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Copyright © 2012 American Chemical Society
January 2, 2012 Issue
Volume 90, Issue 1
Features
Government & Policy
Chemical safety board chairman lays out plans, stakeholders offer strong support and concerns (pp. 20-21)
Science & Technology
A variety of optical techniques are slowly making their way into noninvasive medical diagnostics (pp. 25-27)
News of the Week
Charges Brought In UCLA lab Death
Lab Safety: UC system, professor face felony counts in death of Sheri Sangji
(p.7)EPA Asked To Delay Dioxin Assessment
Hazard Analysis: Industry group cites new law to justify its request
(p.8)Honeywell, DuPont Face European Probe
Antitrust: Arkema complaint leads to scrutiny of refrigerants market
(p.8)Bird Flu Studies Stir Controversy
Publishing: Researchers, journals consider federal request to censor recipe for contagious flu
(p.9)EPA Acts On Power Plant Emissions
Clean Air: New regulation requires power plants to cut mercury, other toxic substances
(p.10)Easier Route To Genomic Changes
Genetic Engineering: Zinc finger nucleases induce duplications, inversions of DNA sequences
(p.11)Flurry Of Cancer Pacts
Takeda, Merck & Co., Eli Lilly & Co., AstraZeneca move to gain access to oncology drug candidates.
(p.11)Departments
Business
Executives at CPhI India call FDA scrutiny a part of doing pharmaceutical chemical business
(pp. 16-17)
New chairman of accident-prone firm upgrades engineering, promotes culture of safety
(pp. 13-15)ACS News
Awards
(pp. 30-34)
(pp. 30-34)- 2012 ACS National Award Winners
- George C. Pimentel Award In Chemical Education
- Peter Debye Award In Physical Chemistry
- ACS Award For Creative Work In Synthetic Organic Chemistry
- Gabor A. Somorjai Award For Creative Research In Catalysis
- Frank H. Field & Joe L. Franklin Award For Outstanding Achievement In Mass Spectrometry
- ACS Award For Creative Invention
- ACS Award In Analytical Chemistry
Government & Policy
Chemical safety board chairman lays out plans, stakeholders offer strong support and concerns
(pp. 20-21)
U.S., EU officials examine barriers, opportunities for trans-Atlantic cooperation
(pp. 22-23)Education
Chemist turned university president talks about the challenges of starting a university
(p.28)
Science & Technology
A variety of optical techniques are slowly making their way into noninvasive medical diagnostics
(pp. 25-27)