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Profiles the winners to the 2003 American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Award in the U.S. Career highlights of professor Larry E. Overman; Work accomplishments of professor Jean Chmielewski; Educational background of organic chemist Andrew S. Kende.

Presents several awardees honored for significant contributions to chemistry. Recognition of David M. Lenal as winner of the 2002 ACS Award for Creative Work in Fluorine Chemistry; Presentation of the E.V. Murphee Award in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry to George R. Lester; Acknowledgement of Alan G. Marshall as recipient of the ACS Award in Analytical Chemistry.

Presents a series of vignettes of recipients of the 2001 awards administered by the American Chemical Society. Magid A. Abou-Gharbia; Paul S. Anderson; John S. Armor; John D. Baldeschwieler; Ernst Bayer; Alexis T. Bell; Carolyn R. Bertozzi; Klaus Biemann; Christina Bodurow Erwin; Joan F. Brennecke.

Profiles the winners of the Arthur C. Cope Award and the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for organic chemistry in 1999. Ralph F. Hirschmann of the University of Pennsylvania; Carolyn R. Bertozzi of the University of California, Berkley; M. Reza Ghadiri of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jola, California.

Profiles Vladimir Haensel, who has been nominated for the National Academy of Engineering's Charles Stark Draper Prize. Criteria for receipt of the prize; Background information on Haensel; Career information on Haensel; Details on Haensel's role in developing a technique in the 1940s. INSETS: Platforming cleanly delivers aromatic compounds;Draper Prize highlights technology's role in society.

Announces that retired research chemist Stephanie Kwolek was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. Research that led to the development of Kevlar, an aramid fiber five times stronger than steel.

Reports that the Welch Foundation has selected Columbia University's Ronald Breslow as the recipient of its Welch Award in Chemistry. Recognition of Breslow's lifetime achievements in basic chemical research and contributions to the scientific community; Other recipients of the award who happen to be the colleagues of the former; Appreciation expressed by Breslow for being an honoree.

Reports on the professors who received the United States Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring. Basis for the selection of the awardees.

Focuses on the inclusion of educators with ties to chemistry in the list of recipients of the 1999 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics & Engineering Mentoring in the United States. Includes Ajay Bose, George Castro and Zafra Lerman; Grants for mentoring activities.