CNC-IUPAC News - August 2003

Bryan Henry Elected IUPAC Vice-President

IUPAC is pleased to announce that Bryan R. Henry, FCIC, professor of chemistry at the department of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Guelph, was electred IUPAC vice-president and president-elect at the 42^nd IUPAC Council Meeting August 16-17 in Ottawa, ON.

Henry served as scientific program chair of the 39^th IUPAC Congress, held in conjunction with the IUPAC General Assembly. Since 1998, he has served as chair of the Canadian National Committee for IUPAC. His accomplishments also include chairing the Committee of Chemistry, Department Chairs of Ontario Universities (1990-1993), serving as president (1992-1993) and vice-president (1991-1992) of the Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), and also working as chair (1997-1998) and vice-chair (1996-1997) of the Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC).

It is expected that Henry will continue his strong leadership of IUPAC in adressing the challenges facing chemisrty in the 21^st century.

IUPAC was formed in 1919 by chemists from industry and acedemia. For nearly 85 years, the Union has succeeded in fostering worldwide communications in the chemical sciences and in uniting academic, industrial and public sector chemistry in a common language. IUPAC is recognized as the world authority on chemical nomenclature, terminology, standardized methods for measurement, atomic weights and many other critically evaluated data.

Reproduced with permission from L'Actualité chimique canadienne, October 2003.