Report of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering.
The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division had a very successful meeting. It was expected that the number of submitted abstracts would decrease this year because of the tragedy and devastation that occurred with Hurricane Katrina. However, participation was comparable to previous years. There were twenty-nine oral presentations and eight...

Environmental Science and ecology.
Removal of Methylene Blue From Aqueous Solutions Using Tar Sands. Lua'y Zeatoun, and Musab Tamimi, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Department of Chemical Engineering, Irbid, 22110, Jordan The adsorption of Methylene Blue, a cationic dye, has been investigated using activated and non-activated tar sands. Batch adsorption...

Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. (Divisional Reports).
There were 21 oral and 21 poster presentations at the 2002 meeting, total of 42 presentations in all. There appears to have been a small decline in the number of oral presentations this year compared to the recent past. In my opinion this is an unfortunate trend because most...

Hedges: charted career path early.
How does it go when you sort of figure what career path you are going to take early in your childhood? Ask Stoy Hedges, manager of pest control technical services for Terminix International. When he was two years old, he was turning over rocks, looking for bugs...

Three angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors from Rabdosia coetsa.
Abstract The EtOAc extract of Rabdosia coetsa showed angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitory activity. Bioassay-guided isolation of this extract yielded ethyl caffeate (1), rosmarinic acid (2) and methyl rosmarinate (3), which inhibited ACE activity by 32.42%, 55.19% and 39.50% respectively, at the concentration of 10[micro]g/ml. [c]...

Social engineering.
During summer break, many college students spend their free time working at fast-food joints or hanging out with friends. But University of Texas student Amanda Cuellar spent last summer doing much-needed development work in the heavily rural Mexican state of Chiapas. A chemical engineering student, Cuellar worked...

310 pass chemical engineer licensure exam.
The Professional Regulation Commission (PRC) announced yesterday that 310 out of 566 examinees passed the Chemical Engineer Licensure Examination given by the Board of Chemical Engineering in Manila and Cebu this November. The successful examinees who garnered the 10 highest ratings are Howel Reblando Reblando of Batangas...

Selling to businesses: the job of the technical sales engineer; this article examines the job and function of the business-to-business salesperson who sells production equipment, components, or finished materials used in the manufacture of other products. Extensive knowledge of the production methods and operations involved play a significant role in such salesperson's set of skills.
MANY products and services, especially those purchased by large companies and institutions, are highly complex. Sales engineers, also known as manufacturer's agents, sales representatives, or technical sales support executives, work with the production, engineering, or research and development departments of their companies to determine how products and services can...

2006 supplemental abstracts.
MISSISSIPPI ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Seventieth Annual Meeting-February 2006 Errata--new life members and new abstracts New Life Members Roy J. Duhe, Jackson, MS Dionne Fortenberry, Columbus, MS Cellular, Molecular and Developmental Biology Addition to poster presentations, 6:00p Thursday...

Kramer resigns from OCP; less takes over as acting director.
FDA announced the resignation of Mark Kramer as director of the Office of Combination Products (OCP) on April 12. As of April 1, Joanne Less, Ph.D., of CDRH will take over as acting director, the agency stated in a release. After 14 years of service at FDA,...