Schnoor To Succeed Glaze As ES&T Editor
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NEWS OF THE WEEK
A C S M E E T I N G
ORLANDO HOST TO MORE THAN 12,000 Themes of energy and advancing women and minorities are highlights
Τ HE THEMES OF ELI M. Pearce's ACS presidency were highlighted by special
SCENES Kids in Chemistry was a big draw. Minority Affairs Committee Chair Saundra Y. McGuire celebrates diversity with Pearce.
programming at last week's ACS national meeting in Orlando, Fla. Pearce sponsored sessions on energy and technology, on advancing women and underrepresent-ed minorities in chemistry, and on successful recruitment and retention practices to keep minority students in the educational pipeline. This was in addition to the main attractions: 6,545 tech
nical papers and an exposition. The inclusive mood was boost
ed at Pearce's poolside reception celebrating diversity. Also celebrated in Orlando were several special anniversaries: the ACS "Wfomen Chemists Committee (75 years), the Student Affiliate Program (65), the Committee on Corporation Associates (50), and theJournal of Agricultural if Food Chemistry (50).
Ella L. Davis, of PQ Corp., president of the National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists & Chemical Engineers, accepted the congratulations of ACS Board Chair Nina I. McClelland on the organization's 30th anniversary
The Budget & Finance Committee reported that the society's operational programs ended 2001 with a net contribution to society programs of $224,000. With the inclusion of net program expenses from the Member Insurance Plan of $1.8 million, and various
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Schnoor To Succeed Glaze As ES&T Editor
board appropriations totaling $6.7 million, ACS ended the year with a net deficit of $8.3 million.
The ACS Council meeting was pretty straightforward. The petition to increase the size of society committees was postponed and will be reconsidered in Boston in August. Without debate, the council voted to raise ACS dues by $4.00 to the fully escalated rate of $116 for 2003.
The council also selected candidates for 2003 president-elect from a field of four nominees. The nominees were Charles P. Casey, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ernest R. Davidson, Indiana University, Bloomington; William M. Jackson, University of California, Davis; and Alvin L. Kwiram, University of Washington, Seattle. Each nominee gave a brief presentation. The council then chose Casey and Kwiram as candidates in this fall's election.
At the council meeting, it was reported that, at the end of 2001, the total ACS membership was 163,503, slightly ahead of the 2000 year-end membership. The meeting attracted 12,246 registrants and 2,062 exhibitors for a total of 14,308 attendees. At the National Employment Clearinghouse, 867 job seekers and 131 employers registered with 988 positions available and 3,088 interviews scheduled.—LINDA RABER
T he American Chemical Society has selected University of Iowa environmental engineering professor Jerald L. Schnoor to succeed William H. Glaze as editor of Environ
mental Science & Technology. Glaze, who has edited the publication since 1988, wil l step down at the end of 2002. He is a professor of environmental sciences and engineering at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Glaze says Schnoor is "that rare combination of an outstanding scholar, editor, administrator, and public servant, and a strong advocate for the use of high-quality science and engineering in the protection of the environment."
Schnoor hopes to expand ES&Ts coverage of environmental sensing, analytical chemistry, and sustainability issues, as well as those fields in which environmental science and
technology intersect with the biological revolution.
Schnoor is codirector of the University of Iowa's Center for Global & Regional Environmental Research. His work concerns water-quality monitoring, groundwater contamination, phytoremediation, and global climate change and sustainability. He earned a B.S. in chemical engineering at Iowa State University in 1972, followed by an M.S. in environmental health engineer-ing in 1974 and a Ph.D. in chemical engi
neering in 1975 at the University of Texas. He was an associate editor of ES&Τ from 1991 to 2000.-SOPHIE WILKINSON
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