Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology

化学和化学运输系统部门共同向美国国家科学院资助该奖项，以支持化学科学与技术委员会(BCST)的核心活动。这一奖项的得主是多萝西·佐兰兹。BCST是国家研究理事会内的化学和化学工程专业知识中心，该机构因向联邦机构提供独立的技术建议而受到认可和尊重。BCST拥有学术界、工业界和非营利组织的广泛代表性，并利用集体专业知识确定专题研究的需求，提请决策者注意，并与他们合作，获得资金和必要的技术建议，以解决这些问题。BCST通过同行评审的协商一致报告、研讨会和研讨会作出回应，并在化学界和其他领域进行了广泛的外联。建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将增加对新受众的外联，向社会扩大对化学家和化学工程师能力的一般知识，以及；(3)BCST将继续监督在其授权下进行的研究，以确保研究任务是适当的，被选中担任委员会服务的专家具有最佳资历，报告具有最高质量和有充分的客观科学推理。

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.