9. SERVICE OF CHEMISTRY
The CHEMRAWN series
continues to address issues at the interface of science and society.
CHEMRAWN XI was held on 15-20 March 1998 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The
subject of the conference was "Latin American Symposium on Environmental
Analytical Chemistry". A Workshop on Environmental Analytical Chemistry
was held in conjunction with CHEMRAWN IX. The Workshop was organized
by the IOCD and partly funded by an ICSU grant to IUPAC. A CHEMRAWN
Conference on Green Chemistry is planned for 2000.
The theme of the 15th
International Conference on Chemical Education, 9-14 August 1998,
Cairo, Egypt, was Chemistry and Global Environmental Change. Other
IUPAC activities in the education field include the sponsorship of
work on inexpensive instrumentation and micro laboratory kits for
use by schools in developing countries.
At the Council meeting, the Secretary General will describe a proposed
new initiative to encourage career development of young scientists.
An IUPAC prize for young scientists, based on their doctoral research,
will be awarded annually, with the winners being brought to the IUPAC
Congress to receive their prizes and participate in the scientific
activities.
I would like to emphasize that the service of chemistry is not a
substitute for the advancement of high-level, high-quality international
research; rather, it is complementary.
