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Eric Jakobsson Professor, Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, and of Biochemistry Director, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology Senior Research Scientist, National Center for Supercomputing Applications University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Biography

Eric Jakobsson was trained as a Chemical Engineer (B.S. 1960, Columbia) and a Physicist (Ph.D. 1969, Dartmouth). He became interested in biology through an interest in electrical excitability in nerves, and after a postdoctoral stint in the Department of Physiology at Case Western Reserve came to the University of Illinois Department of Physiology and Biophysics in 1971, where he has spent his career. At different times he has worked on gating of ion channels, permeation through ion channels, functional organization of epithelia, molecular structure of membranes, metabolism, and education research. For his work in ion permeation, he was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1994. Dr. Jakobsson has been affiliated with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications since 1991. He was a member of the team that invented and developed the Biology Workbench, and currently heads an NSF-sponsored project that develops educational applications of the Workbench. Lynn W. Jelinski Vice Chancellor for Research and Dean of the Graduate School Louisiana State University

Biography

Lynn W. Jelinski is Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies and Dean of the Graduate School at Louisiana State University, where she is responsible for the university’s research programs, research centers, graduate school, technology transfer, and economic development. From 1991 to 1998, Dr. Jelinski served as Director for the Cornell Center for Advanced Technology (Biotechnology) and from 1997 to 1998 served also as Director of the Cornell Office of Economic Development. She previously headed the Biophysics Research and Polymer Chemistry Research Departments at AT&T Bell Laboratories. She received her doctorate in Chemistry at the University of Hawaii in 1976. Her research interests include solid state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and its application to elucidate the molecular mechanism for the strength of spider silk. Dr. Jelinski is a Fellow at the American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering and of the American Physical Society. She currently is a member of the Louisiana Economic Development Council, Chair of the Industrial Targets Advisory Council of the Louisiana Board of Regents, and serves on the National Research Council Committee on High-Performance Structural Fibers for Advanced Polymer-matrix Composites, the Advisory Board for MIT’s Nuclear Engineering Department, the National High Magnetic Field Lab, and the National Nanofabrication Users Network. Dr. Jelinski has over 100 refereed publications in journals such as Science, Nature, Physics Review Letters, Macromolecules, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Peter Eisenberger Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences Columbia University

Biography

Peter Eisenberger received a B.A. in Physics with honors from Princeton University in 1963, and graduated in 1967 from Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Applied Physics, where he received both a Woodrow Wilson and a Harvard Fellowship and remained for one year as a Post-Doctoral Fellow researching both biophysics and the polaron problem.

In 1968 he joined Bell Laboratories and held the post of department head from 1974 to 1981. From 1981 to 1987 he was a consulting professor at Stanford University’s Applied Physics Department, he chaired the Advanced Photon Steering Committee, and participated in National Academy of Science, (NAS) and Department of Energy (DOE) studies. In 1981, he joined Exxon Research and Engineering Company as Director of their Physical Sciences Laboratory and was appointed Senior Director in charge of Exxon’s Corporate Research Laboratory in 1984. In 1989, he was appointed Professor of Physics and Director of the Princeton Materials Institute at Princeton University. He is currently a Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. From 1996 to 1999 he held the posts of Vice Provost of the Earth Institute and Director of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory.

Past activities:

Fellow: American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science Co-author: National Action Plan for Materials Science and Engineering Member: Commission on the Future of the National Science Foundation Chair: Advisory Committee in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate of the NSF

Current activities:

Chair: Invention Factory Science Center Member: GEO 2000 Task Force for the NSF New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology Board of Trustees of NJ’s Inventors Hall of Fame Director: Associated Institutions for Materials Science Organizer: Several NSF/DOE conferences on basic research needs for sustainability and environmentally responsive technologies John M. White Hackerman Professor of Chemistry Director, Science and Technology Center for the Synthesis, Growth and Analysis of Electronic Materials Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Texas at Austin

Biography

John M. White was born in Danville, Illinois on November 26, 1938. He received his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Harding College in 1960 and the Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Illinois in 1966, then joined the chemistry faculty at the University of Texas at Austin as assistant professor. He was named associate professor in 1970 and full professor in 1976. From 1979 to 1984, he served as chair of the department, and he has held the Norman Hackerman Professorship in Chemistry since 1985. Since 1991, he has directed the NSF-supported Science and Technology Center for Synthesis, Growth, and Analysis of Electronic Materials at the University of Texas. Since 1976, he has been a visiting staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratories. Dr. White served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation in 1978-1979 and was a summer guest worker at the National Bureau of Standards during the same period. He and his students have enjoyed long-term interactions with Sandia National Laboratory. He is actively working on problems in surface chemistry, the dynamics of surface reactions, and photoassisted surface reactions.

Honors and Awards

Distinguished Alumnus Award, Harding University (1985) Creativity Award, National Science Foundation (1982-85) Outstanding Alumni Award of Alpha Chi (1986) Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (1989) ACS Kendall Award (1990) Giuseppe Paravanno Award, Michigan Catalysis Society (1993) Holloway Teaching Excellence Award (1998) Alpha Lambda Delta Outstanding Faculty Member Award (1998) Ronald T. Borchardt Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry University of Kansas at Lawrence

Biography

Ronald T. Borchardt is the Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of Kansas-Lawrence. He received his undergraduate education (B.S. in Pharmacy, 1967) from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and his graduate education (Ph.D. in Medicinal Chemistry, 1970) from the University of Kansas-Lawrence. After serving as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, Maryland) from 1969 to 1971, Professor Borchardt returned to the University of Kansas as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biochemistry in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In the 1970s he was promoted through the academic ranks to his current position as Solon E. Summerfield Distinguished Professor. From 1983 to 1998, he served as the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry in the School of Pharmacy. During his academic career Professor Borchardt has received numerous awards and honors for his teaching and research accomplishments, including: Established Investigatorship from the American Heart Association (1974-1979); Sato Memorial International Award from the Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (1981); Mortar Board Outstanding Educator Award (1980), Dolph C. Simons, Sr., Research Award in the Biomedical Sciences (1983), and Louise Byrd Graduate Educator Award (1997) from the University of Kansas; Fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (1988) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1995); Citation of Merit from the University of Wisconsin (1989); Meritorious Manuscript Awards (1991, 1998), Research Achievement Awards in Biotechnology (1993) and Medicinal Chemistry (1994), and Distinguished Pharmaceutical Scientist Award (1997) from the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists; Takeru and Aya Higuchi Memorial Lectureship Award from the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technology of Japan (1993); Paul Dawson Biotechnology Award (1997) and Volwiler Research Achievement Award (1998) from the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy; Hoest-Madsen Medal (1999) from the International Pharmaceutical Federation; and Distinguished Service Award (1999) from the FASEB Research Conference on Biological Methylation. Professor Borchardt is the author or co-author of approximately 425 scientific publications and 375 abstracts. He is also the editor of six books and the series editor of "Pharmaceutical Biotechnology." His research interests are focused in the areas of drug design and drug delivery. Judson L. Haynes III Research Scientist The Procter & Gamble Company

Biography

Judson Leroy Haynes III was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, on November 11, 1972. In the fall of 1990, he entered Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he earned a M.A.R.C. (Minority Access to Research Careers) Scholarship and was mentored by Drs. Isai Urasa, Charles Bump, Floyd Jackson, Willie Darby, and Johnnye Jones. Under the direction of Dr. Bump, Dr. Haynes worked on the synthesis of tetra(phenyl)porphyrins. In 1993, he participated in the NSF summer research program at Virginia Tech and worked on synthesis and isolation of endohedral metallofullerenes. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry with honors from Hampton University in 1994.

Dr. Haynes went on to enter the graduate program as a National Institutes of Health Pre- Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. While at LSU, he worked in the area of Capillary Electrophoresis under the direction of Dr. Isiah M. Warner. Specifically, he has developed novel pseudo- stationary phases (such as dendrimers, cyclodextrins, and micelle polymers) for separations in Electrokinetic Chromatography. Currently, Dr. Haynes is a Research Scientist in the Baby Care Analytical Section at the Procter & Gamble Company. Jonathan L. Bundy Graduate Research Assistant, Fenselau Laboratory Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of Maryland at College Park

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Jonathan L. Bundy was born in Hagerstown, Maryland in 1972 and was educated in the local public schools. He graduated cum laude in 1995 from North Carolina State University with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry and did undergraduate research in the laboratory of Dr. Jim Otvos. Later that year he began graduate study in the Biomedical Sciences program at Hood College, doing research in biological mass spectrometry with Harry Hines of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. In 1997, he transferred to the doctoral program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and began research under the direction of Catherine Fenselau.

Mr. Bundy is currently completing his Ph.D. studies with Dr. Fenselau, who moved in 1998 to the University of Maryland to become Chair of its Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. His research interests are centered on the development of biomolecule derivatized surfaces for mass spectrometric analysis of microorganisms. François M. M. Morel Blanke Professor of Geosciences Director, Princeton Environmental Institute Princeton University

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François M. M. Morel is Albert G. Blanke Professor of Geosciences at Princeton University. He is also Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute (PEI) and Director of the Center for Environmental BioInorganic Chemistry in Princeton, New Jersey. He is a visiting professor at the Université de Paris VI. His major fields of interest are aquatic chemistry and aquatic biology with a focus on the interactions of trace elements and microbiota and the role of trace elements in the global carbon cycle. Before joining Princeton University he was for twenty years a Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he served as Director of the R. M. Parsons Laboratory. He has served on many national and international committees dealing with environmental issues. Karen E.S. Phillips Columbia University

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After moving from Jamaica, I began my American college career at Miami-Dade Community College in Florida, where I earned an Associates Degree in Chemistry with a minor in Fine Art. I completed my Undergraduate degree at Barry University, also in Florida, majoring in Chemistry with minors in both Biology and Fine Art. At Barry I was a research fellow in the Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) program, working on the synthesis of muscarinic agonists for Alzheimer’s therapy. During my tenure in the MARC program, I also participated in a summer research internship at California Institute of Technology under the guidance of Professor Seth R. Marder. At Caltech, my work focused on the synthesis of organic compounds for nonlinear optical applications. I entered the Ph.D. program at Columbia University in 1995 and joined Professor Thomas Katz’s group shortly after. I was awarded a National Science Foundation Minority Research Fellowship in 1996. I am a founding member of the Columbia Chemistry Careers Committee which also started its activities in that year. My current research involves the synthesis of aggregating heterocyclic helicenes. These materials have generated a great deal of interest for their potential as nonlinear optical and liquid crystalline materials, as well as molecular wires for nanoscale technology. Richard A. Weibl Director of Programs Office of Education and Institutional Renewal Manager, Preparing Future Faculty Programs Association of American Colleges and Universities

Biography

Richard (Ric) came to the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) specifically to give leadership to the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) programs. After several years doing institutional research and evaluation studies he leaped at the opportunity to shape this highly collaborative national program that is changing the educational experiences of future faculty.

Since joining with Anne Pruitt-Logan of the Council of Graduate Schools and Jerry Gaff of the AAC&U, the program has grown from 15 clusters of institutional partners to include 20 science and mathematics departmentally based clusters and will soon add 24 social science and humanities clusters. In all more than 200 schools are participating in funded PFF programs, and dozens of others have created programs based on the PFF model.

Weibl came to AAC&U from Antioch College where he served as Director of Institutional Research and Evaluation Studies. Prior to Antioch, he did doctoral studies at the Ohio State University in Educational Policy and Leadership and worked in student affairs at Longwood College and Marquette University. He holds a master’s degree from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University. Marye Anne Fox Chancellor North Carolina State University

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Marye Anne Fox is Chancellor of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Prior to assuming her current post, she was Vice President for Research and the M. June and J. Virgil Waggoner Regents Chair in Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin. Her recent research activities include organic photochemistry, electrochemistry, and physical organic mechanisms. She is a former associate editor of the Journal of the American Chemical Society. Previously, she was also director of the Center for Fast Kinetics Research, vice chair of the National Science Board, and a member of the Task Force on Alternative Futures for the DOE National Laboratories (the Galvin Committee). Dr. Fox is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has served on the NAS Council Executive Committee, and is a member of the NAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy. She is a former member of the National Research Council’s Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications and served on the Committee on Criteria for Federal Support of Research and Development. She received her bachelor’s degree from Notre Dame College, a master’s degree from Cleveland State University, and her Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Dartmouth College. Edel Wasserman Science Advisor E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company

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Ed Wasserman obtained a B.A. in chemistry from Cornell University in 1953 and the M.A. and Ph.D. at Harvard University under Professors William E. Moffitt and Paul D. Bartlett. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1957. Beginning in 1967 he held joint appointments as a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories and as Professor of Chemistry at Rutgers. He joined Allied Chemical Corporation in 1976 as Director of Chemical Research and later Director of Corporate Research. He came to Central Research & Development at DuPont in 1981 where he is now Science Advisor. He is also President of the American Chemical Society. Angelica M. Stacy Department of Chemistry University of California at Berkeley

Biography

Angelica M. Stacy received her Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1981 with Professor M. J. Sienko and then went on to do postdoctoral research with Professors R. P. van Duyne and P. Stair at Northwestern University. She joined the faculty in the Chemistry Department of the University of California, Berkeley in 1983, where she is now a full professor. Her research interests are in the areas of materials chemistry and chemistry education.