December 23, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			OLEFIN METATHESIS While hoping for better prospects, chemical companies struggled through an uncertain 2002 by restructuring their businesses and shifting operations.
			MICROCHIPS AND THE ENVIRONMENT Life-cycle analysis shows microchips consume a disproportionate amount of energy and water.
			INSIGHTS Art and science meet when art students nurture seedlings for an experiment designed to "reverse-engineer" crops.

December 16, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			CHEMISTRY HIGHLIGHTS 2002 Important chemical advances in a range of areas--from organic synthesis to attosecond spectroscopy--were achieved this year
			PAIN-RELATED ENZYME Researchers design inhibitor drug that thwarts a hydrolase responsible for pain sensation.
			WHAT'S THAT STUFF? Erasers are simple tools yet are full of chemistry.
			DIGITAL BRIEFS
December 9, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			MEETING EARTH'S CHALLENGES National Research Council workshop focuses on environmental topics of interest to chemists.
			VICTORIA BRAGIN C&EN talks with Van Cliburn piano competition cowinner and chemistry educator.
December 2, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			COMPOUND LABELS IUPAC has developed a system to derive unique and unambiguous chemical identifiers from graphical structural information.

November 25, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			GREEN CHEMISTRY As pollution prevention strategy matures, the world community will expect quicker solutions to sustainability problems.
			WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY Angela Belcher's passion is to create and organize new materials using templates from the natural world.
			INSIGHTS In just a few weeks, Scripps Research Institute scientists had a remarkable string of scientific events. How do they do it?
			DIGITAL BRIEFS New Software And Websites For The Chemical Enterprise

November 18, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			THREE NOBEL WINNERS A further look at the bioanalytical research of John Fenn, Koichi Tanaka, and Kurt Wüthrich, who received the 2002 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
			NEW PRODUCTS New And Notable In The Chemical Industry
November 11, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY Established drug discovery technology is refined with advances in synthesis, purification, and analysis. New government center helps industry develop high-throughput methods to measure materials properties of polymers.
			PROCESS CHEMISTRY Group formed 10 years ago to further R&D celebrates its anniversary.
			WHAT'S THAT STUFF? Chemical preservatives help foods stay fresh.
			DIGITAL BRIEFS New Software And Websites For The Chemical Enterprise

November 4, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			ANALYZING MISCONDUCT Recent cases of research fraud bring up questions of coauthor responsibility, trust, and objectivity.

October 28, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			PAUL WENNBERG C&EN talks with the latest chemist winner of the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.
			EDUCATION INITIATIVES Despite the slow spread of reform, NSF funds a palette of programs for the chemistry classroom.
			INSIGHTS Germans appear to live comfortably while integrating energy and resource conservation into their daily lives.

October 21, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			ARSENIC IN BANGLADESH Scientists from around the world team up to help understand and address a drinking-water crisis.
			NEW PRODUCTS

October 14, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			GENOMICS REVOLUTION Methods to validate targets are key to success of drug developers.
			"DUDFEST 2002" Special Harvard symposium celebrates 70th birthday of Nobel Laureate Dudley Herschbach.

October 7, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			NOBLE-GAS CHEMISTRY Forty years after the first noble-gas compound was discovered, scientists still make surprising discoveries in the field.
			CLEANING UP FOSSIL FUELS Energy R&D programs focus on low-emissions electricity generation and ultraclean gasoline.

September 30, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			NANOELECTRONICS Further miniaturizing today's already small electronic circuits will lead to faster, more sophisticated, and more portable devices.
			CELL SIGNAL SLEUTHS Small molecules and chemical methods help piece together signal transduction pathways.
			NEW PRODUCTS
September 23, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			CENTENARIAN CHEMIST Ray Crist, 102, has had an impressive career, and he's not done yet.
			DIGITAL BRIEFS New Software And Website For The Chemical Enterprise
September 16, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			COMPUTERS IN THE CLASSROOM Students learn the tools and techniques of computation and modeling with software and online educational systems.
			BIOORGANOMETALLIC CHEMISTRY Nascent field may yield important compounds related to medicine, catalysis, and sensing.
			FINE-TUNING CATALYSTS Improving catalysts at the nanoscale leads to large-scale benefits in efficiency and yield.
			IMMUNOSUPPRESSANTS Crystal structure of complicated drug-protein-enzyme complex is deciphered.

September 9, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			RADICAL POLYMERIZATION Recent advances in the field are leading to controlled, versatile growth of polymers.
			GLUCOSE MONITORING Analytical chemists and engineers are developing ways to monitor glucose that would cut down on finger pricking.
September 2, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			COMBINATORIAL CHEMISTRY In libraries that are mixtures of organic compounds, template molecules bind tightly to and stabilize fittest hosts.
			DESTROYING PESTICIDES ACS symposium spotlights methods for safe disposal of toxic chemicals.

August 26, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			DRUG DELIVERY Scientists are refining old materials and exploring a wide variety of new ones to address next-generation drug delivery needs.
			DUKE'S FIRST-YEAR STRUGGLE Experimental freshman chemistry course is put on hold after a frustrating launch.
			WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY Valerie Sheares at Iowa State University balances teaching, service, and research.
			INSIGHTS New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, is developing a forward-looking chemistry program in its high desert environs.
August 19, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			J. CRAIG VENTER One of the most visible scientific personalities of our time discusses the past and future of genome mapping.
			A NOBEL MEETING In Lindau, Germany, 600 young researchers mingle with Nobel Laureates.
			PEPTIDE STRUCTURES For the first time, researchers use solid-state NMR to determine 3-D configuration of a peptide.
			PRION DISEASES Tetracyclines might be a relatively nontoxic means of treating prion-related diseases.

August 12, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			CHEMISTRY TRICENTENNIAL Cambridge University's chemistry department celebrates 300 years of rich history featuring famous names and important discoveries in the field.
			AMYLOID DISEASE Precursors of insoluble amyloid fibrils may kill neurons in patients with age-related diseases.
			VINLAND MAP Recent report on authenticity of historical document adds another chapter to this controversy.
			WHAT'S THAT STUFF? Licorice's unusual chemistry and medicinal properties make it more than just a sweet treat.

August 5, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			ATOMIC-SCALE EXPLORATIONS Researchers increasingly use transmission electron microscopy for garnering information from chemical systems.
			WHAT'S THAT STUFF? Bug off! Sprays use a variety of synthetic and natural ingredients to get rid of insects.

July 29, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER Interdisciplinary research guides this midwestern facility in addressing agricultural problems in industrialized and developing countries.
			PHOTO EXHIBITION Scientific images are shown alongside famous European artwork at Oxford.
			ADVANCED REACTOR DESIGN Refined rotor-stator system could boost chemistry process intensification efforts.
			INSIGHTS DNA, even when used to synthesize infectious poliovirus, is no more alive than other molecules.
July 22, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			FINE CHEMICALS Although still suffering from overcapacity and low demand, this industry will fare a little better than it did in 2001.
			MIMICKING HYDROGENASE Enzyme's complex method of oxidizing hydrogen may give industry some ideas for cheaper catalysts.
			NEW PRODUCTS

July 15, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			ASTROCHEMISTRY Exciting chemistry takes place in interstellar clouds, where chemical reactions occur in the gas phase, on the surfaces of particles, and in the ice layers.
			ALL WRAPPED UP Researchers dissolve nanotubes in water by encasing them in carbohydrates such as starch and gum arabic.
July 8, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			CRYSTAL CAPTOR Calixarene traps gases and holds them, even at high temperatures.
			CAMPUS SECURITY Chemistry departments are increasing the guard on their facilities and materials in light of Sept. 11.
			ALCHEMICAL ART Entrepreneur Roy Eddleman contributes his collection--nearly 50 paintings and engravings--to the Chemical Heritage Foundation.
			MOLECULAR ROTATORS UCLA group creates a class of molecules that rotate like gyroscopes.

July 1, 2002
			SCIENCE/TECHNOLOGY CONCENTRATES
			GREEN CHEMISTRY AWARDS Chemists and chemical engineers receive presidential recognition for innovations that promote pollution prevention.