Riverside Research Institute

Founded in 1911, National Council of Teachers offers advance teaching, research and student achievement in English language arts at all scholastic levels and is located in Urbana, Ill. Its anti-censorship center offers advice, helpful documents and other support regarding literary works, films and videos, drama productions and teaching methods. Its writing initiative is a new public service campaign to support practices in the teaching of writing across all disciplines and increase policymakers' and the public's knowledge about the teaching of writing. It offers a range of special programs to advance knowledge about critical education issues and to prepare teachers for classroom. It offers various grant programs by educational institutions, foundations and corporations.

Established in 1909 with but nine members, the American Oil Chemist s Association has grown to more than 5,400 members in 108 countries. It establishes standards of quality among professionals in the science and technology of fats, oils, surfactants and related material. AOCS s first book was published in 1918 and the first journal in 1924. USDA Regional Research Centers were established in 1938. Members A.J.P. Martin and R.L.M. Synge pioneered partition chromatography and went on to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1952. The first AOCS World Conference was held in 1976. AOCS offers several categories of membership that include individual, corporate and student members. Each year it presents awards to recognize the achievements of individuals in the field. A Governing Board and when this is not in session an Executive Committee that interprets and executes the policies of the Board, run AOCS. It has its headquarters in Champaign, Ill.

Illinois Crop Improvement Association, located in Champaign, Ill., offers seed certification services throughout the state. It provides official seed certification and related services under a series of official memoranda of understandings. The agency provides various services, such as aflatoxin, amino acids, amylose content, and certification inspections, chemical analysis and customized adventitious presence testing. It also provides services, including extracting starch, fast-green tests for corn and cereals, and fatty acids, field inspections, food-grade hybrid evaluation tests, and fumonisin and genetic testing. The agency organizes various programs, such as in-seed conditioning workshops and golf outings. It additionally provides crop improvement inspectors for assessing the phenotypes of crops and the efficacy of hybrid seed production techniques for pollen control and isolation.