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Researchers at the City College of New York (CCNY) and Rice University have developed a low-cost, environmentally friendly technique for embedding antimicrobial silver nanoparticles into vegetable oil-based paints.

Dr. Clifford K. Schoff, formerly of PPG Industries and now a private consultant, will receive the Roy W. Tess Award in Coatings for 2008.

The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) is sponsoring the FSCT AC Series 2008 Nanotechnology in Coatings Conference.

The Powder Coating Forum, formerly PC 101, will be held September 10-11, 2008, at the Embassy Suites, Cleveland, OH.

The Federation of Societies for Coatings Technology (FSCT) has announced the results of the election of members to its Board of Directors. Paul Delmonico of Old Western Paint Co. Inc., Chris Harding of Waterlox Coatings and Robert Henderson of Lonza Inc. were elected to the Board for three-year terms.

The American Society of Safety Engineers’ (ASSE) Professional Development Conference (PDC) and Exposition, Safety 2008, will be held June 9-12, 2008, at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

The third Atlas® Technical Conference for Accelerated Ageing and Evaluation (ATCAE) will take place September 15-16, 2008, in Oxford, England. The conference will focus on the automotive industry.

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted the annual forms for reporting 2006 and 2007 architectural coatings data.

The ASTM D01 meeting, held in conjunction with the D02 meeting, will take place June 15-18, 2008, at the Hyatt Regency, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Foundation recently announced a donation of $6,000 from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP) toward a new BCSP Scholarship Fund within the ASSE Foundation.