Symposium
Editor, R.D. Sanderson, H. Pasch
Wiley-VCH, 2001, pp. 1-154
ISBN 3-527-30327-8
Preface
UNESCO Chemistry
for Life Division in Paris has awarded 13 Associated Centres for research
in chemical science and education. One of these is the UNESCO Associated
Centre for Macromolecules & Materials, in the Chemistry Department
at the University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa. UNESCO
has a humanitarian approach to the support of science and education.
(See http://www.sun.ac.za/unesco/unesco.htm)
One of the ways it sees its goals is to encourage and partially sponsor
UNESCO Schools in collaboration with scientific associations such as
IUPAC.
The UNESCO School
and Conference is held annually in Stellenbosch (50 km from Cape Town),
South Africa (website: http://www.sun.ac.za/unesco/Conferences/Homepage.htm).
World authorities in various areas of macromolecular science are invited
to deliver informative plenaries in their fields of expertise. Not only
does this conference have the benefits of an IUPAC Conference, at which
people can meet and form liaisons, it also introduces advanced concepts
and techniques into Africa. Generous concessions are made for students
and staff from disadvantaged communities or from countries with emerging
technologies.
Abridged versions
of papers presented at the UNESCO School and IUPAC Conference are then
compiled, in printed form, to create this contribution to Macromolecular
Symposia. The content of the papers are also made available as a PowerPoint
Presentation in the Virtual Teaching Encyclopaedia, at website: http://www.sun.ac.za/unesco/unesco.htm.
R.D.
Sanderson, Editor
UNESCO Associated Centre for Macromolecules & Materials
University of Stellenbosch, Chemistry Department, Private Bag X1
Matieland 7602 South Africa
Tel: +27(21) 808-3172, Fax: +27(21) 808-4967
E-mail: [email protected]
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