Core Support for the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

化学部（CHE）和化学，生物工程，环境和运输系统（CBET）共同资助国家科学院的这一奖项，以支持化学科学和技术委员会（BCST）的核心活动。BCST是国家研究理事会内化学和化学工程专业知识的中心，该理事会因其向联邦机构提供的独立技术建议而受到认可和尊重。BCST具有来自企业、工业和非营利组织的广泛代表性，并利用集体专业知识来确定专题研究的需求，提请决策者注意，并与他们合作获得资金和解决这些问题所需的技术咨询。巴塞尔委员会通过同行审查的共识报告、讲习班和专题讨论会作出回应，并广泛接触化学界内外。拟议的活动有三个主要目标：（1）巴塞尔委员会将每年举行三次会议，以确定对国家和/或化学科学的福祉特别重要的领域，并讨论化学和化学工程可能影响的主题;（2）巴塞尔委员会将扩大其对新受众的宣传，以扩大社会对化学家和化学工程师能力的一般了解;（3）巴塞尔委员会将继续监督在其授权下开展的研究，以确保研究任务适当，为委员会服务的专家具有最佳资格，报告质量最高，并有客观的科学推理基础。

The Divisions of Chemistry (CHE) and Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental and Transport Systems (CBET) 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 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.