Forecast Outlook For Women In Chemistry

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MEDIA ADVISORY

FORMER U.S. DEPT. OF COMMERCE UNDERSECRETARY TO FORECAST OUTLOOK FOR WOMEN IN CHEMISTRY

Chemist and former U.S. Department of Commerce Undersecretary Mary L. Good, Ph.D., will address a historic gathering of women chemists at the national meeting of the world's largest scientific society, the American Chemical Society, in Las Vegas Sept. 9. To honor 70 years of actions by the Society's Women Chemists Committee, Dr. Good, a past president of the Society, will speak on the historic and future challenges faced by women chemists as they enter the 21st century. Paul Anderson, Ph.D., the Society's President, and senior vice president for chemical and physical science at DuPont/Merck -- where he leads efforts to develop protease inhibitors and combination AIDS pharmaceutical therapies -- also will speak about women's contributions to chemistry and introduce a video presentation highlighting those accomplishments. Sandy Miller, Nevada's First Lady, will make welcoming remarks to luncheon attendees. Miller is chair of Nevada's Experimental Program to Stimulate Competiti! ve Research.

WHO:
Dr. Mary L. Good, Managing Member, Venture Capital Investors, LLC; and former Undersecretary for Technology, Technology Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Dr. Paul Anderson, Senior Vice President, Chemical & Physical Sciences, DuPont/Merck Pharmaceutical Company

Sandy Miller, First Lady, State of Nevada; and Chair, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

WHAT:
Discussion on women's contributions to chemistry and future challenges faced by women chemists, during the 70th anniversary celebration luncheon of the Women Chemists Committee

WHEN:
Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1997
11:45 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Riviera Hotel
2901 Las Vegas Blvd. So.
Top of the Riviera - L (restaurant)

NOTE: Reporters wishing to cover the luncheon must register with Alicia Harris in the ACS Press Room, Convention Center, Room N-118 by 12 noon on Monday, Sept. 8.

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