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Please submit articles to Carl Schwalbe before 25 April for inclusion in the June edition of Crystallography News.

The BCA is producing a poster to promote our work.

The BCA website produces an 'RSS feed' which allows you to subscribe to updates when we post new content. You can also subscribe to most Journals such as those listed here.  read more »

The following UK crystallographers hold positions on the commitees, commissions or executive of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr):

Editors and Co-editors of Acta Crystallographica Section B S. Parsons, C. C. Wilson

Editors and Co-editors of Acta Crystallographica Section C A. J. Blake (deputy editor), M. R. J. Elsegood, G. Ferguson, C. Glidewell, A. E. Goeta

Editors and Co-editors of Acta Crystallographica Section D E. F. Garman, W. N. Hunter, A. M. Brzozowski, G. J. Kleywegt, N. Chayen  read more »

A copy of the proposed changes to statutes and by-laws of the British Crystallographic Association can be downloaded by clicking this link.

The current BCA statutes and by-laws are here.

The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize

The Dorothy Hodgkin Prize of the BCA was instituted in 1990 on the occasion of Dorothy's 80th birthday, in recognition of her great contributions to science in general and to crystallography in particular. The Prize is supported by donations to the Dorothy Hodgkin Prize Fund which is a Restricted Fund of the BCA.  read more »

Lisa Jardine reflects on the valuable example of the Nobel Prize-winning crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, who bridged the so-called divide between the arts and the sciences.  Listen on the BBC iPlayer.

It is with great pleasure that I write to let you know of the result of the nominations made for Honorary Membership of the BCA in 2010. We have three new Honorary Life Members:

Bill Clegg, University of Newcastle
David Taylor, Consultant
Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC-LMB, Cambridge.

Congratulations to all three of them!

If you are a member of the BCA you should be
receiving the IUCr Newsletter every quarter. If you are not, you can
update your details at http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/request. The
IUCr does not use the list for any other purpose, nor do they sell the
information. The Editors of the IUCr Newsletter want to reduce the number of copies
that are not reaching subscribers because of outdated or otherwise
incorrect postal addresses.  read more »

Dear Member

As I hope you are aware, over the last year or so the BCA has been  in
the process of changing banks to the Charities Aid Foundation Bank  (CAF
Bank). This process is now complete, and the BCA no longer has any bank
accounts with HSBC plc.

The BCA has taken the opportunity to revise the methods by which
Membership fees can be paid; with immediate effect, standing order
payments will no longer be accepted, but direct debits can be set up  read more »