chemistry teachers. Grants may be used for conference or workshop registration fees, travel expenses, tuition and educational expenses for new or upcoming courses, books and online instructional resources, and substitute teacher pay. Applicants must be a high school chemistry educator teaching in a U.S. or U.S. territory school. The deadline to apply is Jan. 4, 2018. For more information, visit www.acs.org/hach.—LINDA WANG
▸ ACS hosts international chapters conference in Asia A nearly two-year planning process to bring together chemistry practitioners and American Chemical Society members in the Asia-Pacific region culminated in the inaugural ACS Asia-Pacific International Chapters Conference (APICC) Nov. 5–8 in Jeju, South Korea. The general chemistry conference, organized by 10 ACS international chemical sciences chapters in the Asia-Pacific region, was hosted by the ACS South Korea Chapter under the direction of Yung Doug Suh of the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology and Sungkyunkwan University, who served as general-secretary of the meeting. “This conference brought ACS to the Asia-Pacific,” says conference chair Agnes Rimando of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “There’s nothing more rewarding than to see chemists in the region who may not be able to present at an ACS national meeting in the U.S. happily participate and present new research findings.” APICC was held alongside the 2017 High Performance Liquid Chromatography meeting. Inspiration for a regional gathering of chemistry practitioners came out of the 2015 International Chapters Summit held during the Pacifichem meeting, which brings together chemical societies in the Pacific Basin. With more than 12,000 members in the Asia-Pacific region, ACS
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Shana Sturla takes helm of Chemical Research in Toxicology Shana J. Sturla, toxicology professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, will take the reins of the American Chemical Society journal Chemical Research in Toxicology as editor-in-chief at the beginning of 2018. She will take the reins from Stephen S. Hecht, Wallin Land Grant Professor of Cancer Prevention at the University of Minnesota. Chemical Research in Toxicology focuses on advancing the understanding of toxic agents. As editor-in-chief, Sturla says she plans to broaden the scope of the journal to include contributions from researchers who are advancing the predictive capacity of toxicology. She would also like to increase the international visibility and engagement of the journal to include more science from around the world. “The science of toxicology is the foundation of products and policies that impact the health and safety of humans and the environment,” she says. “Chemistry is central to so many problems in toxicology because it informs an understanding and prediction of adverse outcomes on the basis of structures and processes.” Sturla studies the chemical basis of mutagenesis and toxicity. Her lab is exploring the “relationships between chemical structures, enzyme-catalyzed chemical transformations, and cellular responses to environmental and dietary toxicants and cancer drugs,” according to ACS. “Professor Sturla’s years of editorial experience with the journal and expertise in the areas of food and drug interactions with cancer therapy, carcinogen metabolism, and genotoxicity mechanisms will be highly valuable to the toxicology research community,” said James Milne, senior vice president of the ACS Publications journals publishing group, in a press release. “I am very happy that professor Sturla has been selected as the new editor-in-chief,” says Hecht, who has served as the journal’s editor since 2013. “She is superbly qualified with a deep background in traditional areas of strength of Chemical Research in Toxicology as well as being a leader in rapidly developing areas such as systems toxicology that are critical to the growth and health of the journal.”—LINDA WANG
has signaled a commitment to helping always a bowl of cherries,” Stoddart emphamembers advance their chemistry in the sized during his lecture. He shared the chalregion. Suh adds that “APICC has the abillenges, both personally and professionally, ity to broaden the horizon of ACS in the that took him on his route to the annals of Asia-Pacific.” chemical history. A scientific communica“It was gratifying for me to see chemistor known for his prolific tweets, Stoddart try practitioners share their work and netencouraged greater collaboration and menwork across borders,” torship in the chemistry says Ellene Tratras community and said Fraser Stoddart talked about Contis, chair of the he wants to see more outreach during his plenary ACS Committee on chemists share their lecture at the inaugural APICC in International Activities South Korea. science with the public. and a chemistry profesIn the spirit of sor at Eastern Michigan chemistry outreach, University. the ACS South Korea Fraser Stoddart, best Chapter hosted two known for his 2016 NoChemistry Festivals bel Prize-winning work in conjunction with on molecular machines, APICC for roughly 250 gave a plenary lecture students.—CHRISTOtitled “My Journey to PHER LAPRADE, ACS Stockholm.” “Life is not staff
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