More JCE Activities at BCCE

Several JCE activities at the 17th BCCE were described on p 422 of the April 2002 issue: a JCE Video Workshop, a High School Workshop, and a News from Online Birds-of-a-Feather Session. And of course we will have a booth in the Exhibits area--stop by! However, there are even more JCE-related activities that are scheduled: Developing Demonstrations for the Classroom and the JCE Tested Demonstration Feature and Project Chemlab and JCE: The Easy Way to Find New, Peer-Reviewed Lab Experiments. Both workshops are described on p 547 in this issue.

Awards Announced

ACS Announces High School Teacher Awards

The American Chemical Society has announced the winners of the Regional Award in High School Chemistry Teaching for 2002 in the Middle Atlantic, Great Lakes, Northwest, and Central regions. They will be honored at their respective annual regional meetings, all of which take place in Spring 2002. The winners from regions meeting in Fall 2002 will be announced at a later date.

Elena Pisciotta

Middle Atlantic Region. Elena Stephanie Andrys Pisciotta, a teacher of honors chemistry at Damascus High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, is the 2002 recipient of the ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Award. She will be honored at the 35th ACS Middle Atlantic Regional Meeting that will be held at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, May 28­30, 2002. Pisciotta is a graduate of the University of Maryland and has been teaching in Prince George's and Montgomery Counties for more than 30 years. She is known for her energy, creativity, and organization, and has led the way in establishing strong and valuable relationships with other chemistry teachers, science departments, and school programs. Pisciotta has been active in many professional organizations, including FIST (Females in Science and Technology), ChEMD (Chemistry Educators of Maryland), MAST (Maryland Association of Science Teachers), NSTA, and the ACS.

Ann Levinson

Great Lakes Region. Ann Levinson, who teaches at Chicagoland Jewish High School, Martin Grove, Illinois, will be honored at the Great Lakes Regional Meeting, June 2­4, 2002, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Levinson has been teaching since 1969 and also serves as a mentor to elementary school science teachers and promotes the Kid 'N' Chemistry program. She has won recognition from the Chemistry Olympiad Committee for her role in leading the students of Niles Township High, her former school, to gold and silver medals. Her classroom approach is guided by the ACS Olympiad standards. Her AP students staff the "Demos for Grade Schools" program in nearby schools; she incorporates computer-based lab sessions into her curriculum along with microscale chemistry to bring in environmental chemistry; and she places a strong emphasis on proficiency in scientific writing.

Nancy Treasure

Northwest Region. Nancy Treasure of Layton High School in Layton, Utah will receive the ACS Northwest Regional Award for High School Chemistry Teaching at the 57th Northwest Regional Meeting at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, June 20­22. Treasure is a graduate of Glenville State College in West Virginia and has taught in California, New Mexico, and Utah for more than 30 years. She is as dedicated to her own lifelong learning as she is to her students' success and has amassed numerous and on-going educational credits--keeping her talents sharp, her chemistry current, and ensuring her enthusiasm does not wane. She is known for her extraordinary ability to motivate her students to greater levels of participation and performance in the annual Chemistry Olympiad Exams. For the past five years, she has coached the Layton High Science Olympiad Team, which has placed second four times and first once in the state tournaments.

Christine Allen

Central Region. Christine Allen from Thomas Worthington High School in Worthington, Ohio, is the winner in the Central Region. She will be recognized during their meeting from June 26­29 at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Michigan. She began her career in 1969 as a ninth grade physical science teacher. In 1983 she moved into high school teaching where she encouraged her students to volunteer as camp counselors for a "Science is Fun" camp for 4th­6th graders. She established a "Sister School" program with a school in Anyang, China; the schools exchanged lessons, textbooks, and ideas, and her students shared their experiences with experiments and cultures. At Worthington she has integrated the TI graphing calculator and CBL system into classroom and laboratory instruction so students develop formulas from graphical analysis rather than by rote memorization. She has introduced a program called "Chemistry in the Real World" to her students in which they select an area of chemistry evident in their daily lives that they research, find a professional in the field to interview, and then present that information to the class.

New York Section, ACS

The New York Section of the American Chemical Society honored Sister Mary Maier of St. Joseph's College, Brooklyn, NY, with two awards in chemical education. She was awarded the ACS Award for Best High School Programs for 2001 and also received a Salute to Excellence, Chemical Education Award, from the president of the section.

Welch Foundation Presents Hackerman Award

The Welch Foundation has selected Anderew R. Barron of Rice University as the first recipient of the Norman Hackerman Award in Chemical Research. The $100,000 prize recognizes young scientists conducting basic chemical research at Texas institutions. Barron's research in materials science is interdisciplinary, combining inorganic and organometallic chemistry with materials science and nanoscale science and technology, and covers the continuum from synthesis to application.

J. Calvin Giddings Award

James W. Taylor of the University of Wisconsin­Madison has been selected as the 2002 winner of the J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education of the ACS Division of Analytical Chemistry. The award is sponsored by the Dekker Foundation. The award will be presented at the Fall 2002 ACS Meeting in Boston.

2002 EAS Awards

The Eastern Analytical Symposium announces the winners of the 2002 EAS awards, which will be presented during the organization's annual meeting to be held at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, NJ, from November 18­21, 2002.

• Charles Wilkins, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. EAS Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Fields of Analytical Chemistry.
• Jerry Workman, Kimberly-Clark Corporation. EAS Award for Achievements in Near-Infrared Spectroscopy.
• Karl Crammers, Eindhoven Technical University, Netherlands (retired). EAS Award for Achievements in Separation Science sponsored by Waters Corporation.
• Axsel Bothner-By, Carnegie Mellon University (retired). EAS Award for Achievements in Magnetic Resonance.
• Paul Geladi, University of Umea, Sweden. Galactic Industries Award for Achievements in Chemometrics, presented by EAS.

Passer Award

Recent winners of the Passer Award administered by the ACS Division of Chemical Education are:

• Bruce Heyen, Tabor College, Hillsboro, KS
• Deborah Sauder, Hood College, Frederick, MD
• Richard S. Treptow, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL

The Passer Education Grants provide support for teachers in small programs at two- and four-year colleges that do not have any advanced degree programs in the chemical sciences. They are made possible through a generous donation of Dorothy and Moses Passer. More information about these grants is available from Donald E. Jones, djones@erols.com; 3726 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Apt. 108, Washington, DC 20008.

People

President, Research Corporation

Michael P. Doyle has been appointed president of Research Corporation, Tucson, Arizona. Doyle became the foundation's vice president in 1997, at which time he also joined the faculty of the University of Arizona. From 1984 to 1997 he was a member of the chemistry department at Trinity University in San Antonio.

Courses, Seminars, Meetings, Opportunities

Best Chemical Web Sites Contest

A contest to recognize unique, noteworthy, and free Internet resources for chemists, chemical engineers, and chemical industry professionals is being sponsored by ChemIndustry.com, The Royal Society of Chemistry, and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Entries will be judged by an international panel of judges who will review the submitted sites and select winners in each category. The panel is being headed by Dana Roth, California Institute of Technology, and Gary Wiggins, Indiana University.

The contest is open to Web sites and Web pages of clear interest to chemists, chemical engineers, and chemical industry professionals; Sites must be in English and free to users. Four categories of nomination include:

• Online courses, calculators, tools
• Portals and information hubs
• Chemistry and engineering schools
• Corporate sites

Winners will be selected on a site's usefulness, accuracy, breadth and depth of content, presentation, and ease of use.

Submission forms are available. Nominations will be accepted through June 15, 2002.

Register for 17th BCCE

It is time to register for the 17th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education. A registration form may be downloaded from the BCCE Web site or request one from George Kriz, the general chair of the conference. The deadline for early registration is June 15, 2002.

The conference will be held at Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, from July 28 through August 1, 2002. If you are planning to vacation in the Pacific Northwest in connection with attending the BCCE, you will find travel and vacation information on the BCCE Web site.

To be sure your name is on the mailing list or to ask questions about the conference--how to get there, where to stay, what to do, or how much it will cost--contact the conference general chair, phone 360/650-3126. Additional information about the conference, the campus, and the surrounding community may be found on the conference Web site.

Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry Meeting

The 8th European Symposium on Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Estac'8, will be held August 25-29, 2002, in Barcelona, Spain. Further information may be found on the symposium Web site or from the chair of the organizing committee, Rosa Nomen, Institut Químic de Sarrià, Universitat Ramon Llull, Vía Augusta 390, 08017 Barcelona, Spain; email.

Third Aegean Analytical Chemistry Days

The Aegean Analytical Chemistry Days meeting is an interdisciplinary event to present state of the art information about all aspects of analytical chemistry. It will be held September 29 through October 3, 2002, in Polihnitos on the island of Lesvos, Greece. For further information contact the office of the secretariat or the technical contact office.

ICTE 2002 Meeting

The International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Education (ICTE 2002) will be held November 20­23, 2002 in Badajoz, Spain. The conference aim is to provide a presentation and discussion platform for new educational environments and their application, giving an overview of the state of the art as well as upcoming trends, and to promoting discussion about the pedagogical potential of new learning and educational technologies in both the academic and corporate worlds. For additional information visit the conference Web site or contact José Antonio Mesa González, the conference secretariat.