Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society
Board of Directors Meeting
Northeastern University
Boston MA
October 20, 2005
Members in attendance: M. Chen, M. Filosa, T. Frigo, T. Gilbert, P. Gordon, E.A.
Hopkins, I. Korendovych, D. Lewis, P. Mabrouk, J. Piper, D. Rickter, L. Shao, M. Simon,
M. Singer, J. D. Smith, M. Strem, A. Tapper, V. Walworth.
Visitor in attendance: Kurtev Kurii University of Burgas, Bulgaria.
Amy Tapper, Chair, called the meeting to order at 4:40 pm
The NESACS Board meeting minutes for May 2005 were accepted as presented by
voice vote.
The NESACS Board meeting minutes for September 2005 were accepted as presented
by voice vote.
Chair Report – Amy Tapper (written report)
 Please remember to vote in the ACS National Election. Ballots are due by Nov. 12th.
Information on all candidates can be found at www.chemistry.org/election.
 Social and Networking Event
Chair’s Second Social and Networking Event
Co-sponsored by the YCC and WCC
Beer Tasting and Dinner at the Cambridge Brewing Company
Thursday, November 10th
Tasting at 5:30 pm
Dinner immediately following
All are welcome to attend
The beer tasting will be sponsored by
 Reservations must be made no later than noon, Nov. 3rdth. Please call or fax
Marilou Cashman at 800-872-2054 or email at Mcash0953@aol.com.
 Please visit http://www.cambrew.com/directions.htm for directions. Cambridge
Brewing Company (1 Kendall Square, Building 100, Cambridge, MA 02139, 617494-1994) is directly accessible by the T.
Attendees will be responsible for paying for their own dinner and beverages.
http://www.cambrew.com/dinnermenu.htm
Chair-Elect – P. Mabrouk
 A Northeastern University student will be the photographer tonight and will serve as
photographer for the rest of this year.
 Northeastern University student affiliates will be assisting tonight with registration.
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Secretary:
 No Report
Treasurer – J. Piper
 The June-August 2005 treasurer’s report was presented and accepted by voice vote.
 The September 2005 treasurer’s report was presented and accepted by voice vote.
Budget Committee – J. Piper
 Committee budgets are due by the next Board meeting. See attached letter at the
end of these minutes.
Archivist
 No Report
Councilors:
 T. Gilbert led a brief discussion of the national ACS electronic elections. General
opinion seemed to be that the electronic system was easy to use.
Trustees – M. Strem
 The funds are ahead of their December 2004 closing value.
Local Arrangements – A. Tapper for M. Burgess
 65 people are registered for tonight’s dinner.
Membership Committee: M. Chen
 A total of 167 “Welcome New Member” letters were sent on September 20, 2005.
(108 new members and 59 were members transferred to our local section).
 Two new members will be attending tonight’s dinner meeting.
Board of Publications: V. Walworth (written and oral report)
 Contracts for Nucleus Business Manager and Advertising Manager
 The Board of Publications requests approval by the Board of Directors for
compensation to Karen Piper, Business Manager, for the period July 1, 2005
through June 30, 2006, at the rate of $525 per quarter.
 Request approved unanimously by NESACS Board.
 The Board of Publications also requests approval by the Board of Directors for
compensation to MBO Services, Inc., represented by Vincent Gale, for the same
period at the rate of 25% of advertising revenue.
 Request approved unanimously by NESACS Board.
 Proposed Budget for 2006
 The Board of Publications has submitted a Proposed Budget for 2006 to the
Budget Committee. This budget is conservatively based on 2005 production
costs and expected shortfall due to the possibilities of reduced income from
advertising and increase of postal rates during 2006. We are actively seeking
reduction of production costs.
 NESACS Web Page
 The new web page design has received favorable comments from members and
is meeting our expectations. Our Webmaster, Sathish Rangarajan, has moved
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from Vermont to the Boston area. We look forward to the opportunity for the BOP
and local members to interact more directly with him.
 Arno Heyn Memorial Book Prizes
 As Chair of the Arno Heyn Memorial Committee, I am pleased to report that we
have selected two recipients to be honored for their contributions to publications
of the Northeastern Section. Each recipient has been asked to choose a book
that he will treasure, and the book will have a bookplate identifying it as an Arno
Heyn Memorial Book Prize.
 The recipients of the first such awards are Mark Spitler, who succeeded Arno as
Nucleus editor, and our former Webmaster, Sam Kounaves. The presentations
will take place at the November NESACS meeting.
Nucleus Editor: M. Filosa (written and oral report)
 The editor wishes to thank Ao Zhang for his contributions to the Nucleus. Ao was
responsible for the layout of each issue and did an exemplary job on short timelines.
Sheila Rodman has volunteered to be an associate editor. Sheila has helped with
layout, copy editing and the proofreading of recent issues.
 Since the summer issue and with Ao’s departure we have experimented with using
Word to layout pages of the Nucleus. The goal has been to streamline the process
of delivering copy to Harvey Steiner at Art Technologies to reduce the per page
charges of each issue. This is an ongoing process but initial reports are that the per
page charges have dropped. I am currently training Sheila to help me with the layout
process. This process is very similar to the way Arno worked with Harvey.
 The budget of the Nucleus has been strained because of two reasons. With a new
editorial team, the per page charges of the Nucleus have been high. In addition,
advertising revenue has declined. With costs going up and revenue declining it has
been necessary to save money by publishing fewer pages. Any efficiencies in the
publication process are the second way we are working to stay within our budget.
We expect to be within budget this year thanks to these efforts and the efforts of
Vince Gale to bring in new advertising dollars.
 The editor wants to thank all who have contributed content to the Nucleus. Special
appreciation is extended to Morton Hoffman for his excellent reports and his
marvelous photographs and to Martin Freier for his monthly articles. Many of
Martin’s articles have been quite timely. His article on biodiesel alternative fuels
coincided with a similar article in the Boston Globe and his article on Stem Cells
coincided with an article in National Geographic. Special thanks to Myke Simon for
writing many of the “Historical Notes” and compiling them for publication and to Don
Rickter for coordinating and submitting the Calendar.
 The 2006 preliminary production schedule will be circulated by e-mail.
 Discussion was held on the how best to use the web and e-mail lists.
Hill Award - A. Tapper
 The Hill award will be presented tonight to Dr. Charles Kolb.
Medicinal Chemistry Group – L. Shao
The December meeting topic will be on diabetes 2.
Speaker’s Bureau – A. Tapper
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Sue Buta has resigned and the committee needs a new chair.
YCC – I. Korendovych
The December social event is being planned.
YCC/ GCC – M. Strem
The dates have been set for the NESACS YCC trip to Germany in March 2006.
Application deadline is November 1st.
Education Committee: R. Tanner
 The Connections to Chemistry program is on Wednesday, October 19 th. The
program offers 5 workshops, and Dr. William Carroll, the ACS President, will give the
evening address. Registration has been closed at 150 participants.
 The Grant in Aid applications are due on Friday, October 21, 2005. To date, no
applications have been received, but that is not unusual.
 The NESACS Fourteenth Annual Regional Undergraduate Day is scheduled for
November 5th at Boston University. Matt Vigneau is the contact person for this
event.
 The NESACS will be a sponsor of the 4th Annual Undergraduate Environmental
Research Symposium at Bridgewater State College on Saturday, November 12,
2005. The deadline for submitting abstracts is Saturday, November 12, 2005.
Richards Medal Committee: C. Kolb
 The two mandated non-NES/ACS members of the committee (in addition to Peter
Stang, JACS editor) have been selected and have accepted. They are: Prof.
Veronica Vaida, Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of
Colorado, Boulder and Professor Thomas Spiro, Department of Chemistry,
Princeton University.
 To date we have received four new nominations and one re-submitted nomination. I
have also received a few other inquires from potential nominators, so we may
receive additional nominations before the November 1 deadline.
Continuing Education: A. Viola
 After numerous attempts during the past several years, we finally found a mutually
agreeable time for scheduling the National ACS Short Course Synthetic Organic
Chemistry: Modern Methods and Strategies. The course will be presented by
Professor Paul Helquist, from Notre Dame University, on November 17-18, 2005.
 Announcements of this course will appear in the October and November issues
of The Nucleus, on the NESACS Website, and on posters mailed out to the “List
of 550.”
National Chemistry Week: Christine Jaworek-Lopes
 The National Chemistry Week Kick-Off event was held at Wellesley College on
October 16, 2005. More than 40 volunteers from the Brauner Committee,
Bridgewater State College, Clark University, Emmanuel College, Simmons College,
Suffolk University, Tufts University and Wellesley College ensured the day ran
smoothly for the 325+ individuals that attended the daylong event. Both Phyllis A.
Brauner Memorial Lectures were filled to capacity. Visitors throughout the day
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enjoyed making slime, super balls, nature prints, bunny copters, and marker
butterflies as well as learned how to elicit a reversible color change in Barbie’s hair.
 The increased attendance at this year’s kick-off event could be attributed to a
concerted effort by the committees (NCW and Brauner) to increase publicity.
Information was posted on the NEACT, MAST, WGBH Calendar and NESACS
websites. Notices were sent to Parents & Kids, Boston Parents Paper, several
CNC weeklies, and the Boston Globe. A WBUR radio ad was purchased as well.
 The Northeastern Section is participating in the unifying theme of a toy drive.
Hundreds of toys were collected at the kick-off event and the Suffolk University
Student Affiliates Chapter will coordinate sending of the toys to Louisiana to assist
with the Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.
 The section is also participating in the NCW K-12 poster competition. Deadline for
poster submission is October 30th. Members of the NCW committee will serve as
judges.
 Preliminary discussions regarding having a second hands-on activity day in addition
to the kick-off event for NCW 2006 have begun.
Career Services: M. Chorghade
 This has been an exciting period for Career Services. I presented several lectures
on effective resume writing, cover letters, interviewing etc. at the ACS Fall meeting
in Washington DC. Special accolades are due to Dan Eustace for redesigning
several ACS presentations and personally leading highly and superbly interactive
and novel workshops on interviewing, career development etc. There was
considerable audience participation from employers and interviewees. I am
scheduled to present a workshop on career Services at the Mass. College of
Pharmacy on October 25.
 I was privileged to be elected the National Program Chair for the Division of
Professional Relations (PROF) Three standing symposia have been added: these
will be presented in conjunction with CEPA, IUPAC and Department of Career
Services at all future National meetings
 What does it take to succeed in the pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical industry?"
 The pharmaceutical sector has traditionally been a vibrant, innovation-driven and
highly successful component of industry at large. In recent years, a confluence of
spectacular advances in chemistry, molecular biology, genomic and chemical
technology and the cognate fields of spectroscopy, chromatography and
crystallography have led to the discovery and development of numerous novel
therapeutic agents for the treatment of a wide spectrum of diseases. In order to
facilitate this process, there has been a significant and noticeable effort aimed at
improving the integration of discovery technologies, chemical outsourcing for route
selection / delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients, drug product
formulations, clinical trials and refined deployment of information technologies.
Multi-disciplinary and multi-functional teams focusing on lead generation and
optimization have replaced the traditional, specialized research groups. To
develop a drug from conception to commercialization, the biotechnology /
biopharmaceutical industry (which has been highly entrepreneurial) has reached
out and established global strategic partnerships with numerous companies.
 Four distinguished speakers from the pharmaceutical / biopharmaceutical
industries will explain how the work has changed and how project conception and
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management has evolved over the past 20 years. They will explain how the
innovation process / management of projects and the progress from conception
to commercialization has changed over the years.
 2) Working in Nanotechnology: What does it take? The dynamic field of
nanotechnology is grabbing the attention of headlines, government funding,
investment dollars, and jobseekers. Four distinguished scientists working in the
field will discuss the skills and knowledge that doesn’t necessarily come with a
traditional scientific education yet are predictors of success in nanotechnology.
They will also discuss how a strong grounding in chemistry can be key to a
successful career in nanotechnology and to a successful scientific career in
general.
 3) To Ph. D. or not to Ph. D-A guide to the perplexed student
 Experts will discuss job prospects and career success for chemists at various
degree levels and various professional levels.
Meeting was adjourned at 5:20 pm
Respectfully Submitted
Michael Singer
NESACS Secretary
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 NORTHEASTERN SECTION
 AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
 October 20, 2005
 To:
 From:
 Re:
NESACS Officers and Committee Chairs
J. Piper, Treasurer
Calendar Year 2006 Budgets
 The Budget Committee is beginning the budget review process for the coming year.
The budget is presented as information at the January Board meeting and presented
for adoption at the February meeting. New committee chairs will therefore have the
opportunity to modify their budgets after the January meeting.
 Would you please submit your estimate of expenditures for 2006 along with amounts
and sources of offsetting income, if any? Note that all expenses must be budgeted
even if you expect some of them to be covered by income. The Trustees have
urged the Section to present a balanced budget so that the Budget Committee's job
will involve cutting expenses. Any itemization and/or justification of expenditures,
which you can supply, will be helpful.
 Please return this information to me by November 17, by mail to 19 Mill Road,
Harvard, 01451, email at piper28@attglobal.net, or at the November Board meeting.
 Committee:
 Expenses:
 Income, if any:
 For committees such as Local Arrangements and Summer Programs where income
is uncertain, the most important estimate is the difference between income and
expenditures.
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