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Analytical Chemistry Starter Grant Award The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
will award one grant of $20,000 to an assistant professor in
the field of analytical chemistry. The purpose of this grant is
to encourage high-quality, innovative research by a new
analytical chemistry professor and to promote the training and
development of graduate students in this field. Assistant
professors who have accepted a United States college or
university appointment since December 31, 1994 are eligible.
Application forms are available from Ron Busch, Starter
Grant Committee, Society for Analytical Chemists of
Pittsburgh, 300 Penn Center Boulevard, Suite 332, Pittsburgh,
PA 15235; phone: 1-800/825-3221; fax: 412/825-3224.
Completed applications must be received by March 31, 1998.
1998 American Microchemical Society Student Award
The American Microchemical Society announces an
undergraduate student award for a student who has done
research in any area of analytical chemistry. The awardee
will receive $1000, travel expenses up to $250, and
accommodation for two nights to receive the awards at the Eastern
Analytical Symposium (EAS) on November 1619, 1998.
Applications should include a cover letter, a 2-page
summary of analytical research conducted by the student written
in his/her own words, at least three letters of
recommendation (one must be from a research director), a one-page
summary of career goals, and official transcripts from
undergraduate institution(s). The deadline for applications is March
15, 1998. The awardee is expected to present his/her work at
EAS as a poster at the Undergraduate Research Poster
Session. Three copies of all materials, including letters and
transcripts, should be sent to David J. Butcher, 10821 Dineen
Drive, Farragut, TN 37922; phone: 423/574-3469; Fax:
423/576-8559; email (preferred): butcher@wpoff.wcu.edu;
http://www.wcu.edu/chemphys/chemistry/butcherd/butcherd.html.
New NSF DUE Guidelines
The Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE) of
the National Science Foundation has recently released new
program guidelines and deadlines. DUE programs address
the spectrum of undergraduate educational challenges.
Programs offered at this time are: Course, Curriculum and
Laboratory Improvement (CCLI); NSF Collaboratives for Excellence
in Teacher Preparation (CETP); and Advanced
Technological Education (ATE). The announcement, document NSF
98-45, reflects significant programmatic changes,
highlighted below; details can be found on the DUE Web site,
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm.
- The Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement (CCLI) program incorporates most features of
the former Course and Curriculum Development and the
Instrumentation and Laboratory Improvement programs.
CCLI gives increased priority to adaptation and implementation
of previously developed materials and educational practices.
- Proposals for the single workshop projects
previously supported through the Undergraduate Faculty
Enhancement program are no longer encouraged. Rather, the
integration of faculty professional development within projects
funded in all programs is encouraged. Organizations with the
ability to provide multi-disciplinary professional development
for faculty nationwide are invited to submit proposals.
- The NSF Collaboratives for Excellence in
Teacher Preparation (CETP) program has been reconfigured to
support projects within two tracks: projects with an
Institutional Focus (Track I) and those with a System-wide Focus
(Track II). Track I proposals will be accepted and reviewed every
year. Track II proposals will be accepted and reviewed on a
biennial basis beginning in 1999.
- DUE has identified four special themes for
applicants to all programs to consider, as appropriate, in
developing projects: Teacher Preparation; Diversity; Faculty
Development; Integration of Technology in Education.
- Applicants can obtain up-to-date information on
the status of their proposals via FastLane, which can be
accessed from the NSF Web site,
http://www.nsf.gov.
Research Innovation Awards Announced
Research Corporation has announced the first awards
under a new program for innovative, highly original
research by college and university scientists. The chemistry
winners of Research Innovation Awards are listed below.
- David J. Austin, Yale University: Identification of
natural product targets using cDNA-phage
display - $35,000.
- James D. Batteas, CUNY College of Staten Island: A
combined atomic force/infrared microscope (AFIRM) for
nanometer-scale materials analysis of ultrathin
films - $34,775.
- Carolyn R. Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley:
New strategies for anti-tumor therapy and
diagnosis - $25,560.
- Gloria Borgstahl, University of Toledo: Reliably tagging
recombinant proteins with lanthanides for protein
purification and solution of the crystallographic phase
problem - $35,000.
- Eric Borguet, University of Pittsburgh:
Dynamics of surface processes with combined atomic and
ultrafast resolution - $35,000.
- Neil R. Branda, University of
Alberta: Molecular redox switches: Electrochemical control of
recognition site creation - $23,600.
- Sean M. Casey,
University of Nevada, Reno: An investigation of the initial stages of
thin film growth of electronic materials employing
mass-selected beams of neutral radicals - $34,750.
- Vicki L. Colvin,
Rice University: Using nanoglasses to understand disordered
solids - $34,340.
- Cathleen M. Crudden, University of
New Brunswick: Hydrolactonization: A novel method for the
catalytic synthesis of heterocycles - $33,700.
- Dan L.
Feldheim, North Carolina State University: Fabrication and
evaluation of a chemical single electron transistor - $35,000.
- Rene Fournier, York University: A new global optimization
algorithm for searching the lowest energy isomers of
clusters - $30,000.
- Bruce C. Gibb, University of New Orleans:
The mimicry of metallo-enzyme hydrophobic active
sites - $35,000.
- David Y. Gin, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign: Synthesis of Batzelladine A, an inhibitor of
the HIV gp120-human CD4 interactionapplication to the design of a selective anti-HIV drug delivery
system - $32,075.
- James L. Gleason, McGill University: Asymmetric
synthesis of quaternary carbon centers - $28,400.
- Jeffrey R.
Long, University of California, Berkeley: Dimensional
reduction: A practical formalism for manipulating the connectivity
and dimensionality of extended solid
frameworks - $35,000.
- Andrew M. MacMillan, University of Toronto: Caged
RNA molecules as probes of RNA structure and
function - $35,000.
- George I. Makhatadze, Texas Tech
University: Spectroscopic and thermodynamic studies of
Ca2+-binding protein S100P involved in prostate tumor
development - $33,509.
- Andrew H. Marcus, University of Oregon: A
novel optical approach for the direct measurement of structure
and relaxations in liquids that exhibit mesoscopic-scale
ordering - $35,000.
- Michael J. Marsella, University of California, Riverside:
The crystal engineering of organic conductors - $35,000.
- Todd J. Martinez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign:
Ab initio molecular dynamics investigations of coupled
electron/proton transfer - $35,000.
- Stefan Matile, Georgetown
University: Probing the mechanism of voltage-dependent
ion channels by means of synthetic models - $32,000.
- Benjamin L. Miller, University of Rochester: Identification
of anti-Pneumocystis carinii agents using self-assembled,
self-amplifying combinatorial libraries - $34,600.
- Scott
J. Miller, Boston College: Towards protective group-free
synthesis development of site-selective acylation
catalysts - $35,000.
- John Michael Papanikolas, University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill: The effect of adsorbate structure
on the electron transfer dynamics between
semiconductor nanocrystals and adsorbed dyes - $33,750.
- Jon D.
Rainier, University of Arizona: An iterative strategy to bioactive
fused ether natural products - $35,000.
- Michael J. Scott,
University of Florida: Heterodimetallic porphyrin
complexes: Transition metal mediated activation of small
molecules - $34,520.
- Matthew D. Shair, Harvard University:
Development of iNOS as a reporter gene system for
high-throughput assays - $34,060.
- Ken D. Shimizu, University of
South Carolina, Colum - bia: Self-assembly of polymers into
zeolite-like structures$35,000.
- Scott F. Singleton, Rice
University: Towards a generalizable strategy for enzyme design:
Construction of independently folded polypeptide
modules - $35,000.
- Kevin M. Weeks, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill: Probing complex RNA-protein architectures
by covalent footprinting - $35,000.
- Olaf G. Wiest,
University of Notre Dame: New building blocks for molecular
computing: Theoretical and electrochemical
studies - $35,000.
- David T. Wu, Colorado School of Mines: Statistical
mechanics of granular materials - $32,400.
- Deborah
S. Wuttke, University of Colorado, Boulder: Protein
fragment complexation as a new approach for the design of
structurally well-defined proteins with enhanced
functionality - $35,000.
- Jeffrey M. Zaleski, Indiana University
at Bloomington: Photoactivation of enediynes: Probing
biradical excited states involved in DNA-cleavage - $35,000.
Proposal Deadline Alert!
National Science Foundation
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)
- Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory
Improvement (CCLI); November 16, 1998
- NSF Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher
Preparation (CETP)
Preliminary proposals, Track 1 May 1, 1998
Formal proposals, Track 1 September 1, 1998
- Advanced Technological Education (ATE)
Preliminary proposals April 15, 1998
Formal proposals October 15, 1998
Further information about NSF DUE programs
can be obtained by consulting the DUE Website at
http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm or by contacting
the DUE Information Center; phone: 703/306-1666;
email: undergrad@nsf.gov.
The Camille & Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.
- New Faculty Awards Program; May 15, 1998
- Faculty Start-Up Grants for Undergraduate
Institutions; May 15, 1998
Further information may be obtained from
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc., 555
Madison Avenue, Suite 1305, New York, New York
10022; phone: 212/753-1760; email:
admin@dreyfus.org; http://www.dreyfus.org/
Research Corporation
- Research Opportunity Awards and Research
Innovation Awards; May 1, 1998
- Cottrell College Science Awards; May 15, 1998
Further information may be obtained from
Research Corporation, 101 North Wilmot Road, Suite 250,
Tucson, AZ 85711-3332; phone: 520/571-1111; fax:
520/571-1119; email: awards@rescorp.org;
http://www.rescorp.org
15th Biennial Conference of Chemical Education
Registration materials for the 15th Biennial Conference
on Chemical Education are now available. If you have access
to the WWW, go to
http://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca/bcce or request
a paper copy by email from bcce@waterloo.ca. You are
invited to join the approximately 1,500 teachers of chemistry at
all levels who will gather at the University of Waterloo
from August 9-13, 1998 to talk about the teaching and learning
of chemistry. Requests sent by postal service should be
addressed to 15-BCCE, Department of Chemistry, University of
Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, N2L 3G1, Canada.
History of Science Tour
In June 1998 Yvonne Twomey and Lee Marek will lead
a custom-designed tour of places of historical scientific
interest in England, Ireland, and Wales. The theme will be
"Landmarks in 19th Century Science and Technology" and it
will begin at London Heathrow Airport on Thursday, June
18, 1998 and end in London on Friday, July 3. The cost
includes all surface travel but does not include return air fares
between your home and London. The group will stay in nice old
coaching inns in the countryside and comfortable and friendly
small hotels in towns. All accommodations, land and sea
transportation, breakfasts and at least one other meal per day are
included. All admissions, lectures, a canal trip, taxes and
tips for group meals are included. For those who wish to
spend time in London at the end of the organized tour, this
can easily be arranged. The price of the surface travel will be
$2475 per person, double occupancy. Single room supplement
will probably be around $400. For academic credit, there will
be a fee for 3 hours graduate credit. Group size is limited
to about 30 people. Reservations can be accepted until
mid-May if space is still available. For more information, contact
Yvonne Twomey, 841 Kinston Court, Naperville, IL 60540;
phone: 630/961-9811; fax: 630/961-0495; email: ytwomey@mcs.com or Lee Marek: email:
Lmarek@aol.com.
1998 Pittsburgh Conference
The Pittsburgh Conference on Analytical Chemistry
and Applied Spectroscopy will present its annual
event - PITTCON - at Morial Convention Center in New
Orleans from March 15, 1998. During PITTCON '98 over
1800 technical presentations will be made and over 1100
companies will display the latest instrumentation, supplies, and
information sources in over 3000 exposition booths.
ACS Abstract Deadline
The deadline for submission of abstracts for symposia
of the Division of Chemical Education at the Fall 1998
ACS Meeting in Boston is April 1, 1998. For further
information contact the CHED Program Chair: Tom Wildeman,
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Colorado School
of Mines, Golden, CO 80401; phone: 303/273-3642; fax:
303/273-3629; email: twildema@slate.mines.edu
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