DED UN 18 O 98 F yyyy N yyyy Y O T R E I T H C E N O yyyy A E S S S L T A E A C R C I yyyyN S M S E E H C C T N IO A March 2003 Vol. LXXXI, No. 7 yyyyC N • AMERI Monthly Meeting Felice Frankel on Envisioning Science Trip to Cuba ACS delegation attends Conference on Chemistry in Cuba Book Review “A Brief Account of Radio- activity” Review of an Oldie but Goodie Summer Scholar Report Toward a Crystal Structure of an E. coli DNA component, by John Huetsch and coworkers 2003 Call for Papers EASTERNEASTERN ❖ Deadline – April 15, 2003 ❖ AnalyticalAnalytical November 17-20, 2003 • Garden State SymposiumSymposium Exhibit Center • Somerset, NJ he Eastern Analytical Symposium is the second largest meeting in the United States T dedicated to the needs of analytical chemists and those in the allied sciences. Please help us to make the 2003 EAS the best ever–be a part of the program by contributing your own papers for inclusion in the oral or poster sessions. 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Contents Office: Marilou Cashman, 23 Cottage St., Natick, MA 01760. 1-800-872-2054 Committee Chairs 2003 4 (Voice or FAX) or 508-653-6329. _________________________________ e-mail: [email protected] Monthly Meeting 5 Any Section business may be conducted _______________________________________ via the business office above. Felice Frankel speaks on “Envisioning Science, Making Good Science Look NESACS Homepage: Good” http://www.NESACS.org Frank R. Gorga, Webmaster Call for Papers _____________________________________6, 13 Washington, D.C. ACS Hotline: 1-800-227-5558 Undergraduate poster session, September National ACS Meeting . 6 Officers 2003 Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference . 13 Chair: John L. Neumeyer Make New Friends, Keep the Old __________________________6 Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital Linking past, present and future NESACS members; by J. Fuller-Stanley, chair- 115 Mill St., Belmont, MA 02478 617-855-3388; [email protected] elect Chair-Elect: Trip to Cuba 7 Jean A. Fuller-Stanley __________________________________________ Chemistry Department, Wellesley College ACS delegation attends Conference on Chemistry in Santiago de Cuba Wellesley, MA 02481-8203 781-283-3224; [email protected] Book Review _________________________________________10 Immediate Past Chair: “A Brief Account of Radio-activity” By Francis Venable, reviewed by J. 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