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Crystallography applies to many scientific disciplines.
X-ray crystallography is now playing a steadily increasing role in fields such as structural chemistry, protein engineering, drug design, materials science, the study of gases, liquid crystals, minerals and polymers, and the rapid development and utilization of synchrotron radiation, neutron, and electron diffraction facilities.
Crystallography is relevent to any scientist dealing with molecules, including chemists (structure, function, energetics, mechanism), biologists (as biochemists and enzymologists interested in structure and function), material scientists (nanotechnology), bioengineers, mathematicians (theory of packing, scattering, statistics), minerologists, physicists (scattering, both theory and measurement, and assignment of electrons to nuclear centers) and pharmaceutical drug discovery (materials development).
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Benefits of Membership
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Discounted Meeting registration fees
Full Abstracts of the Annual Meeting
Membership in one or more of the Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
12 Issues of Physics Today Magazine IUCr Newsletter, published quarterly
Opportunities for publication
Discounts on ACA, IUCr & AIP publications
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ACA RefleXions, our quarterly newsletter with information on:
-Databse access and distribution
-Developments in diffraction and computer technology
-Listings of national and international
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Member Rates & Information |
Membership Term
Membership is valid for one calendar year. Dues are billed during the month of October. Pay ahead is available, however no discounts are applied.
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Member Rates
Regular - $100 Postdoc* - $40 Student - $25 Retired - $40
*Postdoc rate is available for 10 years after doctorate is received
Corporate Membership
Businesses enjoy their own class of membership along with sepcialized benefits, including discounted advertisements in RefleXions, preference in selecting exhibit space and much more.
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MyACA - Online Member Accounts
Every member receives access to MyACA, an online account where your membership is in your control. When you join, you will receive an email containing your Login information. From there you can pay annual dues online, update your personal information, change or update your membership status and much more.
If you ever have questions about your account, you can email us or call (716) 898-8690 and we will help resolve the problem as quickly as possible.
ACA Fellows Program
The membership voted to approve the Fellows Program in the 2009 Annual Elections. Over the past sixty years, the ACA has established ten individual awards to recognize and honor outstanding scientists who have made seminal contributions in research, science policy, and outreach to the general public. Each of these awards recognizes contributions within a specific set of criteria, and in general, are only awarded once every three years. After extensive discussion over the past three years, the ACA Council wishes to establish a fellows program. It will not only recognize a high level of excellence in scientific research, teaching, and professional duties, but also their service, leadership, and personal engagement in the ACA and the broader world of crystallography and science. The ACA Fellows program will celebrate the excellence of our own members from within the ACA, and promote their recognition world-wide to constituencies outside of the ACA, such as their employers, other scientific societies, and the government. ACA Fellows will serve as scientific ambassadors to the broader scientific community and the general public to advance science education, research, knowledge, interaction, and collaboration. It will allow us to significantly recognize and honor a broader cross-section of the membership than is currently possible. We envision that eventually about 10% of the membership will be recognized as ACA Fellows, and will announce our new inductees and honor all ACA Fellows at the Awards Banquet each year at our national meetings.
