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Origin of and Information on the
Chemical Sciences Roundtable
In April 1994 the American Chemical Society (ACS) held understanding of the critical issues in chemical science and
an Interactive Presidential Colloquium entitled “Shaping technology affecting the government, industrial, and aca-
the Future: The Chemical Research Environment in demic sectors. To support this mission the Chemical Sciences
the Next Century.”1 The report from this colloquium Roundtable will do the following:
identified several objectives, including the need to
ensure communication on key issues among government, • Identify topics of importance to the chemical science
industry, and university representatives. The rapidly and technology community by holding periodic dis-
changing environment in the United States for science cussions and presentations, and gathering input from
and technology has created a number of stresses on the the broadest possible set of constituencies involved in
chemical enterprise. The stresses are particularly important chemical science and technology.
with regard to the chemical industry, which is a major • Organize workshops and symposiums and publish
segment of U.S. industry in terms of trade and employment reports on topics important to the continuing health
opportunities for a technical workforce. A neutral and and advancement of chemical science and technology.
credible forum for communication among all segments • Disseminate information and knowledge gained in
of the enterprise could enhance the future well-being of the workshops and reports to the chemical science
chemical science and technology. and technology community through discussions with,
After the report was issued, a formal request for such a presentations to, and engagement of other forums and
roundtable activity was transmitted to Dr. Bruce M. Alberts, organizations.
chairman of the National Research Council (NRC), by the • Bring topics deserving further in-depth study to the
Federal Interagency Chemistry Representatives, an informal attention of the NRC’s Board on Chemical Sciences
organization of representatives from the various federal agen- and Technology. The roundtable itself will not attempt
cies that support chemical research. As part of the NRC, the to resolve the issues and problems that it identifies—it
Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (BCST) can will make no recommendations, nor provide any spe-
provide an intellectual focus on issues and fundamentals of cific guidance. Rather, the goal of the roundtable is to
science and technology across the broad fields of chemistry ensure a full and meaningful discussion of the identi-
and chemical engineering. In the winter of 1996 Dr. Alberts fied topics so that the participants in the workshops
asked BCST to establish the Chemical Sciences Roundtable and the community as a whole can determine the best
to provide a mechanism for initiating and maintaining the courses of action.
dialogue envisioned in the ACS report.
The mission of the Chemical Sciences Roundtable is
to provide a science-oriented, apolitical forum to enhance
1American Chemical Society. Shaping the Future: The Chemical Research
Environment in the Next Century. American Chemical Society Report from
the Interactive Presidential Colloquium, April 7-9,1994,Washington, D.C.
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