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Volume 93, Issue 36

Volunteers accelerate work of government agencies in gathering data for evidence-based policies

COVER: South River Federation intern Chelsea Diedrich, a junior in environmental studies at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, lowers water quality monitoring equipment into the South River near Annapolis, Md.

Credit: James Kegley Photography

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September 14, 2015 Issue

Volume 93, Issue 36

September 14, 2015 Issue, Vol. 93 | Iss. 36

Citizen Scientists Gather Data To Influence Regulation Of Pollution

Volunteers accelerate work of government agencies in gathering data for evidence-based policies

By Steven K. Gibb

(pp. 12-17)

Features

Science & Technology

Working With Wikipedia

ACS Meeting News: Collaboration is key for chemists contributing to the online encyclopedia (pp. 36-37)

Career & Employment

Opening Up About Stress In Graduate School

Graduate students and professors talk about how the pressures of graduate school affect mental health (pp. 59-61)

Cover Story: Citizen Scientists Gather Data To Influence Regulation Of Pollution

Citizen Science Faces Pushback

Some states are restricting the collection or use of environmental monitoring data

(pp. 18-19)

News of the Week

Electron Diffraction Technique Reveals Structure Of Vanishingly Small Protein Crystals

Structural Biology: MicroED yields new information about Parkinson’s aggregates

(p.7)

Another U.S. Cracker Planned

Petrochemicals: Formosa eyes a massive new petrochemical complex in Louisiana, as another project advances

(p.8)

Modified Tobacco Plant Helps Make The Anticancer Drug Etoposide

Plant Biology: Researchers identify enzymes needed for plant to pump out drug precursor

(p.8)

Prices Rise For Priority Vouchers

Pharmaceuticals: Big pharma is paying more to get chits from neglected disease firms to speed up FDA review

(p.9)

Unilever And EPA Join For Animal-Free Chemical Testing

Consumer products giant and U.S. agency seek to advance high-throughput methods for assessing safety

(p.9)

Poor Public Understanding Of Science

Survey: Pew Research Center finds gaps in the U.S. public's knowledge about science topics

(p.10)

Prehistoric Pigments Found In Fossilized Feathers

Paleochemistry: Analytical methods confirm Mesozoic melanin survived in dinosaur remains

(p.10)

Departments

Business

The American Ambitions Of Switzerland’s Clariant

Specialty chemical maker plans to accelerate sales of catalysts, oil-field chemicals in North America

(p.26)

Teamsters Union Confronts Airgas Over Shareholder Rights

A shareholder event becomes an unlikely forum for the union to pressure the firm

(p.27)

Dealing With The Life Sciences Data Stampede

Companies and academic institutions step up to the storage challenge

(pp. 23-25)

Concentrates

(pp. 20-22)

ACS News

Gathering Scientists With International Interests

(p.43)

Candidates’ Election Statements And Backgrounds

(pp. 45-56)

For President-Elect: G. Bryan Balazs

(pp. 45-56)

For President-Elect: Allison A. Campbell

(pp. 45-56)

For District I Director: Thomas R. Gilbert

(pp. 45-56)

For District I Director: Laura E. Pence

(pp. 45-56)

For District V Director: John E. Adams

(pp. 45-56)

For District V Director: Kenneth P. Fivizzani

(pp. 45-56)

For Director-At-Large: Lee H. Latimer

(pp. 45-56)

For Director-At-Large: Willem R. Leenstra

(pp. 45-56)

For Director-At-Large: Ingrid Montes

(pp. 45-56)

For Director-At-Large: Mary Jo Ondrechen

(pp. 45-56)

For Director-At-Large: Thomas W. Smith

(pp. 45-56)

Government & Policy

Citizen Science Faces Pushback

Some states are restricting the collection or use of environmental monitoring data

(pp. 18-19)

Citizen Scientists Gather Data To Influence Regulation Of Pollution

Volunteers accelerate work of government agencies in gathering data for evidence-based policies

(pp. 12-17)

U.K. Seeks To Enhance Its Synchrotron

Capacity and capability are added to the light source in a bid to stay at the forefront of science.

(pp. 30-31)

Concentrates

(p.28)

Concentrates

(pp. 32-33)

Career & Employment

Opening Up About Stress In Graduate School

Graduate students and professors talk about how the pressures of graduate school affect mental health

(pp. 59-61)

Stress Relief

Grad students share strategies for taking their minds off work

(p.62)

Newscripts

Burning Plant, Bacon Seaweed

(p.80)

Editor's Page

Remember Dr. McCoy?

(p.3)

Letters

(pp. 4-5)