first group of 1997 prf grants
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First Group Of 1997 PRF Grants T he American Chemical Society
Board of Directors has approved 156 new or continuing ACS-Petroleum
Research Fund (PRF) grants for fundamental research or scientific education. Also approved were 33 of 59 requests for supplements to existing ACS-PRF Research Grants. The supplements will allow a faculty member from an undergraduate department to be added to the PRF-funded research project for the summer of 1997. These grants, committing $4,290,235 of the $13 million authorized for 1997, were recommended from the 411 proposals considered by the PRF Advisory Board in November 1996.
In order to sustain the purchasing power of PRF grants, the board approved a $5,000 increase in the value of Type AC and Type Β grants. Type AC grant recipients may be given up to $30,000 per year. Type Β grant recipients may receive up to $30,000 for the two-year term of the grant. The increases will take effect with the 1998 PRF grants. Type G grants will remain at $20,000 over two years.
The last meeting of the PRF Advisory Board to recommend 1997 grants is scheduled for May. Proposals will be accepted through June for the November PRF Advisory Board meeting for 1998 funding. For information and application materials, contact the Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington D.C. 20036; phone (202) 872-4481, e-mail: [email protected].
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC)
Estella Atekwana, William A. Sauck, Western Michigan U. Geophysical Investigations of the Anomalous Conductivities Associated with Hydrocarbon Plumes. $50,000
James K. Bashkin, Washington U. Mechanism and Charge Control of Metal-Catalyzed RNA Transesterification. $50,000
Lorenz T. Biegler, Carnegie Mellon U. Boundary Value Approaches for Parameter Estimation of Large-Scale Differential Algebraic Systems. $50,000
Dennis K. Bird, Stanford U. Thermodynamic Properties and Parageneses of Rock-Forming Zeolites. $49,820
Silas C. Blackstock, U of Alabama. Development of Localized Donor-Acceptor Interactions for Crystal Engineering. $50,000
Thierry A. Blanchet, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. Irradiated/Unirradiated Fluoropolymer Composites for Enhanced Wear Resistance and Self-Lubrication. $50,000
David J. Bottjer, Mary L. Droser, U of Southern California. Lateral Heterogeneity of Bioturbation Structures in Reservoir Sandstones. $49,790
Milton W. Cole, Pennsylvania State U. Adsorption on Unusual Forms of Carbon. $50,000
Robert V. Demicco, State U of New York, Binghamton. Cycopath 3-D: A Three-Dimensional, Forward-Model of Sedimentation on Carbonate Platforms. $40,500
Peter A. Dowben, Marjorie A. Langell, U of Nebraska, Lincoln. Decomposition Pathways of Metallocenes on Surfaces. $50,000
Randolph S. Duran, U of Florida. Sequencing and Structural Investigations of Copoly-merization Reactions in Restricted Dimensions. $50,000
Malcolm D. E. Forbes, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Connecting Electron-Spin Exchange Interactions and Electron-Transfer Rates in Donor-Peptide-Acceptor Molecules. $50,000
Joel R. Fried, U of Cincinnati. Atomistic Simulation of Gas Diffusion in Highly Permeable Amorphous Polymers in the Glassy State. $50,000
Gregory C. Fu, Massachusetts Inst, of Technology. Development of Organotin Reagents for Organic Synthesis. $50,000
Bruce C. Gates, U of California, Davis. Prototype Supported Bimetallic Cluster Catalysts. $50,000
William M. Gelbart, James R. Heath, U of California, Los Angeles. Controlling the Shapes and Sizes of Ordered Arrays of Nano-particles in Wetting Thin Films. $50,000
Terry W. Gullion, Florida State U. Measuring 13C-170 and 13C-14N Distances in Solids with Applications to Bound Water and Polymers. $50,000
Masanori Hara, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study of Molecular Composites via Ionic Interactions. $50,000
John F. Hartwig, Yale U. Directly Observed β-Hydrogen Elimination from Late Transition-Metal Alkoxides and Amides. $50,000
William W. Hay, U of Colorado. Salinity, Thermohaline Circulation, and Ocean Anoxic Events on a Warm Earth. $50,000
D. Michael Heinekey, U of Washington. Hy-drogenolysis of Carbon-Chlorine Bonds: New Routes to CFC Alternatives. $50,000
Douglas J. Henderson, Brigham Young U. Interfacial Chemistry and the Interactions between Colloidal Particles. $50,000
Jonathan D. Hirst, Scripps Research Inst. Ab Initio Calculations of the Electronic Excited States of Amides. $50,000
Michael F. Hochella Jr., Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Silicate Dissolution/Precipitation in the Presence of Thin, Confined Films of Water: A New Experimental Approach of Chemical Weathering Phenomena. $50,000
John D. Humphrey, Colorado School of Mines. Sediment-Water Interaction in Holo-cene Carbonate Islands, San Bias Archipelago, Panama. $49,225
Joseph T. Hupp, Northwestern U. Exploitation of Primitive Molecular Recognition Effects in Electron- and Energy-Transfer Reactions: Synthesis and Applications of Luminescent Squares, Rectangles, Cubes, and Columns. $50,000
Shiou-Jyh Hwu, Clemson U. Electrochemical Synthesis of Conducting Transition-Metal Chalcogenides. $50,000
Wayne E. Jones Jr., State U of New York, Binghamton. Electron-Transfer and Solvation Dynamics in Odd-Electron Transition-Metal Complexes. $50,000
Larry L. Kesmodel, Indiana U. Surface-Sensitive Vibrational Spectroscopy of Polymers. $50,000
Tad H. Koch, U of Colorado. Redox-Active Building Blocks for Self-Assembly. $50,000
Lev N. Krasnoperov, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Kinetics of Free-Radical Reactions at High Pressures. $50,000
David M. Lemal, Dartmouth C. Tetraamino-ethylenes. $50,000
Charles M. Lieber, Harvard U. Growth of One-Dimensional Carbide Nanomaterials. $50,000
Eric W. McFarland, U of California, Santa Barbara. Magnetically Controlled Catalysis: Magnetic-Fie Id-Dependent Surface-Structure Modifications in Metallic Thin Films. $50,000
Michael J. McGlinchey, McMaster U. Organ-ometallic Cations and Anions: Syntheses, Structures, and Dynamics. $50,000
Anthony J. McHugh, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Flow-Induced Conformations, Structuring, and Phase Stability of Semi-Flexible Polymers. $50,000
David W. Mead, U of Michigan. Development and Evaluation of Mixing Rules for Polydis-perse Systems of Rodlike Polymers Utilizing the Double Reptation Model. $50,000
Keith T. Mead, Mississippi State U. Studies in Spiroketal Synthesis. $50,000
Philip W. Morrison Jr., Case Western Reserve U. In Situ Diagnostics during the Growth of Diamond Films in an Enclosed Combustion Flame. $50,000
Aiichiro Nakano, Louisiana State U. Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Porous Ceramics: Enabling Simulation Technologies for Rational Design. $50,000
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Amos M. Nur, Stanford U. Seismic Signatures of Geopressure in the Gulf of Mexico: The Rock Physics Basis. $50,000
Kyriakos D. Papadopoulos, Tulane U. Fluorescent Microscopy of W/O/W Globules for Studying Stability and the Release Mechanisms in Liquid Membranes. $50,000
Ronald J. Phillips, U of California, Davis. Properties of Viscoelastic Particulate Suspensions in Sedimentation and Shear Flows. $50,000
David W. Pratt, U of Pittsburgh. Laser Probing of Enzyme Mimics in the Gas Phase. $50,000
T. V. RajanBabu, Ohio State U. Asymmetric Catalysis of Carbon-Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions. $50,000
Thomas G. Richmond, U of Utah. Cobalto-cene Mediated C-C, C-H, and C-F Bond Activations. $50,000
Lisa L. Robbins, U of South Florida, Tampa. Microbial Fingerprint: An Investigation of the Isotopic, Elemental, and Crystallography Signatures of Microbially Precipitated Carbonates. $50,000
John D. Roberts, California Inst, of Technology. Steric, Electrostatic, Hydrogen Bonding, and Solvent Effects on Conformational Equilibria and Equilibrations. $40,000
William B. Russel, Princeton U. Film Formation from Dispersions of Polymer Lattices. $50,000
Franklin A. Schultz, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Single versus Multiple Electron Transfer and Electrocatalysis by Ligand-Bridged Binuclear Complexes. $50,000
Bala Subramaniam, U of Kansas. Coking of Acidic Catalysts by Olefinic Oligomers: Role of Dissolved Oxygen and Feed Peroxides. $50,000
Martin T. Vala Jr., U of Florida. Spectroscopic Studies of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon and Carbon Chain Ions. $50,000
Jan Veizer, U of Ottawa. Hydrothermal Venting in Coral Reef. $50,000
Robert M. Williams, Colorado State U. Studies on the Biosynthesis of Taxol. $25,000
B. Erik Ydstie, Carnegie Mellon U. Distillation Control Systems from Thermodynamics. $50,000
Jin Z. Zhang, U of California, Santa Cruz. Ul-trafast Studies of Interfacial Electron Dynamics in Colloidal Metal Nanoparticles. $50,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type B) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments
Robert K. Boggess, Radford U. Use of Supercritical Carbon Dioxide to Infuse Metal-Containing Additives into Polyimides. $25,000
Ronald Caple, U of Minnesota, Duluth. Utilization of the Concept of Stepwise Electro-philic Addition in the Construction of Carbon Skeletons. $25,000
Philip J. Chenier, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Synthesis and Chemistry of Chiral Tropocoronands. $25,000
John G. Cobley, U of San Francisco. Biochemical and Genetic Investigation of the Utilization of n-Alkanes by the Marine Filamentous Cyanobacterium Phormidium cori-um. $25,000
Ronald J. Duchovic, Indiana U-Purdue U, Fort Wayne. Kinetics and Dynamics of Bi-molecular Combustion Reactions. $25,000
Timothy E. Elgren, Hamilton C. Neurocuprein: A Novel Type II Copper Protein. $25,000
Gabriel M. Filippelli, Indiana U-Purdue U, Indianapolis. Phosphorus and Carbon Sedimentation in the Southern Ocean on Gla-cial/lnterglacial Timescales. $25,000
Fred J. Grieman, Pomona C. Electronic Spectroscopy of Perdeuterodimethylzinc Cation and the Zinc Dihalide Cations. $25,000
Jeffry D. Grigsby, Ball State U. In Search of Chemical Fingerprints: Petrology, Clay Mineralogy, and Chemistry of Bentonite Beds Exposed Near the Eocene-Oligocene Boundary, Gulf Coastal Plain. $25,000
John M. Holbrook, Southeast Missouri State U. Investigation for Evidence and Criteria Indicating Impact on the Sedimentary Record by Subtle Tectonics: Examination of the Lake County Uplift. $25,000
Donald T. Jacobs, C of Wooster. Heat Capacity in Binary Fluid Mixtures and Universality Near the Critical Point. $25,000
John A. Maguire, Southern Methodist U. Structural and Theoretical Studies of Pentagonal Bipyramidal Metallacarboranes. $25,000
William H. Miles, Lafayette C. Chemistry of 3-Methylene-2,3-Dihydrofuran. $25,000
Daniel C. Robie, Barnard C. Cross Sections of Weak Absorptions by Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy. $23,400
June R. P. Ross, Western Washington U. Evolutionary Relations within Upper Ordo-vician and Lower Silurian Bryozoans in Midwestern States. $25,000
Charles D. Schaeffer Jr., Claude H. Yoder, Elizabethtown C. Stabilization of Silylenium Ions by Intramolecular Charge-Dipole Encapsulation. $25,000
Thomas T. Shawe, Bucknell U. Asymmetric Synthesis of Optically Active Cycloal-kenones. $25,000
Elizabeth A. Stemmler, Bowdoin C. Controlling Neutral and Ionic Reactions in the Negative Chemical Ionization Source. $25,000
Marc Zimmer, Connecticut C. Molecular Mechanical and Cluster Analysis of the Factors Responsible for the Conformations Adopted by Tetraaza Macrocycles. $25,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Awarded to faculty in Ph.D.-granting departments
Eric Bakker, Auburn U. Novel Approaches to the Selectivity of Carrier-Based Ion-Selective Electrodes. $20,000
Anne M. Baranger, Wesleyan U. Studies on the Contribution of Stacking Interactions to RNA-Protein Complexes. $20,000
Angel C. de Dios, Georgetown U. Chemical Shifts: Insight into Structure and Environment. $20,000
Francis D'Souza, Wichita State U. Molecular Recognition via Hydroquinone-Quinone Pairing in Porphyrin Covalently Attached Either to Hydroquinone or Quinone. $20,000
Elliot P. Douglas, U of Florida. Synthesis and Phase Behavior of Liquid Crystalline Thermosets. $20,000
Jeffrey E. Elbert, South Dakota State U. Triplet Energy Transfer Sensitization of Lanthanide-DOTA Complexes Studied by Flash Photolysis and Photoacoustic Calo-rimetry. $20,000
Patrick J. Farmer, U of California, Irvine. Myoglobin-Based Functional Models for Nitrite and Sulfite Reductases. $20,000
Cassandra L. Fraser, U of Virginia. Metal Core Macromolecules: Multifunctional Metal Complex Initiators and Terminating Agents for Living Polymerization Reactions. $20,000
David Y. Gin, U of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign. Enantiospecific Synthesis of Batzel-ladine A, a Potent Inhibitor of the HIV gp120-CD4 Interaction. $20,000
Rachel S. Goldman, U of Michigan. Nanometer-Scale Investigations of Interfacial Chemistry in Semiconductor Structures. $20,000
Daniel A. Higgins, Kansas State U. Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals Studied by Near Field Scanning Optical Microscopy. $20,000
Bo Hong, U of California, Irvine. Supramolec-ular Photochemistry and Surface Attachment of Light-Harvesting Dendritic Assemblies. $20,000
Laurens E. Howie, Duke U. Active Control of Convection in Porous Media. $20,000
Christopher A. Klug, Stanford U. Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of the Structures and Reactions of Simple Molecules on Supported Metal Catalysts. $20,000
Jeffrey L. Krause, U of Florida. Laser Control of Chemical and Material Processes. $20,000
Michael B. Kruger, U of Missouri-Kansas City. Structural Studies of Pressure-Amorphized Materials. $20,000
Tingyu Li, Vanderbilt U. Preorganized Short Oligopeptides for Chiral Chromatography. $20,000
Patrick A. Limbach, Louisiana State U. Structural Characterization of Conducting Polymers Using Mass Spectrometry. $20,000
David W. M. Marr, Colorado School of Mines. Influence of Interactions on Interfacial Properties in Binary Systems. $20,000
Stefan Matile, Georgetown U. Exploring Mechanisms and Specificities of Cell-Membrane-Related Processes by Means of Synthetic Rigid-Rod Molecules. $20,000
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Peggy A. O'Day, Arizona State U. Determination of Oxygen Isotope Ratios of Clay Minerals in Situ Using Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS). $20,000
Jonathan R. Parquette, Ohio State U. Catalytic Dendrimers: Design and Synthesis of Dendrimers for Asymmetric Catalysis in Aqueous Media. $20,000
Peter A. Petillo, U of Illinois, Urbana-Cham-paign. Polymerization Strategies for Carbohydrate Synthesis. $20,000
Robin L. B. Selinger, Catholic U of America. Theory of Polyisocyanates Designed for Optical Switching. $20,000
Panagiotis G. Smirniotis, U of Cincinnati. Selective Dealumination of Zeolite Super-cages Leading to Minimum Coke Deposition: Catalyst Synthesis and Characterization. $20,000
Cinzia Spencer-Cervato, U of Maine, Orono. Evolution of the Thermocline during the Pliocene: Implications for Oceanic Productivity. $20,000
Richard E. Taylor, U of Notre Dame. Oligo-cyclopropanes from Homo-Allyl Cations. $20,000
Britt N. Thomas, U of Wyoming. Probes of Spatially Constrained Phospholipid Tubule Formation. $20,000
Trevor A. Tyson, New Jersey Inst, of Technology. Investigation of Electron-Lattice-Spin Correlations in Transition-Metal Oxides: Doped LaMn03 Systems. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Awarded to faculty in non-Ph.D.-granting departments
Jay H. Baltisberger, Berea C. Studies of Distributional Effects in Alkaline Phosphate Glasses. $20,000
Kieron Burke, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey. Density Functional Theory of Response Properties: Ionization Thresholds. $20,000
Ronald B. Cole, Allegheny C. Deformation, Synorogenic Sedimentation, and Geochro-nology of the Early Eocene Upper Cantwell Formation: Refining the Accretionary to Strike-Slip Tectonic History of the Central Alaska Range. $20,000
Matthew J. Elrod, Hope C. Studies of the Atmospheric Fate of Halogenated Methylper-oxy Radicals Using Turbulent Flow Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry. $20,000
Victoria J. Fabry, California State U, San Marcos. Quantitative Significance of the Effects of Coccolithophore Calcification on Oceanic C02 Chemistry. $20,000
Rebecca C. Hoye, Macalester C. Scope of the Aryl-Alkyne Zipper Reaction and Mechanism of an Unusual Carbanionic Cleavage Reaction. $20,000
W. Bryan Lynch, U of Evansville. High-Field Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Study of the Metal-Binding Site in Manganese(ll)-Substituted Carboxypeptidase A. $20,000
Gina M. MacDonald, James Madison U. Fourier-Transform Infrared Investigation of Nucleotide Binding in the Recombination Protein, RecA. $20,000
David Y. Son, Southern Methodist U. New Halogenated Organosilicon Monomers and Polymers. $20,000
Sarah L Stoll, Oberlin C. Tuning of Size-Dependent Properties of Rare-Earth and Transition-Metal Chalcogenide Materials. $20,000
Feimeng Zhou, U of Wisconsin, Eau Claire. Kinetic Studies of Homogeneous Chemical Reactions of Species Electrogenerated from Fullerenes and Fullerene Derivatives. $20,000
Edward P. Zovinka, Saint Francis C. Multiply Functionalized Metallocenes. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Scientific Education (Type SE)
Steven M. Bachrach, on behalf of Northern Illinois U. Cubanes, Homocubanes, and Heterocubanes (X=P, As, N): Synthesis and Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
Richard A. Bartsch, on behalf of ACS Division of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Inc., Subdivision of Separation Science & Technology. Recognition with Imprinted Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Thomas W. Bell, on behalf of ACS Division of Organic Chemistry. Synthetic Receptors for Optical Chemosensors at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
William J. Brittain, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Acrylate Polymerization: New Mechanisms and Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Patrick E. Cassidy, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Fluoropoly-mers at the 216th ACS national meeting, Boston, August 1998. $2,000
H. N. Cheng, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. NMR Spectroscopy of Synthetic Macromolecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Christopher J. Cramer, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. The Role of Electrostatics in Chemistry at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000
Paul L. Dubin, on behalf of ACS Division of Colloid & Surface Chemistry. Polymer-Surfactant Interactions at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
William E. Geiger Jr., on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Electrochemistry in the Characterization of Inorganic, Or-ganometallic, and Biological Systems at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000
David W. Grainger, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polyethylene Glycol: Chemistry and Biological Applications at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Timothy J. Grundl, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Kinetics and Mechanisms of Reactions at the Mineral-Water Interface at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Bruce A. Harrington, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Engineering Polyolefins at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Patrick G. Hatcher, on behalf of ACS Division of Geochemistry Inc. Biogeochemistry of Algae at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Bing R. Hsieh, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Organic Materials and Devices for Display Technology at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Jerry E. Hunt, on behalf of ACS Division of Fuel Chemistry. Asphaltene and Resid Characterization at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Hannes Jonsson, John T. Yates Jr., on behalf of ACS Divisions of Physical Chemistry and Colloid & Surface Chemistry. New Concepts in Surface Chemistry: Diffusive Motion of Atoms and Molecules on Surfaces at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Clifford P. Kubiak, on behalf of Interameri-can Photochemical Society. 9th Interameri-can Photochemical Society Winter Conference, Clearwater Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000
Hilary S. Lackritz, on behalf of ACS Divisions of Polymer Chemistry Inc. and Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering and the Optical Society of America. Organic Thin Films for Photonic Applications, Long Beach, Calif., September 1997. $2,000
Brian B. Laird, on behalf of American Physical Society Division of Chemical Physics. Dynamics of Glasses and Supercooled Liquids at the American Physical Society Meeting, Kansas City, Mo., March 1997. $2,000
Neocles B. Leontis, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Molecular Modeling and Structural Determination of Nucleic Acids at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Thomas E. Mallouk, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Solid-State Chemistry and Materials Science at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Todd B. Marder, on behalf of U of Waterloo. Transition-Metal Group 13 Compounds Including Their Roles in Catalytic Processes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
Michael J. Maroney, on behalf of ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry. Role of Nickel in Biology and Catalysis at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
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David H. McConville, on behalf of Canadian Society for Chemistry. Non-Cp Ligand Environments: Activation of Small Molecules at the Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference, Windsor, Ontario, June 1997. $2,000
Roger E. Miller, Peter M. Felker, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Orientation and Alignment in Chemical Processes at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Buddy D. Ratner, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Plasmas and Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Eisa Reichmanis, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Polymers for Micro- and Nano-patterning Science and Technology at the 214th ACS national meeting, Las Vegas, September 1997. $2,000
June R. P. Ross, on behalf of PaleoForams '97 Organizing Committee/Western Washington U. PaleoForams '97: An International Conference on Paleozoic Foraminifera, Bellingham, Wash., August 1997. $2,000
Richard B. Ross, on behalf of ACS Division of Computers in Chemistry. Industrial Applications of Computational Chemistry at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Daniel J. Sandman, Takeshi Ogawa, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymer Chemistry Inc. Polymers from Acetylenes at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Can-cun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
Daniel A. Scarpiello, on behalf of the Catalysis Society, Chicago Section. 15th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, Chicago, May 1997. $2,000
Donald N. Schulz, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Functional Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Vladimir M. Shalaev, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Nanostructured Materials: Clusters, Composites, and Thin Films at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Martin R. Tant, on behalf of ACS Division of Polymeric Materials: Science & Engineering Inc. Structure and Properties of Glassy Polymers at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Thomas T. Tidwell, on behalf of Canadian Society for Chemistry, Organic Division. Toward the Second Century of Carbocation Chemistry at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
John C. Van Houten, on behalf of Saint Michael's C. 12th International Symposium on Photochemistry and Photophysics of Coordination Compounds, Colchester, Vt., June and July 1997. $2,000
John T. Welch, on behalf of ACS Division of Fluorine Chemistry. 13th Winter Fluorine Conference, St. Petersburg Beach, Fla., January 1997. $2,000
Richard V. Williams, on behalf of 5th Chemical Congress of North America. Theoretically Interesting Molecules at the 5th Chemical Congress of North America, Cancun, Mexico, November 1997. $2,000
Xiaoliang Sunney Xie, William E. Moerner, on behalf of ACS Division of Physical Chemistry. Single Molecules at the 213th ACS national meeting, San Francisco, April 1997. $2,000
Weitao Yang, on behalf of Duke U. Density Functional Theory and Applications—A Satellite Symposium of the 9th International Congress of Quantum Chemistry, Durham, N.C., June 1997. $2,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type AC Grants
Rex E. Crick, Brooks B. Ellwood, U of Texas, Arlington. Evaluating the Magnetosus-ceptibility Stratigraphy Method: Key to High-Resolution Correlation and Cyclo-stratigraphy. $5,000
Thomas R. Cundari, U of Memphis. Methane Activation by Mercury(ll) Complexes. $5,000
Ronald I. Dorn, Arizona State U. Temperature Dependency of Calcium- and Magnesium-Silicate Weathering in Nature: Implications for the Global Carbon Cycle. $5,000
Erik J. Fernandez, U of Virginia. Magnetic Resonance Imaging Analysis of Viscous Fingering. $5,000
Robert E. Gawley, U of Miami. Properties and Synthetic Applications of α-Amino and α-Alkoxy Organolithiums. $5,000
Harry W. Gibson, Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State U. Novel Dendrimers Formed from Macrocyclic and Cryptand Units. $5,000
Gordon W. Gribble, Dartmouth C. Fused Heterocycles in Natural Products Synthesis. $5,000
David C. Johnson, U of Oregon. Synthesis of Crystalline Superlattices by Controlled Crystallization of Modulated Reactants. $5,000
James M. Mayer, U of Washington. Oxidation of Alkanes and Arylalkanes by Transition-Metal Oxo Complexes. $5,000
Gordon J. Miller, Iowa State U. At the Boundary of Metal-Insulator Transitions, Superconductivity, and Relativistic Effects: New Bismuthides and Antimonides. $5,000
George A. Petersson, G. Barney Ellison, Wesleyan U. Energetics of Organic Diradi-cals. $5,000
Suzanne T. Purrington, North Carolina State U. New Approach to the Synthesis of β-Lactams. $5,000
Paul G. Rasmussen, U of Michigan. Synthesis of High Nitrogen, Low Hydrogen, Materials from Λ/,Λ/',ΛΓ-Tricyanoguanidinate, C4N6
2_, Dianion. $5,000 John R. Scheffer, U of British Columbia.
Control of Reaction Multiplicity in Solid-State Organic Photochemistry: Energy Transfer and Heavy Atom Effects. $5,000
Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri, Columbia. Two-Length-Scale Structure in Porous Solids. $5,000
Bakthan Singaram, U of California, Santa Cruz. Asymmetric Hydroboration of Func-tionalized Alkenes. $5,000
Dwight A. Sweigart, Brown U. Bimetallic Arene Complexes and Their Application as Models for Hydrodesulfurization and Hydro-denitrogenation. $5,000
Paul G. Tratnyek, Oregon Graduate Inst, of Science & Technology. Organic Reduction Reactions at the Metal-Water Interface. $5,000
Kenneth B. Wiberg, Yale U. Toward an Understanding of 13C Chemical Shifts. $5,000
Scott A. Wood, U of Idaho. Thermodynamics of REE Complexes with Simple Carboxylic Acid Anions at Elevated Temperatures. $5,000
Xiao-lun Wu, U of Pittsburgh. Hydrodynamics in Driven Soap Films. $5,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type Β Grants
Ernest H. Gilmour, Eastern Washington U. Permian Bryozoa of the Productus Creek Group, Brook Street Terrane, South Island, New Zealand. $5,000
Lawrence D. Margerum, U of San Francisco. Metal Ion Binding Sites in a Series of Poly-amine Dendrimers: Thermodynamics and Lewis Acid Catalytic Sites. $5,000
Allan M. Nishimura, Westmont C. Triplet-Triplet Energy Transfer of Adsorbed Organic Species. $5,000
ACS-PRF Summer Research Supplements to Type G Grants
Gregory V. Hartland, U of Notre Dame. Ul-trafast IR Spectroscopy of Nanometer-Sized Semiconductor Clusters. $5,000
Michael Manga, U of Oregon. Drops and Bubbles in Low Reynolds Number Multiphase Flows. $5,000
Philip J. Reid, U of Washington. Resonance Raman Spectroscopic Investigations of Ul-trafast Radical Chemistry in the Condensed Phase. $5,000
Shawn C. Sendlinger, North Carolina Central U. New Synthetic Routes to Inorganic Oligomers and Polymers. $5,000
Greg M. Swain, Utah State U. Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Characterization of Electrochemical Interfaces Found at Conductive Diamond Thin-Film Surfaces. $2,500
John P. Toscano, Johns Hopkins U. Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopic Studies of Triplet Ketones and Enones. $5,000
Dionisios G. Vlachos, U of Massachusetts. Microscopic Approach to Oxidation Reactions and Reactors. $5,000
Michael T. Whalen, U of Alaska, Fairbanks. Regional Sequence and Chronostratigra-phy of Upper Devonian Platform and Basin Sequences, Alberta, Canada. $5,000
John B. Wiley, U of New Orleans. New Strategies for the Preparation of New Layered Copper Oxides. $5,000^
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ACS Delaware Section special symposium The ACS Delaware Section held a special symposium titled "The Chemical Industry Today & Tomorrow," featuring technology officers from three Delaware chemical companies. ACS President Paul S. Anderson opened the symposium.
Speaking at the Jan. 9 symposium were Joseph A. Miller, senior vice president and chief technology officer at DuPont; David A. Simpson, director of new technology research at Hercules; and Alvin K. Willard, vice president of biomedical research at Zeneca Pharmaceuticals.
The speakers addressed the challenges and opportunities facing their respective companies, focusing on four current common threads: the globally competitive chemical market, innovative developments in industry and academe, objectives of R&D, and outsourcing.^
Clinical chemistry volunteers sought The National Registry in Clinical Chemistry (NRCQ seeks health and safety chemists to participate in a sample test for a chemical hygiene officer certification program.
The guidelines and questions for the examination were developed in line with the Occupational Safety & Health Administration's laboratory standard for chemical hygiene officers. At the request of ACS, NRCC has assumed the task of developing, implementing, and administering the examination.
The sample examination will be held in conjunction with the ACS national meeting in San Francisco. The exam will consist of approximately 70 questions and will be held from 3 to 5 PM on April 12.
To volunteer or for more information, contact NRCC, 815—15th St., N.W., Suite 630, Washington, D.C. 20005; phone (202) 393-7140, fax (202) 393-4059, e-mail: [email protected].<4
Analytical reagents meeting The ACS Committee on Analytical Reagents will meet April 9-11 at ACS headquarters in Washington, D.C. The committee will consider testing methods and specifications for chemicals used as re
agents in analytical testing. The results of the meeting will be compiled in the 9th edition of "Reagent Chemicals—ACS Specifications." The committee is requesting suggestions of additional re-
ACS names new National Chemistry Week program manager
Michael J. Kenney has joined the American Chemical Society Public Outreach staff as program manager for National Chemistry Week (NCW). He will assist local section volunteers in reaching their goals for NCW, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. ACS President Paul S. Anderson has set a goal of increasing by 50% the number of people reached by this year's program.
Kenney came to ACS from the chemistry department of George Washington University, Washington, D.C, where he taught in the fall of 1996. From 1992 to 1996, Kenney was professor of chemistry at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He was honored there as the first Lumsden-Valrance Lecturer, a position endowed by James R. and Jean L. Val-rance to provide opportunities for teachers to improve the image of chemistry among incoming college students.
Kenney was actively involved with the ACS Michigan State University Section, including serving as cochair of the section's 1993 NCW committee. He organized a
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agents for inclusion in the book. Suggestions should be sent to the committee chair, Paul Bouis, Mallinckrodt Baker, Phillipsburg, NJ. 08865; phone (908) 859-9443, fax (908) 859-9454. <
"Living Periodic Table" event that year, which involved having the periodic table march across the Michigan State football field during halftime of their game against Northwestern University.
Kenney has also taught at Marquette University, Milwaukee, and at Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis. At Marquette, in 1992, he received the Teacher of the Year Award in the chemistry department.
Kenney received a B.A. degree in chemistry from St. John's University, Col-legeville, Minn., in 1982, and a Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry from Iowa State University, Ames, in 1990.
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DEATHS
LEONARD M. FREEMAN, 94, died Jan. 20 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Freeman, nearly a 70-year member of ACS, counted his service as a volunteer abstractor among his many contributions to the society, family members say.
He received a bachelor's degree from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1924, and a master's degree in chemistry in 1926 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He began his career in chemistry in 1926 at BF Goodrich Tire Co., where he eventually became manager of the company's works technical group, which included the general chemistry laboratory, raw materials inspection and development, and physical testing laboratories. He retired from the company in 1958. Joined ACS in 1928; emeritus member.^
ALBERT L. ROCKLIN, 75, died Dec. 18 in La-guna Hills, Calif. Upon retirement in 1986, Rocklin was a senior research chemist at Shell Development's Westhollow Research Lab in Houston. At Shell in the 1960s, he developed additives for solid rocket fuels. More recently, he studied the evaporation of solvent blends used for paints.
Rocklin received bachelor's (1943), master's (1944), and Ph.D. degrees (1946) in chemistry from the University of Toronto. From 1946 until 1950, he worked as an assistant professor at Purdue University at both its Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Ind., campuses. In 1951, he went to work as an organic chemist for Dow Chemical Co. in Pittsburg, Calif. He joined Shell Development in 1958. Joined ACS in 1948; emeritus member.^
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