Twenty-two faculty scientists embarking on research and teaching careers in chemistry, physics, and astronomy have been named winners of Research Corporation's prestigious Cottrell Scholar Awards. The 1997 Cottrell Scholars include 13 chemists, seven physicists, and two astronomers at 21 different universities in 16 states and Canada. The 22 winners, a record for the program, were selected from a total of 133 applicants, also a record. The awards in chemistry are listed below.

·Sylvia Daunert, University of Kentucky: Ligand-induced conformational changes of binding proteins: Probing signaling events in single cells

·John T. Fourkas, Boston College: Ultrafast spectroscopy of liquids at negative pressure: Exploring the role of attractive interactions in dynamics and structure

·Clare P. Grey, State University of New York at Stony Brook: An NMR and diffraction study of the adsorption of halocarbons on molecular sieves: Removal of halocarbon processes from industrial processes

·Melissa A. Hines, Cornell University: Understanding the evolution of surface morphology during anisotropic etching

·Yi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Spectroscopic study of metal-binding sites in ribozymes: A new class of metalloenzymes

·James D. Martin, North Carolina State University: Metal-halide analogs of zeolites: A next generation of microporous materials

·Dominic Vincent McGrath, University of Connecticut: Photoactive chiral dendrimers for light-controlled transport

·Daniel Raftery, Purdue University: Surface selective NQR spectroscopy

·Susannah L. Scott, University of Ottawa: Molecular chemistry on surfaces: A strategy for the preparation of surface-stabilized reactive organometallic fragments for C-H activation.

·Kevan M. Shokat, Princeton University, Engineered chemical tags for tracing cellular signal transduction cascades

·Grzegorz Szamel, Colorado State University: Statistical mechanical theory of dynamics of supercooled liquids

·Keith Allen Woerpel, University of California, Irvine: Tandem aldol-Tishchenko reactions: Highly stereoselective methods for organic synthesis

NSF Workshop Announcements

[Note: this information about summer workshops was just released by NSF. The program officers realize that it is late, but would like readers to have the information anyway. Because the detailed descriptions of each workshop take up considerable space, we have put them on our World Wide Web site, JCE Online: http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu. Full information is available from NSFon their WWW site or on paper (see below for addresses).]

NSF Workshop Opportunities for Faculty

Grants made under the Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement (UFE) Program to support workshops, short courses, and similar activities for groups of faculty members have been announced. The aim of the UFE program is to allow faculty members who teach undergraduates to keep abreast of recent advances in their discipline, to gain experience with new experimental techniques, and to incorporate these developments into the curriculum. Activities specifically designed for chemists are listed first below, followed by information about the National Chautauqua Workshop Program, which is also supported through the UFE Program. Some of these activities represent new awards, while others have been funded in previous years. Additional information about workshops and application materials should be requested directly from the contact person listed for each project. In some instances, workshop dates and application deadlines were not available at press time; contact the project director for this information. For information about workshops available in other disciplines or in interdisciplinary areas, call 703/306-1666 and request the current Directory of NSF-Supported Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement Projects (NSF 97-69), or search the Directory on the Web at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/documents/ufe/9769/ufe97.htm .

These workshops have been advertised widely by the projects, so many of them already are filled. However, interested faculty who may not have been aware of some of these opportunities should check to see if openings remain even if the listed application deadline has passed, or to see whether a workshop of interest is scheduled to be offered again in future years.

Chemistry Workshops

Workshop for Integration of Numerical Methods into the Undergraduate Chemistry Curriculum Using the Mathcad Software Application deadline: April 1997

Date of workshop: August 3-7, 1997

Site: University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688

Contact: Sidney Young, Department of Chemistry, University of South Alabama, Mobile, AL 36688; phone: 334/460-6181; fax: 334/460-7359; email: syoung@jaguar1.usouthal.edu

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Mass Spectrometry

Date of workshop: June 9-27, 1997

Site: Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717

Contact: Edwin H. Abbott, Department of Chemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717; phone: 406/994-3163; fax: 406/994-5407; email: uchea@earth.oscs.montana.edu

Chemical Applications of Lasers Short Course

Date of workshop: June 15-21, 1997

Site: James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA 22807

Contact: Benjamin DeGraff, Department of Chemistry, James Madison University,Harrisonburg, VA 22807; phone: 540/568-6246; fax: 540-568-7938; email: degrafba@jmu.edu

A Consortium for Molecular Modeling Using Workshops and the World Wide Web

Dates of workshop: June 22-27 and July 20-25, 1997 (call contact to confirm)

Site: Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA 17003

Contact: Carl Wigal, Department of Chemistry, Lebanon Valley College, 101 North College Avenue, Annville, PA 17003; phone: 717/867-6147; fax: 717/867-6124; email: wigal@lvc.edu

Small Scale Chemistry

Date of Workshop: April 19, 1997

Site: Marriott Hotel, Fort Collins, CO

Contact: Lea Campbell, Lamar University-Port Arthur, P.O. Box 310, Port Arthur, TX 77641; phone: 409/984-6399; fax: 409/984-6000; email: auburn_fan@msn.com

Faculty Enhancement Workshops in NMR Spectroscopy

NMR Concepts is offering two workshops this summer to improve the ability of undergraduate faculty to teach nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) courses and to conduct research. Each workshop will consist of lectures, laboratory sessions, and problem-solving sessions. There will also be keynote speakers and classroom presentations by the participants. The workshops will end with roundtable discussions to aid participants in incorporating their new knowledge into their courses and research efforts. The first workshop, "NMR Concepts and Operating Techniques", presents the physical concepts of NMR and includes spectrometer operation, the Fourier transform, quadrature phase detection, data treatment, relaxation measurements, and NOEs. The second workshop, "Intermediate and Advanced Interpretation of 1-D and Basic Interpretation of 2-D NMR Spectra", reviews the general features of proton and carbon spectra and then treats the use of relaxation time measurements, proton decoupling procedures, NOE, and some multinuclear NMR.

Title: NMR Concepts and Operating Techniques

Date: June 10-20, 1997

Site: University of Rhode Island

Title: Intermediate and Advanced Interpretation of 1-D and Basic Interpretation of 2-D NMR Spectra

Date: June 22-July 2, 1997

Site: University of Rhode Island

Contact: Daniel D. Traficante, Department of Chemistry, NMR Concepts, Kingston, RI 02881; phone: 401/874-2876; fax: 401/874-2104; email: nmr_concepts@chm.uri.edu

A Series of Workshops in Chemistry

Georgia State University (GSU) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GIT) are offering workshops that will improve the ability of faculty to develop and teach a modern program in chemistry. Workshop topics are (1) Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy, Principles and Practice; (2) Chemistry of Nucleic Acids; (3) Environmental Chemistry; (4) Mass Spectroscopy; (5) Molecular Modeling; (6) Molecular Orbital Theory; (7) Multimedia Techniques; and (8) Introducing Materials Chemistry into the Undergraduate Curriculum. Several former workshop participants will serve as assistants in these activities. Prominent specialists from other institutions and industry will be keynote speakers. A compilation of the curricular innovations at participating institutions as a result of the project will be distributed to all participants. Brief descriptions of the workshops, on-line workshop applications, and printable workshop applications can be found on the Georgia State University home page.

Title: Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy, Principles, and Practice

Site: Georgia State University

Dates: June 15-20, 1997

Title: Molecular Modeling

Site: Georgia State University

Dates: June 15-20, 1997

Title: Molecular Orbital Theory

Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

Dates: June 15-20, 1997

Title: Mass Spectroscopy

Site: Georgia Institute of Technology (call contact)

Title: Chemistry of Nucleic Acids

Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

Application deadline: August 1, 1997

Date: September 14-19, 1997

Title: Introducing Materials Chemistry into the Undergraduate Curriculum

Site: Georgia Institute of Technology

Application deadline: August 1, 1997

Date: September 14-19, 1997

Title: Multimedia Techniques

Site: Georgia State University

Application deadline: August 1, 1997

Date: September 14-19, 1997

Title: Molecular Modeling

Site: Georgia State University

Application deadline: November 1, 1997

Date: December 7-12, 1997

Title: Environmental Chemistry

Site: Georgia State University

Application deadline: November 1, 1997

Date: December 7-12, 1997

Contact: Jerry Smith or Cary Lyle, Department of Chemistry, Georgia State University, University Plaza, Atlanta, GA 30303-3083; phone: 404/651-3873/4737; fax: 404/651-1416; email: chejcs@panther.gsu.edu

Regional Molecular Modeling Workshop for College Teachers

Date of Workshop: June 8-12, 1997

Site: University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003

Contact: Beatrice H. Botch, Department of Chemistry, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA 01003; phone: 413/545-4257; fax: 413/545-4490; email: bbotch@

chem.umass.edu

Instrumentation Institutes for 2-Year College Teachers

Faculty from 2-year colleges across the United States will be trained on the theory, techniques, and laboratory use of state-of-the-art chemical instrumentation in a series of 1-week workshops. Call contact for application deadlines.

Title: Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy

Site: George Mason University

Date: June 22-27, 1997

Title: PC Software

Site: George Mason University

Date: June 22-27, 1997

Title: Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectroscopy

Site: George Mason University

Date: June 22-27, 1997

Title: Gas Chromatography/HPLC

Site: George Mason University

Date: June 22-27, 1997

Title: PC Interfacing

Site: Western Washington University

Date: July 27-August 1, 1997

Title: PC Software/Molecular Modeling

Site: Western Washington University

Date: July 27-August 1, 1997

Contact: Richard Jones, Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH 45402-1460; phone: 937/226-7907; fax: 937/449-5164; email: rjones@sinclair.edu

National Chautauqua Workshop Program

Application deadline: 6 weeks prior to workshop

Date(s) of workshop: call contact

Site(s): call contact
In 1997, 84 different courses are being offered through the Chautauqua program. Information is available on the World Wide Web at http://www.engrng.pitt.edu/~chautauq/ or by calling the contact. Contact: Nicholas G. Eror, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, 323 Benedum Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261; phone: 412/624-9761; fax: 412/624-1108; email: eror+@pitt.edu.

Chemical Heritage Foundation Awards

The Chemical Heritage Foundation has announced that Pamela H. Smith of the Pomona College Department of History is the recipient of the 1997-98 Edelstein Fellowship. The project she will work on has the tentative title, "Art, Commerce and Science: The Representation of Material Things in Early Modern Europe". She is researching the changing attitudes of Renaissance artisans and scholars toward the material world and will focus on individuals trained as apprentices but who had contacts in the scholarly world, such as chemists, apothecaries and metalworkers. Her aim is to show how their new attitudes were taken up and transformed by experimental philosophers of the scientific revolution. She will divide here time between residency at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia and the Edelstein Center in Jerusalem.

The 1997-98 Edelstein Studentship was awarded to John J. Dettloff, a doctoral student in the History of Science Program at Princeton University. He is working on his dissertation, "Chemistry and Culture in France, 1770-1800", an assessment of the cultural and academic milieu that gave rise to the chemical revolution in the wake of Lavoisier's work. Dettloff considers a wide range of primary and secondary historical sources, paying particular attention to writings by the ignored or generally forgotten critics of the "new chemistry". He will spend part of his time at the Edelstein Library and part in Philadelphia at the Othmer Library of Chemical History.

Chemical Heritage Foundation Awards