NEWSLETTER – Table of Contents:

Vol. IX Number 1 September 1988

Editor: Michael P. Doyle, Dept of Chemistry, Trinity University, San Antonio, TX 78284

In Memoriam – Calvin Vanderwerf 1

Editorial 8

CUR Chemistry forms consulting service 10

Competitiveness: the strategic role of education by Erich Bloch 11

A new series: Analytical chemistry research at predominately undergraduate
Institutions by Royce C. Engstrom 19

Analytical chemistry research at the University of South Dakota by Royce
C. Engstrom 20

Research in analytical chemistry at Bates College by Thomas J. Wenzel 27

Summer research opportunities for undergraduates in nuclear and radiochemistry 33

The Second Annual National Conference on Undegraduate Research
by Merritt W. Moseley, Jr. 34

Diversity: How hard to attain? By Laura L. M. Hoopes, Kevin T. Moore, and
Cecilia Fox 36

Is there a biology curriculum? By Laura L.M. Hoopes 48

Continuing series: Use of lasers in research at predominately undergraduate research
Institutions by Ken Rousslang 51

Laser physics on the cheap, or what NOT to spend money on by M.Walhout

And D.A. Van Baak 51

A long day’s journey into light by A.J. Cox 55

A new undergraduate science and engineering research opportunity by John F. Mateja 58

Science and Engineering research semester 62

Hope, Faith, and Charity; or how to recruit and retain with limited resources,
Research-active faculty by Irwin J. Brink 64

Tips on writing a research proposal by J. Van Zytveld 74

Third Annual National Conference on Undergraduate Research 77

Funding of undergraduate research by the National Science Foundation
by J. Trivisonno 78

Sources of research funding 82

Selected sources of research funding primarily for physicists and astronomers 92

Positions Available 99