Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

化学和化学运输系统部门联合资助该奖项给美国国家科学院，以支持化学科学与技术委员会（BCST）的核心活动。这个奖项的PI是Dorothy Zolandz。BCST是美国国家研究委员会（National Research Council）内化学和化学工程专业知识的中心，该委员会因向联邦机构提供独立的技术建议而得到认可和尊重。BCST拥有来自学术界、工业界和非营利组织的广泛代表，并利用集体专业知识来确定专题研究的需求，将其引起决策者的注意，并与他们合作获得资金和所需的技术建议来解决这些问题。BCST通过同行评议的共识报告、研讨会和专题讨论会作出回应，并在化学界内外广泛开展活动。提议的活动有三个主要目标：(1)BCST将每年召开三次会议，以确定对国家福祉和/或化学科学特别重要的领域，并讨论化学和化学工程可能影响的主题；(2) BCST将扩大对新受众的接触，向社会推广化学家和化学工程师能力的一般知识；(3) BCST将继续监督在其权限下进行的研究，以确保研究任务是适当的，为委员会服务的专家有最好的资格，报告的质量是最高的，并有充分的客观科学推理基础。

The Divisions of Chemistry and Chemical Transport Systems jointly fund this award to the National Academy of Sciences to support the core activities of the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST). The PI of this award is Dorothy Zolandz. The BCST serves as the locus of chemical and chemical engineering expertise within the National Research Council, an institution recognized and respected for the independent technical advice it gives federal agencies. BCST has broad representation from academe, industry and non-profit organizations, and uses the collective expertise to identify the needs for topical studies, brings this to the attention of decision-makers, and works with them to obtain funding and needed technical advice to address these issues. BCST responds via peer reviewed consensus reports, workshops and symposia, and has broad outreach into the chemical community and beyond. There are three primary goals of the activities proposed: (1) BCST will meet three times a year to identify areas of particular importance to the well being of the nation and/or the chemical sciences and to discuss topics that chemistry and chemical engineering might impact; (2) BCST will increase its outreach to new audiences to expand general knowledge of the capabilities of chemists and chemical engineers to society, and; (3) BCST will continue its oversight of studies carried out under its authority to ensure that the study task is appropriate, that the experts tapped for committee service have the best qualifications, and that the reports are of the highest quality and well-grounded in objective scientific reasoning.