war /4*ft£uca*t (fyemtcat Society, Ήεονά Merck Establishes ACS Graduate Fellowship

A $2,500 fellowship for graduate study in analytical chemistry to be administered by ACS has been established by Merck & Co., Rahway, j î . J.

Known as the Merck Graduate Fellow­ship in Analytical Chemistry, the grant will make possible a year's work at a spe­cified institution of higher learning in the United States or Canada which is ap­proved by the Society.

Selection of a recipient will be made by a Society committee which will be set up for this purpose. The nominee chosen will be the one considered most likely to "con­tribute most to the advancement of the theory and practice of the science of ana­lytical chemistry, not merely during the tenure of the fellowship, but also during the course of his future career." The prospective fellow must submit a proposed research and study outline to the com­mittee.

Establishment of the Merck fellowship marks the first time in the Society's 72-year history that it will administer an in­dustry-financed fellowship, although it has financed several predoctoral and post­doctoral fellowships from its own funds, and for years has administered several medals and awards provided by industry.

At present procedures have not been established nor have application forms been drafted for the nominations for the first Merck fellowship which will be awarded for the academic year 1949-50. Notice will be given on this page when the Society is ready to accept nominations.

A student will be eligible to have the fellowship renewed twice, but no student may hold it for more than a total of three years.

Colorado Section Makes Awards

Adrian Hainline, Jr., of the University of Denver and Arley T . Be ver of the Colo­rado State College of Agriculture and Me­chanical Arts were the two top winners of the first Student Research Awards estab­lished by the Colorado Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY, it was an­

nounced by E. W. D . Huffman of the Huffman Microanalytical Laboratories, Denver, section chairman.

Mr. Hainline received the S25 first prize among graduate students for his paper, "A Study of Cholesteremia Factor in Eggplant," and Mr. Bever, a similar un­dergraduate award for his paper, "The Ultraviolet Absorption of Effluents from Ion-Exchange Resins."

The $10 second prize among graduates went to Dorsey E. Holtkamp of the Uni­versity of Colorado School of Medicine for a report on "The Failure of the Adrenal Cortical Hormones to Protect against Cold in Young Normal and Adrenalecto-mized Rats." The corresponding under­graduate prize went to Mary Ann Coyle of Loretto Heights College, for her paper on 'The Chemical Aspects of Streptomy­cin." The graduate student honorable mention winner was C. H. Walden of the Univ· -sity of Colorado, whose paper was on the •'Viscosity of Binary Liquid Mix­tures."

The awards were established recently to encourage interest in chemical research among undergraduate and graduate col­lege students of Colorado, according to Dr. Huffman. Graduate papers were based on laboratory research, and the undergraduate papers on either laboratory or library research work, he said.

.\orth Jersey Section Forms Analytical Group

Formation of a new analytical group of the North Jersey Section to provide a forum for discussion of the problems of chemical analysis has been announced by the chairman of the section, H. F. Wake­field.

Beverly L. Clarke, director of the chemi­cal control division of Merck & Co., Rahway, N . J., was the group's initial speaker at its first meeting the latter part of last month. Dr. Clarke spoke on "The Analytical Chemist in Industry."

Cooperation with CIC The AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY and

the Chemical Institute of Canada have entered into an agreement by which the members of the latter organization may subscribe to CHEMICAL AND ENGINEERING

N E W S at a 10% discount from non-member rates.

CIC will receive the subscription orders of its members, forward them to the ACS, and advise the ACS of address changes. CIC will collect the payment for C&EN with the dues of its members and remit to the ACS at intervals.

The Society is happy that it can cooper­ate with the institute in this manner. Most cordial relationships have existed between the two ever since the organiza­tion of CIC. The experience of the ACS in various matters always has been available to its sister organization, and it has been pleased when such information has been requested.

The new arrangement is a further step in cooperation between organizations with similar purposes in neighboring countries.

Southern Indiana Section Organised With headquarters a t Indiana Univer­

sity, the Southern Indiana Section of the AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY has been

organized Chemists from Brown, Greene, Lawrence, Monroe, Owen, Orange, Davies, and Martin Counties make up the mem­bership and meetings will be held through­out the year on the first Friday of each month. A special meeting of the group was held Oct. 20 with an address b}' Linus Pauling, President-Elect of the ACS and a memher of the board of trustees of the

Emergency Commission of Atomic Sci­entists.

First officers of the section (shown be­low) are left to right; Avis Rector, secre­tary; Frederic Schmidt, chairman-elect; I. C. Gunsalus, treasurer; E. E. Cam-paigne, chairman; F . T . Gucker, councilor; and Lynn Merritt, alternate councilor. With the exception of Miss Rector, who is a member of the Bloomington (Ind.) high school faculty, all the officers are on the Indiana University faculty.

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