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* ACS, Senior Chemists Committee의 Newsletter, 2015년
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From the Senior Chemist Newsletter - June 2015
By Madeleine
Jacobs
Madeleine Jacobs was the Executive Director and CEO
of ACS from 2004 to February 2015. She served ACS for over 24 years, including
10 years as the managing editor and editor-in chief of C&EN. She is
currently President and CEO of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents,
chair of the Committee on Minority Affairs, and honorary chair of the ACS
Scholars 20th Anniversary Appeal.
Eli M. Pearce, a past president of ACS and a true
champion of the Senior Chemists Committee and all things ACS, died on May 18.
He was 86.
Eli was extraordinary in so many ways--a brilliant
polymer scientist, a great leader at his university and within ACS, a passionate
advocate for chemistry education reform, and a man who worked tirelessly his
entire life for everyday chemists and to ensure that women and minorities had
equal opportunities for advancement in society and in their
professions.
After working as an industrial chemist at DuPont, J.T.
Baker and Allied Chemical, he joined Brooklyn Polytechnic in 1974 as Professor
of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He later served as Chemistry Department
Head, Dean of Arts and Sciences and Director of the Polymer Research Institute.
Elected President of the American Chemical Society in 2002, he led efforts to
increase the numbers and influence of women and people of color in the field of
chemistry, and to revitalize chemistry education. He was a huge supporter of the
ACS Committee on Minority Affairs and the ACS Scholars Program and proud of
their successes. And he was instrumental in establishing the Senior Chemists
Committee because he believed that retired ACS members could be meaningful
ambassadors in K-12 education and in the larger public. His legacy is enormous
and he will be greatly missed. In
particular, Eli and his family asked people who wished to honor his memory to
donate to the ACS Scholars Program: www.acs.org/success
Eli himself was a legacy leader at ACS and felt
passionately about this program, which celebrates its 20th
anniversary this year. In Boston, on Monday, August 17, the Committee on
Minority Affairs will celebrate the success of this remarkable program with an
all-day symposium featuring the stories of ACS Scholars and alumni. This program
serves gifted minorities who are under-represented in the chemical sciences and
engineering. More than 2,500 undergraduates have graduated from this program and
more than 200 of those alumni have gone on to earn Ph.D.s. Alumni of the ACS
Scholars Program are employed at the finest universities, corporations, and
government laboratories in the U.S. and abroad.
“ACS Scholars: Rising Stars in Academe” (the academic
symposium) will take place on Monday, August 17 from 8:30 AM to 11:30 AM. “ACS
Scholars: Rising Stars in Industry” (the industry symposium) will take place on
Monday, August 17 from 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM. Both have been designated as
Presidential Events.
The Committee on Minority Affairs and Corporation
Associates have also joined together at lunch on Monday, August 17, to celebrate
the scholars, individuals, foundations, and corporations who have made this
program possible. We hope you will be on the lookout for the details of the
symposium and the luncheon and mark your calendar to attend these events. Your
support of the ACS Scholars Program and your attendance at the August 17
symposium and luncheon are fitting ways to celebrate and remember Eli’s
remarkable legacy.
* C&EN 5월 20일자에 실린 피어스 교수에 대한 추모사는 다음 주소에서 볼 수 있습니다.
http://cen.acs.org/articles/93/web/2015/05/Eli-Pearce-Dies-86.html
* From NYU-Poly
http://engineering.nyu.edu/news/2015/05/29/memoriam-eli-pearce
* From the NY Times
obituary
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