NEWS Fred W. McLafferty joined the faculty at Cornell University in 1968. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Nebraska and a Ph.D. degree from Cornell. Prior to his appointment at Cornell, McLafferty completed postdoctoral work at the University of Iowa, was the director of the Eastern Research Laboratory at Dow Chemical Co., and was a professor of chemistry at Purdue University. His scientific interests are in molecular MS and computer applications. He is a pioneer in the development of MS as a tool for analyzing organic compounds and studying the chemistry of gas-phase ions. He has been instrumental in establishing the Probability-Based Matching database system. McLafferty, a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1982), has received numerous awards, including the ACS Awards in Chemical Instrumentation (1972) and Analytical Chemistry (1981) and the Pittsburgh Analytical Chemistry Award (1987). He is Editor of Accounts of Chemical Research. Fred E. Régnier has made major contributions toward the high-performance liquid chromatographic separation of biopolymers such as proteins and nucleic acids. He received a B.S. degree from Nebraska State College (1960) and a Ph.D. degree from Oklahoma State University (1965). After completing postdoctoral research at Oklahoma State University (1966), the University of Chicago (1967), and Harvard University (1968), he joined the faculty at Purdue university in 1969. Regnier's current research interests include the preparative and production scale separation of biopolymers and development of macroporous rigid microparticulate stationary phases. He was the recipient of the David B. Hime Award (1982) and the Stephen Dal Nogare Award (1987) and is Editor of Preparative Chromatography.
Summer Internship Program The ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry is seeking applicants for the 1989 summer internship program. This program is aimed at introducing talented undergraduates to modern analytical chemistry. Students chosen to participate will be employed by industrial, government, or academic laboratories, where they will be involved in both fundamental and applied research. Participating laboratories agree to hire one or more students during the summer. Applications are screened and evaluated by the Division's Professional Status Committee. Applications and reference letters for qualified students are sent to several participating laboratories. These organizations then select the individuals most suited to their needs. The Professional Status Committee acts as a broker, soliciting applications from students and position openings from laboratories. Salary and details of employment are negotiated by the organization and the student. To qualify for the program, students must have completed a minimum of two years of college, preferably including an instrumental analysis course or its equivalent, and have an interest in analytical chemistry. Ideally, students should be attending a four-year college and be between their ju1140 A
nior and senior years at the start of the summer. The Division will also accept applications from current graduate students in analytical chemistry and from college seniors graduating in 1989 who have applied to graduate school with the intention of majoring in analytical chemistry. Applications from interested students are due by Feb. 15,1989. The participation of industrial, government, and academic laboratories is also being sought. Information and application forms can be obtained from D. J. Curran, Chairman, Professional Status Committee, ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry, c/o Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. For the 1988 program, 37 student applications were received; 11 students were placed with the nine organizations indicated below. Cyanamid, Stamford Research Labs, Stamford, CT Scott Wallen, University of Illinois, Urbana E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Wilmington, DE Rajeev Dadoo, Knox College, Galesburg, IL Inhalation Toxicology Research Institute, Albuquerque, NM Margaret Crews, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA Michael Grieneisen, Shippensburg University, Shippensburg, PA Randy Hanson, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay Merck Sharp & Dohme Research Labs, West Point, PA Patricia Ritenour, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN Wayne Lyle, Southern Arkansas University, Magnolia Pennwalt Corporation, King of Prussia, PA Donna Taylor, Albright College, Reading, PA U.S. Borax Research, Anaheim, CA Dale Hurst, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO University of California at Riverside Toni Phillips, Erskine College, Due West, SC University of Utah, Salt Lake City Voon-Synn Ong, Coe College, Cedar Rapids, IA
Instrumental Analysis Enhancement Program Funded The 1988-89 academic year is the sixth year that the Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP) is sponsoring a program to provide copies of ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY to undergraduate students enrolled in instrumental analysis courses in U.S. colleges and universities. This year, 1088 subscriptions will go to 356 academic institutions participating in the program, referred to as the Enhancement Program for Students in Instrumental Analysis Courses. The program supplies copies of the JOURNAL to students for use in undergraduate instrumentation courses. The subscriptions are intended to enrich course content and to encourage more 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, and some of them assign student projects based on the material in the JOURNAL. A guide is also provided that contains suggestions for the JOURNAL'S use as a supplemental teaching tool. This year the program began in September and will continue through February. Originating at the Allerton Conference in 1981, the program was funded in its first year (1982) by the ACS Corporation Associates. Since 1983 the program has been almost entirely funded by a $5000 grant from the SACP.
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY, VOL. 60, NO. 20, OCTOBER 15, 1988
