“Most people thi nk of national meeting s as a
place to meet your peers working in a narrow,
specific area. I do just the opposite.I usually try
toattendsessionsthatareoutsideofmyjob. Ido
that in order to broaden myself. What I find is I
get ideas that relate back to what I am doing.”

RUSSELL W. JOHNSON
Corporate Fellow, Honeywell International, Inc., Des Plaines, Ill.
He is a 36-year ACS member.

Office of Legislative and Government Affairs (OLGA) has helped me tremendously in forming a government affairs committee for our local section (South Central Missouri). I find this program very beneficial to serve people in the community and to promote public policies favoring science education.”

“An ACS Petroleum Research Fund grant allowed me to carry out early work on fluorescent chemosensors — molecule-sized ‘devices’ that signal the presence of analytes via fluorescence. The success of that early project enabled me to start what proved to be a major new area of research to my group. Without ACS PRF support, we would not have been able to even start in that field.”

 

JYOTI DALVI-MALHOTRA Senior Research Associate, Brewer Science, Inc., Rolla, Mo. She is a 7-year ACS member.

ANTHONY W. CZARNIK Visiting Professor of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno; Editor, Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry. He is a 33-year ACS member.

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