Partial Core Support for the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

该项目为国家科学院提供了一些支持， 国家科学研究理事会化学委员会 科学技术（BCST）。 委员会的活动 使化学科学受益，因为持续的健康是 NSF化学部（MPS）的主要关注点， 化学和热系统（工程）。 理事会在 过去，管理“分离纯化”的研究， CTS部门的“化学工程前沿”， 在此之前，“化学的机会”， 化学部。 由NSF共同资助的BCST有助于它继续其传统 服务于化学、生物化学和 化学工程重大问题规划研究 并通过提供研究建议可以 传播并采取行动。 在未来三年，董事会希望制定一个 若干重大举措，包括： O 促进改进的 化学导论课程; O 加强化学实验室管理 学术机构的安全; O 就最佳战略提供指导， 化学品的设计、建造和翻新 实验室设施; O 继续协调宣传工作， 化学和化学工程调查报告; 和 O 发起一系列简短、高度可见的 报告/专题讨论会，以突出特别有前途的 化学研究前沿 其中一份报告是 最近开始在“催化剂科学和 技术”的亚历克西斯贝尔的主持下， 加州大学伯克利分校化学系 工程.

This project provides some support to the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council's Board on Chemical Sciences & Technology (BCST). The activities of the Board benefit the chemical sciences where continued health is a major concern of the NSF Divisions of Chemistry (MPS) and Chemical and Thermal Systems (Engineering). The Board, in the past, managed the studies on "Separation & Purification" and "Frontiers in Chemical Engineering" for the CTS Division and, before that, the "Opportunities in Chemistry" for the Chemistry Division. Co-funding of the BCST by NSF helps it continue its tradition of service to the discipline of chemistry, biochemistry, and chemical engineering by planning studies on important issues and by providing the means by which study recommendations can be disseminated and acted upon. Over the next three years, the Board hopes to formulate a number of major initiatives, including the following: o stimulating the development of an improved introductory chemistry curriculum; o improving the management of chemical laboratory safety in academic institutions; o providing guidance on optimal strategies for the design, construction, and renovation of chemical laboratory facilities; o continuing coordinated dissemination efforts for the chemistry and chemical engineering survey reports; and o initiating a series of short, highly visible reports/symposia to highlight especially promising chemical research frontiers. One such report was recently started on "Catalyst Science and Technology" under the chairmanship of Alexis Bell of the University of California-Berkeley, Department of Chemical Engineering.