Chemistry

Invitation for Highly Qualified Reviewers for the INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS having good IMPACT FACTOR:

We are looking for Highly Qualified Reviewers for the INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS having good IMPACT FACTOR.
The subject research experts are welcomed to be here to join the research groups and to become reviewers for the renowned established INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS of good IMPACT FACTOR.
Interested Professors, Scientists & Researchers are most welcome.
Major research fields are but not limited to:

COMPUTER SCIENCE & ENGINEERING
COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
PHYSICS
MATERIAL SCIENCE
CHEMISTRY
NANO SCIELCE & TECHNOLOGY

Please Mention as:
Subject: Reviewer “Physics”
Or
Subject: Reviewer “CSE”
Etc.

For that please send your detailed Resume/ CV to:
kdverma.prfl@gmail.com

International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011)

27/01/2011 04:57
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The International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011) is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. Under the unifying theme “Chemistry—our life, our future,” IYC 2011 will offer a range of interactive, entertaining, and educational activities for all ages. The Year of Chemistry is intended to reach across the globe, with opportunities for public participation at the local, regional, and national level.

International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011)

International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011)

The International Year of Chemistry 2011 (IYC 2011) is a worldwide celebration of the achievements of chemistry and its contributions to the well-being of humankind. Under the unifying theme “Chemistry—our life, our future,” IYC 2011 will offer a range of interactive, entertaining, and educational activities for all ages. The Year of Chemistry is intended to reach across the globe, with opportunities for public participation at the local, regional, and national level.

Main actvities will be held in Paris, Puerto Rico and Belgium.

Prospectus is attached for detail.

For more detail please visit the website: http://www.chemistry2011.org/

280 TWAS Fellowships in Natural Sciences for postgraduate, postdoctoral, advanced research and visiting scholars

280 TWAS Fellowships in Natural Sciences for postgraduate, postdoctoral, advanced research and visiting scholars


 


The TWAS (the academy of sciences for the developing world ) Fellowship programmes offer over 280 fellowships per year in natural sciences for postgraduate, postdoctoral, advanced research and visiting scholars. The fellowships are tenable in Brazil, China, India, Malaysia, Mexico and Pakistan at specific institutions in these countries and each programme has its specific age requirement and eligibility criteria.


It is important to note that applicants cannot apply for fellowships tenable in their home country, for instance an Indian applicant applying for a fellowship tenable in India will be considered ineligible



In order to apply to the TWAS Fellowships programmes each applicant should follow few key steps that are indicated below:



1. WHICH PROGRAMME SHOULD I CHOOSE?: Read carefully the 'General' and 'Additional information' sections in the application forms and choose the most suitable fellowship programme for your research needs.



2. CHECK ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA: After choosing a fellowship programme, you should verify that you are eligible and meet ALL the eligibility criteria specified in the application form for your chosen programme.



3. CHOOSE AN ELIGIBLE HOST INSTITUTE: Select a suitable host institution under the fellowship you have chosen. In the application forms, under "additional information", you will find the website addresses leading to the lists of eligible host institutes for each programme.


4. GET PRELIMINARY ACCEPTANCE: applying is subject to acceptance at a host institute. After choosing an eligible host institute, you must seek to obtain acceptance and a preliminary Acceptance Letter (see sample in the application forms). To request a preliminary Acceptance Letter you must contact the chosen host institution via e-mail, fax AND by sending a letter with your CV, research proposal and the sample copy of the Acceptance letter provided in the application form.



Obtaining preliminary acceptance at an eligible host institute is the responsibility of the applicant. Applications cannot be processed if an Acceptance letter is not received.



5. SUBMIT THE APPLICATION: Once the preliminary Acceptance Letter has been received, you should submit to the TWAS Fellowships office (fellowships@twas.org) and to the other partner agency in some cases, the completed Application form in MS Word format (NOT PDF, jpeg or embedded as a jpeg in a Word document), together with ALL the required enclosures, in ONE zipped file.


An official acknowledgment will be sent confirming the status of your application once it has been processed and not upon receipt.



If awarded, the fellowship must be taken up in the following year of the application.


For additional information on the TWAS fellowships, please see www.twas.org under the 'Programmes' tab and the subheading 'Exchange', or contact fellowships@twas.org.

24th Young Scientist Symposium 2009

01/07/2009 22:15
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24th Young Scientist Symposium 2009

Theme: Chemistry
Deadline: 30/04/2009
Link (event website):: http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/conference/alldetails.cfm?evid=1...

Date: 01 July 2009 10:00 - 16:00

Event Subject(s): Food & Nutrition
Materials & Polymers
Organic
Physical

Contact for Event InformationName : Dr Ian Ratcliffe

Address:
Science Research Centre PP21
Glyndwr University
Mold Road
Wrexham
LL11 2AW
United Kingdom

Tel: 01978293425
Email: i.ratcliffe@glyndwr.ac.uk

42nd IUPAC Chemistry Congress

02/08/2009 18:50
07/08/2009 18:50
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The aim of the 42nd IUPAC congress is to reflect the breadth if the chemical sciences, highlighting the impact of our science and exciting innovations with an overall focus on 'Chemistry Solutions'. Themes will overlap in several places and the programme has been designed to be accessible and relevant to all.

For more information on the scientific programme, venue and the call for abstracts please see the 'In this section' links.

http://www.rsc.org/ConferencesAndEvents/RSCConferences/IUPAC2009/Welcome...

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Young Chemist Awards

Young Chemist Award for 42nd IUPAC Congress, 2-7 August 2009, Scotland, Glasgow, UK


To encourage young chemists to participate in this unique congress, we have established two different 'Young Chemist Award' programmes, both offering travel assistance:


Programme A -  30 awards for young scientists from developing and economically disadvantaged countries


Programme B - 20 awards for chemists from any country


For each programme, USD 750 and USD 1500 will be made available to successful candidates as a contribution to the cost of their travel to attend the congress and to meet registration fees. 


Eligibility


To apply, you must be:


Under the age of 40


Scientists from academia, government or industry may submit applications.


Applicants should submit an oral or poster presentation abstract to be presented at the congress in advance of their application. Such abstracts will be subject to adjudication as will all other submissions for presentation at the meeting.


Applicants are not required to be a member or affiliate of IUPAC or the RSC to be eligible for a Young Chemist Award. Please note however that successful applicants will not be eligible to apply separately for an RSC bursary to attend the congress.


Please note if you have submitted an application you should have received an acknowledgement. Applicants will be informed of the outcome of their application by mid-March 2009.


Contact and Further Information




IUPAC 2009
Royal Society of Chemistry, Thomas Graham House, Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WF
Tel: +44 (0) 1223 432254 / 432380
Fax: +44 (0) 1223 423623

Email: IUPAC 2009

Science Dance Contest

Are you the sort of scientist who taps her toes while working in the laboratory? You look like you're crunching data over there on the computer, but you're actually browsing 1980s music videos on YouTube. In fact, doesn't your entire scientific career feel like one big dance, like Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring, the Village People doing YMCA, or maybe Michael Jackson dancing with zombies in Thriller, depending on your mood?

If so, then your name is written all over this:

Those who saw the results of the first-ever Dance Your Ph.D. contest know that the human body is an excellent medium for communicating science -- perhaps not as data-rich as a peer-reviewed article but far more exciting. Since then, e-mails have poured in from scientists around the world asking how they can take part in the next event.

For this year's contest, the stage is much larger and the prize is far grander. Rather than a single event in a single place, the dance is global.

For this year's contest, the stage is much larger and the prize is far grander. Rather than a single event in a single place, the dance is global.

  1. Make a video of your own Ph.D. dance.
  2. Post the video on YouTube.
  3. Not later than 23:00 EST 16 November 2008, e-mail your name, the title of your Ph.D. thesis, and the video URL link to: gonzo@aaas.org .

Once this information is posted on the Dance Contest home page, you are officially entered in the contest. On 17 November 2008, a total of four winners will be chosen from the following categories:

  • Graduate Student: Best among those currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program
  • Postdoc: Best among those who have a Ph.D. but not tenure
  • Professor: Best among those with Ph.D. and tenure
  • Popular Choice: The video with the highest YouTube view count by the deadline

The Prize:  On 17 November 2008, you will provide a single peer-reviewed research article on which you are a co-author. (Graduate students who have not yet co-authored an article must choose one from their Ph.D. adviser.) You will be paired with a professional choreographer. Over the next couple of weeks (via e-mail and telephone), you must help your choreographer understand your article, its aims, the hypotheses it tests, and its big-picture context. Then the four choreographers will collaborate to create a single four-part dance based on the winning research articles. Finally, you will be an honored guest at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, where, on 13 February 2009, you will have front-row seats to the world debut of the output -- THIS IS SCIENCE -- a contemporary dance interpretation of contemporary scientific research. Accommodation in Chicago will be provided, and grants are available for travel expenses.

For full details of the contest, visit www.gonzolabs.org.

THE AWARD OF PAS GOLD MEDALS in 2008 IN VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

AWARD OF PAS GOLD MEDALS in 2008 IN VARIOUS SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Each Award carries Rs.20,000/- Cash, a Gold Medal and a Certificate.

Fields: Chemistry, Mathematics, Botany, Zoology, Medicine, Engineering & Technology and Agriculture.

The Academy invites nominations in January/February each year from its Fellows and high-level institutions engaged in Scientific Education and Research, and recognized as such by the Academy.

Only Pakistani scientists, other than Fellows of the Academy, will be eligible for the award of medals, and those who have not received any Medal/Prize from the Pakistan Academy of Sciences during the past five years.

Four copies each of Biodata and complete list of publications must accompany the nominations. A brief summary is required highlighting the outstanding internationally acclaimed achievements in the field of scientific research, including the citations of the nominee’s research papers by other scientists, Gold Medals and other awards already received. Reprints or photocopies of the research papers published in scientific journals of international repute must be submitted.

The nominations complete, in all respects, received within due dates are processed. The documents of the candidates are sent to members of the relevant Expert Committees for assessment in order of merit. On the basis of the recommendations of the experts, the Council of the Academy selects candidates for the award. The prize is awarded to the winners in the investiture ceremony in the General Body meeting in November/December. The decision of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences shall be final and shall not be challengeable in a court of law or elsewhere.

Last date is 28.03.2008

DR. ATTA-UR-RAHMAN PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY for Young Scientists

DR. ATTA-UR-RAHMAN PRIZE IN CHEMISTRY

The Pakistan Academy of Sciences has instituted Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman prize in Chemistry. The prize carries Rs.20,000/- Cash, a Gold Medal and a Certificate. Pakistani Scientists, except Fellows of the Academy and those who have not received any Medal/Prize from the Academy during past five years are eligible for the prize.

Only one nominee may be proposed. Nominations can be made only by Fellows of the Academy and Heads of institutions engaged in scientific education and research. Nominations must be accompanied by four (4) copies each of the Biodata and complete list of research papers, a brief summary highlighting outstanding achievements in the field of scientific research, gold medals and other awards already received and reprints or photocopies of the research papers published in scientific journals of international repute.

The nominations complete, in all respects, received within due dates are to be processed. The documents of the candidates will be sent to members of the relevant expert committee for assessment in order of merit.

Recommendations of the experts will be placed before the Council of the Academy for selection of the candidate for the prize.

The decision of the Pakistan Academy of Sciences shall be final and not be challengeable in a court of law or elsewhere.

Age should under 40

Last date is 28.03.2008

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A Letter from American Chemical Society's President

I (and supposedly many other who had written emails to ACS expressing their concerns regarding the expulsion of Iranian members) received the following letter from ACS a couple of days ago. It carries two main points with it:

1. That ACS will not be providing its members in sanctioned countries with two of the membership services (career development and subsidized attendance of ACS meetings)
2. ACS's future coordination with National Academies regarding scientific collaboration.

The PDF file was sent from ACS's president's email account and is password protected.

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[ACS Logo]
American Chemical Society
[ACS Address]

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Catherine T. Hunt
President-Elect, 2006
President, 2007
Immediate Past President, 2008

May 19, 2007

[Deleted Name]
[Deleted Address]

Dear [Deleted Name],

Thank you for your recent communication regarding the American Chemical Society's (ACS) action affecting its members residing in Iran. We have carefully reviewed all of the comments from concerned ACS members and others on this complex issue. In addition, our General Counsel and his staff have innitiated additional contacts with the Department of Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and have conducted a further legal review. We are pleased to inform you after considering all of these factors we have reinstated these chemists from Iran as ACS members.

The ACS will now be offering members in OFAC sanctioned countried our member benefits, with two main restrictions: these members will not have access to services relating to career development and they will not be able to register for ACS national meeting at discounted rates. As you may know, the ACS has for many years pursured policies to foster freedom of scientific exchange and collaboration. We are continuing our efforts, through an OFAC licensing application, to be able to provide these members with all ACS member services. In addition, we are coordinating with the National Academy of Sciences and other scientific societies on broader OFAC issues relating to scientific collaboration.

Again, thank you for your valuable input on this important issue.

Sincerely,

Caterine T. (Katie) Hunt

CTH:ds

ACS Vision: Improving People's Lives through the Transforming Power of Chemistry

The American Chemical Society -- with more than 160,000 members -- os the largest scientific society in the world. ACS is a nonprofit membership organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research.

After outcry, ACS restores members

After outcry, ACS restores members
36 Iranians and one Sudanese had been expelled

By Jonathan Zebrowski
Princetonian Senior Writer

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2007/05/16/news/18478.shtml

In the wake of complaints from scientists worldwide, the American Chemical Society (ACS) announced Friday that it would reinstate chemists in Iran and Sudan whose memberships it had previously revoked on legal grounds.

The organization had initially barred 36 Iranian members and its one Sudanese member on the grounds that their membership violated U.S. trade sanctions on those countries. Of the Iranians, 22 did not receive membership renewal notices and the others, whose memberships were not up for renewal, were informed that their memberships had been terminated, The Chronicle of Higher Education reported Monday.

But when ACS officials later consulted with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, which oversees the enforcement of those sanctions, they decided to reverse the earlier decision, an ACS press release said.

After the expulsions took place, "the [ACS] board received a number of letters from concerned ACS members who wanted their Iranian colleagues reinstated," the press release added.

On campus, the news of the expulsions spread swiftly through the scientific community. An email, a copy of which was obtained by The Daily Princetonian, circulated among academic departments, criticized the organization's move and asked recipients to contact ACS officials and lodge complaints.

"It is understandable that the ACS's board of directors would try to protect the society against the fines predicted by the sanction laws, but the way the ACS has managed the issue is not what other societies have done in the past," the email said, adding that "the common procedure among scientific organizations" has been to ignore the provisions of sanction laws while applying for an exception in the meantime.

"I think that barring foreign members or any members from a society like this is outrageous," chemistry department associate chair Michael Hecht said in late April. "We don't penalize people for the opinions of their governments. Scientific or academic organizations should know better than to do this."

According to the latest ACS statement, the association will now offer memberships in all sanctioned countries, though it won't provide career development services and discount registration fees to national meetings.

The members who were barred were sent an email Friday inviting them to rejoin, and their membership fees and annual postage will be paid by an anonymous donor, ACS executive director Madeleine Jacobs told the Chronicle.

The ACS has over 160,000 members worldwide and provides "a broad range of opportunities for peer interaction and career development, regardless of professional or scientific interests," according to the organization's website.

American Chemical Society, in Reversal, Reinstates 36 Iranian Members

Chronicle's coverage of the ACS incident is by far the most complete version of the story I know of. I expect it to have some inaccuracies though. read below:
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/05/2007051403n.htm

American Chemical Society, in Reversal, Reinstates 36 Iranian Members

By BURTON BOLLAG

The American Chemical Society announced on Friday that it had reversed an earlier decision to expel its members in Iran and will allow all 36 scientists in that country to rejoin. The group had earlier said that having such members put the society in violation of U.S. trade sanctions against Iran.

The decision to remove the Iranians drew protests from academics, especially from Iranians living in the United States.

But a statement placed on the society's Web site on Friday said that, after further reviewing its legal options and after consulting with the federal agency overseeing the trade sanctions, the society's Board of Directors had decided to reinstate the Iranians.

They will, however, be denied two benefits that other members receive: the group's career-development services, and reduced-price admission to the society's twice-yearly national meetings.

The society's one member in Sudan -- another country under U.S. trade sanctions -- had also been removed and was being invited back with the same restrictions. The society, which has 160,000 members and calls itself the world's biggest scientific association, would not disclose whether its members in Iran and Sudan work for academic institutions, government agencies, or industry.

The society's executive director, Madeleine Jacobs, said the original decision to remove the Iranians and the one Sudanese had been made by midlevel staff members without her knowledge or that of the society's board. She said no employee would be penalized for the action.

"We had a snafu, a breakdown of communications," Ms. Jacobs said in an interview. "We would not have rescinded membership if it had come to my attention." Although the expulsions were carried out in January, Ms. Jacobs said she and the society's other senior officials had learned of the move from an article in the journal Science only at the end of March.

Ms. Jacobs said the whole affair started almost a year ago, when the unidentified member in Sudan inquired about his or her eligibility for all membership benefits despite the U.S. trade laws barring American organizations from doing business with people in Cuba, Iran, North Korea, and Sudan, among other countries. The society's assistant general counsel, identified in the Science article as David T. Smorodin, conducted a review of U.S. government regulations and determined that the society was prohibited from having members in countries under trade sanctions.

The society then had an outside lawyer contact the agency overseeing the sanctions, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control, and, without identifying the chemical society, inquire about restrictions on foreign membership. That inquiry appeared to confirm Mr. Smorodin's conclusion, Ms. Jacobs said, and the midlevel decision was made to rescind membership for the 36 Iranians and one Sudanese.

The decision harked back to a 2003 controversy in which the Treasury Department said it was illegal for American research journals to edit papers from scientists in countries under U.S. trade sanctions -- a policy that was latter rescinded. Since then, the chemical society appears to have been the only scientific group to drop members in those countries, Ms. Jacobs said. But another group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, cut off nearly all services to its Iranian members to comply with the trade embargo in 2002, leading all but a few hundred of its 1,700 Iranian members to quit (The Chronicle, October 17, 2003). Acting under guidance from the Office of Foreign Assets Control, the institute was later able to reinstate most of those services.

Ms. Jacobs said it was understandable that staff members at the society would be concerned about compliance with the law because her group offers a wider range of services than do most scientific societies.

Still, when the chemical society's senior officials and board members learned about the decision, at the end of March, Ms. Jacobs said, they immediately arranged to meet with representatives of the Office of Foreign Assets Control. From those contacts, they concluded that the Iranians and Sudanese could be members if they were denied the two membership benefits from which they are now excluded.

The society has now applied to the Treasury Department office for a license to extend full membership to scientists in countries under trade sanctions. "We want to obey U.S. law while promoting scientific cooperation," said Ms. Jacobs.

The society said it had joined other scientific associations in working with the National Academy of Sciences to try to get clarification from the U.S. government about "what is and what isn't allowed" in terms of academic cooperation with scientists in embargoed countries, said Ms. Jacobs.

As for the Iranians, 22 had simply not been sent membership-renewal notices this spring. But the other 14 Iranians, whose memberships were not up for renewal, had received notices of expulsion. As a gesture to make up for the "personal distress and hardship" that step may have caused, Ms. Jacobs said, the $136 annual membership fee and the $58 annual postage fee for the society's magazine were being paid by an anonymous donor for one year.

Ms. Jacobs said the Iranians and Sudanese were all invited to rejoin in an e-mail message sent on Friday.

Open Letter: American Chemical Society Should Repeal Unjust Expulsions and Reinstate Iranian Members

http://www.iranian.com/Opinion/2007/May/Chemical/index.html

May 1, 2007

Dear Members of the American Chemical Society:

On behalf of the Iranian academic community and the Iranian American Professional Associations we are writing you to ask your assistance in reversing the unilateral decision of the Board of ACS to terminate the membership of chemists living in select countries, mainly in Iran, and mostly university professors.

We are Iranian Americans adhering to moral and ethical values. We would like to offer our strong support to our colleagues in Iran who need our help, not punishment motivated by irrelevant and unjustified intentions.

We believe that this decision is ill-conceived and misguided, without justification, and is gravely undermining the integrity of ACS as a prestigious scientific organization that we have collectively worked very hard to achieve. In this regard please note the following:

ACS decided to not renewthe membership of its Iranian members starting January 2007 without disclosing it to the public. ACS Members heard of this decision only when it was reported in the March 30, 2007, issue of the Science Magazine (1).
On April 9, ACS decided to go public, and at the same time file for an Exemption License with the Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) (2). In its News Release of April 16, 2007, ACS actually makes reinstatement of these members conditional to the approval of its application by OFAC (3).
We believe that termination of Iranian membership was against the ACS Bylaws (4) that provides dismissal of members only for:
Sec. 3- Article 4:

“A member may be dropped from membership for nonpayment of dues or for conduct which in anywise tends to injure the SOCIETY or to affect adversely its reputation or which is contrary to or destructive of its objects. No member shall be dropped except after opportunity to be heard as provided in the Bylaws. (1/1/63)”

None of the reasons stated above apply to this mass termination case, and due process was most certainly violated by this ACS decision.

ACS asserts that the dismissal was according to the advice of lawyers, both in-house and external, and intended to follow the rules governing the Sanction Law and Iran Trade Restrictions. ACS further claims that this decision was at the advice of OFAC (5).
Berman Amendment to the Sanction Law excluded Information Exchange from this law, and OFAC actually recognized this in its November 3, 2003 ruling (6), in which it makes a statement in favor of professional membership:
“The prohibition in ITR § 560.204 on exports to Iran or the Government of Iran does not apply to the exportation to any country of information and informational materials. ITR, § 560.210(c)...

The extension of membership to and acceptance of annual dues from Iran in connection with receipt by Iran of the U.S. Entity’s association publications and information would not be prohibited by the ITR.”

If ACS has a ruling by OFAC that explicitly prohibits the membership of Iranian nationals in US professional organizations, then it has the duty to disclose such document to its members.
Paradoxically, no other professional organization has terminated its Iranian members.

ACS Executive Director and CEO, Ms. Madeleine Jacobs, even in this week’s C&EN (7), emphasizes that she was made aware by the lawyers that not dropping Iranian members would result in heavy fines of $500,000, up to 20 years jail sentence for key officers, and the danger that ACS would lose its tax-exempt status. This advice that was also given to IEEE in 2001 appears to us more like ‘scare tactic’ and is unfounded.
OFAC does not prohibit Information Exchange and Membership of nationals from Embargoed Countries in U. S. Professional Organizations, and to our knowledge it has never prosecuted or penalized any US professional organization, or its Board members, for violating US Laws by having Iranian members.

After having Iranian members for many years since passing of the Sanction Law, if ACS was still concerned about legality of having Iranian members, it could have applied for Exemption and exclude its Iranian members if its application was rejected by OFAC, and not use the ‘Shoot first, ask later!’ strategy. This sort of action is not expected from a scientific Organization that believes in its own Constitution and the ‘Universality of Science.’
Many US professional organizations have not even applied for Exemption license with OFAC to have Iranian members, because they believe that Sanction Law does not require them to do so.

Since the disclosure of the ACS decision many members of ACS and concerned members of other professional organizations have written to ACS and have expressed their dismay about the exclusion of Iranian members.

Please contact the President and Board members of ACS via secretary@acs.organd ask them to repeal this unjust decision and reinstate the Iranian members. Comments

With best regards,

Fredun Hojabri
Professor of Chemistry & former Academic Vice-President of Sharif (Aryamehr) University of Technology,
hojabri@aol.com

David Rahni
Professor of Chemistry, Pace University
Adjunct Professor of Dermatology, New York Medical College
Former Chair of the ACS New York,

Prof. Fazlollah Reza
President and Founder of Iranian Academic Association of North America
dr.freza@sympatico.ca

Fariba Aria, Ph. D. in Chemistry
President, Sharif University of Technology Association (SUTA)
kimia@ix.netcom.com

Mohammad Behforouz, Professor of Chemistry
President, Shiraz University Association (SUA)
mbehforo@bsu.edu

Ali Banijamali, Ph. D. in Chemistry
Chair, Iranian Chemists' Association of the American Chemical Society (ICA-ACS),
banijamali@yahoo.com

Ali Akbari, Professor of Economics, California Lutheran University
President, Association of Professors and Scholars of Iranian Heritage (ASPIH)
akbari@clunet.edu

Hamid Javadi, Ph. D., Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Iranian-American Physicists (IrAP) Network Group
(c/o Hamid Javadi, IrAP Network Group President)
hamidhjavadi@sbcglobal.net)

References:

Science, Vol. 315, 30 March 2007, page 1777
Chemical & Engineering News, April 9, 2007, page 11
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/85/i17/8517news1.html
http://www.chemistry.org/portal/resources/ACS/ACSContent/bulletin5/bylaw...
Flint H. Lewis, ACS Secretary and General Counsel, Letter to Prof. D. Rahni
http://treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac
Chemical & Engineering News, April 23, page 9

Postdoc position at University of Cape Town, South Africa

One of my collaborators, Prof John Moss, University of Cape Town, South Africa, is looking for a postdoc to join his group next year under the Claude Leon Foundation fellowships.

Details of the Claude Leon Foundation Fellowships are available at www.leonfoundation.co.za and the deadline for applications is 31st May 2007 to start in Jan 2008 for 2 years. These are good fellowships
and are valued at R125 000 per annum (USD 18 000)(tax free).

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