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The Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry Symposium was held at the ACS National Meeting in Dallas, TX on March 16-17, 2014. This year’s award winner was Prof. Walter Loveland from Oregon State University. The 1.5-day symposium was organized by Dave Morrissey, Michigan State University, and Darrah Thomas, Oregon State University. The symposium speakers discussed Walt’s many contributions to the field, including superheavy element research and reaction dynamics with radioactive beams.
 

 
(from left) Christopher Duellmann, Joe Hamilton, Walter Loveland, Mark Stoyer, and Ken Gregorich after the first session of the 2013 Seaborg Award Symposium in Dallas, TX.
 

Plutonium Futures – The Science 2014 is a topical conference that provides an international forum for presentation and discussion of current research on physical and chemical properties and environmental interactions of plutonium and other closely related actinide elements.

 
Additional information is available at pu.ans.org
 
Conference organizers: Kerri Blobaum (blobaum1 AT llnl.gov) or Scott McCall (mccall10 AT llnl.gov)
 

The NUCL abstract deadline for the 248th ACS National Meeting in San Francisco, CA is March 24, 2014. Abstracts can be submitted via the ACS PACS system (abstracts.acs.org). Additional details are available at
248th ACS National Meeting.

Professor Walter D. Loveland was named the 2014 Glenn T. Seaborg Award for Nuclear Chemistry, and a symposium in his honor will be held during the 247th ACS National Meeting in Dallas, TX. Walter has made important contributions to the understanding of nuclear reactions and their role in the production of isotopes as the far reaches of the nuclear chart, including those of the superheavy elements. He also has had impact on nuclear chemistry education, both through his work on the “The Living Textbook of Nuclear Chemistry” and as coauthor of the “Modern Nuclear Chemistry” text. Walter served as NUCL division chair in 2002, and as an Alternate Councilor from 1988-1990. Please join us in Dallas as we recognize Walter for his outstanding achievements in nuclear chemistry.

The 27th RERC will meet June 22­‐26, 2014 at The Village at Squaw Valley in Squaw Valley, CA. Sessions on several topics are planned including actinide chemistry and physics. For more information, see www.unr.edu/rerc.

There will be a Gordon Research Conference June 22-27, 2014 in Andover, NH on Metals in Medicine, titled Defining the Future of Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry. For more information, visit http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2014&program=metalsmed