Barbara L. Foster, safety director of the C. Eugene Bennett Department of Chemistry in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University, is the 2006 recipient of the Tillmanns-Skolnick Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Health and Safety (CHAS).
It is a great honor to receive this award from my colleagues in the Division of Chemical Health and Safety,Foster said.It is a pleasure to work with such distinguished and dedicated safety professionals. I wish to express my thanks to Chemistry Chair Harry Finklea and Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Dean Mary Ellen Mazey for their commitment to excellence in laboratory safety and for supporting my professional development and participation in ACS activities.
The Tillmanns-Skolnick Award was established in 1984 to recognize and honor outstanding, long-term service to the Division of Chemical Health and Safety. Nominees must have been an active member of the division for at least five years and have shown, though personal effort, outstanding support for the realization of the divisions goals in chemical health and safety.
Foster will receive a commemorative plaque and $500 to attend an award symposium at the ACS fall meeting in San Francisco, Calif.
In addition to being the safety director for the Department of Chemistry, Foster is a certified chemical hygiene officer, the safety coordinator for the Eberly College, the chair-elect of CHAS , and secretary of the ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Chemical Safety. She also serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Chemical Health&Safety and was selected by the National Academies of Science, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, to attend a meeting in December 2005 in Washington, D.C., to discuss a revision of the seminal safety reference book (Prudent Practices in the Laboratory: Handling and Disposal of Chemicals, published by the National Research Council).
The American Chemical Society is a self-governed individual membership organization that consists of more than 158,000 members at all degree levels and in all fields of chemistry.
For more information, contact Foster at Barbara.Foster@mail.wvu.edu ,or visit the ACS website athttp://www.chemistry.org.