Spring is meeting time, and the Journal editorial staff will cover as many meetings as we can-while still publishing on schedule! A major reason for our attendance is to talk to our subscribers. We learn a lot from hearing firsthand what you like and don't like, which feature could be made even better, the latest lab experiment that worked so well that you will write it up and send it in. We enjoy showing you our latest software and video releases, discussing plans for future Journal issues, and demonstrating our online index.

If you are attending the Spring ACS Meeting in Anaheim (March 21-25, 1999), stop by booth 1051. There you will find at various times the editor (John Moore) and three associate editors (Mary Saecker, Jon Holmes, and Betty Moore). Nancy Gettys (technical editor for JCE Software) will be at our booth and also act as reporter for some sessions; Lin Morris will coordinate our booth, just as she does our orders and shipping. Our advertising representatives, book review editor, and Book Buyers Guide editor also use the booth as a home base. Emory Howell (secondary school editor) will be there briefly but leaves early for Boston (NSTA).

The Spring NSTA Meeting is in Boston, March 25-28, 1999, overlapping with the ACS meeting. Emory Howell and his assistant, Kelli Bennett, are in charge of booth 2037. He reports that at least two of the feature editors will also be helping with the booth, and there are plans for some hands-on demonstrations of JCE Classroom Activity sheets. They will also display JCE publications-sample issues, CD-ROMs, software, all of the Classroom Activity sheets, our complete Publications/Software Catalog, and more.

If you really plan ahead, you will find us traveling again at the end of the summer. From August 2 to 6 we will be at Chem Ed '99 at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT. At the Fall ACS Meeting in New Orleans, August 22-26, you will find us at booth 525.

Spring 1999 ACS Meeting in Anaheim: Booth 1051

Spring 1999 NSTA Meeting in Boston: Booth 2037

ChemEd '99, Sacred Heart University: Booth unknown

Fall 1999 NSTA Meeting in New Orleans: Booth 525

People: Moses Passer

Moses Passer, former director of educational activities at ACS, died of lung cancer on January 10, 1999. Born in Poland on January 30, 1917, Passer taught at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, before joining the ACS in 1964. At that time ACS educational activities consisted of three programs: career services, student affiliates, and the Committee on Professional Training. Today they range from pre-high- school science programs for parents and children through a variety of activities at the high school, college, and university levels to an array of in-person and lifelong continuing education offerings for practicing professionals. In 1993 the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Education announced the establishment of the Passer Education Fund. Moses and Dorothy Passer donated $250,000 to the ACS Division of Chemical Education to establish this fund. Passer's aim was to help improve the teaching of the chemical sciences by providing grants to chemistry and chemical technology teachers at undergraduate institutions. The grants support participation in continuing education courses in subject matters directly related to teaching. In August of 1993, at a national meeting of the American Chemical Society, Moses Passer was honored by a symposium in his name, co-sponsored by the ACS Society Committee on Education.

Passer is survived by his wife, Dorothy B. Passer, and cousins in this country and abroad. He received the District of Columbia Institute of Chemists Honors Scroll in 1977, was a 54-year member of ACS, and belonged to AAAS, the Cosmos Club, Sigma Xi, and the Scientific Advisory Council of the Washington Committee for the Weizmann Institute.

Awards: Educational Spectroscopy Grant Program

Ocean Optics, Inc., has established an "Innovations in Educational Spectroscopy Grant Program", which is available to educators to provide resources to public and private teaching institutions. The aim of the program is to promote the use of spectroscopy as a general-purpose, broad-based measurement tool and to enable the use of state-of-the-art instrumentation and technology in science and engineering curricula. There are three distinct grant programs.

Program A offers cost-sharing support that can be used in conjunction with proposals for extramural funds for purchasing science equipment. Program B offers cost-sharing to leverage internal funds for the purchase of science equipment to develop science and engineering curricula. Program C will award a limited number of research grants to support research and development of new spectroscopy applications. All programs require the use of Ocean Optics equipment.

There is no deadline for submission of grant applications. Questions regarding grant program eligibility, cost-sharing amounts, procedures, and application forms should be directed to Scott Faris, Educational Products Division, Ocean Optics, Inc., 380 Main Street, Dunedin, FL 34698;
phone: 727/733-2447; fax: 727/733-3962; email: Education@OceanOptics.com; www.OceanOptics.com.

Awards: Recent Research Corporation Awards

Research Corporation has recently announced the recipients of the Cottrell College Science Awards, Research Innovation Awards, Opportunity Awards, and General Awards. The names of chemistry recipients, their institutions, the titles of their proposals, and the award amounts appear in the Happenings section of JCE Online, JChemEd.chem.wisc.edu.

Eastern Analytical Symposium

The deadline for receipt of preliminary abstracts for the 1999 Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) is April 15, 1999. Papers in all areas of the analytical and allied sciences are welcome. The meeting will be held November 14-19, 1999, at the Garden State Convention Center in Somerset, NJ.

Persons interested in presenting a paper at EAS should submit a 200-250-word abstract of the proposed paper, typed, including preference for oral or poster form, to the Program Committee, P. O. Box 633, Montchanin, DE 18710-0633. If the paper is accepted, the title and author(s) will be considered final. For additional information, contact the EAS Hotline: 302/738-6218, Faxline: 302/738-5375, E-mail: easinfo@aol.com.

Research Experiences for Undergraduates

The University of South Carolina's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry announces a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program in the area of nanoscience, funded by the National Science Foundation. Projects include structural and optical properties of nanometer-sized inorganic clusters, synthetic organic nanometer-scale architectures, and ultrafast spectroscopy to study motions on the nanometer scale. The program will run from June 7, 1999, to August 13, 1999. The stipend is $3,000 per student, plus housing.

Applicants should be rising juniors or seniors. Applications will be accepted until March 15, 1999. More information is at http://epscor.cosm.sc.edu/nanoscience or contact the Principal Investigator, Catherine J. Murphy, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208; phone: 803/777-3628; fax: 803/777-9521; email: murphy@psc.sc.edu.

Proposal Deadlines

National Science Foundation
Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE)

• Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) June 7, 1999
• NSF Collaboratives for Excellence in Teacher Preparation (CETP)
  Preliminary proposals, Track 1 May 1, 1999
  Formal proposals, Track 1 September 1, 1999

For further information about NSF DUE programs consult the DUE Web site at http://www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/DUE/start.htm or contact the DUE Information Center; phone: 703/306-1666; email: undergrad@nsf.gov.

The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, Inc.

• Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
  November 16, 1998
• Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Awards Program:
  July 1, 1999
• New Faculty Awards Program: May 14, 1999
• Faculty Start-up Grants for Undergraduate Institutions: May 14, 1999
• Scholar/Fellow Program for Undergraduate Institutions: July 1, 1999
• Special Grant Program in the Chemical Sciences: July 15, 1999
• Postdoctoral Program in Environmental Chemistry: February 26, 1999

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/

Research Corporation

• Cottrell College Science Awards: May 15 and November 15
• Cottrell Scholars: First regular business day in September
• Partners in Science: December 1 (the final year for this program is summer 1999)
• Research Opportunity Awards: May 1 and October 1
• Research Innovation Awards: May 1

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; www: http://www.rescorp.org

Abstract Deadline: Fall 1999 ACS Meeting, New Orleans

The deadline for receipt of abstracts for the Fall 1999 ACS National Meeting in New Orleans has been changed from April 1, 1999, to April 15, 1999, to accommodate the transfer to electronic submission. More information appears on page 305 and on the ACS Web site (http://www.acs.org/meetings/abstract/abinfo.html).

ACS Abstracts for the Millennium

Tom Wildeman, CHED Program Committee chair, has sent the following report on electronic submission of ACS abstracts.

Complete electronic submission of ACS abstracts will be possible beginning with the Fall 1999 Meeting in New Orleans. The announcement was made by ACS in the January 4, 1999 edition of Chemical & Engineering News, page 33. The announcement suggests that prospective authors consult the ACS Web site (http://www.acs.org/meetings/abstract/abinfo.html) for details.

The system will work as follows. Each symposium organizer will have a mailbox on the ACS meeting Web site. An author will complete the electronic abstract form and submit it to the appropriate symposium mailbox. The symposium organizer will accept or reject the abstract. For the author, that is all that is necessary. The symposium organizer will assemble the abstracts, assign session presiders, and send the package to the Division's Program Chair, who will organize the complete program and send it to the ACS Meetings Department. The program of abstracts will be published from the electronic abstracts.

For the New Orleans Meeting both online and paper abstracts will be accepted. To ensure that all authors have a chance at electronic submittal, the deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended from April 1 until April 15, 1999.

For the Spring 2000 Meeting in San Francisco, all abstracts must be submitted electronically. At the present time, more than 50% of the abstracts are submitted electronically.