Graduate student symposium grant for Spring 2013 ACS National Meeting
The Division is offering a team of graduate students and/or post-docs an opportunity to organize a symposium at the Spring 2013 National Meeting of the ACS, which will be in New Orleans, April 7-11, 2013. The proposals must be submitted no later than July 1, 2012. The Division will assist with costs of the symposium. More information is here.

Recipients of Division Awards for 2012 announced
The following will receive their awards at the Fall ACS National Meeting in Philadelphia:
David Clemmer, Award in Chemical Instrumentation, Sponsored by the Dow Chemical Company
George Wilson, J. Calvin Giddings Award for Excellence in Education
Sam Houk, Award in Spectrochemical Analysis
Joseph Hupp, Award in Electrochemistry
Aaron Wheeler, Arthur F. Findeis Award for Achievements by a Young Analytical Scientist, Sponsored by Philip Morris USA
The following award will be presented at SciX in Kansas City, Missouri:
Gary Hieftje: Award for Distinguished Service in the Advancement of Analytical Chemistry, Sponsored by Waters Corporation

Complete information on the awards is on the web. The next nomination deadline is November 1, 2012 for the 2013 Awards.

Welcome!

I am honored to be taking over as new Chair of the Analytical Division of the ACS, effective October 1, 2011. As my first duty, I want to express my thanks to Sue Lunte, past Chair, for all her hard work and dedication to this post last year.

As I take over the Chair duties, I look back at my year as program chair with both pride and relief! It was a very busy time. The Division had strong analytical programs this year at both the Spring and Fall ACS meetings (where we completely filled dual-track sessions Sunday through Thursday), in addition to our continued co-programming at the PittCon and FACSS meetings. Cindy Larive is the program chair for 2012 and I encourage you to contact her with ideas for sessions for either this year or into the future. We are always interested in new session suggestions, and we want to again have strong program content for 2012 and beyond.

I also want to congratulate all of the Society's and Division's analytical award winners, as listed elsewhere on this site. With the completion of the Fall ACS meeting and the FACSS meeting, we have conducted a number of award sessions honoring our esteemed colleagues. I also encourage you to be thinking about nominations for both national and divisional analytical chemistry awards for next year most of these nominations are due in November (see this site and the ACS Awards site for further information and details).

One activity I am keen on as Chair is to increase our collective presence at the national meetings. I have really been impressed by the breadth and depth of the scientific sessions there and think the analytical community is missing out by not being there in force. I am thinking of instituting a new analytical symposium series there to help attract analytical chemists to the meetings. More on this later, please stay tuned.

Finally, I want to welcome you to this web site, which we are striving to make a central resource and depository of analytical chemistry information and happenings. Please take some time to look over the site and feel free to make recommendations on content you would like to see added or changed. You can direct your comments to any member of the Division Executive Committee or to the Webmaster.

Thanks, and on to the 2012 year!

Dr. David Koppenaal Chair, Division of Analytical Chemistry