Ei-ichi Negishi and Akira Suzuki of Japan, and American Richard Heck have won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing “one of the most sophisticated” tools used in organic chemistry. See the Nobelprize.org for more information.
The Women Chemists Committee (WCC) Lectureship Award seeks to enhance the reputation of early and mid-career female chemists and chemical engineers by supporting their travel to present technical talks at doctoral degree-granting institutions. Awards may be made directly to a female chemist who chooses to self-nominate, or to the host institution. Awards cover transportation, lodging, …
Chemistry symposia will be sponsored by the AAAS chemistry section and presented at the 2011 meeting of the AAAS in Washington, DC, Feb 18-21. These are specially selected symposia, chosen to highlight the role of chemistry in the International Year of Chemistry. The symposia are listed here. For more information on the meeting, see the …
The year 2011 has been designated the International Year of Chemistry by IUPAC and the United Nations. As a means of celebrating this event, the Division of Organic Chemistry of the American Chemical Society is organizing a one-day symposium to be held at the National American Chemical Society Meeting in Anaheim (March 27-31, 2011) entitled …
This one-day symposium featuring process R&D chemistry and new synthetic methodology is scheduled for Friday October 22, 2010 from 9 am to 5 pm at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in Cambridge, MA. This year’s meeting will include a catered lunch for conferees and a vendor show. For more details and registration information ($50 registration fee; …
Each year, the YCC grants 15 Younger Chemist Leadership Development Awards that support ACS members who are less than 35 years of age to travel to and participate in the annual ACS Leadership Institute and the Leadership Development Workshop. Awards are made on the basis of scientific merit and cover the registration fee, transportation, lodging, …
The ACS Younger Chemists Committee (YCC) and the CIBA Foundation are proud to introduce the CIBA/YCC Young Scientist Travel Award. The program provides funding for young and early-career chemists to travel to and participate in an ACS national or regional meeting. Through this program, the YCC and the CIBA Foundation continue to support development of …
Abstracts (separates) for the ACS National Meeting in Boston are now Available. They are posted on the Abstracts Page, which is available only to ORGN members.
Call for papers and symposium announcement: The conference (October 19 -22, 2010 in King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort St. Simons Island, Georgia, USA) will emphasize the latest developments on transformation of renewable carbon building blocks to chemicals and materials, enabling the integrated biorefinery concept. Individual sessions will consider advances in biomass fractionation and …
The new DOC initiative: Graduate Research Symposium was highlighted in a C&EN article (August 2, 2010 VOLUME 88, NUMBER 31 PP. 59 – 60). You can read the entire article here.
