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National Officers
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Dr. Lawrence Duffy, FAIC, CPC (2006)
President-Elect
Dr. Kenneth Abate, FAIC CPC (2006)
Secretary
Dr. David Manuta, FAIC (2007)
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Prof. Edmond S Malka, MPH, FAIC (2007)
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Dr. Martin Apple, FAIC (2006)
Vice Chair
Dr. David Riley, FAIC, CPC, CChE (2004)
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(2006)
Dr. Margaret Hall, FAIC
Dr. Connie Hendrickson, FAIC, CPC
Mr. Paul Mills, FAIC, CPC
Dr. Dennis Runser, FAIC, CPC
(2007)
Dr. Lila Albin, FAIC
Dr. Stanley Edinger, FAIC, CPC
Dr. David D. Kumar, FAIC
Dr. James Smith, FAIC, CPC
(2008)
Dr. Martin Apple, FAIC
Prof. F. Albert Cotton, PhD, FAIC
Dr. W. Jeffrey Hurst, FAIC, CPC
Mr. Elliott Weinberg, FAIC
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Prof. Edmond S. Malka, MPH, FAIC
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Volume 83, Issue 1
March 2006
 
From the Chairman................
Whatever your field of chemistry, you and your colleagues have probably dedicated a large part of your life to discovering and applying new knowledge that improved the lives of all around you. In myriad ways and with thousands of important discoveries over the 20th Century, chemistry and chemists have been a very major force in forming the exciting world of the present. We can each list hundreds of ways that chemistry transformed us, how we live, what we do, and what we can do. Chemists have made this world a better place for every aspect of human life.
We are now becoming a major force in shaping the 21st century. We discover new problems; we creatively solve new problems. The 20th Century was an era in which we believed in not only unlimited opportunity, but behaved as though we lived in a nearly infinite world, and we were at the center. But we are not alone. Our new perspective from which we will lead the progress of the 21st Century is that we not only have a very finite world, but we all live in a thin film of life +/- 2miles from the surface of our small planet, in a very delicately balanced dynamic ecosystem interacting with over a million non-human species. Our economy, as we are now learning, is a subset of the world ecosystem, not the reverse. If we ever push and stress that fragile film of life beyond its resilient limits, the underlying resources for our economy will fail with it. We are charged to become good stewards of this rich gift so that we may pass on to every next generation a better world.
The AIC has a rich and significant history. It is now in a period of transition from what it was into what it will be. The whole world of chemistry is also undergoing many rapid changes. Such transitions can create a difficult period. Not only are new branches of knowledge opening up, but they will coincide with many unplanned events that together will generate numerous unforeseen threats and many, many more exciting opportunities.
Our nation faces many daunting challenges– both a trade gap and federal deficit of unprecedented size and growth, a resulting constrained federal investment in crucially important merit reviewed “patient capital” basic research, our students graduating high school with math and science achievement far below our needs, fortress America slowing international scientific exchange and hanging a “not welcome” sign on our Statue of Liberty, offshoring of chemistry-related jobs at home at the same time that there is a rapid growth of such degrees and jobs in Asia, a geriatric society with fast rising demands on healthcare resources and entitlements–and whose science workforce averages about 10 years from retirement, an overwhelmed public in Future Shock, and a world transformed from national into corporate into individual globalization and pandemonium by the ‘Net and the WWW.
Organizations balance their roles among two verbs: to be or to do. AIC’s 21st Century operative verb is “to do.” AIC will seek to grow in quality of achievement and leadership, both in increasing our membership and what we undertake. AIC is the home of the highest achievers in the chemical sciences. We will call upon you to use your accumulated wisdom to see and solve the important problems ahead of us. Our future will bring the best of our past forward, and grow into the best that chemistry in all its forms can provide for the world in the future. All areas of chemistry can provide immense good to the whole world in the 21st Century–it is your challenge to ensure that it does so. In our rapidly changing world, patience is not an option.
Our task, Your task, is Carpe Diem !
Martin Apple, PhD FAIC
President, Council of Scientific Society Presidents
 
 
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