May - Pittsburgh Section of the American Chemical Society

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Volume: XCII No.9
May 2007
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CHEMISTS OF PITTSBURGH
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THE PITTSBURGH SECTION
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
MAY AWARDS BANQUET
Monday, May 21, 2007
Duquesne University Ballroom
Student Union 4th floor
Social Hour - 5:30 P.M.
Dinner - 6:30 P.M.
Contents . . .
Pittsburgh Section ACS and The SACP
SACP Continuing Education
Please e-mail Valarie Daugherty, daugherty@pittcon.org,
SACP Administrative Assistant by Monday, May 7, 2007.
Should you not have e-mail, please call Valarie at 412-825-3220 ext. 204.
Dinner will cost $15.00 and checks can be made payable to the SACP.
Editor’s Note
The Crucible will not be published in June or July.
The next issue will be August 2007.
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Committee Symposium
ACS Pittsburgh Chemists Club
Dinner Reservations:
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Awards Dinner
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May Meeting and Recognition of
50 Year Members
Call for Nominations
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The Pittsburgh Award
Councilor’s Report
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ACS Spring Meeting
2007 PJAS Chemistry Winners
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Advertiser’s Index
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Calendar
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A Symposium Presented by the
SACP Continuing Education Committee
“LONG TERM ENERGY
OPPORTUNITY”
Saturday, May 12, 2007
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Duquesne University
Maurice Falk Hall, Mellon Science Building
Open to the public
Three top speakers will talk about
nuclear, bio-fuel and clean energy.
Registration Deadline: May 5, 2007
Registration Fee: $15 ($5 Student and Retiree)
Parking fee will be redeemed with a parking chit. Lunch will be served.
Please make check payable to SACP. Mail Registration Form and Fee to:
Ms. Valarie Daugherty
SACP - Continuing Education Symposium
300 Penn Center Blvd.
Suite 332
Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5503
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May 2007 / The Crucible
ACS Pittsburgh
Chemists Club
Pittsburgh Section, American
Chemical Society
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
“The Chemical Nature of Olfactory Stimuli -How the Nose
and Brain Detect and Recognize Them”
Dr. Nathan Urban
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences,CMU and
Professor, Department of Neuroscience, University of Pittsburgh
Presentation of 50 Year ACS Membership Awards
to Pittsburgh Section members
The 50 year ACS members are Fred Abraham, Amilcare Biancheria, Karl Bloss, Lloyd Guild,
Don Harrison, Richard Hood, George Klein, Josef Roesmer, and George Wollaston.
Duranti’s Restaurant
11:45 AM
Cocktail Time - Cash Bar
12:30 PM Dinner
1:30 PM Program
For reservations, please call Ed Martin by noon, Friday, May 25, 2007 at (724) 335-0904 or e-mail
at esm@icubed.com.
Dr. Urban will discuss the chemical nature of olfactory stimuli and then describe how the nose and
brain perform these detection and recognition tasks. The olfactory system can detect most volatile
compounds and is able to recognize more than 10,000 different odors. The process of odor detection and recognition begins with the binding of odorant molecules to odorant receptor proteins
found in the nose. The activation of these receptors then causes the activation of odor-specific
patterns in neurons in the olfactory bulb. Differences between odors are thought to be represented
initially as different combinations of activated neurons in this part of the brain. I also will discuss
the role of synchronized oscillatory activity of neuronal populations in the recognition of odors
and the mechanisms that cause this synchronization.
Call for Nominations
The Pittsburgh Award
The Pittsburgh Award was established in 1932 by the Pittsburgh
Section of ACS to recognize outstanding leadership in chemical
affairs in the local and larger
professional community. This
Award symbolizes the honor and
appreciation accorded to those
who have rendered distinguished
service to the field of chemistry.
The Award consists of a plaque
presented annually at a Section
dinner.
Members of the
Pittsburgh Section, or in exceptional cases, non-members, who
have done work worthy of recognition toward increasing chemical
knowledge, promoting the chemical industry, benefiting humanity, or advancing the Pittsburgh
Section, are eligible for consideration.
Nominations for the Pittsburgh
Award are solicited from the
membership of the Pittsburgh
Section. The form can be found
on the section’s website. http:/
/membership.acs.org/P/Pitt.
Look for form PITTS_AWARD
FORM.doc.
Please send all
nominations to Linda Peteanu
at peteanu@andrew.cmu.edu, by
May 15, 2007.
Biography
Dr. Nathan Urban earned a BS from the University of Pittsburgh in 1991 in Neuroscience and Mathematics,
then a BA from Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1993. He went
on to earn a Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh in Neuroscience in 1998. He was a postdoctoral fellow
in the Department of Cell Physiology at the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research. Since 2002 he has
been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University and an
Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pittsburgh. He has earned
many awards and honors, and has published extensively. His current research is in brain recognition of olfactory
stimuli.
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Councilor’s Report on:
ACS SPRING 2007 NATIONAL MEETING
Chicago, IL
Three of our ACS Pittsburgh Section
Councilors were in attendance at
Chicago.
The meeting attracted over 14,000
attendees and an exposition of 424
booths.
The following candidates were selected for President-Elect for 2008:
Thomas Lane
Howard M. Peters
The Committee on Meetings &
Expositions reported that the total
meeting registration was 14,520. Of
these, 7,152 were regular registrations,
1,283 were exhibitors, 5,059 were students, 573 were exposition only, and
453 guests. The exposition had 268
companies represented in 424 booths.
In Chicago, 1,439 job seekers registered with the NECH with interviews
scheduled for 683 positions from 73
employers.
The Pittsburgh Section won a Second
Place Award for the Visiting Speaker
Program and the hospitality shown
toward the tour speaker last year in
Pittsburgh.
The Committee on Nominations and
Elections announced the election of
the following candidates for District
II for a 2008-2010 term: Joseph R.
Peterson and Diane Grob Schmidt.
The election of a Director for District
II will be conducted in the fall.
The Committee on Nominations and
Elections announced the selection of
the following candidates for Directorat- Large for a 2008-2010 term: Janan
M. Hayes, Helen A. Lawlor, Kent
J. Voorhees and Frankie K. WoodBlack. The election of two Directorsat-Large will be conducted in the fall.
The Council voted to continue the
Committee on Science, the Women
Chemist’s Committee and the Younger
Chemists Committee a part of the regular committee performance reviews.
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The Council voted to set the member
dues for 2008 at the fully escalated rate
of $136. This rate is established pursuant to an inflation-adjustment formula
in the ACS Constitution and Bylaws.
The Council received three petitions
for consideration: Petition on Election
Procedures 2006; Petition on MultiYear Dues; and a Petition on Rules for
Nominating Members of Nominations
and Elections for National Offices.
The Council voted to accept changes
for the timing of run-off elections and
specifies an election process for situations in which only one Director-atLarge position is open.
The Council voted to recommit a portion
of the petition back to the Committee on
Nominations and Elections and ask that
they reconsider the signature requirements, procedures for processing electronic signatures, and those suggestions
arising from the Governance Review
Task Force pertinent to election procedures.
The Council voted by recorded vote
to defeat the petition that established a
one-year waiting period following service on the Committee on Nominations
and Elections before an individual can
be nominated for District Director,
President-Elect or Director-at-Large.
The Council voted to accept the petition on Multi-Year Dues. This petition
will allow members paying full dues
without any of the discounts to pay for
periods of two or three years if they
wish, at a rate equal to two or three
times the rate for a one year period.
Council also voted to make this petition effective when technical components are instituted to offer and track
the payments, but no later than January
1, 2010.
campaign, in which many councilors
participated.
The Council voted to approve dates
and sites for the 2017 national meetings
as follows: April 2-6 San Francisco,
CA and September 10-14, St Louis,
Missouri.
The Council voted to establish the
Snake River Local Section with headquarters in Boise, ID.
The Council voted to approve the
Chemical Professional’s Code of
Conduct as submitted by the Committee
on Economic and Professional Affairs.
This document offers guidance for
Society members in various professional dealings, especially those involving
potential conflicts of interest.
The Society ended 2006 with a net contribution from operations of $12.2 million, on revenues of $424.0 million and
expenses of $411.9 million, which was
$7.8 million favorable to the approved
budget. The favorable variance was
primarily attributable to higher-thanbudgeted electronic services revenue
and investment income, as well as
expense savings from lower-than-budgeted health care costs and reduced IT
spending.
Respectfully submitted,
Richard S. Danchik (Author)
Michael Mautino
James Manner (Alternate Councilor)
Pittsburgh Section Councilors
ACS closed 2006 with 160,491 members, the highest year-end membership
since 2002. Of the 17,857 applications
processed in 2006, more than 1,000
came from the Member-Get-A-Member
May 2007 / The Crucible
2007 PJAS Chemistry Winners
The Seventy-third PJAS (Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Science) science fair was
held on February 3, 2007 at Franklin Regional High School. Five High school winners
for Chemistry were chosen by the Pittsburgh Section of ACS. They were each given a
plaque and $100 award.
The winners follow and are pictured above though not in order; Philip Dulac, grade 12
from Central Catholic. Akanish Murthy, grade 10 from Fox Chapel. Madeline Fitzgerald,
grade 9 from Oakland Catholic. Lindsay Templeton, grade 10 from Keystone Oaks and
Jessica Frey, grade 11 from St. Clair High School.
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The Pittsburgh Section ACS and The Society for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh (SACP)
May Awards Banquet
Duquesne University, Ballroom
SACP Continuing Education Committee Symposium
Duquesne University, Maurice Falk Hall, Mellon Science Hall
“Long Term Energy Opportunity”
ACS Pittsburgh Chemists Club
Noon Meeting
Presentation of 50 Year ACS Membership Awards
Duranti’s Restaurant
“The Chemical Nature of Olfactory Stimuli- How the Nose and Brain Detect and Rcognize Them”
Dr. Nathan Urban, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, CMU and Professor, Department of Neuroscience,
University of Pittsburgh
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