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It’s good, says RSC,
but could be better
The government’s spending plans demonstrate a recognition
of the issues raised by the RSC, but more needs to be done
THE RSC HAS welcomed the government’s
comprehensive spending review and the
“Science and Innovation Investment Framework,
2004 to 2014”, pointing out that issues raised
by the RSC are addressed
throughout, with proposals on
how the government might
address them.
“We are pleased that the
government has recognised the
important issues highlighted
by the RSC. It is now essential
that we follow through
on actions,” said Dr Simon
Campbell, RSC president.
Against a background
of increasing UK R&D investment from
the current 1.9% to 2.5% by 2014, which
is a significant challenge, the Treasury
recognised that more is needed if universities are
to recover the full economic cost of the research
they undertake. It has allocated £80 million
additional support through the research councils
towards the costs of governmentsupported
research. The government
will invest up to a further £90 million
to offset costs of research supported
through charitable bodies
by 2007/2008. However,
the RSC believes the
government’s timescale is
too slow and that further
erosion of the UK science
base could occur in the
interim. There are also
concerns about the impact
on private sector research
if full economic costs are
has earmarked £70 million
applied.
The RSC has praised the
to enhance areas such as
government’s “Science and The need to improve
physical sciences in higher
education. Channelled through
Innovation Investment Framework,
2004 to 2014” for accepting its advice
both education and
educational facilities in our
research councils, this funding will be used
to enhance UK capabilities. However, whilst
welcoming this increased support, the RSC has
reservations that this alone will not be enough
to secure the future of physical sciences.
Indeed, in its submission to the
comprehensive spending review, the RSC
calculated that £300 million was needed across
the UK. Dr David Giachardi, chief executive of the
RSC, said: “£70 million is welcome, but it is still
schools has also been acknowledged. The RSC
praised the investment framework for stating
that more appropriately qualified school teachers
are needed and accepting the RSC’s advice on
golden hellos and for continuing professional
development.
The RSC now plans to work closely with DfES
and schools on the “Building schools for the
future” programme to push for better laboratory
facilities in schools.
not enough. The RSC will work with the relevant
government departments, the Higher Education
For more information on the RSC
Funding Council for England, and the devolved ■i Campaign for Chemical Sciences, go
administrations to ensure our physical science
capabilities meet the demands made by the
framework.”
The RSC is pleased that the government has
to www.rsc.org/science/campaign/intro.
htm, or contact Lynda Thrift, campaign
coordinator, RSC Burlington House
(address on page 16), email thriftl@rsc.org
INSIDE…
When Harry met Simon
Prof Sir Harry Kroto formally handed over
the RSC presidency to Dr Simon Campbell
in July See page 3
Annual general meeting
Successes in campaigning and publishing
were highlighted by Harry Kroto at this year’s
RSC annual general meeting See page 12
ACOL celebrates 20 years
Analytical Chemistry by Open Learning is
20-years old this year and is proving more
popular than ever See page 5
NEWS 2
EVENTS 7
DIARY 8
MAXIMISING MEMBERSHIP 10
MEMBER NEWS 12
AND FINALLY... 16
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NEWS
Chocolate, bubbles and
slime go on the curriculum
WELCOME TO THE September issue
of RSC News. We are committed to
ongoing, significant investment in
people, products and technology
within RSC Publishing.
In the next few months, we will
be launching new options for buyers
of the phenomenally popular RSC
Archive, extending users’ ability
to access specialist topic-related
collections of past papers. Our
prestigious journals ChemComm and
Journal of Materials Chemistry will
increase their impact with 48 issues
per year, reflecting the huge growth
in article submissions. Other
market-leading titles, Lab on a Chip
and Chemical Society Reviews, will
also increase their frequency.
Recent years have shown the RSC to
be one of the most active innovators
in chemistry publishing. We will soon
launch Molecular Biosystems as a new
journal within ChemComm.
This surge in activity requires us
to be more customer-focussed. We
now have regional sales teams,
marketing messages tailored to the
institutional trade customer and
separately to individual readers and
authors, plus usage data for our
customers that show just how much
value each organisation is deriving
from their subscriptions.
PHIL ABRAHAMS
DIRECTOR, SALES AND MARKETING
To comment on anything in RSC News,
contact the editor at Thomas Graham House
(address on page 16) or call +44 (0)1223
432388 or email rscnews@rsc.org
CHOCOLATE, BUBBLES AND slime were on the
timetable when students from schools across
the UK participated in residential chemistry
camps. Eight universities, including Birmingham
and Swansea, hosted this year’s camps, which
were organised by The Salters’ Institute with
support from the RSC and a number of other
bodies.
Fifty 15-year olds from schools across the
country attended each camp. Students used
their skills to investigate the chemical properties
of chocolate and produce some “chemical
clock” reactions that can be adjusted to keep
time. They also explored the mysterious world
of bubbles and anti-bubbles, turned copper into
“gold” and discovered the science behind putty
and slime.
Dr Ian Gameson, admissions coordinator
at the University of Birmingham’s School of
Chemistry, said: “This camp is a wonderful
opportunity for young people to take part in a
range of fun activities, while developing their
interest in chemistry. Chemistry is very popular
at Birmingham and we hope these students
will share in our love of the subject. Who
knows? Some of them may even be future
University of Birmingham graduates.”
Students doing the bubbles activity at the
University of Swansea
Apply now for an RSC travel grant
APPLICATIONS FOR AN RSC travel grant are now
invited from members travelling to a scientific
meeting or science education meeting, as well
as authors travelling to engage in international
collaborative research.
Except for the Journals Grants for International
Authors, applicants should be RSC members at
the time of the meeting they will be attending
and for which the travel bursary is being given.
RSC travel grants on offer for this call for
applications are as follows: Journals Grants
for International Authors, JWT Jones Travelling
Fellowship, Education Division Travel Grants,
Stop-overs in Developing Countries, Stop-overs
in Commonwealth Countries, RSC Conference
Bursaries and RSC Specialist Interest Groups.
The next occasion at which decisions on
applications will be made is at the November
meeting of the RSC Travel Grants committee.
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For further information, including
how to apply for a grant, go to
www.rsc.org/lap/funding/fundtravel.htm.
For general enquiries, contact Anne Bennett,
RSC Burlington House (address on page 16),
email bennetta@rsc.org
Gateways into the professions to be probed
SIR ALAN LANGLANDS, vice-chancellor of the
University of Dundee, has been appointed to
lead a group producing a report examining
gateways into the professions. In January this
year, the secretary of state for education and
skills, Charles Clarke, commissioned the report.
The report will examine how the public
sector and professions can sustain and improve
recruitment opportunities for graduates,
especially those that do not qualify for the full
£3,000 support. Recommendations will be
made to ministers through the report on action
that can be taken by employing organisations
to provide clear, accessible gateways. There is
a concern that the fee structure post-autumn
2006 may have an effect on those entering the
professions.
The RSC was invited to the first discussion
meeting to provide input to and receive
feedback from the review. The provisional
publication date is mid-2005.
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For more information, contact
Libby Steele, RSC Education
Department, tel +44 (0)20 7440 3353,
email education@rsc.org
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When Harry met Simon
AS THE RSC’S incoming president, Dr Simon
Campbell, formally received his badge of
office at July’s annual general meeting from
the former post-holder, Prof Sir Harry Kroto,
there was a commitment to build on the RSC’s
chemical sciences offensive.
The meeting of the two scientists was notable
not only because both had had pivotal roles
opening up new areas in chemistry, but because
both have a driving passion for the chemical
sciences, which already has led to change.
As president-elect, Dr Campbell introduced
the Campaign for Chemical Sciences. This was
designed to drive home the message that
if chemical science is not promoted – in UK
education at every level and at Westminster –
Britain’s future health and wealth will be eroded.
During his two-year presidential tenure,
Professor Kroto has been vociferous in
championing chemistry. Last year he made
almost 50 international journeys to project its
potential and its achievements to audiences of
all kinds.
Dr David Giachardi, RSC chief executive,
said: “Simon’s own plan to promote chemical
sciences is building upon ground softened up
by Harry’s two-year offensive and has already
offered essential actions for moving our subject
forward at a time when closures of university
chemistry departments in this country have
been in the news a great deal.”
Simon Campbell (left) with Harry Kroto
In their professional lives, Simon Campbell
was responsible for the teams that discovered
the high-blood-pressure treatment drugs
Cardura and Norvasc (known as Istin in the
UK) as well as Viagra, while Harry Kroto is well
known for his joint work in the discovery of
C60, for which he won the Nobel Prize.
David Giachardi said: “Harry’s prodigious
energy and unflinching commitment has been
an invaluable asset to the RSC and to the cause
of chemical sciences more widely. We hope
still to be able to benefit from his espousal of a
cause that we believe to be so important to the
UK and to the wider world.”
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To view the president’s homepage,
go to www.rsc.org/members/
president/president.htm
LIC becomes a dynamic chemistry resource
RSC members to
vote at EGM
AN EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL Meeting
(EGM) will be held at Burlington House,
London on Thursday 4 November 2004. RSC
members are invited to attend and vote on
amendments to the by-laws that will enable
modernisation of RSC governance.
The major changes to governance will be to:
● reform the size of Council – the Trustees
of the RSC – and set a maximum of
18 members, including the president,
past-president/president-elect and
honorary treasurer
● ensure that at least two thirds of Council
is elected by the membership
● set a four-year term of office for
Council members.
If the proposals are carried, the new
structure will come into effect after the AGM
in July 2005. In addition, Council is asking
members to approve changes to the by-laws
that will enable membership subscriptions to
be paid by instalments and allow RSC notices
to be sent to members by email.
Members will be able to vote by post, by
proxy or in person. Voting packs will be sent
to members in October.
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For further information and the
Final Report of the Council Steering
Group, go to www.rsc.org/governance
Update on notes
THE RSC LIBRARY and Information Centre (LIC)
is enhancing its position as the foremost source
of chemical knowledge in Europe through its
strategic collaborations with other organisations
of note, particularly the M25 Consortium,
Knovel and Evalueserve.
The collaboration with the M25 Consortium
made the LIC the first learned society library to
become part of an alliance of 40 universities,
colleges and other academic institutions
around the London area. This will result in
better services to academia through greater
access to M25 libraries by RSC members, as
well as access to joint archive and storage
arrangements and training events.
The LIC entered a partnership with Knovel to
provide seamless electronic access to the full
text of almost 700 key databooks, encyclopedia,
reference books, dictionaries and textbooks
encompassing the chemical sciences. The
searching capabilities of the portal are akin
to searching all the resources simultaneously.
Further functionality allows in-depth searching for
specific physical and chemical properties. Results
are clearly presented and the source cited.
This month, the LIC launches Research
Services in collaboration with research company
Evalueserve to complement its Chemical
Enquiries Helpdesk. This is a premium service
designed with more in-depth project work and
reports in mind.
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For more information on the M25
Consortium, go to www.m25lib.ac.uk/;
to log on to Knovel, go to www.rsc.org/lic/
knovel_library.htm; for further information on
Research Services, go to www.rsc.org/library.
Alternatively, email library@rsc.org
THE RSC’S ENVIRONMENT, Health and
Safety Committee (EHSC) has responded to
the Defra consultation “UK Consultation on
the New EU Chemicals Strategy, Reach”, and
produced its second message note entitled
“What is a poison?”.
The Woking Party on Notes also revised
the notes “Harmful effects of chemicals on
children” and the “The safety of laboratory
workers with disabilities”. The note
“Potency of chemical carcinogens” is
currently being reviewed and one entitled
“Individual legal responsibilities for
environment” is being developed.
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www.rsc.org/lap/rsccom/ehsc/
ehscnotes.htm and www.rsc.org/lap/
rsccom/ehsc/ehscsubs.htm
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NEWS
INTEREST GROUP
Biological
and Medicinal
Chemistry Sector
THE BIOLOGICAL AND Medicinal Chemistry
Sector (BMCS) is one of the sectors in the
Industry and Technology Forum. It serves
RSC members that are involved in or
have an interest in chemistry relevant to
biological systems.
The sector is primarily responsible for
the organisation of scientific meetings and
symposia, supporting educational activities
in the UK, and advising the RSC on policies
that directly affect the BMCS. Currently,
there are approximately 1,200 members.
The predominant areas of interest
include pharmaceuticals, agrochemicals,
flavours and fragrances. The BMCS also acts
to promote public awareness of the crucial
role played by chemistry in the modern
industrial environment.
The sector is particularly active in the
organisation of scientific meetings, and
does so in collaboration with a wide
variety of other groups, both inside and
outside the RSC. Over the past few years,
the BMCS has been especially active
in promoting some of the important
interfacial areas in which chemists are
intimately involved. In this respect it has
held internationally attended meetings
with the European Federation for Medicinal
Chemistry, the Society for Chemical
Industry, the Biochemical Society, the
Society for Medicines Research, the
Swedish Pharmaceutical Society and the
RSC Chemical Biology Forum.
Support for educational activities – such
as the running of lectures and day schools,
and the provision of equipment – are also
an important component of BMCS activities.
The BMCS also sponsors and organises the
biennial Malcolm Campbell Award.
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For further details on the BMCS
and its forthcoming symposia, go
to www.rsc.org/conferences. For other
inquiries, contact the chairman, Dave
Alker, at david_alker@sandwich.pfizer.
com or the secretary, Karl Swift, at
karl.swift@maybridge.com
Historic backfile is made
available to all universities
THE JOINT INFORMATION Systems
Committee (JISC) and the RSC
have reached an agreement to
allow all universities in the UK to
access the entire digital backfile of
the RSC for a peppercorn charge
of £50.
This historic resource covering
the years 1841 to 1996 contains
over 200,000 articles, all fully
searchable, in some 1,200,000
pages and covers many of the
RSC president, Dr Simon
Campbell, said: “I am delighted
that our joint initiative has come
to fruition and that the majority
of RSC journals are now freely
available to our universities across
the UK. Research depends on a
thorough understanding of the
prior art, which will be greatly
facilitated by having such an
extensive database conveniently
on hand.”
Information from
most significant discoveries in the
Prof Lehane of the University of
sources like this
history of chemistry.
edition of The Analyst Greenwich said: “This will provide
JISC has licensed the content
of the archive in perpetuity on
dated 31 March 1876
will be available to
an outstanding impetus to new
generations of chemists to absorb
UK universities for a
behalf of the higher education
the history and culture of our
peppercorn fee
community. Institutions can now
common heritage.”
receive content for £50 – instead of £25,000 –
with the option of hosting the archive locally or For further details, go to
paying a service charge, which will allow access ■i www.rsc.org/archive or
to the archive via the RSC’s interface.
www.jisc.ac.uk/collections
Industrialists criticise courses
MODULAR COURSES IN the chemical sciences
have been given the thumbs down by industrialists.
The verdict was reached at a meeting organised
by the Science, Engineering and Manufacturing
Technologies Sector Skills Council (SEMTA) to
discuss what employers of chemists are looking
for from graduates. An RSC delegation attended.
The invited industrialists were asked to look
at the capabilities and competencies they
would like to see in chemical science graduates.
Specific examples were given, but there was
a general feeling that modular courses did
not allow students the opportunity to gain a
more holistic approach, with students finding it
difficult to link modules.
A write up of the meeting’s conclusions will
be widely circulated to obtain a representative
view from employers, and a follow-up meeting
in October will give academics the opportunity
to look at the industrialists’ views and offer
comment and suggestions as to how the
process may be taken forward.
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For more information, contact Libby
Steele, RSC Education Department, tel
+44 (0)20 7440 3353, email education@rsc.org
Dalton Division award winners announced
CONGRATULATIONS GO TO the following
Dalton Division 2004 award winners:
Sir Edward Frankland Fellowship
Dr Michael J Hannon (University of Warwick)
Awarded biennially for the encouragement of
research in organometallic chemistry or the
coordination chemistry of transition metals.
Laurie Vergnano Award
Ms Katie Sharp (University of Leicester)
Awarded to inorganic research chemists under
27 years of age who have shown independent
creativity in experimental inorganic chemistry.
Sir Edward Frankland Prize Lectureship
Prof Richard Schrock (MITS, USA)
For his outstanding and original contributions to
synthetic chemistry, especially the synthesis of
novel organometallic complexes that manifest
special reactivities and are effective catalysts.
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ACOL celebrates 20 years
offering flexible learning
ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY BY Open Learning
(ACOL) is 20-years old this year. The course
was first planned by the then Committee of
Heads of Polytechnic Chemistry Departments to
counter a decline in day-release provision. Such
has been the success of the programme that
it is now a regular part of the RSC’s continuing
professional development activities.
Dr Norma Chadwick, the programme
organiser, said: “Professional development
was not a commonly used term in 1984,
but undoubtedly the ACOL programme has
provided much support for developing
professionals during the past 20 years.”
Many of today’s ACOL students have been
encouraged by their managers, who themselves
were earlier students on the programme. Many
past participants have gone on to further study,
upgraded their RSC membership and become
Chartered Chemists.
The programme runs twice a year and
each course starts with a package of distance
learning materials for 10 weeks. A website and
personal tutors give support. The courses are
completed at a three-day workshop.
The academic home of the programme is
the University of Greenwich which awards an
Edexcel Professional Development Certificate in
Analytical Chemistry for successful participants.
Workshops have been held at: the universities
of Greenwich, Hull, Lancaster and De Montfort
(Leicester); University College Cork; Bell College
in Scotland; and at John Moores University in
Liverpool.
Today, the ACOL programme of flexible
learning for people working in analytical
laboratories has evolved to provide both a
source of broad analytical training for science
graduates in industry and also a suite of short
courses for established analysts wanting to
extend and update their skills.
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For more information about the ACOL
programme, go to www.gre.ac.uk/
schools/cls/acol or contact Lorraine Hart,
email hartl@rsc.org, tel +44 (0)207 440 3350
Success for UK at
Chemistry Olympiad
STUDENTS REPRESENTING THE UK brought
back two silver and two bronze medals from
the 2004 International Chemistry Olympiad,
which was held in the German Baltic port of
Kiel from 17 to 27 July.
Christopher Kerr (Winchester College) and
Parth Soneji (Merchant Taylors’ School) both
won silver medals. Simon Bello (St Paul’s
School) and Jason Chan (Oswestry School)
both won bronze medals.
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For more information, contact
Sandra Abraham, RSC Education
Department, email education@rsc.org
ACS visit RSC
A HIGH-LEVEL delegation from the American
Chemical Society visited the RSC in July.
Madeleine Jacobs, ceo, Chuck Casey,
president, and Jim Burke, chair of ACS board,
took the opportunity to give a presentation
to a large audience of RSC staff.
Mrs Jacobs said: “There is much we can
learn from you. Thanks to all who made our
visit so enjoyable and productive.”
RA proves perfect setting for party
ON AN EVENING in the middle of July more
than 550 RSC members and guests gathered
at the Royal Academy of Arts for this year’s
RSC Summer Party. The event
drew a long list of dignitaries
from industry, academia,
government, professional and
scientific bodies, and the media.
Those attending had the
opportunity to enjoy a private
view of the RA Summer
on the carbon molecule C60 were included.
It was also an occasion at which to renew old
friendships and make new ones. Dr Patricia Ennis,
secretary of the RSC Republic
of Ireland Section and lecturer
in chemistry at the Dublin
Institute of Technology, said:
“It was a great opportunity
to meet up with fellow RSC
members in a fabulous setting.”
Robin McKie, the Observer’s
Exhibition, which this year
took drawing as its theme and
included a selection of drawings
RSC Summer Party-goers enjoyed
the conversation and the art
science editor, added: “What I
enjoyed most was the chance
to meet old friends in one of
by people outside the fine arts. It was appropriate
that some molecular modelling illustrations
made by Prof Sir Harry Kroto during his work
the year’s most exciting venues in London and
to relax with good food and wine in atmosphere
of artistic conviviality. It was a real joy.”
Peter Gregory, managing director of publishing
at the RSC (left), presented the ACS’s Chuck
Casey, Madeleine Jacobs and Jim Burke with a
commemorative plaque during their visit
Web gateway
A NEW WEB gateway features physical chemistry
highlights plus links to the journal Physical
Chemistry Chemical Physics, Faraday Discussion
meetings and Faraday Division web pages.
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www.rsc.org/science/physical.htm
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NEWS
Get seen on the
web and win £500
STUDENTS HAVE THE chance of winning
up to £500 by entering the RSC’s webbased
competition, Exemplarchem. If you
are an undergraduate or a postgraduate
in the chemical sciences you can enter
the 2004 competition by submitting a
presentation covering any topic in chemistry,
biochemistry, materials or related subjects.
Authors of the best projects will be
awarded prizes of £250 and the overall
winner £500, plus £1,000 for his or her
university department.
The 2004 prize-winners’ event will take
place on 29 October at the English Heritage
(formerly Scientific Societies) Lecture
Theatre, New Burlington Place, London.
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Last year’s winner,
postgraduate
student and RSC
member Tony Dixon
from the University
of Leeds, collected
£500 for his capillary
electrophoresis
website
The closing date for entries is 30
September. Go to www.chemsoc.
org/exemplarchem or contact Sean
McWhinnie, email mcwhinnies@rsc.org,
tel 020 7440 3309
New Organic
Division president
RAY JONES HAS taken over from Richard
Taylor as president of the Organic Division.
Jones will preside over the division until
Ray Jones (on the right) with Richard Taylor
2006. He said that after a period of change
and updating of the division’s operation,
the former president “has left me a strong
division”.
Letters
Argument for a selective system
I am concerned that there is no hope of the
present university system being able to
produce a sufficiency of the real scientists
needed to prevent “the loss of world-class SET
expertise”, to which Dr McWhinnie referred
(RSC News June, page 5). The solution is a
return to the state school system that existed
until theorists and idealists sought to force
all but the privately educated through an
unselective education system.
The government-desired shape of the
school system will never obtain and retain
appropriately qualified and enthusiastic
graduate physics, chemistry and mathematics
teachers “to provide excellent teaching in
schools” if they are condemned to labour in an
unselective comprehensive structure.
Before the second world war, a south Wales
city could provide a route by which those who,
like myself, could not call on their families
to finance them through the system could
nevertheless be assessed as fit to proceed.
From there it was possible – by a selective
examination system – to proceed to at least
a local university with free studentships and
sometimes with supplementary “exhibition” or
similar financing to a first degree (without the
appalling drop-out rate that appears to occur
today even in the “Mickey Mouse” subjects).
As I understand the position, the undoubted
problem of the later-developing child was, in
early post-war years, remedied by the ability
of such to enter a grammar school on the
basis of subsequent performance. If only
comprehensive schools exist, this of course
cannot be provided.
It seems inescapable that uniform teaching
remuneration across the whole school system
will not be effective in making this possible
or successful. Moreover, such appointments
must be made competitive with opportunities
open to such people in other fields. Clearly, the
likely unpopularity of such a situation must be
made acceptable and its funding be given the
necessary priority over some of the other claims
on the public purse.
GV Coles CChem FRSC
Victoria, Australia
Who should fund CPD?
The usual reaction to discussions on the state
of education is that more money should be
given to the teachers. So it was no surprise to
To comment on anything in RSC News, send a
FEEDBACK letter or email to the editor (details on page 16)
read the lead headline in the RSC News August
(“Give funds to teachers, labs and universities”).
However, another document dropped on my
desk recently: the Audit Commission’s report
on Education Funding (July 2004), which
highlighted that nobody quite knew what
funding was going into education and, once it
got there, what was being done with it.
The RSC News article stimulated some
thoughts on continuing professional
development. In the old days, when societies
were nobbut institutes, continuing professional
development used to be “part of the game”.
It was what you did when you had nothing
more professionally productive to do. That was,
mark you, in the days before television and
barbeques.
Much of what today would be labelled
“CPD” took place then in the evening and
at weekends. Those participating (the great
majority of those in the profession) took pride
in their personal development, and paid for the
training from their salaries. Salaries, for those
not old enough to remember, are what used
to be paid to professionals in return for a 24-
hours-a-day, seven-days-a-week commitment.
I was a bit surprised to read, therefore, that
science teachers’ CPD, done right, would cost
an extra £70 million a year. Whose £70 million
is that exactly?
You have highlighted that without increased
investment in education the UK is in danger of
losing its general manufacturing business to the
Far East. The problem with that statement is
that the tense is wrong; general manufacturing
in the UK has already been lost to the Far East.
The response of our tertiary education
sector has been to follow the market, and help
accelerate the trend. I don’t know whether that
is a right or wrong policy; I just know that it
gives me an uncomfortable feeling, and one
that other people pouring my money into an
unfocussed educational system does little to
assuage.
PW Munn CChem MRSC
By email
No deaths
It’s comforting to note there have been no
deaths recorded in the August issue of RSC
News.
Long may it continue!
MR Kuhnel CChem MRSC
By email
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Fine keynote speakers
THE THIRD RSC Postgraduate Symposium on
Medicinal and Organic Chemistry will take
place at the Open University, Milton Keynes
on 10 December 2004, and will also celebrate
the opening of the new research laboratories,
writes Davina Stevenson.
The 2004 keynote speaker is confirmed
as the distinguished Prof Ian Fleming FRS
(University of Cambridge). Ian’s “Stereocontrol
in Organic Chemistry, With and Without
Silicon” will conclude what is sure to be an
outstanding day of chemical science and
networking.
Last year, Prof Chris Moody’s keynote
lecture, “Adventures in Heterocyclic Chemistry”,
concluded a spirited and enthusiastic second
symposium, held in Cambridge in December.
The 2003 event, organised by the Mid-Anglia
RSC, showcased the innovative research of 46
postgraduate students who gave a mixture of
oral and poster presentations. The success of
the event demonstrated that organic chemistry
in the UK has an encouraging and strong
future.
Thanks to the generosity of the sponsoring
companies of this year’s symposium,
registration is free. Travel bursaries are also
available.
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For further details, contact Dr James
Bruce, email j.i.bruce@open.ac.uk,
or Ryan Gilmour, email rg291@cam.ac.uk.
Registration is open until 1 November, and
there is a call for abstracts
Learn how to book keep
TERRY GILLARD WILL run the next Chemical
Consultancy Forum Continuing Professional
Development Workshop on “Bookkeeping and
Accounts: Monitoring your business”. It takes
place on 14 October at RSC Burlington House
(address on page 16).
Gillard has operated his own business since
1989, providing bookkeeping services to a
number of clients. The workshop will introduce
a range of bookkeeping and accounting
Know more about drinking water
THE RSC WATER Science Forum is organising a
one-day professional development seminar on
taste and odour in drinking water. It will be held
in London on 20 September.
Not only will the seminar provide background
information to the regulatory regime for people
coming into the industry, it will also be of value
solutions and discuss how they can be used to
benefit your business.
Costs are as follows: Chemical Consultancy
Forum members £160; RSC members who
are not members of the Chemical Consultancy
Forum £170; and non-RSC members £190.
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to those in the industry that wish to update
their knowledge.
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For further information, contact
Kirsten Gower, tel +44 (0)20 7440 3313,
email gowerk@rsc.org
For further information, contact Maggi
Churchouse Events, 3 East Barn, Market
Weston Road, Thelnetham, Diss, Norfolk IP22
1JJ, email maggi@mchurchouse.fsnet.co.uk
Book now for the Additives 2005 event
“ADDITIVES 2005: OPTIMISING automotive
power trains” takes place in Dublin from 5 to 7
April 2005. It brings together the automotive and
chemical industries and academia to provide
a forum at which to share ideas for future
developments in the science and technology of
fuels and lubricants. The deadline for abstracts
for oral presentations is 17 September.
The “Additives” exhibition traditionally attracts
participants from industry, and RSC Conferences
is now taking bookings for spaces. Limited
sponsorship opportunities for specific aspects of
the conference are also available.
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For or more information,
go to www.rsc.org/additives2005
Focus on
sustainable
energy
THE RSC’S ENVIRONMENT, Sustainability
and Energy Forum (ESEF) and the Materials
Chemistry Forum (MCF) are organising a
workshop – Materials for Sustainable Energy
Technologies – at Burlington House, London
on 15 November 2004.
Materials chemistry is a cross-cutting
theme which underpins advances in
different sustainable energy technologies.
The workshop will bring together materials
chemists who are working to develop
technologies that will provide solutions
for our future energy needs. The breakout
sessions will seek to identify R&D priorities
in materials chemistry which need to be
addressed to realise developments in
sustainable energy technologies.
This workshop is kindly supported by the
EPSRC. Registration is free so please apply
as early as possible, as places are limited.
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For more information, contact
Dr Eimear Cotter, RSC Burlington
House, tel +44 (0)20 7440 3333, email
cottere@rsc.org, or go to www.rsc.org/
science/esef.htm
Last opportunities
to take part
BY REGISTERING EARLY for the following
events in November, you can save £50 or
more:
● BioNano Technology II, 11 November,
London
● Creating Business through Change
Management, 17 November, London
● Entrepreneurs’ Masterclass, 25 November,
London
Calls for papers’ deadlines are fast
approaching for the following events (see
the RSC conferences web pages for details
of deadlines):
● Formula IV: Frontiers in Formulation
Science, 4 to 7 July 2005, London
● MC7: Functional Materials for the 21st
Century, 5 to 8 July 2005, Edinburgh.
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rsc.org/conferences. Alternatively,
send an email to conferences@rsc.org
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Further information
The RSC News Diary this month lists
RSC events for mid-September and early
October 2004 that are held on the RSC
conference database. Further details on any
of these meetings can be obtained from
the named contact or from the chemsoc
website at www.chemsoc.org/CFCONF/
alldetails.cfm? followed by the specific
ID number at the end of each entry – for
example, www.chemsoc.org/CFCONF/
alldetails.cfm?ID=13903.
SCOTLAND
20 September, 7.30pm ID=13903
Mid-Scotland Section
Committee meeting
Falkirk College
Contact Mr Andrew Grant
T 01324 570002 E rscms@clangrant.fsnet.co.uk
22 September, 2.00pm ID=13709
Mid-Scotland Section
The Science Behind Naturally Spreadable Butter
Falkirk College
● Dr Ann Fearon
Contact Mr Andrew Grant
T 01324 570002 E rscms@clangrant.fsnet.co.uk
27 September, 4.30pm ID=13534
Edinburgh and South East Scotland Section
RSC Teaching Award – Chemistry in Context:
Using problem-based case studies in the
teaching of chemistry
University of Edinburgh
● Dr Simon Belt, University of Plymouth
Contact Neil Robertson
T 0131 650 4755 E neil.robertson@ed.ac.uk
11 October, 4.30pm ID=13537
Edinburgh and South East Scotland Section
The catalytic synthesis of carbon nanostructures
and some of their uses in heterogeneous catalysis
University of Edinburgh
● Professor MJ Ledoux, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg
Contact Neil Robertson
T 0131 650 4755 E neil.robertson@ed.ac.uk
WALES
20 September, 1.15pm ID=13674
Mid-Wales Section
Demonstration Lecture: The bionic bat
University of Wales, Swansea
● Professor Emeritus J D Pye
Contact Mr John Williams
T 01970 623920 E jh39ph@onetel.net.uk
20 to 22 September ID=13554
ITF and Cardiff University
Molecular Modelling 4 Chemists
Cardiff University
Contact Samantha Bradley, RSC
T 020 7440 3304 E industry@rsc.org
21 to 23 September, 10.00am and 1.00pm ID=13569
South Wales West Section
Science and Energy: A series of demonstration
lectures for primary schoolchildren
Theatr Brycheiniog, Brecon
● Mr AJS Williams MBE
Contact Dr Jim Ballantine
T 01792 233960 E ballbish@aol.com
SOUTH EAST ENGLAND
20 September ID=13856
Water Science Forum Science and Technology Board
Taste and Odour in Drinking Water – its
Consequences and Management
SCI Lecture Theatre, London
Contact Maggi Churchouse Events
T 01359 221004 E maggi@mchurchouse.fsnet.co.uk
23 September, 6.30pm ID=13515
Downland Section
Chemistry is Fun for Parents Too!
Forrest School, Horsham
● Dr Dave Revitt and Julia Hatto
Contact Sam Godley
T 01403 261086 E sam.godley@zoom.co.uk
23 September ID=13325
Heterocyclic Group
Autumn meeting
Eli Lilly Research Centre, Windlesham
Contact Paul Stevenson
T 02890 974426 E p.stevenson@qub.ac.uk
25 September, noon D=13788
Kent Section
Brogdale Fruit Collection
Brogdale, Kent
Contact Noel Grabham
T 01892 722680 E grabham@btinternet.com
30 September, 6.30pm to 8.30pm ID=13500
Downland Section
Science in Sport
Dunottar School, Reigate
Contact Hugh Loughlin
T 01737 761945
E staff_loughlin@dunottar.surrey.sch.uk
1 October, 7.00pm for 7.30pm, optional tour of
college at 6.30pm
ID=12278
Thames Valley Section
Annual dinner
St Peter’s College, Oxford
● Geoff Parsons, Olympic high-jumper
Contact Bryan Pierce
T 01865 515472 E bandwpierce@btopenworld.com
5 October, 6.00pm ID=13789
Kent Section
Mixer meeting for new students
University of Kent at Canterbury
Contact Mike Went
T 01227 823540 E m.j.went@ukc.ac.uk
5 October, 5.30pm ID=13791
Kent Section
Mixer meeting for new students
London Southbank University
Contact Tony Clark
T 020 7815 7917 E clarkad@sbu.ac.uk
7 October, 6.30pm ID=13790
Kent Section
Mixer meeting for new students
University of Greenwich, Chatham Maritime
Contact Gill Gibson
E gillian.gibson@greenwich.ac.uk
8 October, 7.00pm ID=13587
Chilterns and Middlesex Section
Annual dinner
Beaconsfield Golf Club
Contact Anne Gloag
T 01923 263132 E a.gloag@aol.com
SOUTH WEST ENGLAND
4 October, 12.30pm for 1.00pm ID=13076
Mid-Southern Counties Section
Retired members’ lunch
Emsworth Sailing Club
Contact Walford Davies
T 01243 372241 E walford.davies@btopenworld.com
EASTERN ENGLAND
17 September, 7.30pm for 8.00pm ID=13208
Mid-Anglia Section and IChemE
The Magic of Chemistry: Theatrical pyrotechnics
The Open University, Milton Keynes
● Dr Malcolm Armstrong
Contact James Bruce
T 01908 654171 E j.i.bruce@open.ac.uk
22 September ID=13106
East Anglia Region of the AD and Marketing Group
Marketing and Managing an Analytical Facility
Thomas Graham House, RSC Cambridge
Contact Brian Woodget
T 01438 811903 E bwoodget@aol.com
MIDLANDS
23 September ID=13401
Industrial Inorganic Chemicals Sector, ITF
Inorganic Coatings
University of Leicester
Contact Craig Williams
T 01902 322737 E c.williams@wlv.ac.uk
28 September, 7.00pm and 7.30pm ID=13726
Birmingham and West Midlands Section
AGM of West Midlands Chemistry Teachers’
Centre followed by “Chemical Engineering
and Tour of the School”
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Your guide to RSC events in in the coming month
University of Birmingham
Contact Mr DJ Jones
E d.j.jones@freenet.co.uk
29 September, 4.30pm ID=13825
Birmingham and West Midlands Section
Assembling, Selecting and Replicating Nanoscale
Structures
University of Birmingham
● Dr Doug Philp, University of St Andrews
Contact Professor RK Allemann
T 0121 414 4359 E r.k.alleman@bham.ac.uk
4 October, 4.00pm ID=13478
East Midlands Section
Templates and Tentacles
University of Leicester
● Dr Stuart Warriner, University of Leeds
Contact Jill Cuthbertson
T 0116 2522093 E jmc22@le.ac.uk
6 October, 4.30pm ID=13826
Birmingham and West Midlands Section
Exploiting a Temporary Silicon Connection in
Stereoselective Synthesis
University of Birmingham
● Dr Liam Cox, University of Birmingham
Contact Dr JS Snaith
T 0121 414 4363 E j.s.snaith@bham.ac.uk
7 October, 4.00pm ID=13741
Birmingham and West Midlands Section
Watching and Manipulating Biomolecules Down
to the Single Molecule Level
University of Warwick, Physics Lecture Theatre
● Dr David Klenerman, Cambridge
Contact Professor Martin Wills
T 024 7652 3260 E m.wills@warwick.ac.uk
NORTH EAST ENGLAND
15 to 16 September ID=13879
CISG, Statistical Mechanics & Thermodynamics Group
and Complex Fluids group of IOP
Modelling and Simulation of Colloids
Sheffield Hallam University
Contact Ruth Cooke
T 0114 225 2188 E r.cooke@shu.ac.uk
15 September, 4.00pm ID=13645
North Humberside Section
RSC Teaching Award – Chemistry in Context:
Using problem-based case studies in the
teaching of chemistry
University of Hull
● Dr Simon Belt, University of Plymouth
Contact Dr Tom McCreedy
T 01482 466407 E t.mccreedy@hull.ac.uk
20 September ID=13871
Organic Reaction Mechanisms Group, Organic Division
Postgraduate Conference
Syngenta, Huddersfield
Contact Ian Cunningham
T 01483 686832 E i.cunningham@surrey.ac.uk
5 October ID=13900
Water Science Forum
The Significance of Natural Organic Matter (NOM)
in the Treatment of Drinking Water
REACT Centre, Rotherham
Contact Mark Smith/K Clive Thompson
T 07941 322331 E mark_s.smith@virgin.net
5 October, 4.15pm ID=13453
Newcastle upon Tyne and North East Section
Bedson Lecture – “What is Nanotechnology?”
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
● Professor Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield
Contact Ian Edwards
T 0191 488 1969 E ian.edwards@ncl.ac.uk
6 October, 11.00am and 2.00pm D=13301
Southumbria Section
Schools Lecture – Galileo and Newton
Franklin College, Grimsby
Contact Mike Lidgard
T 01472 875000 (daytime)
E mike.lidgard@franklin.ac.uk
6 October, 11.00am and 2.00pm ID=13305
Southumbria Section
Schools Lecture – Smarty Pants: The science
and technology of underwear
John Leggott Centre, Scunthorpe
Contact Andrew Wilson
T 01724 282998
7 October, 5.00pm ID=13761
Sheffield and District Section
Presidential Address – Professor Graham Leggett
“There’s Plenty of Room at the Bottom”
University of Sheffield
Contact Richard King
T 0114 222 9309 E r.m.king@sheffield.ac.uk
7 October, 7.00pm ID=13652
Huddersfield Section
Visit to Huddersfield Observatory
Crosland Moor, Huddersfield
Contact Dr Steve Turner
T 01484 422383 E steve@turners7.freeserve.co.uk
8 October, 8.00pm ID=13306
Southumbria Section
Testing in the Tandor: The chemistry behind curry,
the spice of life
Wellowgate, Grimsby
Contact Mike Bowles
T 01652 686017 (daytime) 01724 712552 (evenings)
E mab@singletonbirch.co.uk
NORTH WEST ENGLAND
23 September, 8.00pm ID=13023
Cumbria Section
Smack, Crack, Speed and Weed
The Chase Hotel, Whitehaven
● Dr I Mike Griffin, Forensic Science Service, London
Contact Alex Jenkins
T 01946 774597 E cumbriasecretary@rsc.org
27 to 29 September ID=12129
Joint Pharmaceutical Analysis Group
British Pharmaceutical Conference 2004
Manchester International Convention Centre
Contact Geoff Phillips
E philcons@compuserve.com
30 September ID=13358
Formulation Science and Technology Group
Nanoparticles Applied to Formulations
Manchester Conference Centre
Contact Elaine Wellingham
T 01275 853311 E confsec@blueyonder.co.uk
5 October, 7.30pm ID=13415
Lancaster and District Section
The Bletchley Park Ultra Secret
Preston College
● Mr R Challen
Contact Harry Clarke
T 01995 640003 E harry.clarke6@btopenworld.com
IRELAND
14 October ID=13471
Republic of Ireland Section
Problem-Based Learning: A worked example for
chemistry in the life sciences
Dublin Institute of Technology
Contact Patricia Ennis
E patricia.ennis@dit.ie
INTERNATIONAL
18 September ID=13694
Belgium Section
Open Day at the Institut Royal du Patrimonie
Artistique
Institut Royal du Patrimonie Artistique (IRPA),
Brussels, Belgium
● IRPA guide
Contact Tim Reynolds
T +32 2640 3226 E tim.reynolds@belgacom.net
28 to 30 September ID=13030
NMRDG and GDCh in Germany
Novel Applications of Magnetic Resonance to
Condensed Matter
University of Aachen RWTH
Contact Prof Dr Bernhard Blümich
T +49 241 8026421 E bluemich@mc.rwth-aachen.de
Long-term events
for Local Sections
THIS ISSUE OF RSC News includes – as a
loose insert – programme cards for each
Local Section. These give details of
longer-term upcoming events in your Local
Section along with a list of committee
members and useful contact information.
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MAXIMISING MEM
More mentors in
the pipeline
IN A NUMBER of Local Sections, RSC
mentors are available to offer support with
your professional and career development.
If you live or work in any of the following
Local Sections, you stand to benefit:
Bristol and District; East Midlands; Kent;
Manchester and District; and Republic of
Ireland.
All RSC mentors have been trained,
and many have already helped other
members in their section. They are entirely
independent, and can help as a sounding
board for your ideas. Mentors can’t provide
technical support or coaching in the more
formal sense, but can offer an alternative
perspective on your aspirations, and maybe
the difficulties you face in achieving your
career goals.
The mentoring initiative has been
running since 2002 and the RSC is aiming
to increase the number of members
benefiting from this valuable service,
provided by members for members. The
RSC is planning to extend the scheme to
all areas in the UK up to 2006; the next
area to be included will be North East
England this autumn.
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For more information,
contact Caroline Tolond,
career development advisor,
RSC Burlington House (address on
page 16), tel +44 (0)20 7440 3364,
email tolondc@rsc.org
RSC to tour
universities
Most part-timers work
11 to 30 hours a week
We present some more results of the RSC Professional Survey
IN OUR SURVEY, 5% of the sample told us
that they worked part time for one or more
employers (see RSC News May 2004). Of those
that work part time, we also asked how many
hours per week they worked. The distribution
was as follows:
Part-time working was most frequently
reported in the education sector (higher
education establishments, further education
establishments or schools and colleges).
A notice period of three months is the most
common agreement for RSC members with
their employers. Responses to our survey
showed the following distribution:
Four per cent of the sample reported that they
were not currently working (see RSC News May
2004), but had not yet retired. In this group, the
breakdown of the results was as follows:
We asked how long members in this group had
been without employment, the responses were
as follows:
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For further details about the results
of this survey, contact Julie Franklin,
RSC professional and employment services
manager, at RSC Burlington House (address
on page 16), email franklinj@rsc.org, tel +44
(0)20 7440 3312, fax +44 (0)20 7437 8883
THE RSC WILL be visiting universities across
the UK and Ireland from September. You
will be able to find out how to maximise
your membership and meet someone
from the RSC. Keep a look out for
promotional posters in your department.
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For more information, contact
Membership Recruitment at
memprom@rsc.org, tel 01223 432197
Freebies available when you sign up
ARE YOU PART of a Student Chemical Society
that has a new committee? Make sure your
society benefits from being part of the Student
Chemical Society Network by registering your
committee, even if it is unchanged. Chemsoc
representatives should go to www.rsc.org/lap/
rsccom/younger/csform.htm.
To help promote your SCS and the RSC for
the academic year 2004/05, you can also apply
for application forms and freebies.
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For more information on the
SCS Network, go to www.rsc.
org/studentzone or contact Membership
Recruitment at memprom@rsc.org,
tel 01223 432197
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BERSHIP
Students: stay well read
TERM IS STARTING, so now is the time to
stick to those resolutions and do some extra
reading. Use your RSC membership to the full
with these essential resources:
● Save money Massive savings on text books
and journals, save up to 35% on books
from the RSC, Wiley, Pearson (including
titles by Longman, Prentice Hall and
Addison Wesley), RAPRA and Oxford
University Press and up to 85% on RSC
journals. Go to www.rsc.org/memberbooks
for more information.
● Get information Keep up to date with the
chemical sciences locally, nationally and
internationally through your copy of
Chemistry World and RSC News every
month and get expert careers advice
through “Got a Degree… What Next?”.
Go to www.rsc.org/members/gotadegree.
htm or email education@rsc.org for a
free copy.
● Get involved Make the most of your
membership by meeting other members at
different member networks and scientific
Record breaking number of
chemistry entries for SET awards
TWENTY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS
were entered by their university for the best
chemistry prize of the Science, Engineering and
Technology Student of the Year Awards (full list
is published below). The prize is judged by the
RSC and sponsored by Pfizer. This is the highest
ever chemistry total in the award’s six-years
history, and chemistry was second overall this
year in the 12 categories, which include physics
and biology.
The SET awards provide a showcase for
educational excellence by publicly recognising
the exceptional achievements of both students
and universities.
This year’s chemistry prize entrants are as
follows (university and academic sponsor in
italics): Michael Simpson Aberdeen, Dr John
Storey MRSC; Luke Handley Bristol, Dr Richard
Pancost; Natasha Bruno Bristol, Prof Brian
Vincent FRSC; Alistair Boyer Cambridge, Prof
Andrew Holmes MRSC; Timothy Hurst Exeter,
Prof Christopher Moody CChem FRSC; Amanda
Bolt Leeds, Dr Adam Nelson MRSC; Alex Jones
Leicester, Dr Jonathan Woodward; Andrew
interest groups by going to www.rsc.org/
getinvolved.
In addition, you can access a host
of information through the Library and
Information Centre in three easy ways:
● Online Go to www.rsc.org/lic to access
quality databases, including Knovel – a
web-based service that brings together over
600 scientific resources.
● By email or phone Contact the Chemical
Enquiries Helpdesk +44 (0)20 7440 3373.
You can also email library@rsc.org or
submit your request using the enquiry form
at www.rsc.org/lic/cies.htm.
● In person Europe’s largest chemical science
resource, with 2,000 journals, 25,000 books
plus CD-roms, is at RSC Burlington House
(address on page 16).
Gregory Leicester, Dr Gregory Solan; Xiaofeng
Wu Liverpool, Dr Jianliang Xiao; Christopher
Paddon Loughborough, Dr Frank Marken
CChem MRSC; Rachel Shaw Manchester, Prof
Richard Winpenny CChem MRSC; James Parker
Manchester Metropolitan, Dr Dave Johnson
CChem MRSC; Joanne Williams Reading, Dr
Matthew Almond CChem FRSC; Alex Mullen
Sheffield Hallam, Dr Alan Hewson; Laura Yonge
Surrey, Dr James Davis CChem MRSC; Sarah Hill
Surrey, Dr Chris Amodio CChem FRSC; Elizabeth
Read Sussex, Professor Steven Armes MRSC;
Pui Shan Pang UCL, Dr Mike Porter MRSC; Tim
Smith Warwick, Dr Guy Clarkson CChem MRSC;
Jan Peter Schmidt York, Dr Ian Fairlamb
The winning student will be announced at
the presentation ceremony at the Guildhall,
London on 20 September. He or she will
receive a trophy and cheque for £500; the
overall winner gets up to £2,000.
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For more information on your
student membership, go to
www.rsc.org/studentzone or contact
Jane Foster at memprom@rsc.org tel
+44 (0)1223 432296
For more information on the awards,
go to www.setawards.org or contact
Clare Viney, email vineyc@rsc.org
Thank you to
Younger Member
Representatives
A RECENT RECRUITMENT drive has seen
many members enquire about becoming
involved with the Younger Members Network
and/or becoming a representative for their
Local Section.
Jane Foster, membership marketing
executive, said: “We would like to say a big
thank you to everyone who is now involved
with the YMN. We rely on the support and
enthusiasm that you bring to the network
and encourage you to get involved.”
Richard Armstrong was particularly
thanked for his work for the Cumbria area
and the following new representatives were
welcomed:
● Sam Whitehouse (Sheffield & District)
● Shakiela Begum (Birmingham & West
Midlands)
● Ché Seabourne (Central Yorkshire)
● Dipak Sarker (Downlands)
● Raghuram Chetty (Newcastle Upon
Tyne & NE Coast)
● Tracey Tweedlie-Yuill (Glasgow & West
of Scotland)
● Marion van de Waterbeemd (Kent)
● Emma Coyle (Republic of Ireland)
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For more information about the
Younger Members Network or to
find out if there is a Younger Members
Representative vacancy in your area, go
to www.rsc.org/getinvolved or contact
Jane Foster, tel +44 (0)1223 432296,
email fosterj@rsc.org
Advise us of your
new address
DO WE HAVE your home and term-time
address? Have we got your university and
personal email address?
There are three easy ways to let us know
of any changes:·
● Go to www.rsc.org/mydetails and enter
your membership number and password
● Email subsrecords@rsc.org with
your changes
● Telephone Membership Administration
+44 (0)1223 432141.
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MEMBER NEWS
Members of Council 2004-5
HONORARY OFFICERS
President Dr S F Campbell CChem FRSC FRS;
Immediate Past President Prof Sir Harry
Kroto CChem HonFRSC FRSE FRS; Honorary
Treasurer Dr B J Price CChem FRSC
NATIONAL MEMBERS
Prof D Craig CChem MRSC; Dr E G Finer
CChem FRSC; Prof S A R Knox CChem FRSC;
Dr R G Wallace EurChem CChem FRSC;
Prof M T Weller MRSC; Prof D T Burns EurChem
CChem FRSC FRSE; Prof H H Fielding CChem
MRSC; Prof A D Jenkins CChem FRSC;
Dr L E Smart MRSC; Dr L J Waters AMRSC;
Dr S R Challand CChem FRSC; Dr I R Gordon
CChem FRSC; Dr H C Hailes CChem MRSC;
Dr D Simpson EurChem CChem FRSC;
Emeritus Prof J D R Thomas CSci CChem FRSC
DISTRICT MEMBERS
South West England Dr J G Frey CChem FRSC;
Europe Dr P S Gray CChem FRSC; Scotland
Prof W E Smith CChem FRSC; Ireland Dr W
Byers CChem FRSC; Wales Prof D M Taylor CSci
CChem FRSC; North East England
Mr G Henney CChem FRSC; Eastern England
Mr T G Jolley CChem FRSC; North West
England Prof J B Leach CChem FRSC;
Midlands Dr M R S McCoustra CChem FRSC;
South East England Dr T B Pierce CChem FRSC
CHAIRS OF INTEREST GROUPS
Industry and Technology Forum Dr D C Bott
CChem FRSC; Education Division Dr J M F
Gagan EurChem CChem FRSC; Chemical
Biology Forum Prof S Neidle CChem FRSC;
Materials Chemistry Forum Prof P O’Brien
CChem FRSC; Faraday Division Prof M J
Pilling CChem FRSC; Analytical Division Prof
P J Worsfold CChem FRSC; Dalton Division
Prof P G Edwards MRSC; Organic Division
Prof R C F Jones CChem FRSC; Environment,
Sustainability and Energy Forum Dr E G Finer
CChem FRSC
CHAIRS OF BOARDS
Professional Affairs and Membership Board
Mr K Dobson CChem FRSC; Science and
Technology Board Prof J A McCleverty CChem
FRSC; Strategy and Resources Board
Prof L C Ebdon CChem FRSC; Education and
Qualifications Board Prof D Phillips OBE
CChem FRSC; Publishing Board Prof J N Miller
CChem FRSC
CHAIR OF BENEVOLENT FUND
Benevolent Fund Committee Dr D H Grayson
CChem FRSC
REPRESENTATIVES OF BOARDS AND
COMMITTEES
Chair, International Strategy Group Prof C D
Garner CChem FRSC FRS; Chair, Committee
for Local Sections Dr P M Ennis CChem FRSC;
Chair, RSC IUPAC Committee Prof P W Atkins
FRSC; Publishing Board Representative
Prof D A Rice CChem FRSC
STAFF
Chief executive (non-voting) Dr D J Giachardi
CChem FRSC; Secretary to Council (appointed
by the chief executive) Ms E K McEwan
New members of Council
Quick profiles of the five new national members that have been elected to the RSC Council
Dr Dick Challand
CChem FRSC
Dick Challand has been an
associate lecturer with the
Open University since 1997 and formerly
worked in medicinal chemistry with the
Wellcome Foundation. He has been
associated with the organisation of the RSC
since the mid-1970s, first through the Kent
Local Section and latterly by membership
of various central boards and committees.
Dick says: “Council ought to represent the
full range of the membership, covering
professional and regional as well as scientific
interests. I am prepared to use my experience
of RSC affairs to bear upon these issues
on behalf of all ordinary members.”
Dr Ian Gordon CChem FRSC
Ian Gordon is chairman
of Switzerland-based
food ingredients and fine
chemicals consultancy Giract. After reading
chemistry at Oxford, he joined Guinness
and later Express Dairy. Ian is a member
of the Milk Development Council and has
served on various RSC boards, including
the Education Board and PMB. Ian
says: “New directions, including a wider
footprint in Europe, reaching out more
effectively to aid communication between
the professional staff and the members
of the RSC, are areas where I believe
the inputs from smaller businesses are
important and need better articulation.”
Dr Helen Hailes
CChem MRSC
Helen Hailes is a senior
lecturer in chemical biology at
UCL, having originally studied at Cambridge.
She is a committee member of the RSC
Biological and Medicinal Chemistry Sector
and has served on the Biotechnology
Group. Helen says: “During the nine years
as a member of staff in the Chemistry
Department at UCL, I have gained expertise
working in academia together with industry,
professional bodies and funding councils...
The chemistry academic community is
currently going through a period of significant
change and I will add value to crucial
discussions on the role the RSC can play.”
Dr Diana Simpson
EurChem CChem FRSC
Diana Simpson is currently
principal consultant of
a small analytical and forensic science
practice Analysis for Industry. She was
elected to the Council for the Registration
of Forensic Practitioners three years ago,
previously served on the RSC Council as
well as a number of RSC committees,
and represents the RSC/AD Council on
BSI and HSE committees. Diana says:
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AGM 2004 report
It proved to be a good year at the
RSC for campaigning and publishing
SUCCESSES IN CAMPAIGNING and publishing
were highlighted by Prof Sir Harry Kroto
(pictured right) at this year’s RSC annual general
meeting, held at Burlington House on 15 July.
In addition, Sir Harry welcomed a number of
new members to Council and formally handed
his presidential badge of office to the incoming
president, Dr Simon Campbell.
In his final duty as president, Sir Harry
drew attention to the Annual Review
2003 and highlighted a number of recent
achievements. The RSC’s campaigning role
in support of its strategic goals – to broaden
the RSC footprint, extend influence on EU
institutions and enhance its image – had led
to a number of meetings with senior members
of the government, including Gordon Brown,
chancellor of the exchequer, and Charles Clarke,
secretary of state for education.
RSC publishing operations had made a
surplus of £5.4 million, a substantial and
“I am greatly in favour of continuing
professional development and
encourage meetings where this may
be pursued. I also encourage industrial
members to take a more active
part in the activities of the RSC.”
Prof Ron Thomas
CSci CChem FRSC
Ron Thomas has
extensive experience
both in his professional life and serving
on many RSC boards, including Council.
He has had various industrial, teaching
and research appointments, and has
won a number of awards and held
honour appointments around the world.
Ron says: “Election will make available
experience of practice, research and
teaching linked to various sciences. This
– interweaved with industrial liaison,
consulting, university governance,
publishing and editing, conference
organisation, international relations and
finances – will provide background to
support the RSC’s charter objectives.”
welcome increase over the previous year. The
reorganisation of the publishing operation
had started to pay back, with a renewed
emphasis on marketing and accelerated
product innovation. The RSC backfile, containing
digitised versions of RSC journals from 1841,
had been successfully launched. Reduction in
journal revenue – following the failure of the
subscription agent Rowecom – had been offset
by increased sales in China.
The honorary treasurer, Dr Barry Price,
presented the accounts for 2003 which
showed a generally satisfactory year. The
General Fund had suffered a deficit of £94,000,
while recovery in global equity markets had
led to a significant increase in the value of RSC
investments; total funds had increased by £5.0
million to £49.4 million.
Income from membership subscriptions had
risen slightly to £2.5 million, which reflected the
increase in subscription rates. The proportion
of membership-related activities covered by
income from subscriptions had continued to
fall, from 37% to 35%.
A notice of vacancies on Council and for
elected members of boards was published
in RSC News in January. In addition to the
five new national members of Council (see
panel left), the following people took up
positions: Graham Henney was elected District
Member, North East; Dr Adrian Arnold Smith
and Dr David Whan were elected to serve on
Professional Affairs and Membership Board and
Education and Qualifications Board respectively;
and Andrew Thompson and Dr Elizabeth Page
were elected to the Education Division Council.
London-based firm Baker Tilly was appointed
auditor of the RSC for the year ending 31
December 2004. Annual membership
subscriptions from 1 January 2005 were set as
follows: Fellows and Members £93; Associate
Members £56; and Affiliates £93.
In introducing the motions to amend the
by-laws, the president appointed Stanley Langer
and Dr Josephine Tunney as tellers for the
purpose of counting the proxy votes of those
unable to be present (by-law 89). The following
resolutions were carried:
● Resolution 7.0(a) – enables members of
other groups of chemical scientists to join the
RSC as Affiliates
● Resolution 7.0(b)i – provides Council with
the flexibility to vary the date for removal
of members for failure to pay annual
subscriptions
● Resolution 7.0(b)ii – amendments to the
by-law provisions for discipline of members
to enable compliance with the Human
Rights Act
● Resolution 7.0(b)iii – increases the maximum
possible total of Honorary Fellows.
In accepting the presidency, Dr Simon
Campbell thanked Sir Harry for his tremendous
successes in ensuring that government and
other policy makers took account of the views
of the RSC and for his enthusiasm in promoting
the internet as a communication tool to support
education and training. He presented Sir Harry
with his past-president’s medal.
Concluding the meeting, Prof Alwyn Davies
formally thanked the many volunteers who had
helped to put the RSC in a healthy position,
all those who had given their time voluntarily
(with particular reference to those whose efforts
contributed to the success of RSC publications),
the members of Council and its Boards,
members of committees and of Local Sections
at home and overseas, RSC representatives,
Benevolent Fund volunteers, and the chief
executive and his staff.
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Full details of the accounts are
shown in the Annual Record and
Trustees’ Report, copies of which are
available on request from Mike Graves,
finance director, RSC Cambridge (address
on page 16), email gravesm@rsc.org. The
AGM report is on www.rsc.org/agm_2004
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MEMBER NEWS
United’s man
gets award
ONE OF PROF Sir Harry Kroto’s last acts
as RSC president was to report at Council
that he had decided to give the President’s
Award to Dr Les Kershaw CChem MRSC,
director of Manchester United’s Football
Academy, in recognition of his remarkable
initiative and ability in communicating
widely and effectively the principles and
relevance of the science of chemistry.
Les Kershaw had facilitated the
successful “Bucky Balls” event held on 13
October 2003 at the academy as part of
the celebrations of the Bicentennial of John
Dalton’s Atomic Theory.
University
honours Campbell
DR SIMON CAMPBELL, president of the
RSC, has received an honorary degree
from the University of Birmingham
in recognition of his outstanding
achievements in the field of chemistry.
Campbell, who is a graduate of the
University’s School of Chemistry, became
a Doctor of Science.
Prof Nigel Brown, head of the School of
Chemistry at the University of Birmingham,
said: “Dr Campbell is a graduate who has
excelled in the industrial application of
his science and who continues to take a
leading and active role in his profession.”
Personal News
Professor Alan Heaton EurChem
CChem FRSC of Liverpool John Moores
University has been awarded the 2004 SCI
Lampitt Medal.
Dr Elaine Moore MRSC has been
promoted to Reader in Theoretical
Chemistry at The Open University.
Professor Stephen Neidle CChem FRSC
of the School of Pharmacy, University of
London, has been awarded the 2004
Aventis Prize for Medicinal Chemistry.
Deaths
Dr James William Bell CChem MRSC
Retired, Department of Textiles, University of
Leeds. Died 16 June 2004, aged 82
Mr Arthur Ernest Billington CChem FRSC
Retired, chief product research manager,
Beecham Food & Drink Division.
Died 11 March 2004, aged 86
Dr Herbert Buchwald CChem FRSC
Retired, general manager healthcare,
Occupational Health Association.
Died 26 May 2004, aged 73
Dr John Robert Chapman MRSC
Retired, analytical systems manager,
Kratos Scientific Instruments.
Died 30 June 2004, aged 64
Mr Roy George Clark CChem FRSC
Retired, principal scientist, Anglian Water
Services. Died 8 August 2004, aged 72
Dr Maurice Martin Coombs CChem FRSC
Retired, head of chemistry, Imperial Cancer
Research Fund, and senior research fellow,
University of Surrey. Died 12 June 2004, age 75
Mr Trevor Charles Cowlyn CChem MRSC
Formerly, head of Environmental Analysis (Eye),
Huntingdon Life Sciences.
Died 4 December 2003, aged 54
Dr Edward John Dickinson CChem FRSC
Retired, senior principal research scientist,
Australian Road Research Board.
Died 23 May 2004, aged 85
Mr Derek John Elgar CChem FRSC
Retired, consultant. Died 9 June 2004, aged 77
Mr Gary Flinders CChem MRSC
Formerly, product specialist, Varian Ltd.
Died 25 May 2004, aged 45
Mr George William Godin CChem FRSC
Retired, Distillers Co Ltd.
Died 19 April 2004, aged 85
Professor Murray Goodman MRSC
Formerly, professor of chemistry, University
of California, San Diego.
Died 1 June 2004, aged 75
Mr Leonard Greatbatch CChem MRSC
Retired, works chemist, Slater Harrison Co Ltd.
Died 1 March 2004, aged 59
Mr William Green CChem MRSC
Retired, technical services manager, ICI
Polyurethanes. Died 15 February 2004, aged 67
Dr Werner H Hauthal MRSC
Formerly, guest lecturer, University of Leipzig.
Died 29 May 2004, aged 67
Mr John Richard Heron CChem MRSC
Retired, principal analytical consulting chemist.
Died 20 February 2004, aged 79
Mr Francis Richard Houghton CChem FRSC
Retired, R&D manager, Suttcliffe Speakman
Co Ltd. Died 14 March 2004, aged 83
Mr Dennis Jeffrey Jenkins CChem MRSC
Retired, principal medical laboratory scientific
officer, Manchester General Hospital.
Died 14 May 2004, aged 76
Mr Peter Sydney Johnson MRSC
Retired, Merck Ltd.
Died 8 July 2004, aged 73
Dr Thomas Macdonald Macleod CChem FRSC
Retired, research fellow, Ninewells Hospital.
Died 22 May 2004, aged 78
Dr George Edward Mapstone CChem FRSC
Retired, head of Chemical Engineering
Department, Swinburne College of
Technology, Victoria, Australia.
Died 26 February 2004, aged 86
Mr Stanley Cecil Mitchell CChem FRSC
Retired, lecturer in fuel technology, University of
Leeds. Died 9 June 2004, aged 83
Dr Paul Roderick Norman CChem FRSC
Formerly, chief scientist, CB Defence DSTL
Porton. Died 27 June 2004, aged 52
Mr Robert Walter Peevers CChem MRSC
Retired, chief technical executive, A Wander Ltd.
Died 28 October 2003, aged 85
Professor Ian Paul Rothwell CChem FRSC
FRS Formerly, professor of chemistry, Purdue
University. Died 9 May 2004, aged 49
Mr Alan Roylance CChem MRSC
Retired, research chemist, Unilever plc.
Died 26 April 2004, aged 79
Dr Nigel John Seeley CChem FRSC
Formerly, surveyor of conservation,
National Trust. Died 21 June 2004, aged 62
Mr Lawrence Edward Shadbolt CChem FRSC
Retired, director, HJ Stern Laboratories Ltd.
Died 30 June 2004, aged 84
Mr Leslie Edward Shiel CChem MRSC
Retired, Product R&D Division, Associated
Portland Cement Co Ltd.
Died 24 June 2004, aged 74
Dr Ronald William Henry Small CChem FRSC
Formerly, reader emeritus, Chemistry
Department, University of Lancaster.
Died 8 June 2004, aged 82
Mr Brian James Smith CChem MRSC
Formerly, principal chemist, Sericol Ltd.
Died 29 April 2004, aged 59
Professor Ian Soutar MRSC FRSE
Formerly, professor, University of Sheffield.
Died 14 August 2003, aged 57
Mr Gordon Hall Turnbull CChem MRSC
Formerly, regulatory compliance manager,
Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
Died 18 March 2004, aged 52
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Admissions — September 2004
Fellow (FRSC)
John Paul Attfield
Roderick Selwyn Bayliss
Christine Cardin
Matthew Joseph Chinn
David Geraint Evans
Richard Newman Fazackerley
Leonhard Gros
Nigel Peter Howard
David Charles Lathbury
John William Mason
Alan William Payne
Kanchugarakoppal Rangappa
Michael John Raybould
Christopher James Shenfield
Helen Stoeckli-Evans
Member (MRSC)
Lusie Elizabeth Frances Ambler
Jennifer Charlotte Arnall-Culliford
Sami Ali Ibrahim Barri
Patricia Blanco-Garcia
Boyan Bonev
Nicholas Jason Brewer
Gurmeet Singh Chaal
Hoi Huen Chan
Alessio Ciulli
Brian Conerney
Gary Cook
Peter Leonard Copper
Steven Roy Davis
Jennifer Sarah Delaney
Patrick Joseph Donoghue
Roisin Annette Doohan
Alison Claire Eldridge
Morag Louise Farquhar
Kim Gallagher
Gary John Gordon
Shozeb Haider
Hannah Joy Hall
Ross Harrington
Fatma SM Hassan
Anwen Jane Hughes
Gareth Brent Irvine
Malcolm Kadodwala
Kok Fei Kam
Michelle Louise Kelly
Scott Killeen
Andrew Robert King
Martin Daniel King
Zoe Lilburn
Adam John Limer
Xiaoming Liu
Frederick Manby
Iain May
Iain James McFadyen
Gerard McGlacken
Andrew McRiner
Martin Mhlanga
Stephen Alister Mitchell
Jeremy John Moloney
Linda Micaela Monteiro De Senna
Fernandes
Benjamin Newman
Joseph Nugent
Mark O’Halloran
Siddharth V Patwardhan
Gail Andrea Peebles
Lorna Philp
Stuart James Preston
Dennis Edward Quigley
Riccardo Rausa
Stephen Reid
Timothy Fintan Ryan
Paul William Seakins
Christopher Matthew Paul Seward
Bo Shan
Andrew John Sheward
John Timothy Skamarauskas
Robert Smart
Christopher Brooke Smith
Colin Kenneth Smith
Rebecca Mary Steele
Emma Summerhayes
Mark James Summers
James Ziming Sun
Christopher Paul Taylor
Paul Charles Trippier
Chi Chiu Wang
Lynsey Christina Watt
Wei Xue
Associate Member
(AMRSC)
Sahangir Ali
Yassar Ali
Geomar Daniel Arteaga
Olaniyi Ayoola Awe
Kenneth James Black
Kathryn Brawley
Richard Peter Brennan
Matthew Brown
Richard James Buckby
Paul Carrick
Jonathon Peter Castle
Helen Chapman
Wei Cheng
Kordi Ijeoma Chigboh
Byung Moon Cho
Tamim Aktar Choudhury
Hamid Choujaa
Andrew Clark
Avril Collier
Michael Alexander Crowe
Jaime Cummins
Alun Wynford Davies
Zoe Davis
Ross Denton
Katie Doores
Colin John Dunsmore
Chris Duxbury
Elizabeth Anne Edmonds
Emma Edwards
Gareth John Fletcher
Irene Georgaki
Maria Georgiou
Stuart James Gilby
Derek Allan Gillespie
Amanda Jane Gisby
Ruth Katherine Gleeson
Alexandra Griffin
Jean-Baptiste Guilbaud
Sinead Michele Hardy
Michael Hargreaves
Tom Hasell
Daniel Hawkins
Katarzyna Ewa Hejczyk
Matthew Helm
Sarah Hill
Glenn Ikeda
Ahtsham Ishaq
Andrew Jackson
Darren Kenneth Jacques
Zahra Jawad-Alami
Niamh Rachel Kelly
Andrew John King
Ian Donald Edward King
Richard Kirke
Ioannis Konidakis
Siva Haran Krishnadasan
Bronwyn Leigh Kroon
Helen Lambe
Iain Craig Lees
Thomas Marin Legge
Helen Mary Lucke
Yan Ma
Azad H Mahdy
Mick Mahon
Natalie Emma Mansfield
Chiara McCormack
Debra Jane McCready
David Alexander McGovern
Laura Marie Melton
Fatima Miller
Richard Adam Mole
Vanessa Moncayo
Raul Montoro
Kian Eang Andrew Neo
Philip Anthony Niles
Karen Nolan
Douglas Graham Offin
Sarah O’Keeffe
Leonidas Palilis
Gavin James Patrick
Luke Powell
Thomas Rising
Jorge Rodriguez-Castro
Ricard Roig
Shane Rountree
Gareth John Royston
Claire Russell
Ann Joy Scoble
Benjamin Oliver Scott
Gavin Sewell
Tahira Fatima Shah
Kareemulla Shaik Mohammed
Yuliya Shakalisava
Nicola Louise Shuker
James Michael Smith
Nikolaos Spathis
Matthieu Starck
Jennifer Anne Stephen
Jennifer Straughan
Lubomyra Jaroslawa Szymanskyj
Romesh Ryle Thomas Tenuwera
Nicola M Tonge
Evripidis Tsaousoglou
Christine Joan Turner
Kirsty Louise Turner
Danielle Victory
Kevin Waldron
Emma Jane Walker
Francine Walker
Sarah-Jane Waters
Eleanor Jane Whelan
Richard White
Gregory Whiting
Jennifer Margaret Wilson
Andrew John Young
Natalie Marie Young
Chartered Chemist
(CChem)
Enric Bertran
Helen Cay Brown
James Spencer Dalton
Scott Frederick James Dickinson
Neil Douglas Dooley
Garreth Andrew Duncan
Drew Russell Easton
Laure Hitzel
Joanna Ruth Lawson
Gerard Martin Mattinson
John Timothy Skamarauskas
Clare Viney
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AND FINALLY...
Learning about science
Studying molecules in real time on
the “Molecular microscope” stand
THE ROYAL SOCIETY’S Summer Science
Exhibition featured three exhibits sponsored
by the RSC – “Stars ’r’ us”, “Molecular
microscope” and “Catch that molecule”
– and for the first time since 2001 opened
to the public during the evening, giving more
people the opportunity to view the best of
the UK’s science and technology research.
“Stars ’r’ us” looked at astrochemistry,
a new science that attempts to simulate,
in the laboratory, chemical reactions that
take place in space; on the “Molecular
microscope” stand, scientists from Farfield
Sensors demonstrated the novel optical
instrument they have developed to study
the structure of molecules in real time; and
chemists and physicists from the University
of Nottingham showed on the “Catch that
molecule” exhibit how they are working
together to make the world’s smallest test
tubes and provide containers to catch and
accommodate small numbers of molecules.
RSC Extraordinary
General Meeting
Thursday 4 November 2004 at Burlington House, London
All members are being invited to vote at the EGM
on proposals to modernise the governance of the RSC.
Your personalised voting pack will be sent to you in early October
explaining how to vote by post, by proxy or in person.
For further details of the EGM and the proposed changes, see
the news item on page 3 or go to www.rsc.org/governance.
Please use your vote
Free for Christmas
THE RSC BENEVOLENT Fund is giving away
Christmas cards following a review and
reorganisation of stock. Carol Megginson,
Ben Fund coordinator, explained:
“We have an excess of Christmas cards and
are therefore pleased to announce
a special offer to all our members.”
There is a large choice of card
designs (only three are illustrated
right), and orders will be
processed on a first-come,
first-served basis. The
Ben Fund has to ask
for a £2 contribution
towards postage and
packaging from members
requesting up to five packs,
each containing 10 cards
and envelopes. Those requiring
more than five packs should
contact the Ben Fund regarding
additional postage charges.
Any donations you
generously make will also
be gratefully received, added
the Ben Fund.
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Send your order to Christmas
Card Offer, Ben Fund, RSC
Cambridge (address below), and enclose
a cheque payable to “RSC Benevolent
Fund”. For details of all the designs
available, go to the Ben Fund website
www.rsc.org/members/benfund.htm
CONTACT US
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