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NSF Announces Fellowship Awards Award of 376 fellowships in two programs has been announced by the National Science Foundation. Science faculty fellowships were awarded to 285 college and university science teachers, to enable them to improve their effectiveness as teachers. About 750 applicants from all parts of the United States and its territories had applied for these grants. Ninety-one senior post-doctoral fellowships were also awarded, on the basis of 275 applications received. The postdoctoral fellowships are designed to enable the recipients to pursue further advanced training and research in their fields. The faculty awards were made on the basis of ability as indicated by letters of recommendation, academic and professional records, and other evidence of attainment and promise. Requirements for receiving a postdoctoral award included a doctoral degree in science, mathematics, or engineering at least five years previously, plus a demonstrated ability and aptitude for advanced training. NSF expects to reopen the two programs in May for awards to be made in December.
Wiley Award Nominations Nominations are now being accepted for the fifth AOAC Harvey W. Wiley Award for Achievement in Analytical Methods. This award of $500 will be given to the scientist or group of scientists who have made outstanding contributions to the development of analytical methods for foods, drugs, cosmetics, feeds, fertilizers, and pesticides or for use in general analytical chemistry. These are the fields of interest to the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists which are encompassed in its publication, Official Methods of Analysis. Mr. Jonas Carol, of the Food and Drug Administration, won the 1960 award for his outstanding contributions in advancing the frontiers of the analytical methodology of drugs. Nominations must be submitted to the Secretary of the Association by April 1st. Nominees need not be members of the Association. Further inCircle No. 163 on Readers' Service Card
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Abstracts of selected articles from Soviet Bloc and Communist China technical journals in six general subject areas will be published monthly and sold on subscription by the Office of Technical Services, Business and Defense Services Administration, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C. OTS will offer this program beginning in late January, in place of one discontinued last June under which cover-to-cover abstracts of sonic 100 Russian technical journals were published. The old program was discontinued because of the small number of subscribers to the journals abstracted on the cover-to-cover basis. leather than offer a large number of technical journals abstracted cover-tocover, OTS is now going to group abstracts of selected articles from a much larger number of publications into individual packages. A pre-publication survey of a number of regular users of OTS materials indicates that this will be a more usable product. Abstracts will be prepared by another agency, but copies will be furnished to OTS for publication and sale to the public. The time-lag between publication of the original article in the Soviet Bloc or Chinese press and publication of the abstracts by OTS is expected to approximate 70 to 120 days. Subscriptions to the six new publications, or series, will be accepted for a six-month's period. One of the six series, or publications, is entitled "Chemistry, Chemicals, and Chemical Products." It will consist of about 150 abstracts per month. It will sell for $6.00 for six months. Others in the series relate to physics, metallurgy, engineering, communications, and general science.
Vacuum Technology Conference The American Vacuum Society will be host to the International Organization for Vacuum Science and Technology for the Second International Vacuum Congress to be held October 16-19, 1961 in Washington, D. C. at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. Papers are invited on all phases of vacuum technology including generation, measurement and application in
