IUPAC
General Assembly in Beijing
The IUPAC General
Assembly is the occasion for meetings of the statutory bodies of
the Union, specifically of the Council, Bureau, Division Committees,
and Standing Committees. The 43rd IUPAC General Assembly will be
held 13-21 August 2005, in Beijing, China, concurrently with the
40th IUPAC Congress. The GA site will be the Beijing International
Convention Center (BICC).
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Link
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The Information
Booklet has been e-mailed (not mailed) to all expected participants
on 15 November 2004. Please do contact the Secretariat if you have
not received this e-mail and yet expect to participate in the GA.
Please take a moment to also review the Congress 2nd Circular, which
includes the Congress preliminary program, map, pre and post Congress
tour options, and visa information. The Chinese Chemical Society
has arranged an impressive program on the theme of Innovation
in Chemistry. Titular members should request a Claim Form by
e-mail to [email protected]
IUPAC members
are encouraged to take advantage of the considerably reduced registration
fee to take part at the World Chemistry Congress.
Looking forward
to seeing you in Beijing!
Analytical
Capacity Building in Africa: Walter Benson presents his project
Cooperative
Project with IUPAC's Analytical Chemistry Division (V) and Division
of Chemistry and The Environment (VI) led by Dr. Walter Benson
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link to
project
A grant of
$10,000 from IUPAC/ACD/DCE to the International Organization for
Chemical Sciences in Development (IOCD) will finance participation
of selected IUPAC chemists in the project. IOCD will assist laboratories
in Africa (initially Kenya and Uganda) to provide reliable and internationally
acceptable results when testing commodities for export to markets
in the USA, EU, and Japan.
A recent World
Bank study, reported in the book "Standards and Global Trade,"
states that trade is a crucial driver of growth, but reveals that
African countries fail to reap the potential income from trade on
foreign markets because, among other constraints, they lack well
developed regulatory infrastructures with laboratories able to produce
test results that meet international standards.
The IOCD project
plans to address this problem in three-phases:
Phase 1 in which IOCD scientists with knowledgeable associates
will determine essential features of each country's regulatory system
and identify the laboratories to be assisted;
Phase 2 in which IOCD/IUPAC scientists will visit the African
laboratories to assess with their personnel those inadequacies that
hinder them from obtaining the reliable testing results needed;
and Phase 3 in which IOCD will organize the delivery of appropriate
remedial measures to the African laboratories to raise their capabilities
to the required level.
These remedial
measures can be characterized as a) Human capacity building and
b) Laboratory up-grading. IOCD has received a grant of $15,000 from
the US National Academy of Sciences to initiate the project and
UNESCO is preparing a contract with IOCD to provide $10,000 for
needed laboratory investigations in Africa. For more details see
the IOCD web site www.iocd.org.
IOCD anticipates starting the project in March 2005.
Elena
Dominguez: new National Representative from Spain
Professor
Elena Dominguez was appointed to the ACD Committee as the Spanish
National Representative. She will be linked with the nanochemistry
Team lead by Brynn Hibbert
Elena Domínguez
(Spanish born 1956) graduated in Pharmacy with a Ph D in 1982 and
after staying for four years at the Department of Analytical Chemistry
in the University of Lund (Sweden) is now Full Professor of Analytical
Chemistry at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). Her
research interests center in bioelectrochemistry and the surface
sciences, especially in the interfacing of the advantages in manipulations
of biological molecules and the advances in microelectronics. The
main technology innovations and transfer efforts of her research
group focus on biosensors and their varied applications in environmental,
clinical and food analysis.
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