Native American Chemistry
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JEFFREY WADSWOTH, CEO, BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE – p. 17
June 29, 2009
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Highlights
Cover Story
On A Mission
To help enrich the education of Native American students, Robin Jose travels on lonely roads to bring modern chemistry tools to tribal colleges on Indian reservations. (pp. 10-14)
Business
An Entrepreneurial Nonprofit (Member Content)
Capitalizing on its position as a technology adviser to government and business, Battelle commercializes new ideas. (pp. 17-19)
Career & Employment
Flexible Work Arrangements
Unconventional work schedules help companies motivate employees even in turbulent times. (pp. 40-42)
Table of Contents
News Of The Week
Presidential Honors p. 5
Awards recognize innovations that promote sustainability.
Dow And Gazprom In Carbon Pact p. 6
Chemical and gas giants pursue growing business in CO2 reduction projects.
Back To The Moon p. 6
NASA launches two probes to look for landing sites, search for water.
Controlling Flammability p. 7
Cage compound sequesters white phosphorus safely.
Huntsman And Banks Settle p. 7
Chemical firm's share price drops after it accepts deal worth $1.7 billion.
ACS Documents Visa Problems p. 8
Society’s report lends weight to other stakeholders' efforts to improve visa process.
Scientists Condemn Iran Crackdown p. 8
Iranian scientists abroad decry attacks on universities.
Chemistry Olympians Picked p. 9
U.S. team will vie for medals in England.
Covering Neuroscience p. 9
New ACS journal will meet growing demand for publication of neuroscience research.
Business
An Entrepreneurial Nonprofit pp. 17-19 (Member Content)
Capitalizing on its position as a technology adviser to government and business, Battelle commercializes new ideas.
Ascend Emerges pp. 20-21 (Member Content)
New owners of former Solutia nylon business draw on deep experience.
Business Concentrates pp. 15-16 (Member Content)
- Dow Corning, Customers Lobby For Solar Energy
- Representatives from Dow Corning and from firms that use Dow Corning's polysilicon to manufacture solar cells visited Capitol Hill for three days last week to lobby Congress...
- SNF To Build New Polyacrylamide Plant
- French water-soluble polymers specialist SNF Holding plans to build a $362 million polyacrylamide plant on an 800-acre site in Iberville Parish, La...
- Monsanto Weighs Future Of Roundup
- Monsanto will create a separate division for Roundup glyphosate herbicide and other herbicides that will focus on cutting costs...
- ExxonMobil Pushes Electric Vehicles
- ExxonMobil Chemical is helping to underwrite an electric-car-sharing and rental program, called AltCar, in Baltimore...
- Arkema Plans Methacrylates Cuts
- Because of global overcapacity, Arkema plans to shut down a 90,000-metric-ton-per-year methyl methacrylate plant concentrate production at its site in Rho, Italy...
- Invista Enters Engineering Plastics
- Invista launched a new nylon 6,6 engineering polymers business at the NPE 2009 plastics trade show in Chicago last week...
- Clariant Plans Further Job Cuts
- Clariant is embarking on its second round of job cuts this year...
- Chinese Firm Goes Public In U.S.
- Shanghai-based Chemspec International raised $57 million through an initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange...
- Helsinn Revamps Manufacturing Units
- Helsinn has reorganized its active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing operations in its home country of Switzerland and in Ireland...
- Microencapsulation Aids Insecticides
- The Italian chemical maker Endura has licensed microencapsulation technology, developed in two government labs, that promises to mitigate pesticide resistance in insects...
- Protein Sciences Gets HHS Vaccine Contract
- Protein Sciences Corp. has been awarded a $35 million contract by the Department of Health & Human Services to pursue a new method for making influenza vaccines...
- Merck Joins DNDi In Tropical Disease Fight
- Merck & Co. will work with the not-for-profit Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) to discover and develop better treatments for tropical diseases...
- Business Roundup
- BASF, Ashland, Solutia sold, Frutarom, Dow Chemical's 45% interest in Total Raffinaderij Nederland, Cytec Industries has reduced its earnings outlook, Huntsman CORP., Lonza and DSM Nutritional Products, GlaxoSmithKline and U.K.-based Chroma Therapeutics...
ACS News
ACS Volunteers At Intel Science Fair p. 36 (Member Content)
Postdocs Wanted For Communication Course p. 36 (Member Content)
Awards
BIOT Announces Winners Of Division Awards p. 37 (Member Content)
Kirk S. Schanze Wins Florida Award p. 37 (Member Content)
Applicants Sought for Southern Chemist Award pp. 37-38 (Member Content)
Norris Award For Teaching To William Polik p. 38 (Member Content)
Alexander I. Boldyrev Wins Utah Award p. 38 (Member Content)
Special Recognition p. 37 (Member Content)
Government & Policy
Rail Reform On Track pp. 23-24 (Member Content)
Chemical shippers back measures to boost freight rail competition.
Renewable Electricity pp. 25 (Member Content)
National Research Council study predicts wind, solar growth in near term.
Government & Policy Concentrates p. 22 (Member Content)
- Chemical Security Bill Advances In House
- The House Homeland Security Committee approved legislation last week (H.R. 2868) that would give...
- EPA Suspends Part Of Chemicals Program
- EPA has suspended the part of its Chemical Assessment & Management Program (ChAMP) that prioritized...
- Study Sought On University Strength
- Members of Congress have requested the National Academies to study and prepare a report on the competitive position...
- Safety Board Seeks Accident Data
- The Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is proposing a regulation to require that accidental chemical releases...
- U.S. Targets China Export Restrictions
- The Obama Administration filed its first complaint with the World Trade Organization last week...
» more government & policy news...
Books
Unsafe At Any Speed pp. 34-35
The troubled history of amphetamines around the world.
Employment
Flexible Work Arrangements pp. 40-43
Unconventional work schedules help companies motivate employees even in turbulent times.
Meetings
Calendar Update Web Exclusive
C&EN's latest list of meetings and events of interest to those in the chemical community is for June 2009 through June 2010 includes international as well as domestic meetings.
Science & Technology
CARS And SRS Paint Vivid Pictures pp. 28-29 (Member Content)
Images based on Raman scattering give clear answers to many questions.
UCLA Appeals Citations pp. 30-31 (Member Content)
University admits no fault in death of laboratory worker; family wants sanctions increased.
What's That Stuff? Dental Anesthetics p. 33
Nonaddictive derivatives of cocaine numb the pain of dental work.
Science & Technology Concentrates pp. 26-27 (Member Content)
- Mercury's Paths In Rice
- Mass spec study of the toxic metal advances understanding of plants’ chemical response to mercury contamination.
- Still Hope For Salty Water On Enceladus
- Results of two searches for sodium in the gas and ice spewing from geysers on Saturn’s moon keep alive the idea that it has a salty ocean.
- Moving Toward Single-Molecule Mass Spec
- Caltech scientists report the first spectra using ultrahigh-frequency nanocatilever resonators as ultrasensitive mass detectors.
- High-Res NMR In Inhomogeneous Fields
- A French team reports a method that allows them to obtain NMR spectra even in the presence of inhomogeneous magnetic fields.
- How Amyloid-β Harms Neurons
- Soluble amyloid-β oligomers are found to interfere with the normal reabsorption of the neurotransmitter glutamate at brain synapses.
- High CO2 Levels Stimulate Growth of Fish Bone
- Study counters predictions that ocean acidification stemming from high levels of atmospheric CO2 will slow the growth of fish bones.
- Circular Dichroism Can Be Deceiving
- A cyclic tripeptide that forms a novel β-strand structure shows that characterizing α-helices by CD spectra alone can be misleading.
- Nanomaterial For Joining Tendon And Bone
- Scientists report an easy way to make synthetic calcium phosphate materials that better mimic natural mineral gradients.
» more science & technology news...
Editor's Page
A Column About Wrens p. 3
Last summer, my wife, Jan, and I attended a beer-tasting festival at Belle Grove Plantation...
The Departments
Letters pp. 2, 4 (Member Content)
Obituaries p. 39 (Member Content)
Newscripts p. 48
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