Officer’s Column
President’s Column by Natalia Tarasova 2
IUPAC’s New Strategic Plan by Mark Cesa 4
A New Approach to Calculating National Subscriptions by Colin Humphris 6
Features
Chemistry and War: How Chemistry Underpinned the Great War by Michael Freemantle 8
International Comparisons of Tertiary Chemistry Education: A Best-Practice Approach for Development and Quality Enhancement by Maja Elmgren, Felix Ho and Eva Åkesson 13
GEOTRACES: High Quality Marine Analytical Chemistry on a Global Scale by David Turner and Ed Urban 16
IUPAC Wire
2016 to Be the International Year of Global Understanding 18
Green Chemistry for Life Grant Programme—Call for Applications 18
2016 IUPAC-Richter Prize—Call for Nominations 19
The Hague Ethical Guidelines 19
Crystallography for the Next Generation 20
Light and Chemistry 20
In Memoriam: Robert ‘Bob’ F. T. Stepto 21
In Memoriam: Camille Georges Wermuth 22
Project Place
Brief Guide to Polymerization Terminology 23
Can Random Motion Look the Same from Different Perspectives? 24
Making an ImPACt
Physisorption of Gases, With Special Reference to the Evaluation of Surface Area and Pore Size Distribution (IUPAC Technical Report) 25
International Vocabulary of Metrology 25
Seminal InChI Publications 25
IUPAC Provisional Recommendations
Glossary of Terms Used in Extraction 26
Vocabulary of Concepts and Terms in Chemometrics 27
How to Name New Chemical Elements 27
Compendium of Terminology and Nomenclature of Properties in Clinical Laboratory Sciences 27
Bookworm
The Lost Elements: the Periodic Table’s Shadow Side 28
Successful Drug Discovery 29
Conference Call
IUPAC-2015 World Chemistry Congress 32
Bioinspired and Biobased Chemistry & Materials 34
Where 2B & Y 35
Stamps International
Farewell to Uncle Tungsten’s Nephew 39
Mark Your Calendar 40
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