Committee Reports Biennial Conference Committee:2006 Site

摘要

The 19th Biennial Conference on Chemical Education (BCCE) will be held from July 30 through August 3,2006 at Purdue University,West Lafayette,IN.The conference General Chair will be Bill Robinson (Purdue),the Program Co-Chairs will be Mickey Sarquis (Miami University,Ohio) and Arlene Russell (UCLA).The original BCCE schedule was to hold the 19th BCCE at Sacred Heart University,in Fairfield,CT,in the summer of 2006.Sadly,however,Babu George,the BCCE General Chair,died early in 2004.The Biennial Conference Committee,along with the entire Division of Chemical Education,deeply mourns his passing.Babu George's untimely death left the Sacred Heart BCCE planning group with the monumental task of recreating many of his plans in a very short time.Therefore the Biennial Conference Committee suggested that the Sacred Heart faculty might consider postponing hosting the conference until 2008 to provide sufficient time to develop the program and site-specific physical elements required for a successful conference.After much deep consideration,the Sacred Heart organizers decided to withdraw their plans for the 2006 BCCE and work to submit a proposal for 2008.