(Embrapa) and ACS organized an historic symposium in Águas de Lindóia, Brazil, to promote sustainable research collaborations for improving biomass conversion into fuels and value-added chemicals and materials. About 50 scientists and policy makers from Brazil and the United States — the world leaders in biofuel research and development — participated.
The Society, in cooperation with Reverte Publishing, organized a series of workshops in Argentina, Chile, Mexico and Panama for chemistry teachers interested in activity-based learning, increased student engagement in the classroom and potentially adopting a Spanish language translation of the ACS general textbook, Chemistry (Química). Up to 70 teachers and general chemistry lecturers participated in each country.
In conjunction with the European Federation for Medicinal Che mistry (EFMC), ACS inaugurated a new conference series, Frontiers in Medicinal Chemistry.
The first meeting, which was in Siena, Italy, in October, focused on medicinal chemistry’s role in developing therapies to combat cancer and neurodegenera-tive diseases. About 200 scientists from 20 countries participated.
Twenty-four early-career Chinese and American researchers met in Shanghai to discuss the latest advances in chemical biology. The workshop, hosted by the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, was the first of a series organized by the ACS and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
ANTHONY 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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