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Latest Group of PRF Grants Approved
Acting on recommendations from the May meeting of the Petroleum Research Fund Advisory Board, the ACS Board of Directors approved 160 new or continuing ACS-PRF grants totaling $4*422,994. The recommended grants were selected from 428 proposals and are the last projects to be funded in 1988. Total ACS-PRF grant commitments in 1988 are $12,926,896, a new record.
Proposals for projects to commence in 1989 are invited for all ACS-PRF research grant programs. Information and application forms may be obtained from Petroleum Research Fund, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036, or by calling (202) 872-4481.
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type AC) Edwin J. Vandenberg, Arizona State U. New As
pects of Coordination and Cationic Polymerization. $40,000
Marvin W. Rowe, Texas A&M U. Electrodelessly Discharged "Oh2 and H2: Low-Temperature Noble Gas Release. $40,000
Susanne Raynor, Rutgers U. Electronic Structure of Solid N2 Under High Pressure. $40,000
Robert H. Morris, U of Toronto. Dihydrogen and Tri-hydrogen as Ligands in Transition Metal Complexes. $40,000
Robert M. Williams, Colorado State U. Syntheses and Study of Bicyclo[n. 1.1]0-Lactams. $60,000
Philip L. Taylor, Case Western Reserve U. Theory of Phase Stabilities and Dynamics of Phase Transitions in Helical Polymers. $40,000
Paul B. Welsz, U of Pennsylvania. Effective Diffusi-vity in Zeolite Catalysis. $60,000
Peter C. Wan, U of Victoria. Photogeneration and Chemistry of Benzannelated Carbanions. $40,000
Michael W. Blades, U of British Columbia. New Methods for Trace and Ultratrace Elemental Analysis of Small Sample Volumes. $40,000
David R. Yarkony, Johns Hopkins U. Theoretical Studies of Chemical Phenomena Induced by Spin-Orbit and Dipolar Spin-Spin Interactions Using Recently Developed Electronic Structure Tech- J niques. $40,000 1
Frank Bottomley, U of New Brunswick. Preparation and Properties of Organometallic Oxides. $40,000
Jeffrey T. Kobersteln, U of Connecticut. Molecular I
Structure-Property Relationships in Block Copoly-mer/Homopolymer Blends. $40,000
Charles W. Spangler, Northern Illinois U. Design of Electroactive Materials Having Stabilized Polar-onic and Bipolaronic States Capable of Nonlinear Optical Activity. $40,000
Robert J. Madlx, Stanford U. Effects of Molecular Structure on Heterogeneous Oxidation Reactions. $40,000
Robert P. Parson, U of Colorado. Theory of Collision-al Relaxation of Highly Excited Molecules. $40,000
George Kosaly, U of Washington. Theoretical and Numerical Investigation of Chemical Reactions in Homogeneous Turbulence. $40,000
John L. Falconer, U of Colorado. Model Studies of the Catalyzed Reaction of Silicon To Form Organ-ochlorosilanes. $40,000
David J. Bottjer, David Jablonekl, U of Southern California. Paleoenvironmental History of Higher Taxa of Postpaleozoic Macroinvertebrates. $20,000
Douglas L. Mills, U of California, Irvine. Vibrational and Magnetic Properties of Ultra-Thin Metal Over-layers. $40,000
Doralswaml Ramkrlshna, Genesan Narslmhan, Purdue U. Studies on Dispersed Phase Mass Transfer in Liquid-Liquid Dispersions. $40,000
AJoy K. Baksl, Louisiana State U. Unraveling the Time of Initiation and Duration of Deccan Trap Volcanism (India) by the Argon Dating Methods. $9900
Edward S. Van Vleet, U of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Pyrolysis Studies on the Degradation of Ar-chaebacterial Lipids in Anoxic Marine Sediments. $40,000
Kenneth B. Wlberg, Yale U. Properties of Heterocyclic Systems. $40,000
Raymond V. Ingersoll, U of California, Los Angeles. Evolution of Depositional Systems in an Exten-sional Orogen, West-Central Nevada. $40,000
Douglas W. Burbank, U of Southern California. Magnetic Chronologies of Paleogene Deformation and Deposition in the South Pyrenean Basins, Northern Spain. $40,000
George Zografl, Hyuk Yu, U of Wisconsin, Madison. Ionic Interactions in Monolayers. $40,000
John L. Ragle, U of Massachusetts. Field-Cycled Zero-Field NMR Studies of Catalyst Support Surfaces. $40,000
David R. Tyler, U of Oregon. Studies of Cage Effects in Organometallic Radical Reactions. $60,000
Jerome A. Barton, Yale U. Absolute Kinetics of Biradical Reactions. $40,000
Gilbert N. Hanson, State U of New York, Stony Brook. Geochemistry and Origin of Regional Dolomites: Rosevear Reef Complex, Western Canada Basin. $40,000
John W. Faller, Yale U. Catalysis and Stereochemical Control with Organometallic Lewis Acids. $40,000
Eric Block, State U of New York, Albany. Diels-Alder Reactions of Organosulfur Compounds: Applications in Organic Synthesis. $40,000
Anthony J. Merer, U of British Columbia. Molecular Beam Laser Spectroscopy of Small Metal-Containing Clusters. $40,000
Daniel L. Reger, U of South Carolina. Alkyl Isomer-ization Studies with New Alkylplatinum (II) Complexes. $40,000
Takeshi Oka, U of Chicago. Spectroscopy of Carbon Molecules, Radicals, and Ions. $40,000
William H. Hersh, U of California, Los Angeles. Alkyl Migration and Coupling in Heteronuclear Carbyne Clusters. $40,000
David I. Schuster, New York U. Photochemistry of Cyclic Enones: [2+2] and [4+2] Cycloaddition Reactions. $40,000
Peter F. Bernath, U of Arizona. Laser and Fourier Transform Spectroscopy of Free Radicals. $40,000
James B. Hendrlckson, Brandeis U. Phosphonium Anhydrides as Oxygen Extractor Reagents. $40,000
Eric Weltz, Northwestern U. Studies of the Reaction Kinetics of Selected Organic Radicals. $40,000
Roger E. Cramer, U of Hawaii, Manoa. Small Molecule Activation at the Uranium-Carbon Multiple Bond. $40,000
Marlln D. Harmony, U of Kansas. Improved Method of Structure Determination from Spectroscopic Data. $40,000
Richard T. Buffler, U of Texas, Austin. Late Cenozoic Basin Development and Tectonics of the Western Panama Pacific Margin. $40,000
David W. Houseknecht, U of Missouri, Columbia. Burial Diagenesis of Infiltrated Clays in Tertiary Sandstones, Louisana Gulf Coast. $40,000
Philip P. Power, U of California, Davis. Synthesis, Structure, and Chemistry of Transition Metal Complexes with Unusual Coordination Numbers, Oxidation States, and Bonding. $40,000
Paul M. Helqulst, U of Notre Dame. New Annulation Procedures for Five-Membered Carbocycles. $40,000
Russell P. Hughes, Dartmouth C. Metallabenzenes and Their Valence Isomers. $40,000
Bruce Rlckborn, U of California, Santa Barbara. Reactive Diene Design. $60,000
James K. WhKesell, U of Texas, Austin. Dipole Switches. $40,000
John A. Gladysz, U of Utah. Synthesis and Properties of Alkyl Halide Complexes. $40,000
Douglas A. Wlens, Washington U. Tectonic Processes and Upper Mantle Structure in the Scotia Sea Region. $40,000
Paul W. Schmidt, U of Missouri, Columbia. Comparative Study of the Effect of Complex Surface Geometries of Silicas on the Intensity of Small-Angle X-Ray and Neutron Scattering and on Catalytic and Noncatalytic Processes of Adsorbates. $40,000
Stuart W. Staley, John A. Pople, Carnegie Mellon U. Theoretical Studies of Processes Involving Biradi-cals. $40,000
Eric J. Amis, U of Southern California. Conformations and Dynamics of Linear and Cyclic Polyelec-trolytes. $40,000
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Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton U. Experimental Studies of Nucleation, Crystallization, and Particle Formation from Supercritical Solutions. $40,000
Herbert Morawetz, Polytechnic U. Counterion Interchange in lonomer Solutions. $40,000
John W. Hepburn, U of Waterloo. Photofragment Spectroscopy with Coherent Vacuum Ultraviolet and Coherent Control of Photochemical Reactions. $60,000
Kenneth J. Takeuchi, State U of New York, Buffalo. Novel High-Oxidation State Ruthenium Complexes. $40,000
Albert Padwa, Emory U. Molecular Mechanics and Nitrilium Betaine Cycloaddition Chemistry. $40,000
Tomas Hudlicky, Virginia Polytechnic Inst, and State U. Silicon and Tin Variations of the Vinylogous Darzen Reaction in 2+3 Annulations. $40,000
Peter J. Stang, U of Utah. Novel, Fused, Strained Ring Systems and Their Chemistry. $40,000
Nicholas Eyles, U of Toronto, Scarborough. Yaka-taga Formation, Alaska: a Six-Million-Year High-Resolution Record of Northern Hemisphere Glacial, Sea-Level, and Climate History. $40,000
Louis D. Quin, U of Massachusetts. Photochemically Generated Low-Coordination Phosphorus Species and Their Properties. $40,000
Robert F. Hicks, U of California, Los Angeles. Study of the Schwab Effect on Heptane Dehydrocycliza-tion over Pt/BaKL Zeolite. $40,000
Hsueh-Chia Chang, Mark J. McCready, U of Notre Dame. Stability of Core-Annular Flow in Lubricated Transport of Oil. $40,000
Donald C. Sundberg, U of New Hampshire. Morphology of Polymeric Microparticles in Aqueous Dispersions. $40,000
Eric M. Stuve, U of Washington. Fundamental Studies of Electrochemistry ex-situ with Combined Ultrahigh Vacuum and Electrochemical Methods. $40,000
Peter T. Wolczanski, Cornell U. Homogeneous Approach to the Strong Metal-Support Interaction. $40,000
John S. Winn, Dartmouth C. Matrix Isolation Photo-fragment Spectroscopy. $40,000
W. Berry Lyons, William M. Last, Mark E. Hines, U of New Hampshire. Geochemistry and Sedimen-tology of Freefight Lake: Implications of Organic Carbon Preservation in a Sulfate-Rich System. $39,920
Robert A. Gastaldo, Auburn U. Phytotaphonomy of Kerogen III Precursors, Mahakam Delta, Kalimantan, Indonesia. $26,850
Johannes Smid, State U of New York, C of Environmental Science and Forestry. Neutral and Ion-Containing Comblike Polysiloxanes. $40,000
Claire A. Tessier-Youngs, Wiley J. Youngs, Case Western Reserve U. Transition Metal Silyl Dimers. $40,000
Dennis C. Liotta, Emory U. Ligand-Assisted Nucleo-philic Addition. Scope and Limitations. $60,000
Henry W. Often, U of California, Santa Barbara. Exciplexes at High Pressures. $40,000
Kevin P. Furlong, Pennsylvania State U. Evolution of Sedimentary Basins: Thermal, Mechanical, and Maturation Processes in Extensional Basins. $20,000
Gerard C. Bond, Michelle A. Kominz, Columbia U. Quantitative Refinements of Tests for Cyclicity and Periodicity in Ancient Lake Deposits of the Newark Supergroup. $39,374
Teh-Lung Ku, U of Southern California. Geochrono-logical and Paleoclimatic Studies of Qaidam Basin, China. $40,000
Krzysztof Matyjaszewski, Carnegie Mellon U. Synthesis of Well-Defined Polymers via Living Cation-ic Polymerization of Alkenes. $40,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (TypeB) Ruth F. Beeston, Davidson C. Linked Photosensitiz-
er/Quencher Complexes Derived from Bipyridine Dimers and a Novel Bipyridine Trimer with Chelating Properties. $20,000
T. Howard Black, Eastern Illinois U. Butyrolactone Synthesis via Dyotropic Rearrangement. $20,000
Thomas R. Blackburn, St. Andrews Presbyterian C. SEM Stereogrammetric Studies of Etch Pit Growth Rates in Weathering Reactions. $19,700
Alan M. Stueber, Southern Illinois U, Edwardsville. Formation Waters in the Illinois Basin: Migration, Evolution, and Relation to Petroleum and Mineral Deposits. $20,000
Joseph J. Grzybowski, Gettysburg C. Synthesis and Characterization of Binuclear Clathrochelate Complexes. $20,000
Herbert B. Silber, San Jose State U. Lanthanide and Actinide Solution Chemistry. $20,000
Albert R. Matlin, Oberlin C. Effect of Oxa-Substitu-tion on Photochemical and Radical Cyclizations. $20,000
Charles A. Arrington Jr., Furman U. Production and Spectroscopy of Unusual Organosilicon Species. $20,000
Marcus W. Thomson, Franklin and Marshall C. Infrared Laser-Induced Reactions of Carbenes with Polymers. $17,400
Charles W. Eaker, U of Dallas. Surface Hopping Trajectory Studies of Reactions of Excited Alkali Atoms with Hydrogen HalkJes. $20,000
Roy G. Miller, Wabash C. Mechanistic Studies of Acyl Transition-Metal Reactions. $20,000
Carl D. Baer, Providence C. Electrochemical Studies of Porphyrin Systems Utilizing Ultramicroelec-trodes. $20,000
Anthony Fratiello, California State U, Los Angeles. Multinuclear NMR Study of Lanthanide Ion Solvation and Complexation. $20,000
G. William Daub, Harvey Mudd C. Studies on the Stereoselectivity of the Ortho Ester Claisen Rearrangement. $20,000
Royal H. Mapes, Ohio U. Paleoecology of a Marine-to-Terrestrial Transition: the Hamilton Beds (Penn-sylvanian), Kansas. $20,000
Edward R. Biehl, Southern Methodist U. Application of Tandem Cyclization-Rearrangement Aryne Reactions to the Synthesis of Polycyclic Compounds. $20,000
Dale D. Ensor, Tennessee Technological U. Characterization of Nitrogen Donor Compounds in Synergistic Solvent Extraction Systems. $20,000
Myrna P. Klotzkin, Manhattanville C. Study of the Effects of Solvent Pretreatment of Coals on the Kinetics of Pyrolysis of the Coals and the Micropo-rosity and Reactivity of the Resultant Chars. $20,000
Hans Veening, Bucknell U. HPLC and GC/MS Studies of Biochemically Active Compounds. $20,000
Edward J. Miller, State U of New York, C at Pit tsburgh. Polymerization of Manganese Complexes Containing a Five-Membered Metallacyclic Ring. Characterization of Polymerization and Electrical Properties. $20,000
Stanley Bernstein, Antioch C. Synthesis and Preliminary Evaluation of Heterocyclic Isothiocyanates as Fluorogenic Precolumn HPLC Amine Derivatiz-ing Agents. $20,000
Jeffrey K. Nagle, Bowdoin C. Ground and Excited State Interactions of a Platinum(ll) Dimer with Various Heavy Metal Ions. $20,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type G) Jimmy W. Mays, U of Alabama, Birmingham. Syn
thesis and Characterization of Regular Comb and Brush Polystyrenes. $18,000
Francisco Zaera, U of California, Riverside. Understanding the Chemisorption and Thermal Behavior of Metal Carbonyls on Solid Surfaces. $18,000
John B. Sheridan, Rutgers U. Synthetic Applications of Organotransition Metal Complexes. $18,000
Timothy Hughbanks, Texas A&M U. Clusters and Extended Metal-Metal Bonded Networks in Ternary Nb, Ta, and Zr Chalcogenides. $18,000
Daniel ben-Avraham, Ciarkson U. Anomalous Kinetics of Reaction Processes. $18,000
Jeffrey R. Appling, U of Kentucky. Rotational Alignment in Collisional Energy Transfer. $18,000
Per A. Rikvold, Florida State U. Studies of Solid-Electrolyte Interfaces by Computational Statistical Mechanics. $18,000
Ron Elber, U of Illinois, Chicago. Simulation of Li-gand Diffusion in Proteins. $18,000
John P. Caradonna, Yale U. Investigation of the Chemistry of Non-Heme Iron: a Biochemical and Synthetic Analog Approach to the Active Site of Phenylalanine Hydroxylase. $18,000
Rinaldo Poli, U of Maryland. Transition Metal Catalysis: Investigation of C-H Activation Processes Oriented Toward the Oxidative Addition of Hydrocarbons. $18,000
John S. Compton, U of South Florida, St. Petersburg. Ammonium Content and Mineralogy of Clay-Rich Sediment from the Monterey Formation, California. $18,000
Lee H. Spangler, Montana State U. Use of Methyl Rotors as a Probe of the Orbital Nature of Molecules. $18,000
Emily A. Carter, U of California, Los Angeles. Structure and Thermochemistry of Adsorbates on Pd and Pt Clusters. $18,000
Stephen J. MackweH, Pennsylvania State U. Experimental Study of Fluid Transport in Crustal Rocks at Mid-Crustal Conditions. $18,000
Christian P. Whitman, U of Texas, Austin, C of Pharmacy. Enzymes of the Meta-rission Pathway. $18,000
Arnold I. Miller, U of Cincinnati. Spatial Resolution and Gradients in Upper Ordovician Fossil Assemblages of the Cincinnati Area. $18,000
Rosemary A. Renaut, Arizona State U. Determination of Optimal Absorbing Boundaries for the Solution of the Wave Equation. $18,000
Donald L. Koch, Cornell U. Structure and Mixing Properties of Sedimenting Suspensions. $18,000
Peter W. Plumley, Syracuse U. Detailed Structural and Paleomagnetic Study of the Porcupine Mega-shear and Porcupine Melange: a Significant Ter-rane Boundary in North America. $18,000
John H. Frederick, U of Nevada, Reno. Effect of Rotation on Intramolecular Vibrational Dynamics. $18,000
Ben A. van der Pluijm, U of Michigan. Evaluation of Conodont and lllite Geothermometers in (Very) Low-Grade Rocks. $18,000
William P. Huskey, Rutgers U. Solvation Changes Accompanying Proton Transfer. $18,000
Joseph M. O'Connor, U of California, San Diego. New Modes of Metallacycle Reactivity. $18,000
Jay S. Siegel, U of California, San Diego. Synthesis and Properties of Organic Templates and Their Dynamic Stereochemistry as Ligands. $18,000
Christopher M. Adams, Oklahoma State U. Organ-oiron Complexes in Cyclophane Syntheses. $18,000
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Jane E. G. Llpson, Dartmouth C. Physical Properties of Branched Polymers. $18,000
Plato A. Magrlotls, West Virginia U. Asymmetric Synthesis via Binaphthyl-Derived Organometallic Reagents. $18,000
Alan S. Goldman, Rutgers U. Photochemical Rhodium-Catalyzed Alkane Carbonylation and Related
Reactions. $18,000
Nlcos A. Petasls, U of Southern California. New Strategies for the Synthesis of 8- and 9-Membered Rings. $18,000
Michael D. Hopkins, U of Pittsburgh. Photochemistry, Photophysics, and Electronic Spectroscopy of Multiply Metal-Carbon-Bonded Complexes. $18,000
Andrew C. Kummel, U of California, San Diego. Effect of Molecular Orientation Geometry upon Associative Activated Desorption. $18,000
William J. Hagan Jr., St. Anselm C. Pyrimidine Pho-todimerization on Clay Mineral Surfaces. $18,000
Charles E. Savrda, Auburn U. Character and Implications of Trace Fossil Assemblages in Siliceous Marine Strata. $18,000
Ernest M. Duebendorfer, U of Nevada, Las Vegas. Kinematic Relationship Between Strike-Slip and Normal Faults, Lake Mead Area, Southern Nevada. $18,000
Anne F. Gardulski, Tufts U. Plio-Pleistocene Deep-Water Carbonate Sediments on the Northern Margin of the Campeche Bank, Yucatan: Effects of Climate and Sea Level. $18,000
David L. Catlett Jr., Samford U. Low-Temperature Spectroscopic Investigations of Intramolecular Couplings in Aromatic Molecules. $18,000
Christopher J. Potter, Lafayette C. Geological Investigation of the Northern Part of the Okanogan Complex, Washington. $18,000
Marlon E. Cass, Carleton C. Metal Ion Sequestering Agents: Ligand Specificity for the Vanadium(IV) and Vanadium(V) Ions. $18,000
Kevin Ashley, San Jose State U. Spectroelectroche-mical and Ultramioroelectrode Studies of Conductive Polymer Nucleation and Growth. $18,000
David A. McConnell, Kansas State U. Strain Analysis in Forced Folds: Implications for Basement Rock/ Sedimentary Rock Interaction in Foreland Uplifts. $18,000
Neocles B. Leontls, Bowling Green State U. Two-Dimensional NMR Studies of Bulge-Containing RNA Structures and Their Solution Dynamics. $18,000
ACS-PRF Grants for Fundamental Research in the Petroleum Field (Type SE) Charles R. Kutal, on behalf of the U of Georgia
Research Foundation Inc. Metals in Biochemistry and Materials Science at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education on the Campus of the U of Georgia, Athens, March 1-4, 1989. $2550
Gall M. Ashley, on behalf of Rutgers U. Modern and Ancient Glaciomarine Deposits: Polar vs. Temperate Environments at the Centennial Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Denver, Oct. 3 1 -Nov. 3, 1988. $3400
Bennett N. Epstein. Fracture and Toughness in Polymers at the 196th ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
Jack M. Williams. New Developments in the Chemistry and Properties of Low-Dimensional and Conducting Solids at the 1989 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Dec. 1989. $3400
John H. Wotlz, on behalf of Southern Illinois U., Carbondale. The Kekulé Benzol Fest 100 Years Later at the 199th ACS national meeting, Boston, spring 1990. $3400
F. Ann Walker, on behalf of the San Francisco State U Foundation Inc. Advances in the Inorganic, Physical, and Biological Chemistry of Metallopor-phyrins, II at the 196th ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
Joseph M. Jaslnskl. Chemical Perspectives of Microelectronic Materials at the 1988 Materials Research Society fall meeting, Boston, $1700
Supramanlam Srlnlvasan, Oliver J. Murphy, on behalf of Texas A&M U. Electrochemistry in Transition: from the 20th to the 21st Century at the 3rd Chemical Congress of the North American Continent, Toronto, June 1988. $3400
Kamll Kller, on behalf of Lehigh U. Methane Activation Conversion and Utilization at the 1989 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Dec. 1989. $3400
Robert M. Williams, on behalf of Colorado State U. Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Amino Acids at the 1989 International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu, Dec. 1989. $3400
Joel S. Miller. Ferromagnetic and High-Spin Molecular-Based Materials at the 197th ACS national meeting, Dallas, spring 1989. $3400
Jane A. Miller, on behalf of the curators of the U of Missouri. Bicentennial of the Revolution of Modern Chemistry at the 197th ACS national meeting, Dallas, spring 1989. $850
Ramanl Narayan, on behalf of the Purdue Research Foundation. Chemistry of Microbial Coal Conversion and Bioprocessing of Coal at the 196th ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $1700
William T. Carnall at the 18th Rare Earth Research Conference, Interlaken Conference Center, Lake Geneva, Wis., Sept. 1988. $3400
Gordon L. Nelson, on behalf of the U of Southern Mississippi. Fire and Polymers at the 197th ACS national meeting, Dallas, spring 1989. $3400
Frank Asaro. Application of Nuclear Techniques to Geochemistry at the 196th ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $3400
A. Wllhelm Neumann, on behalf of the U of Toronto. Recent Progress in Interfacial Tensiometry at the 195th ACS national meeting, Toronto, spring 1988. $2500
Jay B. Benzlger, on behalf of Princeton U. Metal Catalyzed Reactions of Heteroatom-Containing Molecules at the 196th ACS national meeting, Los Angeles, fall 1988. $1700 D
ACS summer school in nuclear chemistry The ACS Division of Nuclear Chemistry & Technology is sponsoring two summer schools in nuclear chemistry. They will be held concurrently from June 26 to Aug. 4, 1989, at San Jose State University, and at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, Long Island, N.Y.
The schools consist of an organized lecture and laboratory program in nuclear chemistry. Enrollment is limited to 12 students at each site (a total of 24) who must be entering their junior or senior year as chemistry majors in the fall of 1989, and who have completed at least two years of chemistry, one year of calculus, and one year of
physics with calculus. Successful applicants will receive fellowships that include transportation to and from the summer school site, room and board, books, and fees. Graduates of the program will be assisted in finding employment for the following summer in national laboratories, universities, or private industry.
Completed applications must be received by Jan. 30,1989, and can be obtained from Patricia A. Baisden, Summer Schools in Nuclear Chemistry, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-234, Livermore, Calif. 94550. D
Chem Matters wins best periodical award Chem Matters, the ACS high school students' magazine, was named "best whole periodical" in international competition sponsored by the Society for Technical Communication (STC). More than 400 entries competed with Chem Matters in this year's event.
The magazine, published quarterly, was cited for excellence by both STC and the Educational Press Association of America (EdPRESS). It garnered awards for feature writing, technical articles, and art design, in
•addition to honors for the publication as a whole.
Editor David P. Robson was recognized by EdPRESS for his feature writing, along with ACS art director Alan Kahan for his December 1987 cover photograph. High school student Rachel Wilt was singled out for her feature article, "Leaf Jewelry," detailing the craft of electroplating.
In an effort to expand Chem Matters' role as a teaching resource, the ACS Office of Precollege Science has issued a comprehensive five-year index. It is available in printed form for $3.00, and on computer disk for $6.00. The index may be purchased as part of a complete set of Chem Matters, comprising the first 1983 issue through the current April 1988 edition at a special price of $32. To order or request information, write Chem Matters, American Chemical Society, 1155—16th St., N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036. D
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