Division of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology American Chemical Society NUCL WWW Home Page – http://www.nucl-acs.org Chair, 2014 Program Chair, 2014 NEWSLETTER PAUL F. MANTICA Michigan State University October 2014 National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab 640 S. Shaw Lane Newsletter Editor: Lætitia Delmau East Lansing, MI 48824 Email: [email protected] Phone: (517) 908-7456 [email protected] Chair-Elect, 2014 Program Chair, 2015 DAVID E. HOBART 123 Big Oak Lane Santa Rosa Beach, FL 32459 Phone: (505) 227-4728 Topics [email protected] Vice-Chair, 2014 > FROM THE CHAIR Program Chair, 2016 PAUL BENNY > AWARD NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE OF NUCL Washington State University > UPCOMING PROGRAMMING Department of Chemistry > PACIFICHEM 2015 Pullman, WA 99164 Phone: (509) 335-3858 > SUMMER SCHOOL [email protected] > CALL FOR PAPERS Secretary, 2014-2016 LUTHER McDONALD FROM THE CHAIR – Paul Mantica 110 S Central Campus Dr Salt Lake City, UT 84112 The NUCL division was well represented at the Fall ACS Phone: (509) 595-1101 [email protected] National Meeting that was held August 10-14 in San Francisco. The theme for the San Francisco meeting was “Chemistry and Treasurer, 2014-2016 Global Stewardship.” NUCL sponsored 6 symposia over 4.5 ALICE MURRAY Savannah River National Laboratory days, with a total of 130 oral presentations. At the NUCL Aiken, SC 29808 Business Meeting, Herb Silber from San Jose State University Phone: (803) 725-0440 was recognized as the first recipient of the W. Frank Kinard [email protected] Distinguished Service Award. The ACS also announced Heino Councilors Nitsche as the recipient of the 2015 Glenn T. Seaborg Award in GRAHAM F. PEASLEE, 2012-2014 Nuclear Chemistry. Heino passed away in July, and his wife [email protected] Martha will receive the award on his behalf during the Spring SILVIA JURISSON, 2014-2016 ACS National Meeting in Denver. The NUCL division will also [email protected] hold a symposium in recognition of Heino’s contributions to nuclear science at the Denver meeting. Alternate Councilor DAWN A. SHAUGHNESSY, 2012-2014 Members-at-Large, Executive Committee SUZANNE LAPI, 2012-2014 RICHARD ROBERTS, 2013-2015 NUCL Newsletter, October ‘14, page - 1 A Strategic Planning Session was held by the division on the last day of the San Francisco Member-at-Large, 3-year term (2015-2017) meeting. The three goal teams presented Suzanne Lapi, Washington U St. Louis their preliminary lists of activities and Ralf Sudowe, UNLV completion criteria. These lists were reviewed by the NUCL Executive Committee and other Strategic Plan NUCL members in attendance at the session. The NUCL Strategic Planning exercise is A completed draft of the NUCL Strategic coming to a close. The division mission, vision Plan for 2015-2020 is now available on the and goal statements have been formalized division website (www.nucl-acs.org) for and shared with division members in review by membership. I encourage all previous communications. Activities and members to read through the draft plan, and completion criteria associated with each goal to provide feedback via email to were discussed and reviewed at a special [email protected] by November 15. Strategic Planning Session held on the last day of the San Francisco meeting. The The Long Range Plan (LRP) activities outcome of that session is the draft NUCL continue, and I will represent the NUCL Strategic Plan for 2015-2020, which is posted division on the LRP Writing committee. This on the division website www.nucl-acs.org. committee will have its first meeting in Members wanting to provide feedback on the November, and will complete its work by draft plan should do so electronically to Spring 2015. The final LRP document needs [email protected] by November 15. to be submitted to the funding agencies by October 2015. NSAC The Nuclear Science Advisory Committee NUCL Elections (NSAC) will meet next on Monday, November There are four positions on the NUCL 17, 2014 in Rockville, MD. The meeting Executive Committee that will open at the agenda will be posted on the NSAC website end of the year. The Nominations Committee (science.energy.gov/np/nsac/). The Long has identified two willing candidates for each Range Plan (LRP) Writing Group will of the open positions. Their names are listed meeting the Sunday before the NSAC below, and short bios are included at the end meeting. The LRP Town Meetings have been of this newsletter. The election will be held held, and whitepapers are now being electronically in November. generated. Vice-Chair (to be Chair-Elect in 2016, Chair NUCL members are strongly encouraged to and Program Chair in 2017, Immediate Past- continue participating in the LRP process. Chair in 2018) Updates on the LRP process will be provided Robert Atcher, LANL on the American Physical Society’s Division Lᴂtitia Delmau, ORNL of Nuclear Physics website: www.aps.org/units/dnp/ Councilor, 3-year term (2015-2017) Michael Bronikowski, SRNL AWARD NOMINATIONS COMMITTEE Graham Peaslee, Hope College OF NUCL – Steve Yates Alternate Councilor, 3-year term (2015-2017) The Awards Nominations Committee of the Dawn Shaughnessy, LLNL Division was formed to encourage and Nathalie Wall, Washington State U facilitate nominations for national ACS NUCL Newsletter, October ’14, page - 2 awards. Please nominate a colleague for the gathering. Once again we were fortunate to Seaborg Award (details are given below) or have magnificent organizers and great another ACS award presentations capturing the diverse scientific (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding- aspects of nuclear technology represented by and-awards/awards/national.html). our division. Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear As was mentioned at the top of the Chemistry newsletter, the Denver abstract submission (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding- deadline is October 20th. I seem to recall and-awards/awards/national/bytopic/glenn-t- many people were quite pleased with Denver seaborg-award-for-nuclear-chemistry.html) -- as a host city during the fall 2011 meeting. Nominations are initiated by individuals and Come March, ski season will be in full swing the procedures are given on the ACS website. and we encourage you to leave a little extra The next deadline is November 1, 2014. time around the meeting to enjoy the local area. Being situated in the Denver suburbs ACS Fellows now, I’m happy to help if you have questions (http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/funding- related to your visit or would like a tour of and-awards/fellows.html) -- Nominations can the Colorado School of Mines campus. be initiated by individuals; however, the Division can nominate up to four individuals The July NUCL Newsletter noted that as ACS Fellows annually. Nominations for abstract submission will be done using a new the 2015 class of Fellows are scheduled to abstract management system - MAPS. If you open February 1, 2015 and close April 1, have questions related to abstract 2015. submission, please don’t to contact me. I will do my best to address your questions. W. Frank Kinard Distinguished Service Award, established in 2014, recognizes On a final note, the Denver meeting will be NUCL members for outstanding service to my last meeting as program chair for the the division and the field of nuclear science -- NUCL division. Jeff Terry (Illinois Institute Nomination procedures are given on the of Technology) and Amy Hixon (Notre Dame) NUCL website (http://www.nucl- will be leading programming efforts for the acs.org/?page_id=611) and the next deadline fall and spring national meetings, is July 1, 2015. respectively. If you have interest in programming further out, room exists for the Suggestions and questions should be 2015 Fall (Boston) meetings or 2016 Spring addressed to Steve Yates ([email protected]; (San Diego). Please contact either Dave 859-257-4005). Hobart ([email protected]), Jeff Terry ([email protected]) or Amy Hixon ([email protected]). Thanks to all current and future organizers for their programming contributions! UPCOMING PROGRAMMING- Dave Hobart, Jenifer Braley, Jeff Terry, Amy Hixon Spring 2015 – Denver, CO – March 22-26, 2015 - Chemical Resources: Extraction, The 248th ACS National Meeting & Refining and Conservation Exposition in San Francisco was an excellent NUCL Newsletter, October ’14, page - 3 – Seaborg Award Symposium: In Honor [email protected]; Charles Coleman, of Heino Nitsche. (Organizers: Richard SRNL, [email protected], Wilson ANL, Christoph Duellmann, David Hobbs, SRNL, University of Mainz, Thomas Fanghaenel, [email protected]; Herman Cho, ITU, Karlsruhe, Annie Kersting, LLNL, PNNL, [email protected], PNNL; Dominic David Hobart, LANL/FSU). Peterson, LANL, [email protected]) – 50th Anniversary of the NUCL Division (Organizers: David Hobart, Spring 2016 – San Diego, CA – March 13- [email protected], LANL/FSU, David 17, 2015 Shuh, LBNL, [email protected];Jon Auxier II, General Topics in Nuclear & Radiochemistry Tennessee, [email protected], Dawn (Organizer TBD) Shaughnessy, LLNL, [email protected]; Thomas Albrecht- Computational f-element chemistry Schmitt, FSU;; Dominic Peterson, LANL, (Organizer TBD) [email protected] Jenifer Braley, [email protected], CSM) Young Investigators (Organizers TBD) – Convergence of Theory and Experiment in If you are interested in organizing a Heavy Element Chemistry (Organizers: symposium for 2015, please contact Dave Alfred Sattleberger, ANL, Hobart, 2015 NUCL Chair [email protected]; David Shuh, LBNL, ([email protected]), or Jenifer Braley, [email protected]; Lynda Soderholm, ANL, NUCL Program Chair ([email protected]). [email protected]; David Clark, LANL, [email protected]) Several other concepts in development – Nuclear Forensics (Organizers: Robert Radiochemistry Infrastructure – cooperative Rundberg, LANL, [email protected]; with the Health Physics Society Amanda Klingensmith; Todd Bredeweg, LANL, [email protected]) Archaeometry (contact Dave Robertson) – Uranium from Seawater, NUCL nominal co-sponsor (Robin Rogers, Alabama, [email protected]) PACIFICHEM 2015 – Paul Mantica Fall 2015 – Boston, MA – August 16-20, The 2015 International Congress of Pacific 2015.