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DED 8-199 UN 18 189 8 O 98 F yyyy N N yyyy Y Y O O T T R R E E I I T T C H C H E O E O yyyyN N A E S A E S S S S L S L T T A A E A E A C C R C I R C I yyyyN S M N S M S E S E E H E H C C C C T N T N IO A December 2005IO A Vol. LXXXIV, No. 4 yyyyC C N • AMERI N • AMERI Monthly Meeting Tailoring the Analytical Medicinal Chemistry Symposium on Type 2 Diabetes Chemistry Effort By Martin Freier 2005 IUPAC Congress Management of and General Assembly Biological Data Report by Morton Z. Hoffman By Mustaq Ahmed, et al. and Mukund Chorgade Report From China: Call For IUPAC Congress and Nominations International Union of Pure General Assembly and Applied Chemistry Morton Z. Hoffman, IUPAC announces the 2006 IUPAC Boston University, U.S. National Representative to the IUPAC Committee on Prize for Young Chemists. The Chemistry Education, Division of Chemical Education, Liaison to IUPAC IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists has been established to encourage out- The 40th IUPAC World Chemistry standing young research scientists at Congress (Innovation in Chemistry) the beginning of their careers.The prize and the 43rd IUPAC General Assembly will be given for the most outstanding were held concurrently at the Beijing Ph.D. thesis in the general area of the International Convention Center, chemical sciences, as described in a August 14-19, 2005. The Congress, 1000-word essay. Prize is USD $1000 which was organized by the Chinese and travel to the IUPAC Congress in Chemical Society and the Institute of Turino, Italy, August 2007. Each Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sci- awardee will be invited to present a ences, was a general scientific meet- poster on his/her research and to par- ing, not unlike an ACS meeting, while ticipate in a plenary award session. the General Assembly was the occa- sion for meetings of the governing Call for Nominations: (deadline Feb- Dr. Yu Huang (2004 IUPAC Prize for bodies and committees of the Union ruary 1, 2006) a Young Chemist) such as the Committee on Chemistry For more information, including appli- Education (CCE). cation form, please visit the IUPAC Mukund Chorghade (Associate web site at Member of CCE, President of D&O Pharmachem, 2006 NESACS Chair- www.iupac.org/news/prize.html Elect) and I attended the meetings of or contact the IUPAC Secretariat by CCE, where there was much discussion e-mail at <[email protected]> about the recent directive from the or by fax: +1 919 485 8706 N Chinese Ministry of Education that would require the teaching of science and mathematics in China’s many col- leges and universities in English within University, receiving his Ph.D. in June, a very short time, and as little as three 2004. After several months working as years for the most prominent institu- a research consultant for a start-up th Dr. Zev Gartner (2005 IUPAC Prize tions. It was announced that the 19 for a Young Chemist) company in Cambridge, MA, followed International Conference on Chemical by a half year of world travel, he Education (ICCE) will be held in and Engineering, Massachusetts Insti- recently began his post-doctoral work Seoul, Korea, August 12-17, 2006; for tute of Technology. She has made pro- at Berkeley with Professor Carolyn more information, see <http:// found contributions to the field of Bertozzi. Zev’s Ph.D. thesis, entitled www.19icce.org>. nanoelectronics with her inventions: The Development of DNA-Templated Eight young chemists, two of methods for bottom-up assembly of Organic Synthesis, was completed whom have ties to institutions within nanoscale electronic and optical under the supervision of Professor NESACS, were honored by IUPAC at devices and circuits using chemically David Liu. the Congress with the 2004 and 2005 synthesized nanowires as building Among the plenary speakers at the prizes. blocks. Her thesis is entitled Inte- Congress was William Lipscomb (Har- Yu Huang received her Masters grated Nanoscale Electronics and vard University) who spoke on “Struc- and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry from Optoelectronics: Exploring Nanoscale ture and Functions in Chemistry and Harvard University, and her Bachelor’s Science and Technology through Semi- Biology - Experimental and Computa- degree from the University of Science conductor Nanowires. tional Studies.” I chaired a session in and Technology of China. Dr. Huang Zev Gartner received his B.S. in the chemical education program and is now a Lawrence Fellow working in chemistry from the University of Cali- presented a contributed paper on the Biomolecular Material Laboratory fornia at Berkeley in 1999. He per- “Increasing the Yield of Chemistry at the Department of Material Science formed his doctoral work at Harvard Students in the United States.” N 2 The Nucleus December 2005 The Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society, Inc. Contents Office: Marilou Cashman, 23 Cottage St., Natick, MA 01760. 1-800-872-2054 (Voice or FAX) or 508-653-6329. IUPAC Congress and General Assembly 2 e-mail: [email protected] _____________________ Any Section business may be conducted A report by Morton Z. Hoffman via the business office above. NESACS Homepage: http://www.NESACS.org Call for Nominations____________________________________2 Sathish Rangarajan, Webmaster IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists ACS Hotline, Washington, D.C.: 1-800-227-5558 Officers 2005 Tailoring the Analytical Chemistry Effort ____________________4 Chair: By Martin Freier Amy Tapper Peptimmune 64 Sidney Street, Suite 380, December Meeting-Jointly with Medicinal Chemistry __________5 Cambridge, MA 02139 A Symposium on Type 2 Diabetes, Part II 617-715-8005; [email protected] Chair-Elect: Patricia Mabrouk Call for Nominations____________________________________6 Chemistry Department, Northeastern University James Flack Norris Award and the Philip Levins Memorial Prize Boston, MA 02115 617 373 2845; [email protected] Immediate Past Chair: Integration and Management of Biological Data ______________7 Jean A. 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