Top national science officials address interdisciplinary science at ACS meeting

The chemical sciences provide the infrastructure to deliver the food, fuel, medicine, and materials that support modern life. Collaboration among chemists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists and physicists is paramount in creating these products. Developing a pharmaceutical, for example, involves chemistry, biology, the biomedical community, computer modeling, and communication with government regulatory agencies. But traditionally chemistry — and other sciences — have been taught as individual subjects in relative isolation from other disciplines.

The event, sponsored by the Society’s president Eli Pearce, Ph.D., university research professor at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, N.Y., is a highlight of the first day’s lineup of activities as the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society, opens its national meeting, August 18-22.

WHAT:
Interdisciplinary Science: Opportunities, Challenges, Policy and Practices

WHEN:
Sunday, August 18
9:00 a.m. Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
9:30 a.m. Wendy Baldwin, Deputy Director, National Institutes of Health
10:00 a.m. George Whitesides, Professor of Chemistry, Harvard University
10:30 a.m. Alan Heeger, Professor of Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara
11:00 a.m. Joseph Miller, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Corning, Inc.
1:30 p.m.Marye Anne Fox, Chancellor, North Carolina State University
2:00 p.m. Carol Lynch, Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School, University of Colorado

WHERE:
Hynes Convention Center, Room 207