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Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC
From the journal Chemistry International -- Newsmagazine for IUPAC Volume 21 Issue 6

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AOAC International Hires New Executive Director

AOACÕs Board of Directors has selected E. James Bradford as AOAC InternationalÕs new Executive Director. He assumed his responsibilities on 6 July 1999.

Dr. Bradford brings to AOAC International a combination of association management, academic, and chemistry experience. Dr. Bradford is former Director of Science, Mathematics, and Technology Education Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC, USA. Prior to that, he was employed for nearly 15 years at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC, USA.

At AAAS, Dr. Bradford directed six science, mathematics, and technology education programs; an NSF-sponsored core competencies project; science books and films; and senior scientists and engineers.

At the ACS, he served as the administrator for Grants and Awards of the Membership Division in 1998 and as assistant director of the Membership Division from 1995 to 1997. Over the years, he was also the ACS special assistant to the executive director, program man-ager of National Chemistry Week, and manager of the Office of College Chemistry. He established National Chemistry Week as an annual event involving more than 1 000 volunteers reaching out to the public, and he has even appeared on Nickelodeon with Linda Ellerbee in an antismoking program for kids.

As the ACS administrator for Grants and Awards of the Membership Division, he directed a staff of 20 and a budget of USD 20 million to administer 62 national awards in the chemical sciences and a USD 16.3 million grants program. He also served as staff liaison for the Board Committee on Grants and Awards, and for the Joint Board-Council Committee on Science.

Before his ACS experience, Dr. Bradford was a member of the adjunct chemistry faculty at Northern Virginia Community College, a lecturer in engineering chemistry and organic chemistry at the University of Missouri, and division chair and chemistry teacher at Lincoln Trail College in Robinson, Illinois, USA.

A 1975 graduate of Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA, Dr. Bradford also holds an M.S. degree in environmental chemistry from Western Illinois University, USA, and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, USA, in higher and adult chemistry education with concentration in the support areas of descriptive inorganic chemistry, research design statistics, administration, and educational psychology. His professional affiliations include the American Chemical Society, the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Nature Conservancy, the International Congress of Distinguished Awards (for which he recently served on the Board of Directors), and the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives.

AOAC International is a professional scientific association whose primary purpose is to promote chemical and biological analytical methods validation and quality measurements in the analytical sciences. In addition to its method validation programs, AOAC International produces a variety of publications; conducts meetings, workshops, training courses, and topical conferences; and offers technical divisions, local sections, and membership.

Published Online: 2009-09-01
Published in Print: 1999-11

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https://doi.org/10.1515/ci.1999.21.6.178

Articles in the same Issue

  1. 40th IUPAC General Assembly, 7–14 August 1999, Berlin, Germany
  2. Newly Elected IUPAC Officers and Bureau Members
  3. 37th IUPAC Congress–27th GDCh General Meeting, 14–19 August 1999, Berlin, Germany
  4. Chemistry in Today's Brazil
  5. Biodegradation of Chemical Warfare Agents
  6. AOAC International Hires New Executive Director
  7. New Book from IUPAC
  8. New Publications from the World Health Organization
  9. IUPAC Seeks Your Comments
  10. IUPAC Prize for Young Chemists
  11. ’99 International Symposium and Exhibition on Cereals and Their Food Processing Technology and Equipment, 23–26 November 1999, Beijing, China
  12. Sewage Treatment Strategies for Coastal Areas and Small Communities, 6–7 December 1999, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
  13. 17th Process Development Symposium, 13–15 December 1999, Cambridge, England, UK
  14. Natural Products as a Source of Crops Protection, 14–15 December 1999, London, England, UK
  15. AITA/ICC AISTEC International Conference on Training and Scientific Development for Cereal Industries: Programs of Schools, Institutes, and Universities in the World, 9 March 2000, Milan, Italy
  16. International Conference: Starch 2000, 27–29 March 2000, Cambridge, England, UK
  17. 3rd European Congress on Food Freezing: Quality, Nutrition, and Safety, 30–31 March 2000, Montpellier, France
  18. CIWEM and Aqua Enviro Technology Transfer—Joint Millennium Conference: Wastewater Treatment—Standards and Technologies to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century, 4–7 April 2000, Leeds, England, UK
  19. Joint ICC/AOAC International Conference on Dietary Fiber–2000: Processing, Milling, and Nutritional Effects, 14–17 May 2000, Dublin, Ireland
  20. Meteorology at the Millennium, 10–14 July 2000, Cambridge, England, UK
  21. 11th International Cereal and Bread Congress, 8–15 September 2000, Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia
  22. Conference Calendar
  23. Index
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