This week's C&EN

A variety of the many interesting articles in C&EN this week:

• Lots of personnel shifts at ACS in C&EN this week: 
• The new ACS executive director will be Thomas Connelly, a DuPont executive with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. 
• No real news as to his strategic direction. 
• Madeleine Jacobs reflects with Rudy Baum about her career at ACS. 
• The new editor-in-chief, Bibiana Campos Seijo, has her first column. No mention of climate change yet. (that's a joke.) 
• Marinda Wu has her farewell column.
• Lisa Jarvis writes up the bad GSK layoff news and notes its connection to the Lilly/Covance mess of a few years back. 
• This article about the science of gas masks looks pretty awesome (by Mitch Jacoby)
• Alex Tullo covers the impact that lower oil prices will have on chemical manufacturers.
• Congrats to Andy Brunning (Compound Interest) on his new monthly column in C&EN!