We would like to invite all readers to nominate Younger Chemists of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society to the NSYCC Executive Committee for the 2010-11 academic
year. The role of the executive committee is to manage administrative affairs and organize activities for NSYCC member as required by our constitution (accessible on the NSYCC website, www.nsycc.org). The NSYCC is seeking younger chemists (defined as less than 35 years of age and are in pursuit of a degree or are just establishing their careers) for the following positions:

Younger chemists within the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society are eligible and encouraged to run for a position.

The NSYCC provides many exciting events for its members, including an annual Career Day and Chemistry Research Conference, many social activities, and helps with the organization of the NESACS-GDCh Exchange Program.

Please email nominations to the current NSYCC Chair, Raeanne L. Napoleon, at raeanne@nsycc.org by August 31, 2010. Please include the nominees’ contact information and
affiliation.

The election will take place online between September 1, 2010 and September 10, 2010. The voting procedure will be made available to the public on September 1, 2010 by e-mail, and a link will be provided on the the NSYCC homepage. Results will also be announced via e-mail and on the NSYCC homepage.

We strongly urge all readers to nominate and all members to cast their votes!

Where it All Began
In March of 2000, Dr. Michael Strem (Strem Chemicals, Inc), a member of the ACS Board of Directors from Dis- trict I (1997-2000) and a member of the NESACS Board of Directors, trav- eled to Germany for the Chemiedozen- tentagung meeting to exhibit his company’s products by invitation from Dr. Kurt Begitt, with whom he had been in contact because of a growing connection between NESACS and the GDCh. The JCF had an exhibit at this conference, and Strem realized that this group and its young members had similar interests and organization to a group he was very familiar with, the NSYCC.
During the meeting, Strem and Begitt discussed the possibility of each of the groups hosting the other on an annual basis. Having the young chemists interact socially and present their work at conferences, in addition to visits to academic and industrial sites in the geographic areas that the groups were visiting, would be the focus of the weeklong stays. Strem returned to Boston with the ideas that he and Begitt developed and presented them to the NESACS Education Committee, NSYCC, and the Board of Directors. He also informed the group that a dele- gation of German graduate students would be visiting Boston in 2001 for the Northeast Student Chemistry Research Conference (NSCRC), an annual conference organized by the NSYCC that provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate stu- dents, and postdoctoral fellows to pres- ent their research work. NESACS took immediate action and organized a committee to plan the events for their future guests. The committee included Michael Strem, Chair; Ruth Tanner (UMass, Lowell), NESACS Education Committee Chair; Morton Hoffman (Boston University), NESACS Chair- Elect; Amy Tapper (Boston Univer- sity), NSYCC Chair; Tim Frigo (Advanced Magnetics, Inc.), NESACS Chair; and Doris Lewis (Suffolk Uni- versity), NESACS Immediate Past- Chair. The NESACS Board provided funds to allow for comfortable lodging, local transportation, meals, and enter- tainment for the JCF visitors.

History and Details of Each Exchange

Since this initial meeting in 2001, the GDCh-JCF and NESACS-NSYCC have been fortunate enough to have 9 additional meetings, with 2010 mark- ing the 10th Exchange. A brief history of the exchange trips follows.

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