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SCI Executive Director Joanne Lyall recently returned from Philadelphia, where she represented SCI at a series of events on 22-23 September 2010 organised by the Chemical Heritage Foundation and SCI America under the umbrella of the Innovation Day. Here she reports on her visit.

Dr Emmett Crawford received the 2010 SCI Gordon E Moore Medal for the invention of Eastman Tritan^TM Copolyester and leadership in the development and commercialisation of this new family of engineering plastics.

SCI's America International Group will award the Perkin Medal to Ronald Breslow, S L Mitchill Professor of Chemistry and University Professor at Columbia University.

SCI's America International Group will award the Perkin Medal to Ronald Breslow, S L Mitchill Professor of Chemistry and University Professor at Columbia University.

Jason is a senior majoring in chemistry at Columbia University. He has had internships with Professors John Porco at Boston University and James Leighton at Columbia University while in high school and has been working for Professor Scott Snyder at Columbia since the spring of 2008.

The America International Group has awarded the 2010 SCI Chemical Industry Medal to Michael E Campbell, chairman, president, and CEO of Arch Chemicals, Inc. He was presented with the medal at an industry dinner in New York on 10 March 2010.

In July 2009, SCI entered into a broader strategic alliance with the American Chemical Society (ACS) to advance chemistry-based knowledge and address global issues of mutual interest and benefit to our members.

Herbert W Boyer has served as a director of Genentech since he co-founded the company in 1976 with Robert A Swanson, a venture capitalist

Paul A. Sagel is awarded the SCI Gordon E. Moore Medal for his efforts to produce one of the biggest innovations in home oral care in decades: Crest Whitestrips.

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