News from Journal House

Recent Releases, JCE Software

The following issues have been released by JCE Software and shipped to those who placed orders. Information on upcoming JCE Software issues is available on JCE Online.

• Solid State Resources, Special Issue 12, 2nd edition, is a CD-ROM for Mac OS and Windows-compatible computers. The authors are George C. Lisensky, Arthur B. Ellis, and J. M. Blackwell. Solid State Resources has been updated with a new HTML interface and includes both new video and improved versions of movies that were on the original Solid State Resources CD. All resources on the CD are now accessed through HTML pages using a WWW browser. This provides a single, identical version for Mac OS and Windows. More information can be found here.
• General Chemistry Collection, Special Issue 16, 4th edition is a collection of programs for students on CD-ROM. The CD contains both new and previously published JCE Software programs for Windows and MacOS, collected for convenient distribution to and access by introductory level chemistry students. A description can be found in J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 934 or here.
• Chemistry Comes Alive! Volume 4, Special Issue 25, is another in a series of CD-ROMs for both Mac OS and Windows that show chemical reactions. The authors are Jerrold J. Jacobsen, Gordon A. Bain, Kara Bruce, and John W. Moore. Volume 4 contains two main topics: Reactions in Aqueous Solution and Reactions of the Elements. A fuller description can be found in J. Chem. Educ. 2000, 77, 799 or here.

Matrix of reactions, from CCA! 4

Reviewed WWW Sites, New JCE Internet Column

David B. Shaw, Madison Area Technical College, is the editor of the JCE Internet column, Reviewed WWW Sites. The goal of this column is to provide JCE readers with access to peer-reviewed sites that will be useful in chemistry classes or for chemistry teachers at all levels. Sites are listed on the basis of the evaluations of at least two peer reviewers and the feature editor. For each listed site we provide an abstract that summarizes the site's purpose, content, and organization. We also list JCE keywords that apply to the site, whether the site requires a high-speed Internet connection, and what subdisciplines of chemistry and educational levels (high school, college, etc.) can make effective use of the site.

We encourage readers to help make this site as useful as possible by nominating WWW sites for review and by serving as volunteer reviewers of WWW sites. To be evaluated for inclusion in Reviewed WWW Sites, a site can be nominated by its author, by a member of JCE's editorial staff, or by a third party. The nominator must provide

• The URL
• An abstract that describes the site in 400 words or less
• A list of JCE keywords that characterize the site. (Keywords must be selected from those in this list.)

Nominations should be sent by email to JCEWWWsites@chem.wisc.edu.

Reviewers are drawn from JCE's thousands of volunteers who review manuscripts. To be included as a reviewer of WWW sites, make certain that the keyword Internet is in your reviewer profile. If you are already a reviewer, send an email to jce@chem.wisc.edu and ask that the keyword Internet be added to your reviewer profile. If you are not yet a JCE reviewer, retrieve a reviewer questionnaire (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader) and print it. Fill out the form, check all keywords that apply to your interests and expertise, make certain to check the keyword Internet, and fax the form to 608/262-7145. You can also mail the form to JCE Editorial Office, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 209 N. Brooks Street, Madison, WI 53715-1116. We look forward to your active participation in making JCE a valuable resource for chemistry teachers worldwide.

Awards Announced

CCG Excellence Award Winners

Chemical Computing Group (CCG) and ACS Division of Computing in Chemistry announce the winners of the Fall 2000 CCG Excellence Awards. The names of these graduate students, titles of their submitted abstracts, and names of the faculty members with whom they work with are below.

• Gregory A. Bakken, Department of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Classification of Multidrug Resistance Reversal Agents from Molecular Structure. Peter Jurs.
• Gavin (Hui-Hsu) Tsai, Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH; Vibrationally-Correct Classical Forcefields for Large Molecule such as Ni-Phosphine and Stilbene. M. Cather Simpson.
• Melissa L. Plount-Price, Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT; Origin of Binding Selectivity for Celecoxib Analogs with COX-1 and COX-2 from Combined Docking and Monte Carlo Simulations. Bill Jorgensen.
• Bin Chen, Departments of Chemistry, Chemical Engineering, and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN; Development of the TraPPE Force Field for Fluid Phase Equilibrium Calculations. J. Ilja Siepmann.
• Wei Wang, Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco, CA; Study of the Interactions between the Sem-5 SH3 Domain and Its Ligands Using Molecular Dynamics, Free Energy Calculations and Sequence Analysis. Peter A. Kollman.

Eastern Analytical Symposium Awards

The Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) announces the winners of awards to be presented by EAS sponsoring organizations at the 2000 EAS, to be held October 29 through November 3 in Atlantic City.

• Andrew G. Ewing, Pennsylvania State University. American Microchemical Society Benedetti-Pichler Award
• Kimberly A. Prather, University of California, Riverside; Analytical Chemistry Division of the American Chemical Society Findeis Young Investigator Award
• Maria Kuhnert-Brandstatter, University of Innsbruck, Austria; New York Microscopical Society Ernst Abbe Memorial Award
• James Robinson, Louisiana State University; New York Section of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy Gold Medal Award

Award Deadlines

NSTA 2001 Teacher Award Program

The National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) announces 14 programs that are administered by NSTA and funded by various corporations and organizations that make awards to K-12 teachers in the USA and Canada. For more information or to enter a nomination, contact Lori Pinson, NSTA, 1840 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201; phone 703/243-7100; http://www.nsta.org/programs.

The deadline for most of this year's programs is November 15, 2000.

Call for Nominations: 2001 AOCS Awards

The American Oil Chemists' Society (AOCS) announces the call for nominations for three awards, each with a submission deadline of November 1, 2000: AOCS Young Scientist Research Award, the AOCS Corporate Achievement Award, and the Supelco/Nicholas Pelick--AOCS Research Award. October 15, 2000, is the deadline for nominations for the Stephen S. Chang Award. For further information contact AOCS, P. O. Box 3489, Champaign, IL 61826-3489; phone: 217/359-2344; fax: 217/351-8091; email: general@aocs.org.

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

Science History Tour to Ireland, Summer 2001

The next trip led by Science History Tours will be to Ireland from June 20 through July 4 in summer 2001. The theme will be Ireland's scientific heritage, and the group will travel around Ireland for two weeks. In addition to science history, every opportunity will be taken to interact with local teachers, historians, and other people of interest. Tour members will also be able to participate in cultural and other events. Traveling companions are welcome. Persons traveling alone can be introduced if they would like to share a room to save single-room supplements.

A concurrent college course (3 graduate hours cost $150 last year) will be taught by Lee Marek, with many additional lectures by local experts.

The trip will be run at cost, which should not be more than about $2400 per person double occupancy. This will include all accommodations and breakfasts in Ireland from June 20 until the morning of July 4, at least one other meal per day (on average), all entrances to museums and other venues, all lecture fees, all surface transportation by luxury coach, and a few glasses of wine here and there. It does not include air transportation from your home to Ireland and back. Our three prior trips have received outstanding reviews from participants and been voted excellent value for money. A Web presentation of our first trip done by one of the tour members can be found here. A second presentation can be found here.

To be put on the mailing list for the 2001 tour, contact Yvonne Twomey, 841 Kinston Court, Naperville, IL 60540; phone: 630/961-9811; email: ytwomey@mcs.com. Or contact Lee Marek; phone: 630/420-7516; email: LMarek@aol.com.

Materials Available

EinsteinsGarage

Fisher Scientific, through its e-commerce subsidiary, Alchematrix, Inc., has opened EinsteinsGarage, a cyberspace warehouse and public auction site for a wide range of scientific products. The site, www.einsteinsgarage.com , offers surplus and discounted scientific research and laboratory equipment ranging from test tubes to centrifuges to spectrophotometers. In addition to selling surplus and used scientific research, healthcare, and safety supplies, the site offers services such as warehousing product inventory and repair and calibration of laboratory equipment.

Proposal Deadlines

National Science Foundation Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

For further information about NSF DUE programs consult the DUE Web site. To contact the DUE Information Center, phone: 703/306-1666; email:undergrad@nsf.gov.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

Further information may be obtained from The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., 555 Madison Avenue, Suite 1305, New York, NY 10022; phone: 212/753-1760; email: admin@dreyfus.org; WWW: http://www.dreyfus.org/