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Meeting on Biochemical Education
"2001: Biochemical Education for the Millennium",
will be held on the campus of the University of California,
San Francisco, on August 2324, 1997. The meeting is
arranged and sponsored by the Human Resources Committee of
the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular
Biology (ASBMB) and is being held as a satellite meeting to the
International Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Congress.
This satellite meeting will feature hands-on
workshops and symposia on subjects such as problem-based
learning (both for undergraduates and in a medical school
setting), use of the Internet for biochemical education purposes,
use of enhanced visualization programs such as RasMol
and MAGE, and how to set up and maintain an
undergraduate program in biochemistry.
The deadline for abstracts for the meeting is April
4. There is also some money available for up to 20
travel awards of $500 each for teachers at undergraduate
institutions. Contact: ASBMB, 9650 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD
20814, Attention Biochemical Education Satellite.
ChemCom Workshops '97 The American Chemical Society is once again
offering seven summer workshops to train teachers in the use of
the ChemCom curriculum materials. The ACS will support
140 teachers at these workshops. The dates and sites are:
June 2227
The Hockaday School, Dallas TX
July 1318
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
Drew University, Madison, NJ
July 1924
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
July 27August 1
Southern Illinois UniversityEdwardsville, Edwardsville, IL
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA
August 3August 8
Southern Oregon State College, Ashland, OR
ACS pays a $250 stipend and provides food and
lodging in a college dormitory for each participant. The
teacher's district is to provide for travel and a copy of the text
and manual. For more information and an application
form, contact John Krikau, ChemCom Staff Associate, 1155
16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036. phone:
202/872-6383; fax: 202/833-7732; email:
j_krikau@acs.org. Applications are to be completed by April 4.
About Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor may be submitted to the editorial office by regular mail (JCE, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Chemistry, 209 North Brooks, Madison, WI 53715-1116), by fax (608/262-7145), or by email ( jce@chem.wisc.edu). Be sure to include your complete address, your daytime phone number, and your signature. Your letter should be brief (400 words or less) and to the point;
it may be edited for style, consistency, clarity, or space considerations.
12th ICCCRE
The Twelfth International Conference on Computers
in Chemical Research and Education (ICCCRE XII) will be
held at the University of Poona in Pune, India, the week of
510 January 1998. The purpose of the ICCCRE is to present
a sweeping and state-of-the-art description and critical
examination of the applications of computers in chemistry
presented by experts drawn from all over the world.
The program will be organized to cover a broad range
of topics, with ample opportunities for small group and
one-on-one discussions and special efforts to cater to the needs
of junior faculty, researchers, and students who are just
starting out in the field. In addition, interdisciplinary
applications of computers will be covered, making the conference of
interest to workers in other chemistry-related disciplines.
The tentative technical program will focus on the
following topics:
· Computers in Chemical Education
· Electronic Journals, Publishing, and Conferencing
· Artificial Intelligence, Chemometrics, Neural
Networks, and their Chemical Applications
· Molecular Modeling, Quantitative
Structure-Activity Relationships.
· Semi-Empirical and ab initio Quantum
Chemistry, Density Functional Methods
· New Algorithms and Techniques in
Computational Chemistry
Under consideration is the possibility of
preconference sharing of invited and contributed papers via
electronic conferencing. For additional information, to make
suggestions for the program, or to nominate speakers,
contact: ICCCRE XII, c/o Shridhar R. Gadre, Department of
Chemistry, University of Pune, Pune 411 007 INDIA; phone:
91-212-351728; email: gadre@unipune.ernet.in. World Wide Web Site (with forms facility)
http://www.beloit.edu/~chem/ICCCRE.html.
Westinghouse Science Talent Search
Science Service has announced the names of the
300 high school seniors from 188 high schools across the U.
S. who are semifinalists in the 56th annual Westinghouse
Science Talent Search. These students were selected from
an applicant pool of 1,652 entries from 47 states, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and two international schools
in Austria and Guatemala. The semifinalists range in age
from 15 to 18 and include 153 men and 147 women.
From these semifinalists, 40 finalists were
selected, each of whom will spend an all-expenses-paid week
in Washington, DC, at the Science Talent Institute. There
they will compete for $205,000 in scholarships, including the
top prize of $40,000. Each finalist will receive an award of
at least $1,000.
Among this year's finalists, ecology was the most
popular field of study with eight projects; biology and
physics came in second with five projects each. The fields of
psychology and biochemistry had four projects each. Three
finalists entered mathematics projects.
For more information, contact: Science Service, 1719
N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; phone:
202/785-2255; email: youth@scisvc.org.
Eastern Analytical Symposium
The deadline for receipt of preliminary abstracts for
the 1997 Eastern Analytical Symposium is April 15, 1997.
Papers in all areas of the analytical and allied sciences
are welcome. The meeting will be held November 1621,
1997, at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, New Jersey.
Anyone interested in presenting a paper at EAS
should submit a 200- to 250-word abstract of the proposed
paper, indicating preference for oral or poster form. Send
abstracts to the Program Committee, P. O. Box 633, Montchanin, DE
18710-0633. A special form is not required, but
submissions must be typed. For additional information, contact the
EAS hotline at 302/738-6218, fax 302/738-5275, or
email: easinfo@aol.com.
Conference on Coordination Chemistry
The 32nd International Conference on
Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) will be held in Santiago, Chile,
August 2429, 1997. Plenary lecturers include Alan H. Cowley
(University of Texas at Austin), Angela F. Danil de Namor
(University of Surrey), Luis Oro (University of
Zaragoza), Vlatcheslav. I. Sokolov (Academy of Sciences of Russia),
Edward Solomon (Stanford University), and Jean Marie
Lehn (Universite Louis Pasteur). The organizers are the
University of Santiago de Chile, University of Chile, and
Inorganic Chemistry DivisionSociedad Chilena de Quimica.
The ICCC is sponsored by International Union of Pure and
Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), UNESCO, American
Chemical Society, and CONICYT. For more information
contact: Victoria Nieto or Daniel Navarete, Santa Maria
Eventos, Monjitas 251, Santiago, Chile; fax: 56 (2) 632-3380.
Announcements from American Oil Chemists' Society
For further information about any activities of
the American Oil Chemists' Society, contact them at P. O.
Box 3489, Champaign, IL 61826-3489; phone: 217/359-2344;
fax: 217/351-8091; email: meetings@aocs.org.
Announcements from American Oil Chemists' Society
The International Conference on the Physical
Properties of Fats, Oils, and Emulsifiers with Application to
Foods, sponsored by AOCS, will be held September 21-25,
1997, at the Swissotel in Chicago. The conference will feature
review and current research papers and posters on the
physical properties of fats, oils, and emulsifiers, focusing on
crystalline properties and applications to foods.
Food Lipid Stability and Antioxidants is a short
course to be offered by AOCS May 8-10, 1997, at The Westin
Hotel-Seattle. The short course will immediately precede
the Society's Annual Meeting & Expo from May 11 to May
14, also in Seattle. The course is intended to provide basic
and practical information to food and oil scientists involved
in quality control and product development, product
reformulation, raw material acquisition, antioxidant
applications, and research and marketing.
Also prior to the AOCS Annual Meeting will be a
symposium titled Identity Preserved Oils, on May 9-10,
sponsored by AOCS and the Institute of Food Technologists'
Continuing Education Committee. Program highlights
include biotechnology of specific oils, processing, food
applications, nonedible industrial applications, market
segmentations, regulatory issues, health and nutritional effects, state
of commercialization, current research, and future trends.
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