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Summer Internship Program The American Chemical Society's Division of Analytical Chemistry is continuing its program aimed at intro ducing talented undergraduate stu dents to modern analytical chemistry by promoting the use of summer in terns in industrial, academic, or gov ernment laboratories. Students chosen to participate in the program are em ployed to carry out various phases of research or applied programs in the analytical area. Industrial, academic, or government laboratories agree to participate by employing one or more undergraduates during the summer. The Professional Status Committee of the Division screens and evaluates ap plicants, selects the most qualified, and acts as a broker to bring students and prospective employers together. Participating laboratories are supplied with information on two or three stu dents and are asked to select those most suited, leaving salary and em ployment details up to the individual employer. Laboratory participation is open to any laboratory where there is analytical activity. For the first time this year, the program will be open to academic analytical research groups. Academic analytical research groups with ongoing research programs are encouraged to participate. Student qualification for the pro gram should include completion of at least the second year of college, pref erably including an instrumental anal ysis course or its equivalent, and an interest in analytical chemistry; rarely will graduating seniors be considered for the program. The Division is seeking applications from interested students and from in dustrial, governmental, and academic laboratories wishing to participate. Deadline for student application is February 15, 1976. Application forms and further information about the program may be obtained by writing to Robert A. Osteryoung, Chairman, Professional Status Committee, Divi sion of Analytical Chemistry, ACS, c/o Department of Chemistry, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. 80523. Experience with the program the summer of 1975 was disappointing as a result of the general economic pic
ture. Five organizations participated, and six students were placed. How ever, well over 100 applications for the program were received and screened. Participating organizations and stu dents were: Brookhaven National Laboratory Associated Universities, Inc. Upton, L.I., Ν. Y. Rytis T. Balciunas Seton Hall University South Orange, N.J. Stauffer Chemical Co. Dobbs Ferry, Ν. Y. Douglas J. Sober Clarion State College Clarion, Pa. Hoffman-La Roche Inc. Nutley, N.J. Karl Bratin Clarkson College Potsdam, N.Y.
Exxon Research and Engineering Co. Linden, N.J. Rita Read Texas Tech University Lubbock, Tex. University of Missouri Environmental Trace Substances Research Center Columbia, Mo. Keith Mastin College of Marin Kentfield, Calif, and Daniel Letterich Thiel College Greenville, Pa.
More participating laboratories are earnestly sought by the Division to continue this program which should benefit participating laboratories, stu dents, and the discipline of analytical chemistry.
Leonard Price (left), chairman of the chemistry department at Xavier University, New Orleans, La., and Gerald L. Ellis, chemistry professor at Grambling State University, Grambling, La., participated in an Eastman Kodak Co. work-experience program de signed to provide college professors with first-hand knowledge of the type of work sit uations their students will find in the "real world". Dr. Ellis, who has a PhD in analytical chemistry from Okalhoma State University, used highly sophisticated analytical instru ments this past summer to research the content and biodegradability of photographic processing chemicals in sewage effluent. Dr. Price worked on a sequence of chemi cal reactions to produce ultraviolet absorbers in the color photography division at Ko dak's research labs in Rochester, N.Y. Both professors found the experience useful and noted the differences between research done in industry and that done in their own college chemistry labs
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Denise Barnes, a college senior from New Orleans, La., spent her summer working in a chemistry lab at Bell Telephone's laboratories at Murray Hill, N.J. Her project involved preparing chemically and characterizing physically a series of "metal cluster" compounds: a cluster of metal atoms surrounded by organic compounds. Denise was one of about 200 students from technical institutes and colleges throughout the country who participated in summer employment programs at Bell Labs. These programs are designed to encourage minorities and women to seek scientific and engineering careers by giving them an opportunity to work closely with scientists and engineers in a modern research and development laboratory. The students worked at Bell Lab locations throughout the country
Call for Papers 14th Conference on Microbalance Techniques University of Salford, England, UK. Sept. 27-28, 1976. 150-word abstracts are due by April 9,1976. Subject matter may be theoretical or experimental, and particularly thermogravimetry, sorption, vaporization, surface reactions, condensation, microbalance apparatus and ancillary equipment. Contact: A. W. Czanderna, Dept. of Physics, Clarkson College of Technology, Potsdam, N.Y. 13676.
G. Hesse
Meetings The following meetings are newly listed in A N A L Y T I C A L C H E M I S T R Y . J. E. Lovelock
C.S.G. Phillips
Chromatography Awards The 10th International Symposium on Advances in Chromatography held in Munich, Germany, Nov. 3 to 6, 1975, awarded the M. S. Tswett Chromatography Medal to G. Hesse, E. C. Horning, J. Janâk, J. E. Lovelock, and C.S.G. Phillips. G. Hesse, professor at the University of Erlangen/Nurnberg in the German Federal Republic and head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the University, is cited for his life work in chromatography, particularly in the early versions of gas adsorption chromatography. E. C. Horning, professor at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex., and head of the Institute of Lipid Research at Baylor, is honored for his activities in the field of,steroid analysis by gas chromatography and his devel-
opment of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry for biochemical analysis. J. Janâk, director of the Institute of Analytical Chemistry of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences in Brno, is noted for his pioneering work in gas adsorption chromatography and his achievements in various aspects of chromatography. J. E. Lovelock, free lance scientist and consultant to various companies and institutions, is honored for his invention of ionization detectors and in particular the electron capture detector. C.S.G. Phillips, Merton College and Oxford University in England, is cited for his continuous contributions to gas chromatography during the last quarter century as a researcher and teacher.
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Previously scheduled December 1975 and 1976 meetings appear in the October and November issues • Symposium on Measurement Theory and Measurement Error Analysis. Dec. 11-13. Twente University of Technology, Enschede, The Netherlands. Contact: IMEKO Secretariat, H-1371 Budapest, POB 457, Hungary • Gordon Research Conference on Electrochemistry. Jan. 19-23. Miramar Hotel, Santa Barbara, Calif. Contact: A. M. Cruickshank, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, R.I. 02881. 401-783-4011 • Symposium on Applied Vacuum Science and Technology. Feb. 2-4. Host Airport Hotel, Tampa, Fla. Contact: J. L. Provo, General Electric Co., P.O. Box 11508, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33733. 813-544-2511, ext. 622. Page 1172 A, Nov. m ALTEX '76: Automatic Laboratory Techniques Exhibition. Feb.
